Excerpt from An Assyrian Doomsday Book, or Liber Censualis of the District Round Harran, In the Seventh Century B. C: Copied From the Cuneiform Tablets in the British MuseumThe study of these fragments has resulted in the making of many joins, so that out of 43 fragments as originally numbered, there are now only 22 separate pieces. The addition of one or two more connecting links would probably lead to slight further reduction. I believe they really represent only 16 different tablets. I need not say, that I take no credit for the many joins made, before I copied these tablets, andi dare say I have missed some that I ought to have seen.While so much may be added, any day, to what is here, it will be sufficient to make these as clear as possible, pointing out the difficulties and lacunae, rather than trying to exhaust all possibilities of suggestion. The names, personal and local, the class of property registered, and the type of document are the chief points of interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.