Word: cuneiform
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Although this is an elaborate work, it is, however, largely imaginative, and is no more accurate than the numerous other attempts at the restoration of this building. The third copy is miniature of the Hibrew Tabernacle in the wilderness. Other acquisitions are several small collections of cuneiform tablets and a few specimens of stone vases of the early Babylonian period; also a well preserved inscription of Nebuchadnezzar, of the sixth centuary B. C., on a clay tablet, and several fragments of Cappadocian tablets. There is also a collection of fifteen pieces of antique jewelry in gold and a gift...