New Britain herald., 1925-02-05
MUSEUM OF OLDEN
 TIMES UNEARTHED
Relic of 5SS B. C. Is Dug Up
 at Ancient UT

Philadelphiat Feb. 5.--A mpseum. the property of the daughter of tho last King of Babylon. who ruled fin the sixth century. B. C.. has been uncovered and many priceless ob- jects obtained by the Joint Arch geological Expition of the British Museum and the University of Penn sylvania at UT of the Chaldees, ac- cording to the December report of the scientists made public in Lon don and Philadelphia yesterday.
 The scientists, who are digging in the buried city of Abraham in an- cient Babylonia. reported that they located the museum in the com pound of the great temple of the Moon God, close to the zikkurat, or tower, of the city, and that 1t con- tained objects dating as far back as 2500 B. 0. ..,..
 After describing the work done around the ruins of the zkkurat, c. Leos.-ss Woolley, head of the ex- petition, tells of what has been ac- eomplished at the Hall of Justice called E-Dublal-Makh, the other site on which the archaeologists are working.
 Removing little by little the mud brick walls and the high-lying pave- ments of the later periods" MT. Woolley reported, i've have worked out the history of the building from Nabonidus, King of Babylon in the sixth century, B. C., back through the repairs done by Sin-Balatsu-1kbi a hundred years before, by Kuri-Gal- zu, the Kassite, in the sixteenth cen- tury, by Ishme-Dagan, King of Islin, six hundred years before that, to it's original foundation by Bur-Sin of UT about 2250 B. c. Even below the walls of Bur-Sin we have come upon brickwork of a more primitive sort, bearing no name but marked with two finger-prints deeply impressed to hold the mortar, a record of the shadowy Kings of the Second Dynas- ty of UT who may have reigned some c,S00 years before Christ. The building as 1t stands today is Kuri- Galza's.
 Made Daughter a High Priestess.
 From an inscription preserved in the museum at Yale we know that the last King of Babylon, Naboni- dus, following ancient precedent, consecrated his daughter, Bel-Shaltf- Nannar, as high priestess of the Moon God at UT and built an e-gig~ par or cloister for her dwelling, and, incidentally, he lays down the most admirable moral precepts for her guidance.
 "In front of the e-dublal -Aahk, in this its latest phase, we find wide courtyard surrounded by double wall inclosing long range of chan1- bers, the brooks of whose pavements bear together with the name of Na- bonidus, the description of the build- ing as the house of the priestess. hc Slouiiu pldA VI tIlc plhSO aH- swers perfectly to word 'cloister' used in the Yale inscription. and there can here be no doubt we have the actual convent of the priestess.
 "The contents of the building were not less important than its character. School materials, writing exercises, &c., seemed to show that the religious houses then as now had their educational side, and the daughter of Nabonidus, himself a well-known antiquary, appears to have kept a museum in her convent. for there were found in the ruins a large number of objects of such different dates that it Is hard orr any other theory to account for their presence all together in rooms of the latest period.
 Many Treasures in Museum. Amongst them were a fine boundary stone carved with the symbols of the Gods, an inscription of King Dungi, 225O B. C., Votive mace head of early date, inscribed cones of the Larse kings, bronze figurines, &c., and the most precious of all, a record of clay of excava- tions carried out at UT in the sev- enth century,B. C., with copies of early inscriptions found in course of the work. These copies were made for the admiration of the peo- ple.' and I can now feel that not only in digging here but also in making public the results Of the dig. I am following local precedent set 2,500 years ago."
 Nabonidus, known also as Nabu- Maid, was an usurper of the throne of BabyIonia, and devoted his reign chiefly to the building and restor- ing of temples. He restored the tenn nle at E-albar and rebuilt those in sippar and Kharrah. In 5S9 B. c. he was attacked by Cyrus of Elam ana Persia and the following year ne was forced to surrender his kingdom Babylonia becoming a Persian prov ince and ending its career or moro than 4,oO0 years as one of the leau- ing nations of antiquity.
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