Word: assyrian
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...Palaces of the Assyrian Kings," Professor Conant, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...hour exams are the icons of Cambridge at present, everyone seems worried because he is not worrying enough, and one hears too much stamping of feet. There is the Fine Arts Museum, even the Assyrian and print collections of which are good on Saturdays, and there are the paintings that bang around the cozy little vestibule of the Metropoliton Theatre...
...casts include many of the finest Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite bas-reliefs and other monuments in the museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Constantinople; likewise books, seals, seal impressions, weights, statuettes, etc., in the same museums...
...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...
...Berlin, Dr. Kurt Sachs of the Prussian State Museum, announced that he had discovered the meaning of two previously unintelligible Assyrian inscriptions dating from the seventh century B. C. He believes that they were musical notations and on the basis of this interpretation has reconstructed a musical system for use with a 22-stringed harp...