Show E 4 fr THE SPOILS OF BABYLON antiquarians revel in finds frim ancient city the ruins of babylon continue to yield antiquities of the very highest interest to the excavators who represent the german oriental society from the center of the square site which extends for miles on both sides of the Euphra euphrates at a place now called Nl nachan chan el aswad the germans have taken tablets one being a in two languages which may add a good deal to 0 o our knowledge of the languages written in cuneiform signs and another a litany which was chanted by the priests of garduk or at the temple of garduk was one of the twelve great gods and was represented in heaven by a constellation in some of his traits he was like hercules in others like zeus A striking discovery was vms the site of a temple of the god who was the babylonian forerunner of pal eon con the physician of the gods in homer and of in later centuries this god of physicians nas worshipped as ador or nigeb amu lets cylinder seals showing bunting hunting scenes and colored tile work of a very high artistic value are among the german spoils at babylon during the past season |