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Judges, J. G. Lathrop, G. S. Mandell and W. L. Phelps; time keepers, J. G. Lathrop and F. D. Fiske, Harvard; starter, R. S. Hale, Harvard; clerk of course, G. K. King...
...failed to visit the new Semitic Museum should certainly go there while Professor Lyon is in attendance to explain the various collections. On the left as one enters is a series of large relieves representing different scenes in the life of Assurnazirpal, king of Assyria from 883-859 B. C. In the first the king is seated by the sacred tree, holding aloft in adoration of the gods, the sacred cone. He next appears in a hunting scene. As a priest performing the rites of sacrifice, he is represented with wings showing the tendency of the Assyrians to associate their...
...addition to these is a set of tablets which are connected with the Hittites. The writing is hieroglyphical and has never been deciphered. The sarcophagus of Eshiminazar II, king of Sidon, (300, B. C.,) is a cast, the original of which is at the Louvre. It is Fgyptian in style and was probably made in Egypt. The inscriptions give among other things the genealogy of the king, with the addition of territory during the reign, and calls down curses on any who may dare to open the tomb...
...casts on the floor are bronze and stone weights in the shape of lious and ducks from the commercial system of the Babylonians and Assyrians. There are five clay books that deserve special mention; the sun god in his temple at Sepharvoim., a grant of land by a Babylonian king to his servant, the cuneiform account of the deluge, a record of Nebuchadnezzar's building operations and a sale of real estate at Babylon in the 6th century B. C. The most interesting cast is one facing the door, and is a book of Nebuchadnezzar, the original being brought from...
Among those present Saturday were noticed: Dr. Francis M. Weld, William E. Worthen, W. A. Purrington, J. E. Carpenter, Edward King, T. Frank Brownell, George H. Adams, James T. Kilbreth, Fred Cromwell, A. H. Holmes, James W. Hawes, E. D. Hawkins, and F. Astley Atkins...