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This code, dating from about 2250 B.C., was discovered in the winter of 1901-2, and contains 247 laws, engraved on a column of hard stone, about seven feet high. There is a plaster cast of the column in the Peabody Museum...
...following cast includes possible understudies. In case both candidates for one role are finally considered worthy of a place, such distribution can be made, since there will be two performances. Agamemnon, P. H. Noyes '06 A. L. Benshimol '07 Clytaemnestra, H. S. Wyndham-Gittens, L.L.S. '06 R. A. Moore 1G. Cassandra, A. S. A. Brady '08 Herald, D. Gardiner '07 H. C. Washburn '06 Aegisthus, A. L. Benshimol '07 L. Carroll 1G. Watchman, M. C. Clapp '07 B. H. Gordon '08 Leader of Chorus, F. H. Birch...
...cast is as follows...
...final cast is as follows: Young Chartley, a wild-headed gentleman, T. F. Jones '06 Boyster, a blunt fellow, H. Kempner '07 Sencer, a conceited gentleman, E. R. Brumley '07 Haringfield, a civil gentleman, T. Eaton '08 Luce's father, agoldsmith, G. W. Bricka '07 Joseph, his apprentice, F. S. Howe '08 Old Master Chartley, R. H. Lord '06 Sir Harry, a Knight, who is no scholar, G. J. Hirsch '07 Sir Boniface, an ignorant schoolmaster, H. Mcl. Holmes '06 Taber, Sir Harry's man, W. J. McCornick '08 A countryman, client to Wise-Woman, C. W. Burton...
There has been placed on exhibit in the Assyrian room of the Semitic Museum a plaster cast of the stone, on which is written the Code of Laws of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia about 2250 B.C. There are 44 columns of writing containing 247 laws which give evidence of an advanced civilization among the Babylontans 1000 years before the time of Moses...