Word: near
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happier knowing that 6 Divinity Ave. wasn't always the CFIA. The University began its Semitic collection in 1889. In 1902. a naturalized banker named Jacob Schiff put up the money for the museum, which opened in 1903. I wish I could have heard the negotiations between the Near Eastern Languages Department and the Center's founders over the building's change in function...
...quick tour will begin from Bowie's office, and go back through the building past the Near Eastern Languages Department offices, and downstairs to the most interesting part of the building. That is the Semitic Museum, which, according to a sign, is not open to the public. My piece of The Inside Story at last...
...whole building seems to be full of fakes. In the dark passageways between the seminar rooms where I think I overheard an Egyptian 201 class, are arrayed an assortment of copies of Near Eastern sculpture. There is a four-sided stella, which, if I remember correctly, is a copy of the copy in the British Museum. It is called the Black Obelisque, and on it the Assyrian king Shalmanesar III recorded his conquest of most of the Near East, including Babylon. Nearby is a cast of an Assyrian bas-relief which shows kings impaling their captives on spears...
Further inside the museum lie two Egyptian sarcophagus from the Lower, or decadent Empire. There is a random collection of glassware and pottery from all over the Near East...
...Hornblower has virtually missed both practices this week. yielding to an injured muscle near his right instep, and his running ability will be a questionmark. He dressed for practice on both days, but left early on each occasion when it began to hurt...