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Show Light on Obscure Law. A clay tablet bearing a map of ancient an-cient Babylon, which has just been discovered, throws, according to Dr. Stephen H. Lnngdon of the University of Pennsylvania museum, "a welcome light upon an obscure law in the great law code of Babylonia. In column XV, lines 65 following, there is a reference ref-erence to the custom of blowing a horn at the village gates to notify shepherds that the grazing season was over. These rural villages appear to have been so arranged that the village buglers were able to make the shepherds shep-herds and farmers hear the sound of the horn in every part of Babylonia." The tablet dates back probably to 1500 B. C. |