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Professor Lyon gave the first of his Assyrian readings yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum. His subject was an alabaster tablet of the 14th century B. C. which has been lately presented to the Semitic Museum. Its size is 12x9 inches and there is writing on both sides...
Professor Lyon has not yet succeeded in finding out where this tablet was discovered, but it is very probable that it was in the Temple of Asshur, whose restoration by Ramman-nirari it records. This temple was located in Asshur, a city of great importance until it began to decline after...
...tablet may be divided into four parts, the introduction, the temple restoration, the ending and the date. The introduction, occupying ten lines, relates the military and religious titles of BudIl, the father of Ramman-nirari his gradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgrandfather, Asshur-uballit. The account of the restoration of the temple is eleven lines long. It is written over an erasure and is in a different handwriting from the rest of the tablet. The ending consists of a blessing (4 lines) on future princes who should preserve the tablet, and a curse (23 lines...
...time of Moses there ruled over Assyria a king named Ramman-nirarl, a great warrior and builder. From the ruins of a temple which he restored comes an alabaster tablet, twelve inches by nine, with an inscription recording the restoration. This tablet, recently presented to the Semitic Museum, will be the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian reading in the Fogg Art Museum at four o'clock today. It will be exhibited and explained, and will be illustrated by lantern slides giving views of Assyrian books, ruins and temples...
...expected that the first tablet will be completed in about six weeks and the others will be put up as soon as sufficient money is raised...