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...Preiffer, curator of the Semitic Museum, will give a lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, entitled "Excavations Undertaken by the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Ur of the Chaldees". The talk is in connection with the current exhibition of objects excavated at Ur of the Chaldess now on display at Fogg...
...Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple," and "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, are perhaps the most important. There are also exhibitions of nineteenth century watercolors, Rembrandt etchings, and Old Master drawings, as well as the new loan exhibition of objects excavated at Ur by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of Pennsylvania...
...astounded to learn that such exquisite workmanship should be the relic of a civilization stretching into the dimness of pre-Biblical days along the Tigris and Euphrates. These articles, which archaeologists have unearthed in a state of excellent preservation, give a vivid portrayal of the former life in Ur of the Chaldees...
Here is material for everyone: inscriptions for the philologist, man's life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...
...tribe of the Elamites, descendants of Elam, son of Shem, grandson of Noah. The Elamites had a fearsome custom of burying alive the attendants of a dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs of the two peoples were similar. From the Elamites descended the Sumerians, some of whose painted terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers also discovered traces...