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Summer Road Trip - Part 2: Oriental ≠Asian
Sunday, Sep 12, 2010 6:06AM / Standard Entry / Members only
16 commentsWe spent the second day of our trip to Chicago at a museum. The Oriental Institute Museum can be found on the campus of the University of Chicago. The entrance fee is a donation and, if you like old stuff, ancient eastern nation's history or ever spent any time in Sunday School, you'll find it extremely interesting...First, I should explain my title up there. When most people say "oriental" --at least here in the U.S. anyway--they think rugs and vases that come from somewhere in Asia. By definition, "oriental" means "of or pertaining to or characteristic of the East." And, in the case of this museum, it mean Egypt, Syria, Iran and more of what we now refer to as "the Middle East."Anyway, there was tons of cool stuff if you're into the above mentioned kind of thing. I took lotsa pictures....
Wish I'd gotten something in the picture for scale.Up the nose shot!
mooned by a statue too...
This was one of the coolest thing at the museum. It's small, stone obelisk (below) depicting a story that's also recorded in the Bible! In 2 Kings 19, a battle between Israel and Assyria is chronicled ...and it was here--right in the museums!--too!"That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there." 2 Kings 19:35-36
One "small" difference though. The artifact's version is told from the Assyrian point of view. They chalked their 185,000 men, middle of the night defeat by deaths to mice and disease
A "clock." Filled with water in the morning, one knew what time it was by the water level becuz the water ran out at a steady rate though all those holes.
Stone "carpet."
Misc. statues of an ancient king. See that white one there in the middle?Yea, this one. I thought he looked like a nightlight
Ancient "Striding Lion" tile wall.Ancient "Striding Lion" tile wall observer (aka girl-child)...
Ancient "Striding Lion" tile wall toucher(!) Her exact words and she put her finger on that sign, "Touch *gigggle*"Giant ancient god statue dude with girl-child and boy-child (blurred for security and paranoia) for scale...Another up the nose shot.Seals. This was another one of the super cool things at the museum. Especially if you ever spent any time in Sunday School. Go re-read Genesis 38. The part where Tamar and Judah and negotiating and they say:"So she said, “Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”
So she said, “Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”These are examples of the signet she asked for! They were a very distinctive seal. Men carried them with them all the time and, when they sealed something with their signet, it was the equivalent of us signing our name to something today!These next two were the other really cool thing (for me) at the museum. In Exodus 34, the Israelite people have just been freed from Egypt. A little way down the road, Moses goes up on Mount Sinia to have a one-on-one with God. This was when God gave him the law and the original 10 Commandments tablets. While Moses was up there, God said to him, "Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.... Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and... Do not worship any other god..."If you remember how the rest of the story goes, you know the Israelite people didn't exactly all do what they were told ...and here, in real life, straight out of ancient history was the proof! Wooooooooooooooow!
Not one, but two of the Canaanite god statues they were suppose to destroy! More temple statues...Humungo sized TutankhamunEgyptian knick knacksWouldn't be an Egyptian exhibit with out canopic jars...and a mummy!
giant bull head. The description said the missing horns would have been made out of something that deteriorated a loooooooooong time ago....
And a tale of one of our own in the gift shop?
My geeky family enjoyed the museum very much. From there we went to Greektown for lunch at the Parthenon. Greek food is my favorite and it's not often I get to have the real deal
Most of us have friend we know only from the internet. The last couple years, I've made a habit of contacting any of those online friends, if I'm gonna be in their town, and inviting them to meet me for a meal. This trip was no exceptionThis time around, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Don Hyun Kiolbassa. Don is a wushu champion, corporate lawyer, CPA, motion capture guy for Mortal Kombat games, studied under Donnie Yen, trained in China with the Shaolin Monks and on and on and on... My family and I had a very enjoyable lunch, both becuz of the excellent food and the exceptional company. Don gives off a rare vibe like I've only ever felt a few times. He's got all these incredible credentials attached to his name, but what I was most impressed with was the fact that he didn't need them--his genuineness, just the God-given things that would have come with the "base model" Don. You knew you were in the presence of a good guy.(and, yes ladies. He's as charming as he looks)392 views Share 
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