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...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...
...Times are not what they used to be," said the venerable Hammurabi about 1900 B. C. And the older generation has kept on saying it to the present day. But more than ordinary truth is contained in their charge that the golden age when children were seen and not heard is past. On every side Young Precocious rises up to stand upon his rights. Strangely pertinent now is the outburst of Shakespeare against the children actors of his time that "these are now the fashion, and so be-rattle the common stages . . . that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose...
Professor D. G. Lyon h.'01 will deliver the last of his course of lectures on "Hammurabi, King of Babylon", in the Lecture Room of the Semitic Museum, at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. His subject will be "The Code of Hammurabi compared with other Ancient Codes...
...SEMITIC MUSEUM LECTURES. V. "The Code Hammurabi compared with other Ancient Codes." Professor Lyon. Room 1, Semitic Museum...
...SEMITIC MUSEUM LECTURES. IV. "Babylonian Life as Revealed in the Hammurabi Code and in Contemporary Records." (Illustrated.) Professor Lyon. Room 1, Semitic Museum...