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Excerpt from The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. 5: Series D: Researches and Treatises; Fasciculus 1
Volume V of Series D Researches and Treatises of our expedition work, to be followed in rapid succession by other fasciculi, contain ing important contributions from the pens of my two friends and co laborers, Drs. Radau and Myhrman. This Volume V will bear the title Fragments of Epical Literature from the Temple Library of Nippur.
In the very fatiguing work of cleaning, examining and cata loguing the numerous fragments from the Temple Library, which constitute the unrivalled collection and principal attraction of the Babylonian Section of our Museum, it is my almost daily experi ence that a box of tablets from the fourth expedition will yield fragments which can be joined to material previously catalogued and sometimes excavated several years before by an entirely different expedition. In this way We have restored hundreds of tablets from intentionally broken and scattered fragments, some of them containing no less than 15 - 20 pieces. The hope, therefore is well founded that other fragments of the same tablet or of dupli cate copies of this ancient Deluge Story may yet be discovered among the uncatalogued material of the Museum. But even if our hopes should not be realized, I feel quite sure that the characteristic devotion of the American nation to Biblical problems, its enthusi astic interest in scientific research and progress, and the public minded spirit of Philadelphia citizens, to which we already owe four successful Babylonian expeditions, will speedily find means and ways to despatch a fifth one to search for the missing fragments at N ippur.
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