Word: chaldea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pepper communicated the contents of a recent letter from Professor J. P. Peters, director of the exploring party now on its way from Philadelphia to Chaldea. The recent newspaper report of serious accident to the party is an exaggeration. The steamer conveying part of the expedition did, indeed, meet with misfortune off the coast of the island of Samos, but the American party suffered no loss. Professor Peters was not with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would...
...many of these objects, as well as specimens of Babylonian-Assyrian art, especially carved seals, are now received direct from the finders in Chaldea by London dealers in antiquities, that it is possible to secure valuable collections without a visit to the Orient. In this way Harvard University has already become possessor of some valuable tablets, and nothing but the lack of money prevents an indefinite enlargement of the collections...
Students of Fine Arts 3, are familiar with the work on Egyptian art by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, which was published last year. A new work by the same authors on "The History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria," will be ready in few days. It will contain over five hundred illustrations and comprise two volumes, the style being uniform with that of last year's volumes on Egypt...