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Oriental Museum

The Oriental Museum, established in 1917 on the fourth floor of Lincoln Hall, was the third of the modern campus museums. It merged with the Classical Archaeology and Art Museum in 1929 and with the Museum of European Culture in 1954. The holdings of the collection are now part of the Spurlock Museum. [1] By 1935, the Oriental Museum included: [2]

1,700 unpublished cuneiform tablets dating from the twenty-ninth to the twentieth century B.C.; others from the period of Nebuchadnezzar; Babylonian seals; fragments of Assyrian and Babylonian bricks with royal inscriptions; Egyptian alabaster, slate palettes, mummy-case fragments, and mummified sacred birds; squeezes of Hittite and Assyrian inscriptions; pottery from the sites of ancient towns in the Near East; objects from Palestine, including prehistoric implements and Hebrew manuscripts




[1] University of Illinois Archives, Building and Statue Dedication Programs: RS 2/0/808
[2] Some Points of Interest in and about the University of Illinois 1935 Campus Promotional Brochure
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