Word: babylonia
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...illustrated lectures on "Babylonia" are to be given by Professor David G. Lyon '01. Honorary Curator of the Semitic Museum, on April 16, and the Reverend Godfrey M. Brinley, of St. Paul's School, on April...
...Dougherty, Professor of Assyriology at Yale and annual Porfessor of the American School of Oriental Reserach in Bagdad, will speak on "An Archaelogical Tour in Southern Babylonia" at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room in the Semitic Museum. The lecture will be illustrated and is open to the public...
...invitation of the Fogg Art Museum and the Semitic Museum, Professor R. P. Dougherty, of Yale, Annual Professor for 1925-26 in the American School of Oriental Research, Bagdad, will give an illustrated lecture on "An Archaeological Tour in Southern Babylonia." This lecture will be given in the Semitic Museum next Monday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock, and will be open to the public...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the joint British Museum-University of Pennsylvania expedition continued to exhume the architectural works of Nebuchadnezzar, his ancestors and his grandson. The major find was a limestone slab, 5 by 15 ft., decorated with a portrait and biographic scenes of King Ur-Engur, builder of the huge ziggurat of Ur or Moon God's tower. The date of the slab was put at 2300 B. C., its historic importance being equaled only by its value as a specimen of Sumerian...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the expedition of the British Museum and of the University of Pennsylvania began to delve into the ruins surrounding the great ziggurat or tower. The first works uncovered date from about 600 B. C.; in the courtyard of a temple of the Moon God was found a building believed to have been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from...