Word: papyri
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "Aramaic Papyri from Assuan." Professor G. F. Moore. Semitic Museum, Room...
...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "Aramaic Papyri from Assuan." Professor G. F. Moore. Semitic Museum, Room...
...report on the Semitic Museum, the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, announces the acquisition, besides other things, of a collection of Greek papyri from the Egypt Exploration Fund; of a number of Oriental coins, collected by the late Professor J. H. Thayer; of 80 coins from Palestine and Phoenicia; and of 125 Syraic manuscripts from the library of Professor G. R. Harris of England. Those manuscripts are finely bound and range over the whole period of Syraic literature and contain examples of all the great writers. This is probably the finest collection in private hands...
Several gifts have been received by the Museum during the past year. They include nineteen fragments of papyri with Greek inscriptions, from Egypt, dating from the early centuries of the Christian era, and a handsome Egyptian mummy case...