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and is audible only to the performer, who holds one end between his teeth. 

 At the other end of the series are the guitar aud violin ; the former 

 represented not only by the well-known European instruments, but by 

 related forms from India and Africa. Intermediate stages are shown 

 by a number of interesting types, named and described upon the labels. 

 The series selected for Atlanta contains about two hundred instruments. 

 The small portion of it shown gives but a meager idea of the great 

 collection in the National Museum, which includes some three thousand 

 forms. 



DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES AND RELIGIOUS 

 CEREMONIAL. 



Alcove M was devoted to a collection of objects illustrative of the 

 Bible, arranged under the direction of Dr. Cyrus Adler, custodian of 

 the collection of religious ceremonials in the Museum. An attempt has 

 been made to show representative specimens of most of the classes of 

 objects which are of value to the students of the Bible, and the collec- 

 tion, though necessarily limited through lack of space, may fairly be 

 said to have constituted a miniature Biblical museum. 



The archaeology of the Bible is represented by a collection of casts 

 illustrating the ancient Hittites, frequently mentioned in the Bible from 

 the time of Abraham down ; by an Egyptian mummy secured by the 

 late Hon. S. S. Cox, United States Minister to Turkey; busts of Barne- 

 ses II, supposed to have been the Pharaoh of the exodus, and of his 

 father, Seti. Assyria and Babylonia are represented by a model of a 

 temple tower of Babylon, especially constructed for this Exposition. 

 This temple tower was situated in the outskirts of the city of Babylon. 

 The model is made after the description of Herodotus and the report 

 on the ruins discovered by Sir Henry Bawlinson. There is also a cast 

 of a huge Assyrian winged lion, 11 feet long and 11 feet high, such as 

 were placed to guard the doorway of Assyrian temples ; cast of the 

 Chaldean account of the flood, etc. Palestinean archaeology is repre- 

 sented by casts of Moabite stone, Siloam inscription, and Temple stone. 



The ancient religion of the Jews is represented by a case containing 

 a selection of the more important objects of Jewish ceremonial. Still 

 another case shows a collection of the gems of Palestine, with a model 

 illustrating the method in which the gems were placed in the high 

 priest's breastplate. There is also a collection of coins struck in Pales- 

 tine, as well as those which appeared in Bible times in cities mentioned 

 in the Bible. In another case is a collection of musical instruments of 

 Palestine and adjacent countries, which differ in no wise from those used 

 in ancient times. To these are added a few representations of musical 

 instruments from Egyptian and Assyrian monuments. A collection of 

 domestic implements, such as are mentioned in the Bible, and a relief 

 map of Palestine are also shown. 



In this connection is also exhibited a collection to illustrate the 

 history of the Bible as a book and to show the important translations 



