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...Hilprecht left Philadelphia this fall for Nippur and on his arrival there will take charge of all the field work. This is the third expedition which the University of Pennsylvania has sent to Nippur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explorations at Nippur. | 1/4/1900 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Museum is now being built upon a lot of ground opposite Franklin Field. It is designed when completed to cost five million dollars, and is intended to contain, besides the collections owned by the city, the wonderful series of Babylonian relics, secured by Professor Hilprecht, and rivalled in value by the collection in Constantinople alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennsylvania Letter. | 10/23/1897 | See Source »

Professor Herman V. Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian Department of the Museum, recently returned to Philadelphia after conducting one of the most successful expeditions ever sent out by the University. His work consisted in carrying out archaeological investigations in Asia Minor and in cataloguing antiquities in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople. Professor Hiprecht, though his official capacity as cataloguer of these specimens, has succeeded in obtaining for the university many rare archaeological objects. Another occurrence of interest in this connection has been the series of lectures recently delivered by Dr. Doerpfeld, the eminent German archaeological scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENNSYLVANIA'S ELEVEN. | 11/16/1896 | See Source »

...rescue of the expedition by a Turkish brigantine has been received by Professor James of the U. of P. The accident, however, will not prevent the expedition from continuing its investigation. The party is made up of John P. Peters, Director; Dr. H. F. Harper, of Yale, and Prof. Hilprecht, U. of P., assyriologists, and Prof. J. H. Havnes, J. D. Prince and P. H. Field, of Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wreck of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Babylon. | 11/17/1888 | See Source »

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