Thursday, April 30, 2020

HSM to HMANE

CHANGE: Harvard Semitic Museum Changes Name To Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (Oliver L. Riskin-Kutz, The Harvard Crimson).

I will feel nostalgic about the old title, but the rationale for the change makes sense. I wonder what they're going to do about the inscription in the stone lintel.

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