Whatever does it matter now?

[A]ll athvvart there came / A poſt from VVales, loden vvith heauy nevves, […]

Their curses could be heard late into the evening, when one by one they would climb into dilapidated clown cars and speed away.

The principal treasure of ths department, however, is the Stele of Hammurabi (1792—1750 B.C.), king of the first Babylonian kingdom, a basalt cylinder 2.25m/7ft 5in. inscribed with Hammurabi′s laws written in Akkadian in cuneiform script.