Word: censers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canser, yielded from Harvard excavations in 1927 and 1928, comes from the ruins of Nuzi, Iraq, 200 miles north of Bagdad. The city of Nuzi was destroyed by fire about 1500 B. C. and apparently was never rebuilt. The censer was found in a building which had probably been a temple or sanctuary on the principal mound of the ancient city and was used for the burning of incense before the gods. The city may have suffered destruction with the rise of Assyria...
Embroideries, etchings by Gaya and Canal, prints by Durer and Holbein, a 3000-year old censer from Iraq and an antiphonary from Italy, partially represent the scope of an exhibition first opened at the Fogg Art Museum to display recent accessions...
...half, measures 116 by 68 meters, and contains 100 rooms. The objects and inscriptions found there seem to indicate that the building was in part palace and in part temple. Among the tablets are some, which record lists of offerings and pay-lists of temple employees. The bronze censer and the fragments of frescoes come also from this building...
...great prizes as objects of art, the bronze censer and the fragments of frescoes, have come to the Fogg Museum.. The bronze suit of arm or was kept in Iraq for the National Museum at Bagdad...
...Censer (for incense...