Show vt i- -- r I l‘! & !‘‘x w4i s r fb fi J'S'4 If T 1 vf 1 iiiiMiritigiBi'laWW wlbMiabiiftHinni ffirc SllLT LftKE TMBTJXE l OSr j STJKDXT MOILING SLVRCH 19 1933 5 0 ri oahs I The Remarkable Scientific “Find” Just Deciphered by Experts Who AreNoWSludying Other Uncovered Ancient Slabs 4 a E hundred yeais ago an ambitious Syrian stoi e writi r chiseled on a gnat tablet a story This antique slab of stone was found with many others a few years ago in a forgotten city of the Near East and ever since antiquarians have labored at the task of dt ciphering its nw ssage lORTY-- Only a few weeks ago the Very Rev Sir George Adam h nglih notable Smith scholar of llebiew and the am lent languages of the Onent annoumed that he had succeeded in reading the tablet that now reposts in the British Museum in 1 on That May Cast New Light on Biblical History V ” t Mf$ — don lo everybody’s surprise the mysterious inscription told the Btorv of Noah’s Ark and the Deluge It is be- lieved to be 'he first record f the flood ever made which every Bihlit al studmt has reud in the Old § if w nt f After describing in gtent detail the construction of the craft that was destined to survive the most famous ju k O05scfc i t 4sa bdyvV i i k le 4 u 1 13 r V 4 t Is 4 cN ? s the storm and all the tempi st which had destroyed Iiae an larthquake quitted '1 he sea he caused to dry and the wind and tempi st ended 1 was carried thiough the sea 'Ihe doir of evil and the whole of mankind who turned to sin like reeds their coi pses floated ”1 opined the window and the light broke in over ny rifuge it passed On the seventh day in the course of it I amt forth a dove and it lift The dove went and searched and a resting place it did not hml and it returned I sent forth a swallow and il lift Ihe swallow went and searched and a Prof Carl S Brooks and a Student of the I nivrrsitv of Southern (aliform f xaminina a ltabvlonlaii Tablet Similar lo Those from Iraq t hose lnserip-tion- a Have Juit Been Dreiphrrrd deluge in the world’s history the stone-writnarrating in the lirst person er aavs: “I cauedto go up into the ship all mv male and female servants the beasts of the field and thp sons of the army— all of them I caused to go up A flood Khamas made and he spake saving in the night ‘1 will cause it to rain from heaven heavily: enter to the midst of thy ahlp and shut thy door1 “A flood he raised and he spake saying in the night ‘I wilt cause it to ram heavily’ In the day that I celebrate the festival the day which he had appointed fear 1 had I entered in the midst of my thip and shut my door "The flood reached to Heaven the bright earth to a waste was turned the aurface of the earth It swept It all life from the face of the earth the strong tempest over the pi reached to Heaven Brother saw m t nit brother It did not spare the people "Si days and nights pissed the w md tempest and storm overwhelmed on the seventh day in its course was calmed M di ' ir Ml ' K ji t I' V sent a and the corpses on the water it saw and it did eat it swam and wandered away and did not return” In the British Museum there are other similar tablets believed to contain the original stones of whiih many can be found in the Old Testament hor convenient e m working tha ery Rev tor George divided the col lection into sections aciordmg to subject matter believed to be in the inscrip- tions It was while examinthe mythological mythiial tablets thut he deciphered the a The of ihe Irluge lrfrlr (mllired the Imeginaliont of Italian Henauaanre I'ainler hon Ihe "The flood reached lo heaven ihe bright earth to a waste was turned destroved all life from the fare of the earth the strong tempest over the people reached to heaven" And at Left a fragment of Another Tab! t I ound In Iraq the I’aint-in- f Above la HaphacJ’ IVrtraal of Noah lavinf the Ark made by the court physician and dentiat of Ninivch where the king’s palace ing and w that neJjjuwvf-th- e time same se t nt r b- eing given the world vvoid he will he able to give the world the stones that weie chiseled' on the stone surfsies so many centuries ago came from 'li 11 Billa in Iraq that after three seasons of digging and excavating the expedition of the Lnivirsity of Museum and tho Amemnn Schools of Oriental Research had ju-- t y found a cuneiform inscription that ldentihed the site as that of Shnn-ib- a a ptovincial capital of ancunt Assy ria Uthtr cuneiform inscriptions recently deciphered astonished scientists because it changed their entue conception of Urn ntal history adding 1100 years to the period of Assyrian nistnry which can now be studied with chronological I’mn-aylva- Sir Charles Marston the distinguished archaeologist ts another expert who is devoting rnutlh time to attempts to rind the intricate characters on tahlits in the British Museum The ones he is studying are full of Phoen- - ician characters $ nnd ars A short time ago date bsi B C k to 1 IbO yi that f he be the work now in prig revs indiiatcs that a fn-- i mating s’orv conI cerning the nunani e Adam and hv is the thesis of a series v rr'A S A'-- ' of t he etnne-t- t nt mgs quallv interesting is the s'nti inent made a she rt time ago v Dean Minor of the Harvard Dt ntul School in whuh he declared that a clav tahlit hnd been found on which was described the diagnosis of a tooth-aI 1 A 3200 ear Old Tablet Discovered by Professor D A Spcl see of the Lnlversltr of Pennsylvania Leader of the I spedllloa at Tell Bill In Iraq That L ncovered the History Making Slain of ‘tone At Blfhl Noah Offers 1 hunks ta Jehovah After lha Subsiding of the Hood Ihe Ark It Shown Betting High on the Mountainside Across the Heavens I ire a Ilacnhow— S nibul of Peace Aftrr the Tumult Has Subsided c he Buffered by King Asstuanlpal of Assyria w Ini livi it about ff c) cai a bt fm e tha dawn of the thnstian era y 'lie t ini h SjrDvi d agnosia poi-tivil- acenrac y The inscription that Identifud tho an-cnt capital was found on a bre nre bowl and was di ciphered by experts umh r the leadership of Chaihs Ruche the joint expedition’s field director f he ether wulings will also intere t the It hhc al students of the wnrll in they reveal for the hr't timo that the ancient Asvnan method of raorclmg dates hv reference to an eponym tie term applied to an Assyrian dignitary was pract ic ed as eai !y as 1 ’00 1! C “Ihe entire sv stein of chromic gv” said Horace II I’ Jayne Director of the University Museum "which forms the mam basis for the fixed dati s of the Bible rests upon of these eponvms According to the Assyrian custom a new eponym was named annually and the current year was named In hia honor as was later the cne In ancient Greece 1 heref ire through these eponymi it Is possible to make an ai curat i hrunul go a study of k lccvi ho had at In t f und the ki y to the In fmt lucre gl phics -- v) if the discovirus was but the British expert is confident that in his coming months of work r- -' aspcatcd AboiH one concerning the flood Some of these ere in a fragmentary condition I’rofissur Marston '“-- I reding place it did not1 hnd and it returned raven and it left T he raven went y'Cj-- f -- Tv' I was iaU Ida If1! ¥& n li-- ts Assvtinn hixtorv t of As Heretofore the known synan eponvms did not extend furthrr ai k than SioJ 11 C but all of the r tab'ita taker fiom led B a ai ‘ 11 1 unei-fwt- I m dated to earlir r eponyms including King hhalmaneser the hirst who reigned id the lust quarttr of the thirteenth cen- tury B C Relertnccs to other eponym dignl-taru- s of th period from 1J00 B G and later aNo have been found on tha tablets and it can be stated with assurance that a substantial amount of important chronolc gical information w ill have hem placed at the disposal of st udi nts of anc u nt history w hen all tha cuneiform found at Tell liilla have bren deciphered “1 he clay tablits bearing these eunri-forinscriptions weio uncovered by tha expedition under the aderslnp of Dr h A hpcisir professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Pennsylvania who formerly served ns director of the expedition in Iraq Owing to the poor state of preservation however he found it impossible nt that tuna to innhe more than a tentative inspection of than in the fn Id "Dr Spc r's bru f study of the t a till ts was auflkicnt to indicate their ecu -t ilic importance however and after th y had hem lift to diy for eight month they were amt to Dr Idward Ghiera f the Oriental Instituteof t h icago who has avail aide thiie special facilpics fer and preserving cuneiform tabitaking c ts ‘ m 1c -i n- “After Dr treating the tnrdrts was enaldid to make a fresh transliteration of them which he amt to us His findings both conhrmed and amplified the results of Hr Npeiser bru f examination In the field ” Twin empires of antniuity were and ahvlon whim grew up on the hanks of the '1 igns and h u hrates The mti nli pendent e of thi se two riot mns ancient nations was recognized hy early writers The strength of one was the measure of the weakness of the other Although Assyria takes first place In the r asical accounts the of inscriptions has r roved that the converse was true Willi the i xi ptnm of some man or eir ht centum s An na might I e dc sc i d ed as a province or dependency of I at) Ion a tha mo her country (birrs Aa-sv- 1 c i 4 |