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...tablet may be divided into four parts, the introduction, the temple restoration, the ending and the date. The introduction, occupying ten lines, relates the military and religious titles of BudIl, the father of Ramman-nirari his gradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgrandfather, Asshur-uballit. The account of the restoration of the temple is eleven lines long. It is written over an erasure and is in a different handwriting from the rest of the tablet. The ending consists of a blessing (4 lines) on future princes who should preserve the tablet, and a curse (23 lines...
...audience which listened to Dr. Peters in the Jefferson Laboratory last evening did not carry away a very lasting impression of all details of the Temple of Bel at Niffer, they certainly brought away a vivid impression of the courage, persistence and tact needed by the leader of such an expedition as that which Dr. Peters has just undertaken...
...talk on the temple of Bel consisted mainly in an explanation of a series of photographs illustrating the excavations at Niffer, and an interesting account of the conditions and difficulties under which the work of excavation was carried...
...spent two winters there digging for remains of one of the oldest civilizations is rarer still. We may tonight expect from Dr. Peters an account of his heroic and successful struggle against many odds, and of the 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...
Illustrated Lecture. American Expedition to Babylonia. Discovery of the original Temple and High-place of Bel. Professor J. P. Peters, University of Pennsylvania, Leader of the Expedition. Jefferson Physical Labratory...