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...Lyon, Hancock Professor of Bebrew and other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, for copying, classifying, cataloging and studying the cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found at Nuzi...
...canser, yielded from Harvard excavations in 1927 and 1928, comes from the ruins of Nuzi, Iraq, 200 miles north of Bagdad. The city of Nuzi was destroyed by fire about 1500 B. C. and apparently was never rebuilt. The censer was found in a building which had probably been a temple or sanctuary on the principal mound of the ancient city and was used for the burning of incense before the gods. The city may have suffered destruction with the rise of Assyria...
...explorers, led by Professor Edward Chiera, now of Chicago University, restricted their work to the houses which belonged to the last occupation of Nuzi, destroyed by fire about 500 B. C. They made only tentative penetrations below the floor level, but these sufficed to show that important ruins lay underneath, dating from earlier occupations. In these lower depths we may hope to find objects of finer quality than anything yet found on the site, as has often occurred in Babylonian exploration...
...largest mound at Nuzi rises about five and one half meters above the plain. Its top is nearly level and measures some 160 meters square. This was probably the citadel. It contains the ruins of an immense building of uncertain dimensions. The excavated portion, estimated as one-half, measures 116 by 68 meters, and contains 100 rooms. The objects and inscriptions found there seem to indicate that the building was in part palace and in part temple. Among the tablets are some, which record lists of offerings and pay-lists of temple employees. The bronze censer and the fragments...
...tablets, some two thousand in number, rank first in importance. It is understood that we shall return a portion of these to the Museum at Bagdad, after publication of the inscriptions in this country. From some hundreds found in one of the rooms excavated, Professor Chiera, while still at Nuzi, selected 107 and copied them on 100 plates. These will appear at an early date as a volume of the "Harvard Semitic Series...