Word: sumerian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, left than the announcement comes that another English scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum. His acceptance of the appointment...
...Munro; "Lectures on Dante," by Dr. William Boyd-Carpenter, Canon of Westminster Abbey; and the latest volume, NO. XXIV, of the Harvard Studies in Classical philology. A report on the "Harvard Expedition to Samaria," by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 and a volume of reproductions of the "Sumerian Tablets in the Harvard Semitic Museum," by Miss M. I. Hussey, are to be published shortly...