1896. This work is "The Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand," and represents the cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations, and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik collections preserved in the British Museum. Contents: Prayers addressed to: Deities; Gods; Goddesses; Astral Deities; Prayers against the evils; Vocabulary.