>Myers University in Cleveland, Ohio is going out of business. The school is selling its assets, including a collection of Babylonian antiquities.

The artifacts for sale include the following:

Two clay jugs, some carved stones and dozens of tablets carved with Sumerian words.

Forty-two neo-Sumerian texts, engraved on tablets that served as early versions of receipts.

An Old Akkadian cylinder seal.

Two Nippur incantation bowls.

Several cone-shaped items that came from outside the palace of Sinkashid, king of Uruk.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Antiquities, Archaeology, Babylon