Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Notwithstanding the excavations which had been carried on at Kouyunjik by the late Sir Henry Layard, Mr. George Smith, Mr Hormuzd Bassam, and myself, there still remained in 1891 a considerable portion of the mound to be examined, and a native guardian was appointed by the Trustees of the British Museum to prevent clandestine excavations. In 1901 Mr. L. W. King was despatched by the Trustees to Mesopotamia to report upon the condition of the mound of_ Kouyunjik, and of the other sites on which they had already made excavations; and in the following winter a fa'rman to re-open the mound of Kouyunjik was obtained. Work was begun by Mr. King in January, 1903, and was continued until the spring of 1905 during the last season he was assisted by Mr. R. C. Thompson, at that time Assistant in the Department.