Word: cuneiforms
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...their famous rags, succeeded in convicting Mr. Wells of using too many "dots" in his novels. The penalty, which hardly fitted the enormity of the offense, prescribed the delightful task of transcribing his "Outline of History" from Morse to Semaphore code--or of working it out in "cuneiform, without the assistance of the Moabite stone"--or the hand-writing on the wall...
...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...
Professor Lyon gave the third of his Assyrian readings yesterday afternoon on "The Broken Wing of the South Wind," the subject of an inscription on a cuneiform tablet, now in Berlin, taken from the library of Amenophis IV of Egypt...
Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the South-Wind's wing, and had to answer for his deed before Anu, the god of the heavens. This tablet will be the subject of Professor Lyon's reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...
...bronze and stone weights in the shape of lious and ducks from the commercial system of the Babylonians and Assyrians. There are five clay books that deserve special mention; the sun god in his temple at Sepharvoim., a grant of land by a Babylonian king to his servant, the cuneiform account of the deluge, a record of Nebuchadnezzar's building operations and a sale of real estate at Babylon in the 6th century B. C. The most interesting cast is one facing the door, and is a book of Nebuchadnezzar, the original being brought from Babylon in the early part...