North Park union., 1900-11-16
le Great
Nippur Library

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The story of the lives that men
lived FIVE thousand years before the
birth of Christ is about to be revealed
through translation Of the records un-
earthed in the ruins of Nippur by
Professor Hilprecht Of the University
OF Pennsylvania. Professor Hill
precht has had the honor and the
great good fortune to open vast IL
brary containing some $4,000 tablets
covered with cuneiform inscriptions.
1t is the greatest discovery of the
kind ever made, and it throws light
on period of the worlds history
concerning which there was dearth
of information. Professor Hilprecht
says that there are no tablets OF q
more recent date than 1900 before
Christ, while others reach back to
about the time when, according to the
once accepted chronology, Adam aid
Eve were enjoying the delights of the
Garden Of Eden. Speaking Of the
contents of the tablets Prof. HI
precht says;
GAS to the subjects Of the tex !,
they cover every period Of literature
known 10 the early Semitic peoples
Particularly welcome are the lists Of
words written in two languages. gu
merlan and Babylonian; the gram
matical exercises; chronological lists;
the many hymns, written often in
terms closly approaching the Old
Testament psalms; proverbs; astro-
nomical and astrological texts; tab
lets giving an inventory Of the tenn
Pile, the different gods worshippcd,
the income of the temple from various
sources, etc. All these are invaluable
contributions to our knowledge of
the ancient world, and they will con-
siderably increase our knowledge Of
the two most ancient languages of
the human race"
One gets an idea Of the value OF
the discovery when it is considered
that this great library was lost to hu-
man knowledge about the time that
Abraham went out of Uz iutoPalestine
Through all the years of Hebrew his
tory from Abraham to the destruction
of Jerusalem that great collection of
inscriptions lay buried underneath
the ruins left by Elamites who sacked
the city of Nippur and destroyed it
as the capital of Northern Babylonia.
1t was after that event that the city
of Babylon became the capital, and
the history of that ancient seat of
wealth and power is more modern
than the story told on the cuneiform
tablets of Nippur now brought to the
light of day.
When the inscriptions are all trans
lated they will constitute mine of
and students of ancient
history all over the world will await
with intense interest their publication.
It is believed that cattle receipts
on the big Western markets will show
q heavy decrease for the next two
months. This conclusion is based
upon conditions in the country. The
heavy run in September and October,
t is claimed, drew upon the supply
of cattle that usually goes to market
in November and December. The
cause was the dry weather and short
tage of grass in many sections. If
this presumption is correct, there
should lot be 80 many cattle to mar
ket in the next few weeks as usual at
this time of the year. This will en-
able the markets to trim up and get
in better shape for the spring run.
The supply Of fed cattle while short
in some sections, is larger in others,
but on the whole it is believed the
total will not differ greatly from last
year..Denver 5tookn1aH