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The Egyptian Expedition

THE Museum is fortunate in Expedition having secured excavation rights for the Fourth Dynasty pyramid site of Meydum. Although the […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

THE eighth campaign of the Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the British Museum to Ur of the Chaldees […]

The Czechoslovakian Expedition

THE first American archaeological expedition to work in Central Europe was that sent jointly last summer by the University Museum […]

The Lock Haven and Texas Expeditions

THE Lock Haven Expedition, under the direction of Dr. Mason, and later of Dr. Davidson, was organized during the summer […]

The Museum Representative at Opis

A. M. MINTIER, Graduate Fellow at Michigan University, is representing the Museum at the excavations at Opis, which are maintained […]

The Australian Project

DR. D. S. DAVIDSON, Associate in Archaeology left late in December for Australia, to study both the archaeological remains and […]

The Sharpe Memorial Gallery

THE Sharpe Memorial Gallery, given in memory of Richard and Sallie P. Sharpe of Wilkes-Barre, by their children, Mr. Richard […]

The Sallie Crozer Hilprecht Collection

By the will of the late Herman V. Hilprecht, one time curator of the Babylonian Section, the Museum acquires three […]

Two New Collections of African Art

IN the spring the Museum secured a large and important collection of over two hundred masks and wooden statuettes from […]

A New Mexican Mask

THE Museum’s collection of Mexican archaeology has been recently enriched by the gift of an admirable stone mask. This is […]

A Portrait Head of Akhenaten

THE small red porphyry head of of Akhenaten (1375-1358 B.C.) here illustrated [Plate XIII] is one of the greatest treasures […]

The Members Room

THE Museum has set apart and furnished a special room in the New Section for the use of the Members […]

Research Laboratory

THE Museum has established a Research Laboratory fully equipped for the study, treatment, and restoration of archaeological specimens in all […]

Publications

IT is proposed to issue each month during the winter an illustrated Bulletin of which this number is the first. […]

A Baule Mask in the Museum Collections

THE dry-point engraving by Mrs. Beatrice Levy of Chicago which is reproduced as the frontispiece represents one of the Ivory […]

The Egyptian Expedition

THE first report from the Museum’s Expedition to Meydum has been received. During the first two weeks of the season […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

MR. WOOLLEY’S first official report on the work at Ur of the Chaldees came to the Museum early in January. […]

Excavations Kirkuk

THE Museum is participating in the work of the Harvard-Baghdad School excavations at Kirkuk, Iraq. Mr. Charles Bache, Associate in […]

A Collection of Algonkin Ethnology

A collection of ninety-nine specimens illustrative of the ethnology of the Algonkin Indians has been recently purchased. These were gathered […]

A New Collection From Central Europe

THE collection of prehistoric objects recently acquired in Bohemia by the Museum contains select series ranging in age from the […]

A Red-Figured Loutrophoros

THE Attic vase, [Plates VI and VII], recently acquired by the Museum, is one of the largest and finest known […]

A Chinese Mirror of the T’ang Dynasty

A WELCOME addition has been made to the Chinese collections of the Museum by the purchase this summer in China […]

Indian Sculpture: A Naga with a Flask

AMONG the many Indian pieces long in storage but recently put on display in the Museum is a fragment of […]

A Silver Vase from Peru

THE tall silver vase illustrated on Plate X is probably the largest known specimen of a very characteristic type. It […]

The Chamá Vase

THE Museum’s collection of Maya Pottery, which already contained probably more examples of outstanding artistic merit than any other collection, […]

A New Haida Copper Tiná

THE Tiná, of which a drawing appears on the cover of The Bulletin, is a shield-like sheet of copper, three […]

The New Ur Collections

THE Museum’s share of the finds during last winter’s excavations at Ur of the Chaldees, which were exhibited at the […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

A REPORT just received from Mr. Woolley announces the discovery of a royal burial of a poorer sort, yielding, however, […]

The Kirkuk Excavations

THE excavations in progress at Kirkuk continue to reveal objects and scientific data of considerable importance. Mr. Starr, Field Director […]

The Museum’s Egyptian Expedition

MR ROWE’S report for December states that he devoted the month chiefly to work on the large mastabah mentioned in […]

Archaeological Work in Alaska

Ten years ago, in 1919, Mr. W. B. Van Valin was engaged to make an Eskimo collection for the Museum […]

A New American Indian Collection

THE Museum has acquired a collection of costumes, charms, objects of art and utensils from the Naskapi Indians of Northern […]

Special Exhibition of Oriental Miniatures

THE Museum to be able lo exhibit during March an important collection of Persian and Mughal miniature paintings, through the […]

An Example of T’ang Sculpture

AMONG the unpublished examples of Chinese sculpture in the Museum’s notable collection there is included an exceedingly pleasing figure of […]

Shadow Puppets from Java

PLATE X shows a Javanese puppet, made of leather, representing the hero Ardjuna. He was, in the Javanese legend borrowed […]

The Mummy Case of Neb-Neteru

THE cartonnage shown in Plate XI contains the mummy of a priest named Neb-Neteru who held the offices of “divine […]

A Note on the Assyrian Sculpture

The important group of Assyrian sculptures, lent to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been […]

The Museum Classroom

IN THE autumn the Museum opened a classroom on the upper floor of the New Wing for the accommodation of […]

Publications

THERE will he issued early in April the sixteenth volume of the Museum ‘s Babylonian Series, Terracottas from Nippur by […]

Mr. Woolley’s Report from Ur

THE Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania has now, at the […]

Report from Mr. Rowe at Meydum

The large unplundered tomb, the discovery of which I announced by cable, seems to be really a cache of coffins […]

Important Finds at Kirkuk

THE excavations at Kirkuk, Iraq, have reached a particularly interesting stage, according to the latest report received from Mr. Charles […]

Proposed Work in Czechoslovakia

THE University Museum and the Peabody Museum of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are sending out their Second Joint Archaeological Expedition to central […]

Some Ancient Chinese Jades

THROUGH the generosity of Mr. Eldridge Johnson the Museum has recently purchased twelve rare Chinese jades of early period. Ten […]

A Remarkable Persian Manuscript

ENGAGED by the Museum in describing its collection of Mohammedan Art, I found among the manuscripts a Persian item which, […]

An Ivory Coast Door

PLATE VIII shows an important new addition to the African collections. It is an excellent example of West African wood […]

A Basket Maker Collection in the Museum

MUCH of the knowledge of the archeology of southwestern United States has been acquired as the result of the keen […]

A Hittite Tufa Eagle

INCLUDED in an extensive collection of classical and Babylonian antiquities lent to the Museum through the courtesy of Miss Elise […]

Certain Coins in the Classical Collection

IN the John Thompson Morris Collection of gold and silver coins, on exhibition in the Sharpe Gallery, are many examples […]

The Classical Study Rooms

IN the new Sharpe Gallery only the choicest pieces of the Museum’s extensive classical collections are on public view. The […]

Recent Accessions to the Collections

IN addition to the many important objects resulting from the various excavations sponsored in whole or in part by the […]

New Expeditions

IT is a matter of satisfaction to be able to announce that the Museum’s important excavations at Beisan, Palestine, were […]

The Maikop Treasure

ALTHOUGH the burial mounds or kurgans of South Russia have for many years been yielding interesting treasures in gold ornaments […]

Four New Geometric Vases

ONE of the most striking phenomena of Greek decorative art is the appearance in about 1000 B.C. of a style […]

A Trinity of Fortune

NEW iconographic type of considerablc interest is presented by two almost identical reliefs, one (Plate VII) now in the University […]

The Wheeling Expedition

AT Beech Bottom, near Wheeling, West Virginia, an archaeological party from the Museum excavated a small Indian mound during July […]

The Czecho-Slovakian Expedition

POTTERY vessels, bronze earrings, bracelets, arrowheads and iron knives belonging to a period of culture more than five thousand years […]

Exhibition of the Kirkuk Finds

AN exhibition of the finds of the expedition at Nuzi near Kirkuk in northern Mesopotamia will be placed on view […]

Exhibition of Student Drawings

PLATE XIII shows one of more than fifty charcoal drawings and water colours by the first and second year students […]

Junior Membership

A CONSIDERABLE extension of the opportunities for the interest and instruction of children has been initiated this fall in the […]

Publications

TWO volumes of the publications on the Museum’s work at Beisan have just been issued by the University of Pennsylvania […]

Death of Louis C. Madeira

IN the death of its Senior Vice-President, the University has lost not only one of its most valuable officers, but […]

The Ur Finds: Season of 1929-30

DR. LEGRAIN, Curator of the Babylonian Section, is just returned from London where he was engaged in the division of […]

The Beisan Expedition

THE first report has been received from Mr. G. M. Fitz Gerald, Director of the Museum’s Palestine Expedition, which has […]

The New Mexico-Texas Excavations

IN carrying on investigations this past summer along the south-western and eastern slopes of the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico […]

An Unusual Stela in Guatemala

ONE of the most important and interesting results of Dr. Mason’s trip to Guatemala has been the investigation of a […]

An Air Survey in Central America

TO enlarge upon and supplement the archaeological investigations by air pursued last autumn by Colonel Lindbergh and members of the […]

A Chinese Pottery Jar

ALTHOUGH not immediately striking in appearance, the Chinese bottle-vase recently added to the Museum’s collections and reproduced on Plate VIII […]

The False Door of Ptah-Arit

THIS false door of limestone came from the tomb of Ptah-Arit, or Ari, as he is variously called in the […]

Two New West African Sculptures

AMONG the most prolific of negro sculptors are the people living in the countries on the lower course of the […]

The South American Gallery

THE galleries on the first floor of the Museum are in process of reorganization similar to that completed last winter […]

The Air Survey in Central America

THE aerial archeological expedition to the Maya region, an announcement of which was published in the last number of the […]

The Tell Billah Expedition

THE first reports have been received from Dr. E. A. Speiser, Director of the Expedition at Tell Billah sponsored by […]

A Wood-Carving from New Guinea

THE great island of New Guinea, to the north of Australia, is next in size to Greenland among the islands […]

A Report from Ur

THE first months of this season’s work at Ur have been notable for the uncovering of the burial places of […]

An Amphora from the Hope Collection

TO the third quarter of the fifth century before Christ has been assigned a large group of vases associated with […]

A Collection of Sino-Scythian Knives

THROUGH the courtesy of Langdon Warner, Esq., a collection of fifty-four bronze knives have been placed on view which supplement […]

A Naskapi Indian Robe

AMONG the most interesting objects in a collection recently acquired from the Naskapi Indians of northern Labrador are the robes, […]

School Museums

WITH the approval and cooperation of state educational authorities and the support of the Carnegie Corporation, the Museum and the […]

Death of T. Broom Belfield

THE Board of Managers of the Museum has suffered a heavy loss in the recent death of T. Broom Belfield, […]

Announcing a Joint Persian Expedition

PRELIMINARY surveys are already being made and early in the spring the Museum, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Museum of […]

The Expedition at Nuzi

THE Museum, in association with Harvard University and the American School of Oriental Research at Baghdad, has resumed operations at […]

The Beisan Expedition

WORD has been received from Mr. FitzGerald that the building mentioned in the December Bulletin as being probably a monastery […]

Two Chinese Sculptures of the T’ang Dynasty

THERE are included in the Museum’s collection of Chinese sculpture, two small stone statues of Bodhisattvas, or minor Buddhist deities, […]

Two Plastic Vases

STUDENTS of aesthetics have noted the difference in the kind of pleasure derived from looking at a small object of […]

A Bushman Collection

THE Museum has received, through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Rodolphe M. de Schauensee, a valuable collection of objects […]

The Central and South American Galleries

THIS issue of the Bulletin will coincide with the complete reinstallation of the galleries devoted to South and Central American […]

Tepe Gawra: A New Site

IN the spring of 1927, Dr. E. A. Speiser, who was engaged in making an extensive archaeological reconnaissance of Northern […]

The Tell Billah Expedition

THE painted pottery of the Hurrian period continues to hold the center of interest at Tell Billah. As Dr. Speiser […]

Excavations at Nuzi

OUR February report on Nuzi closed with mention of the finding of a well in the temple courtyard. Although this […]

Two Greek Sculptures

TWO Greek heads have recently been put on exhibition in the Pepper Gallery at the head of the main stairs. […]

A Chinese Bronze

THE latest acquisition in the Department of Chinese Art is a very early bronze vessel, about seven inches high. It […]

A Batetela Image

THE wooden figurine of Plate VII, representing a seated female, was once the property of a medicine-man of the Sankuru […]

Totonacan Stone Mask and Head

THE Mexican exhibits have been enriched by the addition of a superb jadite mask and a head carved from fine-grained […]

The Beisan Expedition

EXCAVATION at Beisan has been completed for this season. The closing weeks of the season were spent, at the main […]

Excavations at Ur

THE clearing of the royal tombs of the Third Dynasty of Ur is proceeding apace; the latest reports indicate that […]

An Ur Painting

THERE is reproduced on Plate I a welcome addition to the Museum’s collections: this is an oil painting by Joseph […]

Objects from Ur

IN the Museum Journal for December 1929 there were described the methods used and results obtained in preserving and restoring […]

Excavations at Ur

SINCE completing the excavation of the royal tombs at Ur, the main scene of operations has been the residential quarter. […]

The Expedition at Fara

AS announced in a recent issue of the Bulletin, work at Fara, in Mesopotamia, was started on February 15th under […]

Developments at Kirkuk

THE most interesting inscription yet found at Kirkuk has recently been reported by Mr. R. F. S. Starr, the expedition’s […]

Excavations at Meydûm

THE Museum’s expedition at Meydûm, Egypt, under the direction of Mr. Alan Rowe, has entered upon its second season and […]

A Collection of Bronzes from Luristan

THE Museum has just acquired a remarkable collection of Persian bronzes, some of which were on view in the recent […]

A Relief and Inscription from Kashmir

THE relief illustrated in Plate XII was found on the site of Huskapura (modern Ushkur), near Baramula in Kashmir, by […]

The Gallery of South American Ethnology

IN the general plan of rearranging the American collections on the first floor of the Museum, the important South American […]

A Maya Carved Stone Lintel from Guatemala

THE most important and spectacular discovery made by the Eldridge R . Johnson Expedition to the ancient Maya city of […]

A Peruvian Painting Set

ONE of the most interesting of the recent accessions to the American Section is a group of small objects [Plate […]

Field-Work in the Southwest

THERE seems to be an increasing evidence that man lived in the Southwest at a period earlier than the Basket […]

The Joint Expedition to Persia

ACTUAL excavating at Damghan was undertaken by the Joint Expedition to Persia, sponsored by the University Museum and the Pennsylvania […]

A Curator for the Egyptian Section

IT is with pleasure that the Board of Managers is able to announce the appointment of Battiscombe Gunn, Esq., as […]

Excavations at Minturno

THROUGH the good offices of Count David A. Costantini, president of the International Society for Mediterranean Research, the Museum has […]

The Cyprus Expedition

THE Museum has lately undertaken to sponsor small scale excavations on the island of Cyprus in order to fill a […]

A Greek cup by the ‘Foundry Painter’

THE Museum has had the good fortune to acquire, through the generous gift of Mr. Arthur H. Lea, a Greek […]

Additions to the Chinese Collection

RECENT acquisitions in the Chinese section include a group of seven teen pieces of mortuary pottery. The pottery is of […]

The New North American Galleries

THE staff of the Museum has been largely occupied during the past months in effecting a complete reinstallation of the […]

The Meydûm Excavations

A REPORT from Mr. Alan Rowe tells of the progress of the Coxe Egyptian Expedition. Attention this season is being […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

BECAUSE of unavoidable delays in commencing this season’s work at Ur, we are not yet able to report on the […]

The Joint Expedition to Persia

DR. ERICH SCHMIDT has delayed sending a further report on the work at Damghan until his material and photographs are […]

The Russian Project

DUE to the double barrier of language and political isolation, the progress of scientific investigation in Russia has remained virtually […]

The Minturno Expedition

A NUMBER of interesting finds at Minturno have been reported recently by Dr. Jotham Johnson. Among these, part of the […]

Development at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra

A CABLE recently received from Dr. E. A. Speiser reports the finding at Tell Billa of a splendidly colored hæmatite […]

The Beisan Report

WORD comes from Mr. FitzGcrald at Beisan that the building with the two column bases, which we mentioned last month, […]

The Brock Collection of Baskets

THE art of the basket-maker reached its highest development among the tribes of the California region, a number of which […]

A Report from Ur

A REMARKABLE Second Dynasty tomb has been found by the Joint Expedition to Ur. At the bottom of a rectangular […]

The Coxe Egyptian Expedition

A FIND of the first importance has been reported by Mr. Alan Rowe, field director of the Coxe Expedition at […]

The Cyprus Expedition

A MOST successful season has been concluded at the site near Lapithos, on the island of Cyprus, where a Museum […]

Objects from Beth Shemesh

THROUGH the courtesy of Dr. Elihu Grant, director of the Haverford College expedition to Beth Shemesh, Palestine, we are privileged […]

The Joint Expedition to Persia

THE second half of the season, now closed, at Damghan, Persia, was devoted to complete excavation of the Sasanian palace […]

Excavations at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra

THE season at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra has now closed and, although we have not yet received Dr. Speiser’s […]

An Unusual Opportunity

THE Museum is privileged to exhibit, temporarily at least and permanently it is to be hoped, a large collection of […]

The Charles H. Stephens Collection

THE Hall of South American Archaeology has been transformed by the temporary exhibition of a goodly portion of the Charles […]

The African Collections

THROUGH the recent assignment of a greater amount of room to the African collections than was formerly available, it is […]

Excavations at Ur

THE main work at Ur in recent weeks has been in the area northwest of the ziggurat. The great tower […]

A Sculpture From Meydûm

WE publish this month [Plate XIV] a photograph, recently received from Mr. Rowe, of the limestone relief, believed to represent […]

Progress at Minturno

OBJECTS of interest continue to be found at Minturno, which, as the weeks go by, repeatedly confirms its importance as […]

New Expeditions

WITH the coming of spring the Museum’s activities in the field largely center on this continent rather than in the […]

Excavations at Piedras Negras

DR. MASON’S first report from Piedras Negras comes just as we go to press and contains news of considerable interest. […]

Publications

IN anticipation of the opening of the galleries of African art and ethnology in the early autumn, a major portion […]

The African Galleries

THE formal opening of the galleries of the African Section of the Museum will take place on the afternoon of […]

The Persian Expedition

DR. ERICH SCHMIDT was able to extend the excavations of the Persian Expedition operating near Damghan, Persia, during the past […]

Two Sculptures from Minturnæ

TWO terra-cotta sculptures found in the course of last season’s work at Minturnae are here shown, in Plates IV and […]

The Cyprus Expedition

A NEW epoch has begun in the excavation of antiquities in Cyprus. In the past the looting of tombs and […]

The Sabean Collection

THE recent reinstallation on the upper floor of the Museum has permitted the display of a collection, purchased several years […]

A Collection from Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra

SOME of the outstanding specimens which have been obtained by the expedition to Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra, in Mesopotamia, […]

Peruvian Pottery Whistles

AMONG the most interesting objects secured by the late Dr. William C. Farabee on his last trip to Peru (see […]

An Alaskan Stone Lamp

THE Museum has been fortunate in acquiring a second example of the same type as the remarkable stone lamp, decorated […]

Prehistoric Finds in New Mexico

WORK in the caves of the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico was continued last spring under the joint auspices of […]

Publications

WITH this and subsequent issues of the Bulletin there will be included a limited number of pages of advertising. The […]

The Persian Expedition

WITH the death of John Frederick Lewis the University Museum suffers a loss that is shared by many other of […]

Excavations at Tepe Gawra

THE Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the American Schools of Oriental Research has resumed work at Tepe Gawra […]

Excavations at Tell Billa

WITH only a small force at Tell Billa, progress has been slow, but two finds are of no little importance. […]

A Seal from Tell Billa

THE cylinder seal shown in PlateIV was found in the second Assyrian stratum of Tell Billa, but, as Dr. E. […]

The Development of the Russian Project

IN the Bulletin for January 1932, we reported on the survey which Mr. Eugene Golomshtok had made for the Museum, […]

Traces of a Blond Race in Siberia

THE general region of Central Asia has been pointed out as the probable cradle of the Caucasian race. The traces […]

A Corinthian Amphora

THE Museum has recently received on loan a collection of vases made by the late Hermann Hilprecht, one of the […]

A Marble Head from Minturnae

ONE of the earliest areas to attract the attention of the staff of the Museum’s Expedition to Minturnæ was a […]

Jade Ornaments from Piedras Negras

JADE was the material most highly prized by the ancient peoples of Mexico and Central America who regarded it as […]

Three Carvings from Cook Inlet, Alaska

THREE interesting representations of human heads were secured in 1932 from a site in Kachemak Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska, of […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

THE eleventh season of the Joint Expedition to Ur of the University Museum and the British Museum has commenced with […]

The Assyrian Expedition

THE latest report from Mr. Charles Bache, the field director, tells of activity in the southwest corner of the mound […]

Exekias

AMONG the most beautiful fragments of painted vases, from Orvieto, Italy, which were acquired in 1897 with the consent of […]

A Marble Head from Minturnæ

THE interesting head shown in Plate V is one of the sculptural finds from last season’s work at Minturnæ. It […]

An African Wood-carving

AN addition to the African Collection has been made through the gift by Mrs. William Godfrey of the fetish figure […]

Objects from Meydûm

THE objects received from the Meydûm excavations of the season 1931-1932 are, although chiefly of the later periods, very varied […]

Two Incense-burners from Beth-shan

THE discovery at Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra of several interesting incense-burners, the most notable being the painted example now […]

The Expedition to Piedras Negras

THE Eldridge R. Johnson Expedition has begun the third season of excavation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, with Mr. Linton Satterthwaite, […]

Folsom Points and Glacial Man

A FEW years ago the town of Folsom, New Mexico, was put on the map. This event does not seem […]

Chinese Shadow Puppets

ON March eighteenth the Junior Members of the Museum were entertained by a performance of Chinese Shadow Puppets. This unique […]

Stela 12 from Piedras Negras

THE stelae from the Early ‘Empire’ Maya city of Piedras Negras in Guatemala, secured by the Eldridge R. Johnson Expedition, […]

A Remarkable Throne from Guatemala

PROBABLY the most interesting single discovery of the work in 1932 of the Eldridge R. Johnson Expedition at Piedras Negras […]

The Piedras Negras Expedition

THE first reports from Mr. Linton Satterthwaite Jr., field director of the Eldridge R. Johnson Expedition which is now in […]

Gold and Copper Ornaments from Peru

MR . CHARLES L. CHANDLER has recently presented the Museum with three dainty metal objects from prehistoric Peru. These were […]

The Matto Grosso Expedition

LATE in May there was installed on the lower floor a temporary exhibit of the results of the Matto Grosso […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

THE most important single object found at Ur during the season now closed is a considerable fragment [Plate V] of […]

The Assyrian Expedition

THE main feature of the recent season at Tell Billa, according to Mr. Charles Bache’s final report, was a street […]

Two Pottery Tiles from a Han Dynasty Tomb

TWO important additions have recently been made, by purchase, to the Chinese collections in the Museum, in the form of […]

The Cleaning and Restoration of Ancient Bronzes

ALMOST without exception the bronze and copper objects received in the Museum are in the process of disintegration. This disintegration […]

A Reconstruction of a Burial from Persia

THERE has recently been installed in the gallery devoted to the results of the Persian and Assyrian Expeditions a restoration […]

The Expedition to Minturnæ

NO formal report has yet been received from Dr. Jotham Johnson since the resumption of excavations at Minturnre, Italy. A […]

Varied Activities in the Field

IN addition to the expeditions reported elsewhere in these pages, activities have commenced at three other areas in which the […]

Publications

THE next number of the Bulletin, that for August, will not appear until sometime in September. It is felt that […]

The Piedras Negras Expedition

THERE is a tradition among archaeologists that something important is sure to turn up about the last week of the […]

Excavations in New Mexico

THE field-work for the University Museum in the Southwest has just been concluded for this year, and, though certain phases […]

The Franklin Peale Collection

THREE quarters of a century ago, a member of the notable Peale family, identified with the artistic life of Philadelphia, […]

The Alaskan Expedition

AN unexpected discovery of great interest was made in Alaska this summer by Miss Frederica de Laguna, of the Museum […]

The Expedition to Minturnae

DURING the first season at Minturnre, Italy, the Museum’s expedition (as reported from time to time in these pages) cleared […]

A Model of a Roman Town House

IN response to many requests coming from all over the country, the Museum is about to publish an accurate scale […]

A New Expedition to Persia

IT is gratifying to be able to announce that the Museum’s work in Persia- so successfully inaugurated by two season […]

The Russian Project

THE development of the Russian project under the guidance of Mr. Eugene Golomshtok has progressed most favorably. Of particular interest […]

The Beisan Expedition and the Beth-shan Society

EXCAVATIONS have now been resumed at Beisan, Palestine, after a lapse of a year and a half, with the expedition […]

The Bulletin

IT was announced in the June Bulletin that the next issue would be largely devoted to the newly installed gallery […]

The Gallery of Italic and Etruscan Art

THE years which immediately followed the founding of the University Museum, the late nineties, witnessed ceaseless activity in the excavation […]

A New Guinea Oracle

IN the coastal region of Geelvink Bay, in the north of Dutch New Guinea, the people practise a cult of […]

Excavations in Russia

FOLLOWING the completion of the expedition to Esske-Kermen in the Crimea which was sponsored jointly by the University Museum and […]

The Beisan Expedition

THE first report from Mr. Gerald M. FitzGerald, field director of the Museum’s expedition to the site of ancient Beth-shan, […]

An Early Egyptian Door-Socket

ONE of the most interesting objects in the Egyptian Section is the very early stone door-socket [Plates VI and VII] […]

An Egyptian Landscape at Minturnae

IN Plate VIII is shown a restored terra-cotta plaque of a type represented by numerous fragments in the excavations at […]

Guatemalan Textiles

MRS. E. A. OSBORNE, with the tireless zeal of the amateur, has gathered from the quaint mountain villages of Guatemala […]

A Stucco Head from Guatemala

THE pyramids, temples, and other structures of the so-called Old Maya Empire were completely covered with plaster and stucco. The […]

Prehistoric Man in the Southwest

MR. EDGAR B. HOWARD continued last summer the search for early man in southwestern United States which he had been […]

Mesopotamian Excavations

THE twelfth season of our joint expedition, with the British Museum, to Ur has now begun. This will be a […]

Piedras Negras Expedition

THE Museum’s fourth expedition to Piedras Negras, Guatemala, was in the field for three months last spring. Excavations were confined […]

Publications

THIS, the first number of volume 5 of the Bulletin, is dated January instead of December, and the succeeding numbers […]

For Junior Members: Chinese Dragons

THE Dragons of the Western World are dead, and a good thing too, no doubt, for on the whole they […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

THE first report on the present season of the Ur Expedition has been received from Mr. C. Leonard Woolley. An […]

A New Publication in the Ur Series

A NOTABLE addition to the Museum’s publications has just been received from the press. It is Ur Excavations-Part II-The Royal […]

The Beisan Expedition

THE 1933 season of the Beisan Expedition was brought to a successful close in December, but Mr. FitzGerald’s report on […]

The Persian Expedition

DR. ERICH F. SCHMIDT, field director of the expedition to Persia which the Museum (through the Mrs. William Boyce Thompson […]

A Pair of Earrings from Cyprus

WHENEVER Homer mentions a work of exquisite handicraft he attributes it to the Phœnicians. It is Phœnician women who stain […]

Bronze Bird Figures from Russia

AMONG the numerous examples of the bronze work from Russia and Siberia recently acquired by the Museum through exchanges with […]

An Early Chinese Sculpture

DECORATED stone pedestals for the support of Buddhist statues are among the best of the early sculptures of China. The […]

Three Inca Wooden Cups

IN THE course of the “housecleaning” of the Peruvian material in storage, which has lain untouched for many years, two […]

A Stela from Piedras Negras

THERE are now shown in the Middle American Hall four monumental stelae from Pied.ras Negras, one of the results of […]

Ceremonial Paddles from the Eyak Indians, Alaska

THE Joint Expedition to Alaska of the University Museum and the Danish National Museum was fortunate in securing two specimens […]

For Junior Members: Indian Dolls

IN the American Indian Section of the Museum, among the weapons once used in fighting and hunting, among the clothing […]

Research in Venezuela

MR. VINCENZO PETRULLO, the Museum’s field director for South American Research , was sent to Venezuela in July, 1933 to […]

Mr. Petrullo’s Report

THE region lying between the Apure and the Meta rivers (both of which are western tributaries of the Orinoco) is […]

The Piedras Negras Expedition

THE Museum’s Expedition to Piedras Negras, Guatemala, has commenced the fourth season at this Maya ‘Old Empire’ site. Mr. Linton […]

A Survey of Prehistoric Research

MR . EDGAR B. HOWARD will continue this summer the search for prehistoric man in America in which he has […]

A Pottery Vessel from Mexico

THE most notable recent addition to the Mexican collections is a remarkable pottery vessel [Plate VI] lent to the Museum […]

The Joint Expedition to Ur

THE twelfth and final season of excavations at Ur has come to a successful conclusion, and the last field reports […]

The Joint Expedition to Persia

A BRIEF report has been received from Dr. Erich F. Schmidt, field director of the Joint Expedition to Ray of […]

A Head from an Egyptian Royal Statue

THE fine head of an Egyptian ruler shown on Plates X and XI was purchased by the Museum from an […]

An Italic Head

THE Museum has recently acquired a terracotta head slightly under life-size, of unknown provenance [Plate XII]. The massive neck and […]

Publications

A PUBLICATION of much importance in the field of North American archaeology will appear the latter part of June: it […]

Malagan of New Ireland

THE gallery lately devoted to a part of the African collections now contains, newly installed, a selection from those of […]

The Cyprus Expedition

The Museum’s Excavations in Cyprus were resumed in the spring of 1934. The site chosen by Mr. B. H. Hill, […]

The New Mummy Room

It is with regret for the Museum that we announce the appointment of Battiscombe Gunn, lately Curator of the Egyptian […]

How Mummies Were Made

PEOPLE far and wide show an almost morbid interest in mummies. The word “mummy” immediately suggests Egypt and with justification, […]

Gold in Ancient America

So much is the question of gold in the minds of all of us, that it is not out of […]

Excavations at Rayy

THE Joint Expedition to Persia has now completed the first season of excavations at Rayy, and has also made brief […]

Assyrian Expedition

A BRIEF informal report just received from Mr. Bache at Tepe Gawra announces an interesting find, in an undisturbed mud-brick […]

Objects From Ur

THE Museum’s share of objects found during the final season of excavations at Ur are now being sorted and catalogued. […]

Tepe Gawra Excavations

THE Joint Expedition of the University Museum and the American Schools of Oriental Research now working at Tepe Gawra is […]

The Albert Gallatin Collection

THANKS to the extreme generosity of the owner, Mr. Albert Gallatin of New York, one of the outstanding private collections […]

Chinese Rubbings

THE Museum was briefly fortunate in being able to exhibit for the fortnight ending February seventeenth a small but striking […]

The Persian Expedition

THE achievements of the first season of the Joint Expedition to Rayy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and […]

Eskimo Dug-Outs

THE expedition of the University Museum and the Danish National Museum to Prince William Sound, Alaska, In 1933, acquired three […]

Maori War Canoe Ornaments

THE Oceanian exhibition lately installed in the east wing of the Museum includes several fine examples of the prow and […]

Book Reviews

FROM time to time books come to the attention of our Curators which are both readable and authoritative and which […]

The Great Mound

IN the sixth millennium before Christ a migrating horde swept from the east over India, Persia and Mesopotamia. Many more […]

Attic Vases from Memorial Hall

THE loan that is described in the following article represents more than a merely satisfactory acquisition to the University Museum’s […]

A Statue of Athena

THROUGH the generosity of Mr. Raymond Pitcairn, the Museum has received as a loan a very interesting statue, somewhat under […]

A Maya Pottery Vase

THE Maya Indians developed pottery-making into a considerable art. No other people of pre-Columbian America attained the same skill in […]

The Latin-American Institute

ACTIVE in the advisory council of the newly-formed Latin-American Institute are E. R. Fenimore Johnson, Percy C. Madeira, Jr., J. […]

Expeditions

A JOINT expedition of Columbia University and the University Museum, under the auspices of the Latin-American Institute, is leaving at […]

Pottery from Minturnae

A RECENT issue (Volume V, Numbers 4-5) of the Bollettino of the International Mediterranean Research Association was devoted to Campanian […]

African Negro Art

THE University Museum has received from the Museum of Modern Art in New York a copy of African Negro Art, […]

During the Summer

THE Museum will be closed from July 1st to September 2nd, inclusive. Attendance has always dropped to a low point […]

The Junior Studio

THE Museum Studio during the past winter gave Junior Members an opportunity to join any of four classes: pottery, sculpture, […]

Houses of the Past

THE Museum has prepared a series of accurate scale models of ancient houses suitable for reproduction by students or others […]

The Black Rocks

THE following article by Mr. Satterthwaite, Field Director of the Museum’s Expedition to Piedras Negras, Guatemala, covers the work accomplished […]

A Daphnae Situla from Memphis

THE Egyptian collections of the Museum include a number of fragmentary Greek Vases found in Egypt. One of these, a […]

The Museum’s Loan to Burlington House

THE Museum was gratified to be invited and pleased to be in a position to lend an important group of […]

Easter Island Wood Carvings

IN proportion to its size of scarcely thirty-six square miles, Easter Island or Rapanui has provoked more discussions and has […]

Obsidian Vessels from Tepe Gawra

INTRUSIVE in Level 11 of the Great Mound were discovered last year a number of Libn tombs described from time […]

The How-To-Make-It Club

IN December the How-To-Make-It Club begins its third year. Organized to bring to a larger group of boys and girls […]

Publications

IN June appeared a double number of the Museum Journal, Volume XXIV, Nos. 2 and 3, entirely given over to […]

Adventures in Art

THE Museum Studio is starting its sixth season, each year having seen a large increase in attendance and in opportunities. […]

The Stela of Mery

BETWEEN the first and second cataracts of the Nile, in lower Nubia lies the modern village of Anibeh. There during […]

Collections from Santarem

DESPITE its immense extent, the Amazonian region is without doubt the the area least known in America from an archaeological […]

Expedition to the Yukon

The following article by Dr. Frederica de Laguna gives an account of the work of the Museum’s recent expeditions to […]

The Road from Rome

An Expedition from the Museum excavated at the site of Minturnae, Italy, from 1931 to 1933, uncovering its Republican forum, […]

Mexican and Mayan Sweat-Baths

In the last issue of the Bulletin Mr. Satterthwaite referred to the problem of sweat-baths in the Maya area and […]

Rayy Research 1935: Part I

The Second Season Begins THE first excavation season at any site is usually a period of sounding and learning. The […]

Guajiro Expedition 1935

THE Expedition to the Guajiro Peninsula which was dispatched on April 23rd under the sponsorship of the Museum and Columbia […]

Palace Ladies

AMONG the Museum’s Chinese paintings sent to the Exhibition of Chinese Art in Burlington House the outstanding one was probably […]

Gawra XII

THE Museum’s Expedition to Tepe Gawra left Philadelphia early in September. During the last field season the discovery of Level […]

Taino Figurines

WHEN Columbus landed on the shore of the New World the natives greeted his messengers with the cry “Taino! Taino!” […]

Expedition Notes

THE sixth season of the Piedras Negras Expedition has been arranged and the field staff will have reached the site […]

Publication Notes: Extract Series

ANNUALLY a considerable number of papers are published in various popular and scientific journals bearing upon the work of the […]

The Round House at Gawra

ACTIVE work of the Expedition to Tepe Gawra, supported jointly by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Museum, […]

An Egyptian Mummy Cloth

DURING the Roman Period in Egypt (30 B. C.-395 A. D.) one Ḥor, son Ḥarisēset born of Tedikhety(?), died and […]

Lintel 3 Restored: And Why

LINTEL 3, very generally granted to be among the finest achievements of the Maya Sculptors, was discovered in a much […]

A Mexican Effigy Pipe

THE ceremonial use of tobacco held an important place in the religious rites of the Mexican peoples, yet pipes are […]

A Bell-Krater by the Christie Painter

SOME years ago Professor Alfred Mansfield Brooks of Swarthmore College had the good fortune to discover in the public market […]

Ural Bronzes

IN 1933 the Museum acquired by exchange with several Museums of the U.S.S.R. a considerable collection of small bronzes from […]

Rayy Research, 1935: Part II

THE continuation of Dr. Schmidt’s report on the 1935 season of the Joint Expedition to Iran covers two important phases […]

Archaeological Work in Durango During March, 1936

DR. MASON has been engaged in research in northern Mexico since early December on an extension of Dr. Edgar B. […]

Stela of Sisopduyenhab and His Relatives

THERE is now on exhibition in the Upper Hall of the Coxe Egyptian wing an interesting stela of limestone which […]

Archaeology in Western Pennsylvania

ALTHOUGH few of us think that archaeology, like charity, can begin at home, digging in Pennsylvania has gone on spasmodically […]

The Sixth Piedras Negras Expedition

MAYAN carved and dated monuments, so splendidly represented in our museum by originals from Piedras Negras, are found scattered over […]

Two Syrian Sculptured Portraits

THROUGH the generosity of Max, Freiherr von Oppenheim, the Museum has on display in the Roman Gallery of the Sharpe […]

The First Americans

JOINT work of the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Carnegie Institution was continued in New […]

Po Shan Lu

“IT is an old affair of the Han Dynasty. When the rulers are married they bestow po shan lu or […]

The Museum’s Gudea

The death of Gustav Oberlaender on November 30th has brought a unique sense of loss to the officers and members […]

Eskimo Tun-Ghat Mask

THE rare mask which was collected from the Eskimo of Hooper Bay, Western Alaska, by W. B. Van Valin, is […]

The African Expedition

Mr. Henry U. Hall, who is conducting investigations for the Museum among primitive tribes in Sierra Leone, Africa, writes the […]

Khafaje, 1937

IMMEDIATELY after receiving word that funds were available, Dr. Speiser undertook to carry on a brief season of excavations on […]

The Oldest Acropolis

TEPE Gawra has been recognized, since its discovery ten years ago, as a site of fundamental importance for the cultural […]

An Expedition to San Agustin and the Indian Reservation of Tierradentro in Southern Colombia

FROM June until November 1936, I had the privilege of leading an expedition in Southern Colombia under the auspices of […]

The West African Expedition: November, 1936 - June, 1937

THE Expedition was undertaken by the Museum with the aid of a grant from the American Philosophical Society, for the […]

Chief Gabriel Paul’s Treasure

BY the generous gift of Dr. Samuel W. Fernberger, the University Museum has received a collection of interesting objects, formerly […]

Kourion: The Late Bronze Age Settlement

THE Museum’s Expedition to Cyprus under the direction of Dr. B. H. Hill continued this spring the excavation of the […]

Thrones at Piedras Negras

THE seventh Piedras Negras Expedition worked at the ruins of this ancient Maya city from March 22nd to July 4th, […]

A Granite Relief of Ptolemy II

THE portion of granite bas-relief on exhibition on the east wall of the Lower Hall of the Egyptian wing shows […]

Tol-E-Bakun: Prehistoric Mound Near Persepolis

THE Iranian Expedition, sponsored jointly by the Oriental Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the University […]

Educational Department

FOR the past two years enforced economies within the Museum necessitated the initiation of a charge for docent service to […]

Excavations at Kourion

THE purpose of the excavations al Kourion is to trace the history of that ancient city in the different sites […]

American Indian Portraits

THE current exhibition of Portraits of American Indians from Poca hontas to Sitting Bull is, in a manner, a departure […]

Impressions of an Ethnologist

So great was the appeal of European articles of apparel and adornment to the American Indian that they were adopted […]

Defensive and Offensive Power of the Shield

TWO superb Dakota shields recently added to the collections of the University Museum reveal the true meaning of the Indian […]

Amitabha Altar Group

THE Museum’s great collection of Chinese antiquities, especially in the field of Buddhist sculpture has been increased and strengthened in […]

American Indian Baskets

THE University Museum’s outstanding collection of baskets has been enriched by some sixty American Indian baskets, notable for their beauty […]

Kourion: The Late Bronze Age Settlement

SINCE 1935 the Museum has been conducting under its auspices, partly through the generosity of Mr. George H. McFadden and […]

Guetar Art in Stone

WHEN the Great Admiral first touched the mainland on his final voyage to the western hemisphere, he found a numerous […]

Conversations and Calls Recorded on the Walls of the Tomb of Kaipurē

THE offering chamber of this tomb, which is located at the southern end of the lower Egyptian hall, was described […]

Publications

DURING the past year the Museum, through the aid of a grant from the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Fund of the […]

Evolution of a Maya Temple: Part 1

MOST of the 1939 effort at Piedras Negras went into discovering the forms of three temples, one over the other […]

A Mosaic From Cento Celle

INTEREST in ancient mosaics has been stimulated of late both by Pernice’s publication of mosaics from Pompeii, and by the […]

An Ancient Paracas Manta

NO greater masters of the textile arts probably ever plied their craft in the Western Hemisphere than the early dwellers […]

The University Museum: 1938-1939

THE past year witnessed the Museum’s steady progress with only a few alterations in its usual course of activities. Expeditions […]

Book Reviews

PLAINS INDIAN PAINTING, A Description of an Aboriginal Art, by John Canfield Ewers Pp. xiv-84. Pls. 45. Stanford University Press, […]

The Achaeans at Kourion

THE University Museum has played a distinguished part in the rediscovery of the pre-Hellenic civilization of Greece. The Heroic Age […]

Nippur Old Drugstore

HERB doctors, Medicine men, and Drugstore prescriptions, may now trace their origin to a respectable antiquity: a welcome piece of […]

Fictile Art of the Mochicas

THE isolated coastal valleys of northern Peru, some fifteen hundred years ago, were the home of a people whose realistic […]

A Contemporary of Queen Hatshepsut

THE Eckley B. Coxe Expedition of 1909 to Buhen in Nubia found a beautiful dark diorite1 statuette of a man […]

Book Reviews

INDIAN ARTS IN NORTH AMERICA, by George C. Vaillant. Pp. xiii-63. Pls. 96 and colored frontispiece. Harper & Brothers, New […]

Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Bronzes

THE Museum is privileged to be able to display, coincidentally with the current Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, a group […]

Locrian Terracotta Plaques

ON a promontory that runs down to the Ionian Sea almost at the southermost point of Italy, Locrians from Greece […]

Evolution of a Maya Temple: Part II

IN the November issue of the Bulletin (Vol. 7, No. 4) we illustrated the changing forms of a Piedras Negras […]

Another Piedras Negras Stela

MAYA carved monuments fall into various categories, the most numerous being “stelae”. These are long shafts set upright in the […]

An Unfinished Statue of the Twelfth Dynasty

Title Reference1 THE limestone statue which is published here for the first time comes from Flinders Petrie’s excavations at “Kahun” […]

The University Museum

IN CELEBRATING the Bicentennial of the University we are also marking with pride the fifty-second year of the existence of […]

The Doors of the Waiting Dogs

AN acquisition of especial interest has recently been made to the collections of Chinese sculpture. The Museum is widely recognized […]

A Statue of the Goddess Hathor

THE Museum has recently acquired the torso1 of an Egyptian life-size female statue of greyish-black granite2. The woman is shown […]

Ivory and Resin Figurines from Coclé

THOUGH not so spectacular as the great heavy gold plaques, by all odds the most interesting, most exquisite and most […]

Sanctuary of Apollo at Kourion

EXCAVATIONS were resumed in the Sanctuary of Apollo1 (Plan 1) on the 28th of April 1939 and continued until the […]

Notes

“ANCIENT EARTH” THROUGH the interest and generosity of Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson and Mr. E. R. Fenimore Johnson the Museum […]

Maitreya and Guardians

THE dating of early Chinese Buddhist sculpture is based, of necessity, on two classes of objects, first those that bear […]

Nippur Again

I.-Sumerian Heads AMONG the treasures of the Babylonian Section are now exhibited two small but valuable Sumerian heads, cut in […]

Hopi Kachinas

IN the kivas of the Hopi pueblos, the men are busy, for the sun has almost reached the farthest point […]

An Egyptian Tombstone of the New Kingdom

THE tombstone shown in Plates VIII, 1 which recently was acquired for the University Museum, is unusually informative. While most […]

Ancient Needles

THE origin of the sewing needle goes back, beyond written history, to the Palaeolithic age. This was the time when […]

Introduction: The Chinese Collections of the University Museum

THE Museum, almost since its first establishment, included a few objects from China. For several decades, however, expansion in this […]

A Handbook of the Principal Objects: The Chinese Collections of the University Museum

THE collections on display are distributed in three galleries: Upper Pepper Hall at the top of the main staircase; Harrison […]

Appendix I: The Chinese Collections of the University Museum

PAIR OF CHIMAERAS University Museum Journal, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, June 1927, pp. 159-173, Two Colossal Stone Chimeras from A […]

Appendix II: The Chinese Collections of the University Museum

Brief descriptions of less important objects not mentioned in the foregoing survey, but which are usually on exhibition in Harrison […]

President’s Message

ON this occasion when The University Museum reviews its work for the year, I want to express my appreciation of […]

Report of the Director

THE University Museum has had a year of considerable accomplishment in spite of events within and without the Museum which […]

Two Maya Bowls: A Problem in Reconstruction

ACTION such as we see in Plates II-III is rare in Maya art, probably because so little of Maya painting […]

A Late Saitic Statue from the Temple of Neith at Sais

IN December 1941 the University Museum acquired1 a headless kneeling statue of black basalt2 of the period of the so-called […]

In Defense of the Horses of T’ang T’ai Tsung

THERE is, it seems, still some question in the minds of certain students of Chinese art whether the famous stone […]

Museum Education in Wartime

IN spite of a fifty per cent reduction in the available docent service hitherto provided by the Museum, the Educational […]

Preface: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

THE Middle American Halls of The University Museum contain one of the world’s best collections of objects produced by the […]

Introduction: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

THE massive pyramids of southern Mexico, Yucatan and Guatemala, dominating their surroundings, epitomize the nature of the theocratic civilizations that […]

The Valley of Mexico: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

Of the early nomadic hunting peoples of Mexico who must have preceded the sedentary agricultural ones we know nothing. So […]

The Maya: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

THE forested lowlands of the present Guatemala, Yucatan, and adjacent parts of southern Mexico and northern Honduras produced the highest […]

Other Theocratic Cultures of Mexico: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

WE have described the Aztecs and their culture in some detail because they were in their zenith at the time […]

The Lesser Archaeological Cultures of Mexico and Central America: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

TO the northwest of Mexico City, in the state of Michoacan and around Lake Patzcuaro, lived and live the Tarascan […]

The Indian Peoples of Middle America Today: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

IN contrast to the United States, where Indians form an infinitesimal part of the population in the urban, industrial and […]

Notes For Further Reading: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

THE literature on Middle American archaeology is voluminous, with a few sound and reliable, popular readable books by recognized authorities, […]

Publications of the University Museum on Middle America: American Collections The Ancient Civilizations of Middle America

Information on and prices of the following publications will gladly be sent on request to the Secretary. Those preceded by […]

Chronology*: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

THE succession of archaeological periods in Mesopotamia in the IVth and IIIrd millennia is fairly well established. However, absolute dates […]

Introduction: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

HERE is a little historical guide, composed for the visitor to the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, so that […]

The Assyrian Relief of Ashurnasirpal: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

This is the Assyrian monument (Figure 1) sent in 1853 from Mosul dy the Rev. W. Frederic Williams, American missionary, […]

Early Discoveries in Mesopotamia: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

A hundred years ago little was known concerning the ancient history of Assyria and Babylonia. Temples and palaces lay in […]

Nippur: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The interest of the American public in Oriental research is proved by the foundation of the American Oriental Society in […]

Ur of the Chaldees: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

While the Nippur Expedition (1888-1900) was entirely supported by the Public-spirited Gentlemen of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, the […]

al-‘Ubaid: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Al-‘Ubaid has become a by-word of Mesopotamian archaeology. In the low mound four miles west of Ur was discovered an […]

The al-‘Ubaid Painted Pottery: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Outside of the temple, the old al-‘Ubaid cemetery, the graves of which rest on virgin soil, carries us back centuries […]

The Sumerians: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The political independence of the Sumerians came to an end when Hammurabi united the north and the south, Akkad and […]

The Uruk Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Such is the picture of the first establishment of the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia as revealed by the German excavations […]

Tell ‘Uqair “Painted Temple”: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

A still more perfectly preserved example of an early Sumerian temple has been recently (1940) unearthed at Tell ‘Uqair, forty […]

The Jemdet-Nasr Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The brilliant decoration of Tell ‘Uqair shows a taste for colours was not foreign to the Uruk period, even when […]

Kish (Uhaimir): The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Kish, eight miles east of Babylon, is, according to the king’s lists compiled about 1800 B.C., the site of the […]

Fâra: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The hero of the Flood, Uta-napishtum, the Sumerian Noah, lived at Shuruppak (Fâra), a city on the old Euphrates, half […]

Khafaje and Tell Asmar: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

East of Baghdad, across the Tigris, in the plains watered by the Diala, where the highways of Elam, Persia and […]

Ashur and Mari: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The influence of the Sumerian culture extended far outside southern Mesopotamia, as revealed by the excavations at Ashur, the first […]

Elam. Isin-Larsa: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Elam, across the Persian Gulf on the borderland of Persia, has always been in close relation with the Sumerian south. […]

India and Egypt: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Semitic supremacy over lower and upper Mesopotamia was thus achieved at the beginning of the second millennium by the kings […]

Sargon of Agade: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The excavations of the last twenty years have thus revealed the origin and progress of a Sumerian culture in southern […]

Lagash (Tello): The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

For over a century the Guti, hill-tribes of the eastern highland, dominated southern Mesopotamia after they had ruined the empire […]

The Third Dynasty of Ur. The Stela of Ur – Nammu: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The stela of Ur-Nammu, the largest sculptured slab recovered at Ur, is a monumental record of the building activities of […]

The Isin-Larsa Dynasties: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The cult of the moon-god survived the ruin of the city. After forty years the statue of Nannar was brought […]

The First Dynasty of Babylon: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

In the second millennium B.C., the Semitic language became the current and official language of Babylonia and Assyria, while Sumerian […]

The Cassite Dynasty: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

From the east and the west new people were soon to invade Mesopotamia. From the Taurus range the Hittites descended […]

The Assyrian Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The names of the kings of Assyria who reigned in the great city of Nineveh in the eighth and seventh […]

The Neo-Babylonian Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Foreign rule was deeply resented by the Babylonians. The fall of Nineveh which filled the Orient with stupor found them […]

The Persian Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The capture of Babylon by Cyrus in 539 B.C., almost a century after the ruin of Nineveh, sealed the destiny […]

The Greek Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

In 331 B.C., Alexander, after the battle of Arbela, entered Babylon and added Persia to his previous conquest of Asia […]

The Parthian Period: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Large constructions of that period, like the fortress built on the top of the Ziggurat and a Parthian palace, called […]

The Sassanians and the Arabs: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

In 226 A.D. another Persian dynasty, the Sassanian, succeeded the Parthian. Ctesiphon became the winter residence. From that epoch dates […]

The Nippur Seal and Terracotta Collections: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Seals and terracottas are eminently characteristic of the Mesopotamian culture. They are found in all the levels and in all […]

Nuzi: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

In the last decades, excavations in northern Mesopotamia, in the plains east of the Tigris, which were to be the […]

Tepe Gawra and Tell Billa: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The artificial mound of Tepe Gawra, fifteen miles east from Mosul, two miles from Khorsabad, covers a much older settlement. […]

Palmyra: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

Small collections of antiquities from countries bordering on Mesopotamia have been acquired by purchase by the University Museum and are […]

The Luristan Bronzes: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

On the border of Mesopotamia, Luristan is the highland of Persia, between Hamadan and “Shushan the Palace,” on both banks […]

The Sabaean Collection: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum

The land of Saba forms the southwest corner of Arabia on the Red Sea. There reigned long before Muhammed and […]

Preface: The African Collections of the University Museum

VISITORS to the galleries of a museum which, like the University Museum, exhibits the arts and crafts of non-European peoples, […]

Introduction: The African Collections of the University Museum

AFRICA was the last continent to be drawn into the orbit of European interest. Less than a hundred years ago […]

I. Africa’s History: The African Collections of the University Museum

General Historians who are accustomed to reconstruct history from written documents or from tablets or papyri do not find a […]

II. The Cultures of Africa: The African Collections of the University Museum

Most of us have vague ideas about other peoples, and only rarely are we aware of the complexities underlying the […]

Suggested Reading: The African Collections of the University Museum

Tribal Monographs Evans-Pritchard, E. E., Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, London, 1937. Herskovits, M. J., Dahomey; an Ancient […]

Foreword: Primitive Money

THIS number of the Bulletin has been planned not only to accompany but also to outlast a special exhibition, The […]

Introduction: Primitive Money

THIS bulletin proposes to deal with money and the various concepts regarding money insofar as they affect the so-called primitive […]

I. What Is Money?: Primitive Money

In an age in which money has become the ultima ratio of human society and in which its function has […]

II. Origin of Money: Primitive Money

The origin of money, like all problems of a similar nature, is a question which is invariably raised by scholars […]

III. Types of Money: Primitive Money

In enumerating the most important types of money which have had validity among primitive peoples, the following arrangement has been […]

Suggested Reading: Primitive Money

For those who should like to pursue this subject farther than this short bulletin allows, the following list of publications […]

Houses and Homes

SOME one has said it takes a heap of living to make a home. This statement suggests that while a […]

Incense Burning at Piedras Negras

WHY do institutions like our Museum dig out the dead bones of the past? Certainly a prime consideration is often […]

Attu Treasure

FOR Attu, the international date-line deflects from its even curve, thus, in the sense of time, annexing to our hemisphere […]

Horseback Riding in Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B.C.

HORSEBACK riding in Southern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium was not a sport for either gods, kings, or men, because […]

Foreword: The Educational Department

It is with great pride that we present this report of the Educational Department. For many years the Department has […]

Introduction: The Educational Department

THE responsibilities of a museum are threefold: to safeguard for present and future generations the material evidence of man’s contributions […]

Educational Services Within the Museum: The Educational Department

FROM THE CHILD in the first grade who is interested in “How the Indians Lived” to the occupational therapist or […]

Educational Services Outside the Museum: The Educational Department

AN EXTENSION department was formed when the need arose for the lending of objects, as the number of Museum visits […]

Preface: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Miss Jean Franckaen for the Cover Design of a Mortlock Island Mask, Micronesia. Mr. Reuben Goldberg for the Photographs. […]

The Pacific Area: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE Pacific Ocean, which extends nine thousand miles east and west at the equator and eight thousand miles north and […]

Prehistoric Types of Man: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

So little is known of the archaeology of the Pacific regions that it still is uncertain whether any of the […]

Prehistoric Ancestors of Modern Types of Man: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

SOMETIME toward the end of the Third Interglacial Period other types of man began to arrive in the East Indies. […]

Living Types of Man in the Pacific Region: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE lack of archaeological data to show the sequence of physical types of man in the various Pacific areas from […]

Languages: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE languages spoken in the Pacific area in historic times are numerous and quite diverse in character. In some cases, […]

Archaeology: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE archaeology of the Pacific regions has received scant attention. Very little evidence is available in any of the major […]

Historic Cultures of the Pacific: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

WHEN the Europeans arrived in the Pacific in the sixteenth century they found representative cultures of the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze […]

The Future: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

THE future offers divergent paths to the native peoples of the Pacific and in neither case will the route they […]

Suggested Reading: The Oceanic Collections of the University Museum

BUCK, P. H. Vikings of the Sunrise, New York, 1938 COLE, F. C. The Peoples of Malaysia, New York, 1945 […]

Foreword

This issue of the Bulletin is an illustrated synopsis of the University Museum’s special Hallowe’en exhibit, Mask Parade-a bizarre collection […]

Masks

Iraqi Excavations During the War Years

THE land now known as Iraq corresponds to much of the territory more commonly known as Mesopotamia, “the land amid […]

From the Director

Recent appointments to the University Museum staff, I believe, reflect a policy of calculated optimism. Most of the new men […]

Kourion: Past Achievements and Future Plans

Now that we are perfecting plans for a number of new excavations, it may be well to look back on […]

Trial Excavations at Sotira: Site Teppés On Behalf of the University Museum Cyprus Expedition

The scope of the excavations at Kourion has been broadened to include the investigation of a Neolithic site near Sotira, […]

An Egyptian Tombstone From a Period of Transition

The limestone slab1 published here for the first time2 is a characteristic and unusually well-preserved document of the latter part3 […]

Nippur Fifty Years Ago

The seventh of October this year a joint expedition of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the […]

Nippur Today

Plans Laid Forty-nine years ago this May, John Henry Haynes closed the fourth season of work at Nippur, packed his […]

Acquiring Merit in Lama Lands: Glimpses of the Lama Religion in Tibet and Mongolia

On a series of trips through the Tibetan borderlands of West China and Northern India, some years ago, and in […]

A Prince of the Lama Church: Glimpses of the Lama Religion in Tibet and Mongolia

Our brief glimpse at the more popular aspects of Tibetan Buddhism may have made it seem a very simple faith. […]

Warp and Woof

WARP AND WOOF, the University Museum’s current exhibit of historic and contemporary textiles, has a double aim: to spread before […]

Traces of Early Man on the North Bering Sea Coast

(Mr. Giddings, who is associated with the University Museum during his year’s leave of absence from the University of Alaska […]

Kourion: The Apollo Baths

Excavations were resumed on the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo during the first week of April of 1949. The […]

Kourion: The Amusement Area

Man has always required entertainment and recreation. As today a man goes to a baseball park or movie-house, so in […]

Frank Gouldsmith Speck: 1881-1950

On February 6, 1950, Dr. Frank G. Speck passed away at the University Hospital. He had been in failing health […]

Introduction

The use of the mask in various forms of symbolic activity, religious or dramatic, is found in many parts of […]

Concerning Iconology and the Masking Complex in Eastern North America

IROQUOIAN LINGUISTIC STOCK NORTHERN DIVISION Iroquois Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca (Ontario and New York State) An outstanding feature in the religious […]

Summary and Conclusions

The masking complex of the East, taken as a cultural phenomenon ranging from the Labrador area to Florida, fails to […]

Bibliography

Bailey, A. G.-1933. The Significance of the Identity and Disappearance of the Laurentian Iroquois. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal […]

A Sketch of Egyptian Chronology: The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum

Prehistoric Period Before 3200 B.C. The Old Kingdom ca. 3200-2280 Archaic period (dynasties 1-3): ca. 3200-2680 Pyramid period (dynasties 4-6): […]

A Sketch of the Geography and History of Egypt: The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum

EGYPT, situated in the northeastern corner of Africa, is a small country, if compared with the huge continent of which […]

Egyptian Deities and Their Sacred Animals: The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum

The Egyptians, throughout their history, have been most god-fearing people. But they did not believe in only one god as […]

A Guide to the Egyptian Collections: The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum

The objects forming the present collections of the University Museum were acquired in various ways. In the early days-the Museum […]

The Museum Takes Inventory*

Title Footnote In the Museum Bulletin for June 1948 I reported the decision of the Board of Managers and the […]

The Story of Hornbill Ivory

The strange substance called “hornbill ivory” was formerly an important commodity in Asiatic trade, and it was extensively carved, especially […]

Gordion: 1950

Seventy miles to the southwest of Ankara a long low mound-its Turkish name, Yassihuyuk, means just that-rises beside the Sangarios […]

Reconnaissance in British Honduras

The eastern margin of the Classical “Old Empire” Maya area runs through the Crown Colony of British Honduras, between the […]

Nippur: The Holy City

When I first saw Nippur on a bright fall day in overwhelmed by its size, the dunes of sand covering […]

Writing and History: The New Tablets From Nippur

All objects recovered by the archaeologist make a twofold contribution to the general information about the site under excavation. On […]

Mercy, Wisdom, and Justice: Some New Documents From Nippur

One of the major goals of the new Joint Expedition to Nippur was to recover as many as possible of […]

Foreword: 14 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom

Every large museum, and most smaller ones, have far more specimens than can possibly be exhibited at the same time. […]

Franklin C. Watkins: Painter

Mr. Watkins liked this bamboo zither from Borneo and said: In the room where all the musical instruments are stored […]

Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor

Mr. Lipchitz was asked why he had chosen this Mayan stone relief from Honduras, and he said: When you asked […]

Norman Bel Geddes: Designer

Of this sculptured Mayan death’s head from Guatemala, Mr. Bel Geddes said: This intrigues me. I don’t especially like it […]

Charles Addams: ...Of The New Yorker

Charles Addams chose this figure of a whale from a Tlingit helmet, Southeast Alaska, and remarked: These objects were selected […]

Louis E. Stern: Collector

Pottery of the 15th century A.D. from Lago de Ajudante, Brazil, interested Mr. Stern. I was attracted by the grace […]

Rene D’Harnoncourt: Museum of Modern Art

Mr. d’Harnoncourt chose a Sepik River wood sculpture from New Guinea. That is a fine thing without any qualification. I […]

Lincoln Kirstein: Ballet

Mr. Kirstein was the only selector to choose a piece from the Museum’s large New Ireland collection. Of this dance […]

Old World Overtones in the New World: Some Parallels With North American Indian Musical Instruments

*Title Reference For many generations the question of the origin of the American Indian has aroused great interest, and archaeological […]

Ethnological Reconnaissance in New Guinea

Some of the finest of the University Museum’s collections come from New Guinea and the adjacent islands. For some time, […]

My Father, The Crocodile: A Papuan Legend

During my recent visit to Papua and New Guinea, I had occasion to spend a weekend at the Sogeri Education […]

Excavations at Sotira: 1951*

Subtitle Reference In the summer of 1951 Mr. P. Dikaios, Curator of the Cyprus Museum, excavated at Sotira, the settlement […]

Background and Purpose: A "Fulbright" in Turkey

Early in September 1951 I came to Istanbul as the first Fulbright Research Scholar appointed by the United States Educational […]

Work Done: A "Fulbright" in Turkey

Upon arrival in Istanbul, I called immediately upon Mr. Aziz Ogan, the Director of the Archaeological museums of that city, […]

Law and Love, A Hymn, A Prayer, and a Word to the Wise: A "Fulbright" in Turkey

In order to illustrate concretely the character of the contents of some of the material copied during the Fulbright year […]

Anatolian Archaeology: Two Outstanding Turkish Excavations
A "Fulbright" in Turkey

October 29th of next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of the Turkish Republic. On that day, […]

I. Chinese Mandarin Squares

INTRODUCTION The Chinese were the first people in the world to use silk, and the finest products of Chinese weaving […]

II. Brief Catalogue of the Letcher Collection

A. MING BADGES Circular medallion from the robe of a Ming Emperor, showing a powerful winged dragon (ying) pursuing its […]

Progress at Gordion: 1951-1952

A comparison of the plan of the city mound at Gordian as it was left at the end of the […]

Afghanistan

The reconnaissance described here has been followed in the summer of 1953 by the University Museum Expedition to Afghanistan under […]

Hermann Ranke: 1878-1953

Hermann Ranke, former Curator of the Egyptian Section, died April 22nd, 1953, at Freiburg, Germany, in his 75th year. At […]

Sculptured Monuments From Caracol, British Honduras*

Title Reference* In the BULLETIN of May, 1951 (Vol. 16, No. 1) we gave some account of explorations at a […]

Removal and Restoration of the Monuments of Caracol

The 1951 expedition of the University Museum to British Honduras brought out a substantial tonnage of Maya stelae and altars. […]

Carvings in Walrus Ivory

When anyone mentions walrus ivory, we immediately think of small Eskimo carvings from the northernmost parts of the world. The […]

The Havasupais: People of Cataract Canyon¹

The American Southwest is known the world over for its unique, colorful, almost frightening beauty and there is no more […]

Tradition and Change

The excitement of discovery was the compelling force responsible for the founding of the University Museum in the last century. […]

On the Track of the Black Pig

“Cian mic Cainte was a wicked Druid who kept an academy near Drogheda, and was wont to change his pupils […]

The Pageant of Death in Nakanai: A Report of the 1954 Expedition to New Britain

Romantic tradition in the western world pictures primitive communities as exciting combinations of colorful dress, bizarre customs, and sinister rites. […]

Linguistic Research in the University Museum

It is generally taken for granted that Museum expeditions, archaeological or ethnological, will be productive of tangible results, of objects […]

Excavations in El Salvador

One facet of the Museum’s long-standing interest in Mesoamerica is its present concern with the prehistory of El Salvador. Interest […]

The Museum Library

When the Museum building was erected the library was established and named the Elkins Library (1898). Some ask “Does anybody […]

The New Museum

This study of the contemporary museum in the western nations was begun for very practical reasons. In 1953, the University […]

Tales of Sumer: Man's Oldest Myths

INTRODUCTION The summer of 1955 saw one of the most unusual exhibits in museum history on exhibit in Philadelphia’s University […]

A First Season of Excavating in Memphis

Excavating in Egypt means, in most cases, digging in the desert which adjoins the cultivated area of the valley of […]

Prostrate Figures of Egyptian Kings

Those who visit the Egyptian galleries and see about them the imposing representations of the pharaohs which are displayed there-the […]

Forest Eskimos: An Ethnographic Sketch of Kobuk River People in the 1880's*

FOREWORD Three men and a woman were the chief narrators from whose accounts the following sketch is compounded. They were […]

Sahagún Reviviscit: In the Gold Collection of the University Museum*

Aboriginal Quimbaya goldsmiths in the Cauca Valley of Colombia were turning out remarkable hollow gold castings long before the birth […]

Digging in the Titicaca Basin

The University Museum undertook its first project in American archaeology in mid-1895 when Max Uhle was engaged by mail to […]

A Thin Stone Head From Middle America

Justifiably famed in the field of Precolumbian Mexican art are various types of related sculpture whose origin appears to have […]

The Tikal Project

When I came to the University Museum in 1947, Percy Madeira spoke to me of his hope that some day […]

Maya Dates on Stelae in Tikal “Enclosures”

In the leading article in this issue of the Bulletin Dr. Rainey gives an account of the Museum’s new project […]

Discovery of the Biblical Gibeon

Ancient Palestine, a small area equivalent to that of Sicily or Vermont, has had in the course of sixty-seven years […]

Iran: 1956¹

April is the Persian month. The plane wings over the high mountains ringing the plateau and finds them mostly free […]

Memphis (Mit Rahineh) in 1956

Two main goals lay before me when I left for Mit Rahineh in January, 1956. First, to finish the 1955 […]

Further Remarks on the Prostrate Kings

It not infrequently happens that a dossier on some class of ancient objects is no sooner closed and the result […]

“Alonga Bush”: A Tiwi Hunt

It was April when I arrived on Melville Island, in the company of a small group of men, with the […]

The Tikal Project

Since John L. Stephen’s remarkable and justly famous account of his diplomatic journey (1839-1842) and archaeological discoveries in Central America […]

Introduction: African Negro Sculpture

As you will shortly see-or have just seen-like other racial and ethnic areas, Negro Africa has its own special kind […]

A Walk Through the Gallery: African Negro Sculpture

The new African Gallery has been designed to exhibit, simply and honestly, a selection of sculptures from our permanent collections. […]

Faces of Asia

This communication is one result of a trip around the world taken by Mrs. Coon and myself in the fall, […]

Italy and Rome

The most recent in a long series of remodelled galleries of the Museum were completed in April of this year. […]

A Second Excavation at Gibeon

At the beginning of the 1957 season at el-Jib, the site of the biblical Gibeon, we had a modest and […]

Iran 1957: Iron Age Hasanlu

During the summer of 1957, excavations at Hasanlu, near the south shore of Lake Urmia, were carried out as part […]

A Notice to our Readers

This is the final issue (volume 22, number 2) of the University Museum Bulletin. To succeed the Bulletin, a new […]