Volume 20 / Number 1

1977

Special Edition: Ur

On The Cover: On the cover: Gaming board of shell and lapis lazuli from RT. 580 in the Royal Cemetery, now in the University Museum. Collection Object Number: B16742 Photo by William Clough.

Vol. 20 / No. 1

Special Issue Introduction – Fall 1977

This special issue of Expedition is in honor of the publication of Ur Excavations (U.E.) volume VII and the completion […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Martin Biddle

New Directions – Fall 1977: The Director Writes

At the conclusion of the distinguished directorship of Froelich Rainey, reaching back over some of the most formative years of […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Sir Max Mallowan

Recollections of C. Leonard Woolley

On the grounds that I am one of the living survivors of the early seasons at Ur, (1922-1934) the Editor […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Archival Glimpses of the Ur Expedition in the Years 1920 to 1926

All expeditions are a complex network of interlocking political and social events involving people, institutions and governments. Among the common […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: P. R. S. Moorey

What Do We Know About the People Buried in the Royal Cemetery?

Woolley’s excavation of the royal graves at Ur is one of the technical triumphs of Near Eastern field archaeology and […]

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Vol. 20 / No. 1

By: Samuel Noah Kramer

The Ur Excavations and Sumerian Literature

Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Ur have been justly acclaimed for their extraordinary, unexpected, and invaluable archaeological discoveries: the royal cemetery, […]

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