It is proposed to anticipate the publication of the complete catalogue of the epigraphical material found at Nimrud during the 1950 season by this short account of two historical inscriptions.

While clearing Room U of the “Governor's Palace” a single kiln-baked fragment of a tablet was uncovered about 1 metre above a brick floor. The circumstances of stratification therefore suggest that this tablet lay in rubbish which was part of the filling used to raise the level of the Governor's Palace, probably after the death of King Sargon. See also Iraq, Pt. 2, 163 f., for evidence of stratification and successive floors of occupation. ND. 400 would seem to come from a large tablet similar to K 3751 found in 1873 by G. Smith in the Nabu Temple to the south-east of this room.