Word: exhibit
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...quote comes from a tablet currently on display at Harvard's Semitic Museum. It is part of an exhibit on the excavations of the town of Nuzi, a small provincial city in northern Mesopotamia that was once part of the Mittani kingdom, a Near Eastern world power from around 1500 B.C.E. The tablet is one of 14 preserved from the deposition of Kushshi-harbe, the mayor of Nuzi, during investigations into his sexual misconduct and criminal behavior...
...actually do spend a somewhat surprising amount of time at the Semitic Museum, but I must admit that the second-floor exhibit on "Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past"--which I have passed many times on my way to my thesis adviser's office--never quite grabbed me. What drew me to the exhibit was an article in a New Jersey newspaper, entitled "Ancient Scandal Reads Like Today's News...
Also in the visitor's center, is the permanent exhibit, "Science in the Pleasure Ground," which details the history behind the development of the Arboretum...
...This exhibit brings in work by a very talented artist. I think it's vibrant, colorful and interesting. In an interesting way it's linked to her experience of Haitian culture...
...exhibit] is also a way of saying this is a part of Latin America the Center hasn't forgotten...