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...article offered a few facts that actually don't appear in the exhibit, except perhaps to a visitor fluent in Hurrian. It included the Paula Jones-like detail that the mayor "used government agents to bring Humerelli [the woman in question] to 'the trysting place.'" And it mentioned an article in the current issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review that identifies the leader of the 1920s expeditions that unearthed the tablets. His name was Richard F.S. Starr...
...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...
...most intriguing was the article's suggestion that one could view this exhibit as a sort of secret key to the present and the future. In the report, the curator calls Humerelli the "Monica of the day." He explains that the people of Nuzi were "throwing the book at a corrupt, a criminally corrupt, mayor" and says the museum was "keenly aware of a certain bitter irony." The article's ending makes the connection between the two scandals explicit: "So what happened to Kushshi-harbe, the alleged philandering leader of Nuzi? No tipoff to Clinton's fate there. The cuneiform...
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...