The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1903, Page 12

THE FUNDAY CALL. mit of which reaches intc foundation of whict terranean ocean trary to the view t had been introd s professor ielr origin pr < e for to at th has M ziggurr of th : rmined = 0 nse dump heap: 1 a results z court the professor . . il . aller or r veu aracte ) ; vered tabiet 7 . : e in t : o8, ? rt tidie i g L »ut « - . % en masses of fragme w B E i35 i : the incinerati . many cases was not entire an: 5o ® ues during the : Nk arthed what was then : s, Profeszor Hilprecht : e ; i one of the crematori- Joc 4 es of the dead were Yove EVER. SIERRAT SNow-TopPr BATILE TENTS. MONUMENTS' reduced to as within tk the b been f Prot and around same having Hibba, led ct them with at, th dcway at ht to con the t ws_ th like the = Lara towers must beer 1y a8 tomus; Laal te te was a “place of 1 dence as a place of wor ship as a place of rest for ton express ¥ f to-Guy whien contain tombs u.nes, or are_surrounded partial excavating of R liorary and priest t which has been pro most far-reach:ng . coveries of the whole treated in Professor Y He tells us that the the iibrary rises on an «nty-five feet above the area of about thirteen 1y 1t the twelfth part of the lbrary has be excavated, out of which over 20,000 cuneiform tablets and fregments, mostly belonging to the third milenn um B. C., prior to the birth of Abraham, were taken I'he contents of the (brory as far as ex- oved to be quite varied. There tical, astronomical, medicai, tical and religious in- The tablets recovered clearly t least is are to two period; ¥ ry of the tem ha never been re- view of the fact that In br which belongs to Christ, we re coples of ary of Nip be literary rec- g to the sixth t must be as- of the ruins of cen cleared and e later, or eise cupied continuouely tored. The fact of the library in ruins for a con- ter portion owed tc e and clumsy manner with old Babylonfan characters” indicated that they were Luc first attempts at writing by unskilled Lands ‘here are also grammatical e ercises, exhibiting how the student was instructed in anaiyzing Sumerfan verbal forms, in joining the personal pronouns t different substantives, etc.”” Special at= tention in the collcge of Nippur was paid to counting and caiculating as determined fiom the multiplication tables discovered; awing and scuipturing. so to The excavations at pur revealed not only the oldest saactuary, library and school that are known up to the present time. but the most anclent archa logical museu; In an upper stratum of the library mound the first 'museum known history unearthed. The collection was preserved In an earthen jar and con G of nineteen very choice specimens of antiquities n archaeolo- gist of the present day, after handling thousands of objects from the ruin of Babylonia, tura able to ge concerning the real merits of an- titles discovered. . This litt musgeum trates the fact that the collector, who lived about the time of b azzar, in the 8ixth centu BAC. . ad the me high regard for that hich wouid be consid- ered especially valuable by a modern archaeologist. Whether the specimens Xcavated or purchased we do not , but the collector has handed down to this illustrious colieague in the same science the following very cholce anti- quitics The earifest inscription in the collection, though mewhat 1entary conts the titles of Sargon I, 3w B. C., most cf which were hitherto unknown. A biack stone votive tablet, belonging to Ur-Gur, 210 B. C., is the next In‘chronologica) order, which informs us that the King built the wall of Nippur. The section of the wall excavated revealed bricks with this King’'s name and titles. Then follows a terra-cotta brick stamp of Bu first found of this Babylonlan : an excellently preserved tablet stating thar the great hall of the t 1 Emakh, and also, to Professor Hilprecht s surpri that there were twenty- four s s of othef go ithin the pr cinets of the temple besides Bel consort Beltis. Tablets dated | of Marduk-nadin-akhi, a contemporaiv of Tiglath-ptleser I and Ada-apal-iddina, 1060 B. C., the first thus far known; twe tablets of great chronological importancs and hig the reigns terminated. Excavations having beewn suspended, the meftul was sealed, Arab guard were appointed sheikhs workmen rewarded and the antiqu transported t the swamps. men and blessed Afej, who ha well, eagerly of our next retu red work- and children, 13 of fare- time eparted ‘with a six large boats m Accompanied by the Hilla, their wiv by thronging emblea tc crow bid B ¢ e m points 1o a great which the enture ered for vears the temple of Bel for all kinds of t the school or N 1l as being a se for ble liter: records. mber of rooms of the educational quarter were found hundreds of “school- and s udents’ exercises. Rudely ablets inscribed in a “maive ——— = HE illustrations on this | page are from a complete collection of the poems of Joaguin Miller, just pub- lished by the Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco. Price, $2.50. This is the first authorized edition of the “Poet of the Sierras’” work that has appearcd, and in- cludes nearly all of his poems to date and carefully revised by the author. The author has written a lengthy intro- duction to the book :nat adds much of its interest. The pub- lishers have given the vol- ume an sattractive dress and the pictorial worl. is excep- tionally good. Joaquin Mil- | ler's wor> has been so long recognized as deserving a place among that of the Amer- ican manters of the art of poesy that it needs : o further | comment here. This volume | will prove welcome in any li- brary. inscribed by Ashur-etil-flani, 625 B. C.. and Bin-shar-ishkun; an astronomical tab- let giving observatlons concerning Virgo and Scorplo, and a large fragmentary plan of the city of Nippur, which will prove of great value in the reconstruc- tion of tne ancient cities, These are among the most important Specimens of the collection. This iittle now losgt its identity, h solidated with its modern s tion, the archaeolcgical museum University of Pennsylvania Professor Hilprecht in his volume g'ves a complete account of the important dis- coveries made during the four campaigns of the excavations. Con-ernirg the cluse of the last he says “On May 1, 190, the most successful campaign thus far conducted at Nuffar archaec cal museum has institu- of the ange feeling of sadness and plensure m the crumbling wails of Dur-unci, ‘the link of heaven and earth,’ which iih’s doleful birds, ercaking and ing about, still secem to guard ugq every profane in. uder.” At the present time Professor Hilprecht s in Constantinople making arrung ments for the fifth expedition, which ;).prt(ed to begin operations in Septem- er. e New Textbooks. 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