Word: sarzec
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...Victor Place made some valuable excavations at Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta and Place were especially interested in the Assyrian architecture and sculpture, and much of our knowledge of these arts is due to them. De Sarzec in 1887 dug up near the Persian Gulf some statues in the round, cut in hard, highly polished stone. De Clecq made a study of the Assyrian seals, and a volume of beautiful engravings of these cylinders has been published by the French government. Pierrot and Chipiez's book...
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