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...exhibition of findings of the Harvard Mesopotamian expedition is being shown at Fogg, and will close on Saturday of this week. Illustrating the progress and results of Harvard's past three years of excavations in Iraq, the exhibition is well in keeping with the great interest which of late has arisen in archaeological research in Mesopotamia. Combining as it does material of both purely scientific and artistic importance, it cannot help but interest those whose minds are open to the past achievements...
...site of the excavations carried on by Harvard University in conjunction with the American School of Oriental Research is in the northern section of Iraq close to the present city of Kirkuk. This place which for 3500 years has been a deserted mound was once the flourishing city of Nuzi, the center of a community of people both commercially and artistically minded. Here for the past three years excavations have been going on under the respective directorship of Edward Cheira, Robert H. Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give...
...this same category may be placed the boar's head (loaned by the Iraq Museum). Here again we have real artistry and feeling in the modelling of what was surely, as with the other animal figures, but architectural decoration...
Perhaps the most important piece archaeologically is the bone figure of a god (loaned by the Iraq Museum), tiny in size but executed with great delicacy and feeling. Aside from its purely aesthetic appeal, its similarity to works of the Hittite country makes it very significant...
...Fogg Museum are being shown an exhibition of objects found by expiration of the American School of Oriental Research and Harvard University near Kirkuk, Iraq, a memorial exhibition of the work of Charles Herbert and one of the paintings of the Naumberg beguest...