Word: cuneiforms
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ASSYRIAN LECTURE.Professor Lyon will give five illustrated lectures on Thursdays at 4 p. m., in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, on "The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament." The public are invited. The topics and dates are as follows...
...THURSDAY.The Discovery of the Cuneiform Inscriptions. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor D. G. Lyon read a paper on "The Cuneiform Inscriptions and Hebrew Prophecy" before the Semitic club of Yale in Osborn hall yesterday...
...intended that the museum, when established, shall contain all the material necessary for the thorough study of Semitic literature and archaeology. This material includes cuneiform inscriptions on bricks, cylinders, seals, and monuments, either original or in the form of casts; Phoenician coins and inscriptions; Syriac inscriptions and manuscripts; Hebrew coins and manuscripts, together with facsimiles of the Siloam inscription and of that of the Moabite stone (this last the oldest known writing in the Phoenician character); Arabic coins and manuscripts; Sabean inscriptions; Etheopic manuscripts; specimens of the fauna and flora of Semitic lands; and a work library and study rooms...
...have already a small collection of cuneiform inscriptions (the gift of Mr. Salisbury of Worcester to the Divinity School) a few plaster cuts of tablets and a cast of the famous black obelisk of the British Museum (in Sever 9). It is intended to begin immediately to add to the stock. By permission of the directors the collection will be deposited for the present in the new part of the Peabody Museum on the second floor...