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Professor Lyon gave the third of his Assyrian readings yesterday afternoon on "The Broken Wing of the South Wind," the subject of an inscription on a cuneiform tablet, now in Berlin, taken from the library of Amenophis IV of Egypt...
...Assyrian Readings. III. The Broken Wing of the South Wind. Professor Lyon. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
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...
...Assyrian Readings.Professor Lyon will give five Assyrian Readings, with stereopticon illustrations, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, on Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock. These readings are open to the public. The dates and subjects are as follows...
...Selections from an Assyrian Book of Prayers...