id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt mdp.39015009157127 Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913 v.1 1920 .txt text/plain 152977 7679 76 his days in his little room on the south-west staircase in sorting tablets of his great corpus of texts, the " Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia." He gave me a set of plates of The lecturer wrote on a blackboard the text which he was going to discuss and translate, and each student took away a printed paper containing questions which were to be answered in writing, paper on certain contract tablets recording the commercial transactions of a great Babylonian firm of merchants reading or copying in his room I learned to know personally nearly all the great Oriental archæologists of which the Trustees of the British Museum had in obtaining a faramân (i.e., permit) to continue the excavations first journey, he found that the Keepers of the Departments of Antiquities in the British Museum wanted to buy most of his acquisitions, his work on the Egibi tablets in the British Museum, and ./cache/mdp.39015009157127.pdf ./txt/mdp.39015009157127.txt