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Photograph from Prof. Albert T. Clay 

 A ;.OCO-VKAR-OLD DICTIONARY. IX TWO SECTIONS OF FOUR COLUMNS EACH 

 The first contains the Sumerian; the second, the character to he explained, the third 

 the name of the character, and the fourth, the Babylonian, equivalent to the JSumenai^ mm 

 the first. The reader will probably infer that the school boy or girl of 5,000 .years ago had 

 a much harder time of it than today. The Sumenans were a wonderful people, *ho ^ere 

 already civilized when present history begins. 6.000 years ago (see page I3dJ. 



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