Volume 22 / Number 2
1980
On The Cover: Detail of Robert of Gorham's tile floor from the Chapter House of St. Albans Abbey. Photo by Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle.
Vol. 22 / No. 2
University Museum Announcements
Grants Received By the Educational Department from the Philadelphia Foundation, the Ludwick Institute and the Seybert Foundation to present a […]
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Vol. 22 / No. 2
By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1980: The Director Writes
Over the past two and a half years, I have tried on this page to give a director’s-eye view of […]
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By: Judith A. Lerner
Three Achaemenid “Fakes”: A Re-evaluation in the Light of 19th Century Iranian Architectural Sculpture
It often happens that forgeries (objects made in a particular style deliberately to deceive) and fakes (genuine works of art […]
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By: Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle
England’s Premier Abbey: The Medieval Chapter House of St. Albans Abbey, and its Excavation in 1978
Twenty miles northwest of London, the great highway of Watling Street passes through the Roman city of Verulamium, the second […]
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By: Robert Abramson
The Big Drum in the Big City: Creole Enculturation in the Pan West-Indian Community of Brooklyn, N.Y.
In the summertime in New York, you don’t have to wait for the airline commercials to hear the sounds of […]
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By: Cynthia Jones Eiseman
Greek Lead: Ingots from a Shipwreck Raise Questions About Metal Trade in Classical Times
Metals and metallurgy are of great interest to archaeologists, and much has been written in these pages and elsewhere recently […]
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