TALBOT1654

Park Lodge
Weston super Mare

Mar. 26. 1877

My dear Sir

Will you allow me to ask your perusal of the enclosed proof, & the favour of any corrections & suggestions for the improvement of the paper before I read it on the 16^th April?

Perhaps you may remember, that we exchanged notes some time ago about the Kesibta wh. Ishtar ¹ brought to the rich man, which I took to be a goblet of lapis lazuil (Egⁿ Khesbet). ²

I had some talk with M^r King at Trinity on this matter afterw^ds & he said I might tell you that he agreed in this suggestion; all the more that the best Khesbet came to Eg^t from Babylonia.

You will doubtless have noticed in Lenormant’s ³ last work (‘Etudes’ &c) p. 191, that Karanu sigba sibgu is a kind of wine & perhaps identical with sizbu the divine nectar which Ishtar brought to the sick man – pouring it into the vessel of Khisibta (Lapis?).

Believe me
My dear Sir
Y^rs very truly

Henry George Tomkins

I shall be most grateful for any annotations or corrections.