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Owing to lack of space, there are many cases of casts which cannot yet be exhibited, but the collection as it stands is, very interesting. It contains Babylonian-Assyrian seals and clay tablets, coins, photographs, manuscripts, and a selection of casts from the finest of the Semitic monuments in the various European museums. Of the manuscripts, only a few are exhibited in the railing case. They are Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew, and among the latter area roll of the Law and rolls of the Prophets. Some of them are from Arabia and contain a translation into Arabic in addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Semitic Museum. | 2/8/1893 | See Source »

Beginning on the left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Semitic Museum. | 2/8/1893 | See Source »

...will make an exhibit of their Babylonian and American archaeological collections at the World's Fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1893 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This portion of the exhibit will represent very fairly what is known of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Delaware valley, and is the most complete work that has been attempted. Dr. Abbott has charge of the American Archaeological museum, and Dr. Hilwecht that of the Babylonian. All the departments are to be represented as far as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University of Pennsylvania Exhibit to the World's Fair. | 1/23/1893 | See Source »

...valuable discoveries which he made in the temple of Bel at Niffer. His success in raising a large sum of money for the expedition, in overcoming diplomatic and other difficulties, and in securing for America a large portion of the clay books dug by him from a Babylonian building which has been a ruin for thousands of years, entitles him to eminent recognition. The hall in Jefferson Laboratory ought to be crowded this evening. The lecture begins at half past seven o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Niffer. | 10/18/1892 | See Source »

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