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Yesterday afternoon the bronze memorial tablet given by the Memorial Society was put in place on the north side of Massachusetts Hall. The tablet is about four feet long and two feet wide and the lettering is large enough to be easily read from some distance. It is lettered as follows...
...tablet will be erected on Massachusetts Hall during this month, lettered as follows...
...children, gathers an army of monsters, and puts Kingu, her son and only faithful child, in command. Both Anu, the god of the heavens, and Ea, the god of the waters under the earth, are turned back in fright before this army. These events occupy the first two tablets. The third tablet tells how Marduk, son of Ea, offers to oppose Tiamat, if the gods in reward will make him ruler over them. In the fourth tablet Marduk defeats Kingu's army, meets Tiamat in combat and slays her. In the fifth tablet Marduk arranges some of the heavenly bodies...
Professor Lyon gave the third of his Assyrian readings yesterday afternoon on "The Broken Wing of the South Wind," the subject of an inscription on a cuneiform tablet, now in Berlin, taken from the library of Amenophis IV of Egypt...
Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the South-Wind's wing, and had to answer for his deed before Anu, the god of the heavens. This tablet will be the subject of Professor Lyon's reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...