[291] Hager, pp. 52, 62.

[292] See Millin (Year VIII), v. 441. It was reprinted at Helmstadt, 1803, 1 vol. 4to.

[293] De Sacy, in Millin, ib. p. 450.

[294] Ib. p. 453.

[295] Ib. p. 443.

[296] Millin, pp. 445-7. The Michaux Stone, as is now well known, is a Kudurru, or landmark, of which class it is still the oldest specimen. It dates from B.C. 1120, and being chiefly an inventory of effects and measurements, the difficulties of its translation have been only recently overcome. See Maspero (G.), Dawn of Civilisation (Eng. ed. 1894), p. 762.

[297] Letter to Dorow, Die Assyrische Keilinschriften (1820), pp. 28, 59.

[298] Grotefend (G. F.), Neue Beiträge, Hanover, 1847, 4to.

[299] Heeren, Werke, xi. 344.

[300] Ib. pp. 345, 352.