Word: tello
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning on the left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while...