Word: assyria
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Professor Lyon gave the fourth of his series of Assyrian Readings, in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon. The subject of the reading was a mythological poem from the library of Saradanapalus of Assyria, describing a combat between the god Marduk and Tiamat, a dragon. The poem is written on six tablets, parts of which were brought to light in the British Museum in 1875 by George Smith...
...Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This...
Yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Lyon read some most interesting letters translated from the Assyrian. They were written by the Kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and other countries, and date at least from 1500 B. C., While others are of even more ancient times. Egyptian scholars recognize some of these tablets as despatches written by the Pharoahs. They cast a remarkable light on both the social and political conditions of the great nations which existed long before Moses was born...
...fifteenth century B. C. the kings of Babylon, Assyria and the neighboring countries, and also the governors of Syria, were engaged in an active correspondence with the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty. The medium of communication was the Assyrian language. Some 300 of the dispatches were found at ElArmana in Egypt in 1887, relating to royal intermarriage, military operations, and the giving of presents. This correspondence is the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian Reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...
...time of Moses there ruled over Assyria a king named Ramman-nirarl, a great warrior and builder. From the ruins of a temple which he restored comes an alabaster tablet, twelve inches by nine, with an inscription recording the restoration. This tablet, recently presented to the Semitic Museum, will be the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian reading in the Fogg Art Museum at four o'clock today. It will be exhibited and explained, and will be illustrated by lantern slides giving views of Assyrian books, ruins and temples...