Volume 10 / Number 4
1968
On The Cover: Kofyar men are preparing to thatch a characteristic woman's house (meleng) in Bong Village. The head of the woman occupant is seen emerging from the flask-shaped opening in the domed roof.
Vol. 10 / No. 4
By: Christopher L. Hamlin
A Proto-Elamite Account Tablet from Susa
Among the objects recently acquired by the Museum in its exchange with the Musee du Louvre is the Proto-Elamite account […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 4
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
Early Works on the Acropolis at Susa: The Beginning of Prehistory in Iraq and Iran
In 1859 Rawlinson wrote in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: “It would be particularly interesting to excavate the great […]
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By: Robert Netting
Kofyar Building in Mud and Stone
The Kofyar are a tough, hard working, notably independent people living in Northern Nigeria. They are hill men whose individualism […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Two Peruvian Frogs
On a recent expedition to my optician’s on Chestnut Street I spotted an interesting Peruvian pottery frog effigy (now Museum […]
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By: Leslie R. Langton
The Restoration of a Bronze Plaque From Benin
In April 1967 the University Museum of Philadelphia sent me fragments of a Benin Bronze plaque (AF 2069) with a […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 4
Expedition News – Summer 1968
The Kevorkian Lectures The Hagop Kevorkian Visiting Lectureship in Iranian Art and Archaeology was established by the Trustees of the […]
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