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Iraq. The great palace at Khorasbad of Sargon II, ruler of Assyria 2,600 years ago, has kept diggers of the University of Chicago last week by Leader Gordon Loud, was to excavate a 420 x 250 ft. temple, connected to the palace by a graceful stone viaduct and dedicated to Nabu, god of scribes and historians. Nabu's staue was gone from the central shrine where once it stood. But on the stonework bordering the steps was a prayer addressed to Nabu by King Sargon. There were carvings in wood and ivory, some of Egyptian inspiration, others bearing...
...marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names of only a few earlier monarchs were known, possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when he abandoned the Khorsabad palace after his father's death. The tablet he neglected to take along now furnishes the names of an unbroken succession of kings from...
...Khafaji. From these strategic points the Oriental Institute can send out small parties to other sites. Thus it has at its finger tips the whole of Asia Minor, the entire Valley of the Nile. From them it has drawn a rich store of knowledge of the civilizations of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and of prehistoric man back to the Stone...
...ever like this one, with magnificent wings, a beard, three sets of horns and five legs. But an unmistakable bull it is. Even as U. S. tycoons of a past generation put cast-iron animals on their lawns as symbols of wealth and security, so King Sargon II of Assyria had this stone bull-and another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp-bearded little colleague, Dr. Edward Chiera, dug up both bulls two years...
While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...