Volume IV / Number 2

1913

Vol. IV / No. 2

By: G. B. G.

Important Historical Documents Found in the Museum’s Collection of Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablets

In the spring of 1910 one hundred and fifteen boxes of inscribed tablets and fragments of tablets, excavated by the […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: Arno Poebel

The Babylonian Story of the Creation and the Earliest History of the World

During the summer of 1912 I examined the collections of cuneiform inscriptions in the University Museum. I was especially interested […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: George A. Barton

The Tablet of Enkhegal

Enkhegal was one of the earliest kings of Lagash, the modern Telloh. The only inscription from his time which is […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: James A. Montgomery

Abraham as the Inventor of an Improved Plow

In the Museum Journal, vol. I, p. 4, Prof. A.T. Clay published a reproduction and description of a most interesting […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: E. P. Wilkins

Napoleon’s Egypt

The President of the Museum, Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., has recently presented to the Museum Library a copy of […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: James A. Montgomery

The Lilith Legend

Among the magical texts in the Museum is the following, which belongs to a widespread category of Jewish charms: Shaddai […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

Notes

In 1897 the Museum acquired, together with a collection of Greek vases now on exhibition, a large box of fragments […]

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