. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. rrors, andother articles, some of which bear royal inscrip-tions back to 1500 B. C. There are a large num-ber of ro3^al scarabs, a face-paint pot of QueenTi, earlier than 1400 B. C, head-rests of cedarand alabaster, amulets of all ages, stelas bearingthe names of Rameses II and Cheops, and are also weights, jars of alabaster, earth-enware jars, flints, fine linen adorned with pearls,inscribed linen, mummy cloth, Greek and Egyp-tian papgri, an inscribed G-reek door, a brick in-scribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar II, con-queror of Jerusa
. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. rrors, andother articles, some of which bear royal inscrip-tions back to 1500 B. C. There are a large num-ber of ro3^al scarabs, a face-paint pot of QueenTi, earlier than 1400 B. C, head-rests of cedarand alabaster, amulets of all ages, stelas bearingthe names of Rameses II and Cheops, and are also weights, jars of alabaster, earth-enware jars, flints, fine linen adorned with pearls,inscribed linen, mummy cloth, Greek and Egyp-tian papgri, an inscribed G-reek door, a brick in-scribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar II, con-queror of Jerusalem, fragments of brick frommany mounds, Ur of Chaldees, Lagash, Eridu andothers. Here also are seen Hebrew burial bowlsfrom under the pavement of Babylon, severalcuneiform tablets with valuable historical inscrip-tions, a splendid roll of Pentateuch written upontwo hundred sheep skins, and there also are anumber of Arab weapons. Here also are founda number of casts from the British Museum, in-cluding a large granite lion of Soleb, Upper.
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