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...Babylonian Books. Exhibition of a collection presented to the University by Mr. Stephen Salisbury. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...General view of the contents of Babylonian books" was the subject of Professor Lyons lecture yesterday afternoon. The Babylonians and Assyrians had many libraries at Larsa, Cuthra, Sippar, Calah and Nineveh. From the last named, the youngest of all (668-626 B. C.) many of the most valuable books have come. The writings may be classed as historical, imaginative, religious, scientific and social. The historical records, giving the accounts of the royal wars, limits and erection of cities, palaces and temples, are written on rock mountain sides, on stone statues, monuments, and slabs, but especially on clay books...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...
...Babylonian Books. Exhibition of a collection presented to the University by Mr. Stephen Salisbury. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon's fourth Babylonian lecture will be given today...