IN ABRAHAM’S TIME

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 3

IN ABRAHAM’S TIME

FARMERS HAD THEIR WORRIES THE SAME AS TO-DAY lAust. and N./. Cable) Loudon, April 2. Tho letters of a gui'n merchant liv-'iig iin Abraham’s time vho had difficulties with his creditors, and ; also Copybooks of Sumer an students learn’ng to write were among Ui 0 records recently excavated at Cr. says Mi- Leonard Woolley in u-u 5 rl elc in “The Times. ’ Mr Woo'ley, who :.<* a director of the jo'.ut expedition of the British Museum and of the museums of the Unversify of Peii.n’sylvan u to Mcso- j potamia, continues tluß a consistent | picture of flic c't.v’s life - s now oh- ( tamable from a group of 27 private houses, chapels, shops and warelious- . ers, remarkably preserved, a’so clay , tablets, letters, and btisiness docu- j ments lying on the floors.

FURTHER STUDY These, lie state’s. requ'Te much further study,* but out* group reveals the business relat'cms of a grain merchant with agents in foreign countries and records h s purchase of property in the neighbourhood and the money !».• borrowed. It probab’y was owing to financial difficulties that his premises were cu down on o»c s’dc, 1 fie- courtyard having doors walled up- Rooms were transferred to a neighbour. PERHAPS A SCHOOL Allother taller build «'g. apparent | lv a school, is just inside the door. There w«s found a ma§s of clay !t a bets pled up, among winch are students’ school tablets. GRAVES UNDER *IOMES | Graves beneath the houses yielded amulets and se;ds, and also revealed . men buried with ut mature sets or | copper tools. On e took to the grave 1a scale and weights, and w«a« possibly a jeweller. _