Word: sumerians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of the 2,778 illustrations in these volumes shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
International Impression. The overall impression of the United Nations show is of a hasty hodgepodge: oriental rugs, Central American tombstones, early Sumerian sculpture, a strictly Tsarist Russian picture of the jigsaw-puzzle school-and a few really fine things like the stone Hand of a Buddha from China's northern Ch'i dynasty, Honoré Daumier's Crispin and Scapin and Rembrandt's Man with Turban...
...Nether World," oldest known version of the universally significant myth of a descent into Hades. This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach to the history of religion...
...word "debts" probably appears in the Lord's Prayer through a mistranslation of the Aramaic word Christ used-a word which can also mean "sins." > The parable of the Prodigal Son parallels ancient Sumerian and Nuzi inheritance laws...