Volume 8 / Number 2

1966

On The Cover: Bronze coin with portrait of the emperor Domitian.

Vol. 8 / No. 2

By: Kenneth D. Matthews, Jr.

Domitian: The Lost Divinity

Titus Flavius Domitianus–a handsome man, graceful of carriage, rather tall in stature, quick witted and intelligent though not well educated […]

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Vol. 8 / No. 2

Current University Museum Research – Winter 1966

ANDEAN STUDIES – Alfred Kidder is compiling the publication of his excavation at Chiripa in highland Bolivia. APPLIED SCIENCE CENTER […]

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Photo of objects

Vol. 8 / No. 2

By: Ernest S. Dodge

Following Captain Cook Around Europe

In the summer of 1957 I had the pleasure of visiting the anchorages of Captain James Cook in the Society […]

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Vol. 8 / No. 2

By: Ross Parmenter

Break-Through on The “Lienzo De Filadelfia”

Research problems, in a way, are like log jams. For a long time they seem to present an unbudgeable wall. […]

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Vol. 8 / No. 2

By: Samuel Noah Kramer

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

On June 15, 1965, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, creative scholar, inspiring teacher, gifted writer, died in his Elkins Park home in […]

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Vol. 8 / No. 2

By: Boutau K. Efot

The Tale of Pupily-Eyeballs-Thing: A Truk Ghost Story

Translator’s note: In 1964-65 I spent ten months with my wife and two sons on leave from the University of Pennsylvania […]

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