Word: assyria
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon, Professor Lyon continued his course of lectures on Babylonian Books, and he devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria who lived somewhere between the years 1400 and 2000 B. C. Many of the specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited have arrived from London since his last lecture, and they are especially rare as showing the nature and customs of a prehistoric people. Rev. Dr. Ward of America and M. Mamont, have done much to collect seals and vases which contain the various modes of expression adopted by the early...
...subject which forms the topic of the lectures being given by Professor Lyon is one almost entirely new to students of the University. It was not until comparatively recently that American archaeologists made the first steps towards carrying out the projects of excavation and discovery in Babylonia and Assyria. In their first determined effort, however, they were signally successful, and the specimens of Babylonian books which they secured form the nucleus of a collection which it is to be hoped will increase from year to year as discoveries are made. It is upon this American collection together with the famous...
...hear Professor Lyon's first lecture upon "Babylonian Books." The first part of the lecture was taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above...
Prof. Lyon's lecture tonight in the Lowell Institute course is on "Literature in Ancient Assyria...
...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...