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Vol. XXIV / No. 1

By: Gerald M. FitzGerald

The Earliest Pottery of Beth-Shan

IN the latter part of 1933 the tenth season of the excavations by the University Museum, Philadelphia, at Beth-shan was […]

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By: Alan Rowe

I. Introduction: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

THE excavations carried out at Meydûm by the Coxe Expedition of the University Museum were begun on November 2, 1929, […]

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Vol. XX / No. 3-4

Announcement

Beginning with Volume XXI, an alteration will be made in the scope of the Museum Journal. Hitherto, an effort has […]

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Vol. XX / No. 2

Museum Notes

Appointments At the April meeting of the Board of Managers Mr. Charles Day, Mr. Eli Kirk Price, Mr. John Frederick […]

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Vol. XX / No. 1

Museum Notes

Appointments At the stated meeting of the Board of Managers held on February 15, 1929, Mr. John S. Jenks was […]

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Vol. XX / No. 1

By: L. L.

Note on the Inlay Standard

THE interpretation of the inlay standard in the MUSEUM JOURNAL of September, 1928, brought the following remarks from Mr. Woolley […]

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Vol. XX / No. 1

By: Alan Rowe

The Two Royal Stelæ of Beth-Shan

IN the MUSEUM JOURNAL for December, 1923, there appeared the photographs of the two large basalt stelæ discovered that year […]

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Vol. XX / No. 1

By: Alan Rowe

The Palestine Expedition: Report of the 1928 Season

THE excavations at Beisan, the ancient Beth-shan, were recommenced on August 27, 1928. The staff for the 1928 season consisted […]

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Vol. XX / No. 1

By: C. Leonard Woolley

Ur of the Chaldees: More Royal Tombs

THE discoveries of royal tombs at Ur by Mr. Woolley during the seventh campaign of the Joint Expedition have come […]

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By: Charles C. Harrison

Dr. George Byron Gordon

It is not an easy duty to write for the MUSEUM JOURNAL some account of DOCTOR GEORGE BYRON GORDON and […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 4

Museum Notes

APPOINTMENT. At a stated meeting of the Board of Managers, held on October 15, General Harry C. Trexler was elected […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

The Docent Service

On each weekday the Docents are at the service of visitors and have the duty and the privilege of accompanying […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

The Museum And The World Of Business

The wide interest felt in the Museum’s activities is apparent in many different places, expressed in many different ways and […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

By: Alan Rowe

The Temples Of Dagon And Ashtoreth At Beth-Shan

During the campaign of 1925-26 the Museum’s Expedition at Beisan, ancient Beth-Shan in Palestine, discovered altogether four Canaanite temples, two […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

By: J. Alden Mason

Additions To The American Section

I A Peruvian Aryballus By gift of Mr. F. C. Durant the Museum has acquired an excellent and unusually large […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

By: Leon Legrain

The Pilgrim Of The Moon At Ur Of The Chaldees: Concerning the Fourth Campaign of the Joint Expedition of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum.

I The pilgrim on an archaeological quest, on his journey to Ur observes that the signs on the face of […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 3

By: Helen E. Fernald

Chinese Frescoes Of The T’ang Dynasty In The Museum: 618-906 A. D.

The Museum has recently acquired three colossal Chinese frescoes which, we may state without exaggeration, are among the most important […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 2

Museum Notes

ACCESSIONS. By Gift. From Mrs. Edward Bok, the Museum has received as a gift 12 Indian baskets. From Mr. Alfred […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 2

By: Henry Usher Hall

Alfred Collins In The Congo: A Photographic Record Of Daily Life With Introduction And Notes

These notes were compiled from information kindly furnished to me by Mr. Collins and from such references as I could […]

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Vol. XVII / No. 2

By: J. Alden Mason

Dr. Farabee’s Last Journey

Four centuries ago to this very year, in 1526, a handful of men stood on the deck of a tiny […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 3

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Souvenir Of The Great Explorers

The University Museum has recently received from Alaska an object of quite extraordinary interest, found in an Indian village on […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 3

By: Helen E. Fernald

Mortuary Figures Of The T’ang Dynasty

On May 22, 1925, there was opened to invited guests of the Museum an Exhibition of Chinese Art which included […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 2

By: Helen E. Fernald

The Educational Department Of The Museum-Its Functions

Art education in the schools was the field toward which most teachers and leaders were looking hopefully about ten years […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 2

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Woodcarving From Easter Island

The object figured here from the Museum’s Easter Island collection belongs to a class, of woodcarvings usually referred to in […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 2

By: Leon Legrain

The Joint Expedition To Ur Of The Chaldees

As I leave Marseille on the SS. Lotus on October 1, 1924, sharp north wind. which they call “lou mistral,” […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 2

Dr. William Curtis Farabee

Dr. William Curtis Farabee died at Washington, Pennsylvania on June 24th and was buried in. the cemetery there on the […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

By: Henry Usher Hall

A Link With The Old Peale Museum

Three years ago, in searching the accession book of the old Peale Museum, which is preserved among the Historical Society […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

A Persian Metallic Lustre Plate

The large size and beauty of this plate seem to indicate that it was made for ceremonial purposes. It is […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

Fragment Of A Mosque Carpet

The famous Ardebil mosque carpet in the South Kensington Museum has made visitors to that Institution acquainted with the splendid […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

By: C. Leonard Woolley

A Great Temple Of Babylonia: Director of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum, to Mesopotamia

More and more clearly as the work of excavation goes on at Ur of the Chaldees do we see the […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

By: C. Leonard Woolley

The Expedition To Ur: Director of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum, to Mesopotamia

At the beginning of November, 1924, the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum resumed work for […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

Dr. Harrison And The Philadelphia Award: Addresses Delivered At The Academy Of Music At The Presentation On Wednesday Evening, March 25th

The Philadelphia Award was founded in 1921 by Mr. Edward W. Bak. The Award is conferred upon the man or […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

Sabin W. Colton, Jr

The death of Mr. Sabin W. Colton, Jr., which took place on January 29th, removes another familiar figure who had […]

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Vol. XVI / No. 1

John Cadwalader

Mr. John Cadwalader died on the evening of March 11, 1925, at his home at 1519 Locust Street within half […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Museum Notes: For the Last Quarter of 1924

PURCHASES. A pair of Chinese stone lions found at Chen Chou, Horan Province. The head of a statue of the […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Annual Report of the Director

At the Annual Meeting of the Members of the University Museum held on December 19th the Director read the following […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

By: Henry Usher Hall

The Orator’s Staff

Among the Maori of New Zealand and in the Samoan islands oratory had a peculiarly privileged position among the arts. […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Gandhara Sculpture

Among its more recent acquisitions, the Museum is fortunate in having a group of the Graeco-Buddhist sculpture found in the […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Chinese Sculpture Recently Acquired

A number of important pieces of Chinese sculpture accumulated during the last two years deserve special mention, though at this […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Building Operations

The third section of the University Museum has been completed and delivered to the Trustees in December. This third section […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

Head of Ariadne

This marble head, said to have been found in Asia Minor, resembles closely one in the Athens Museum and another […]

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Vol. XV / No. 4

By: C. Leonard Woolley

The Excavations at Tell El Obeid

Tell El Obeid1 is a small isolated mound lying some four miles W.N.W. of Ur on the line of an […]

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Museum News

BOARD OF MANAGERS. At a meeting of the Board of Managers held on March 16th Mr. Thomas S. Gates was […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

The Honourable John Wanamaker, LL.D.

The death of the Honourable John Wanamaker, which occurred on December 12th, just after the last number of the JOURNAL […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison

Among the friends and benefactors of the Museum who have been removed by death none has left a deeper impression […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

By: Henry Usher Hall

Congo and West African Woodcarvings

In earlier volumes of the JOURNAL we have published some description of the Museum’s Collection of West African and Congo […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

By: Henry Usher Hall

Two Hawaiian Feather Garments, Ahuula

Two beautiful and remarkably well preserved examples of the gorgeous feather garments formerly worn by chiefs in the Hawaiian Islands […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

By: George Byron Gordon

A Fine Chinese Stela in the Museum

The votive stela recently acquired by the Museum is one of exceptional interest and importance. Its outline and proportions are […]

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Vol. XIII / No. 4

Additional List of Selected Books: Ancient London

Memoirs of the Geological Survey, 1889; W. Whitaker, The Geology of London and Part of the Thames Valley. Lord Avebury—The […]

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By: Henry Usher Hall

A Book of Tapa

In the year 1787 there was published in London an interesting and curious book styled a CATALOGUE and illustrated with […]

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Vol. XII / No. 1

The Contents

In the summer of 1919 the Director discovered in a book shop in London a very rare book described by […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

Notes

Gifts. The following gifts have been received. Mrs. William Lyttleton Savage, two Roman glass vases. Mr. and Mrs. Hampton L. […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

By: Stephen Bleeker Luce Jr

An Early Potter’s Wheel

No clearer evidence is known to the archæologist as to the civilization of any early people, than the pottery which […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

By: Henry Usher Hall

Maori Wood Carving and Moko

The objects dealt with in this article form part of the exhibition lately arranged in the southeast room on the […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

By: William Curtis Farabee

Indian Cradles

The long period of infancy has been the one stabilizing influence in the foundation of human society. Around the mother […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

By: Leon Legrain

Reconstructing Ancient History

I Portrait of a King Who Reigned 4130 Years Ago Ibi-Sin, the last king of Ur, began to reign in […]

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Vol. XI / No. 4

The Contents

Dr. Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, while assembling the more important of the unpublished […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

Notes

Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson and Mr. Edward B. Robinette have been elected to the Board of Managers of the Museum. […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

By: Lucile Howard

The Museum: Its Relation to Modern Design

The mission of any great museum includes among many activities two that are related to my present purpose. First to […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

By: Ethel Ellis Benners

Ancient Peruvian Textiles

Considering the enormous wealth of decorative material to be found in prehistoric Peruvian art it is strange more frequent use […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

By: Leon Legrain

Nippur’s Gold Treasure

As the goddess of love Ishtar descended into Hades in quest of her youthful lover Tammuz, she had to divest […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

By: V. Scheil

The Oldest Written Code

In a volume of SELECTED SUMERIAN AND BABYLONIAN TEXTS published by the University Museum, Henry Frederick Lutz has carefully copied, […]

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Vol. XI / No. 3

By: Wm. Curtis Farabee

Ancient American Gold

Vol. XI / No. 2

By: Dr. Eleanor E. Rambo

Crete

Crete, sometimes aptly called “the halfway house between Egypt and Greece,” was, during the third and second millenia B.C., the […]

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Vol. XI / No. 1

Foreword

The new volume opens with an unusual document. Although its author is already known to readers of the JOURNAL, it […]

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Vol. X / No. 4

Notes

We regret to record the death of Mrs. Charles Brinton Coxe, friend and patron of the Museum, who died at […]

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Vol. X / No. 4

By: Stephen B. Luce

Early Vases From Apulia

I. Pre-Hellenic Pottery One of the most fascinating problems confronting the classical scholar, be he philologist, historian, or archæologist, is […]

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Vol. X / No. 4

By: Louis Shotridge

Keyt-Gooshe “Killer Whales Dorsal Fin”

The picturesque ideas of the Tlingit people of Southeastern Alaska are well illustrated by the painted batons used in conducting […]

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Vol. X / No. 4

By: H. U. Hall

Shaminist Bird Figures of the Yenisei Ostyak

When the whole destinies of a people are, as they believe, dependent upon the action, helpful or harmful, of spirits, […]

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Notes

Gifts. Mr. W. K. Jewett of Pasadena, California, an Indian collection consisting of 243 baskets, beadwork and ornaments. The collection […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: Stephen Langdon

A Sumerian Liturgy Containing an Ode to the Word

The discovery in the collection of Babylonian tablets in the Museum of a tablet containing an Ode to the Word […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: Stephen Langdon

A Tablet On The Mysteries Of Babylonian Symbolism*

Title reference When I was examining a certain tablet of the Nippur collection in the Museum for the purpose of […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: A. H. Sayce

The Museum Collection Of Cappadocian Tablets*

Title Reference* The collection of Cappadocian tablets in the University Museum which I have recently examined and copied has furnished […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: C. W. Bishop

Recent Accessions Of Chinese Sculpture

It is becoming steadily more evident as archæological study progresses that advancement in the arts of civilized life is as […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: C. W. Bishop

Two Chinese Bronze Vessels

The Museum has recently acquired through the generosity of a patron two antique bronze vessels of such rarity and importance […]

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Vol. IX / No. 2

By: G. B. Gordon

Foreword

This number of the JOURNAL calls attention to some of the ancient thoughts and ancient works of man in the […]

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Vol. IX / No. 1

Notes

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Vol. IX / No. 1

By: G. B. Gordon

Foreword

One of the vital truths made clear by collections that illustrate the history of the arts is the essential identity […]

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Vol. Supplement / No. 1917

Report of the Treasurer: For the Year Ending June 30, 1917

Receipts Balance, June 30, 1916 $10,476 96 Annual Dues: Annual Members $5,230 00 Fellowship Members 2,700 00 Sustaining Members 1,350 […]

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Vol. Supplement / No. 1917

Gifts and Loans 1917

Gifts J. MAXWELL BULLOCK Native drum from Hayti MISS HELEN B. CAMPBELL Two decorated calabashes from Brazil HAMPTON L. CARSON […]

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Vol. Supplement / No. 1917

By: G. B. Gordon

Report of the Director for the Year 1917

To the Contributing Members of the University Museum The Museum started the year which is now coming to a close […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 4

By: Clarence Stanley Fisher

The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Egyptian Expedition

Memphis. In the MUSEUM JOURNAL for June, 1915, a brief account was given of the preliminary work of the Eckley […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

Notes

The two expeditions to Alaska under the liberal patronage of Mr. John Wanamaker are accomplishing good results and have already […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

The Chinese Expedition

As announced in the last issue of THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Mr. Carl W. Bishop, leader of the Museum’s Chinese Expedition, […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

By: Stephen B. Luce. Jr.

A Loan Of Three Greek Vases

The Museum has had the good fortune to secure a very interesting loan of three Greek vases, all in good […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

By: Stephen B. Luce. Jr.

A Greek Jointed Doll

Through the generosity of Miss Alice M. Freeman, the University Museum has recently acquired a little terra cotta of extraordinary […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

By: B. W. Merwin

Dutch Guiana Pottery

There have been many changes in Dutch Guiana since 1498, when Columbus first saw its shores. White pirates, explorers seeking […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 3

By: Stephen Langdon

A New Tablet of the Cult of Deified Kings in Ancient Sumer

The tendency to worship extraordinary mortals upon whom senates and municipal governments bestowed the rank of divinity has more or […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 2

Review

Notwithstanding adverse conditions which could not fail to affect the fortunes of all public institutions in this country such as […]

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Vol. VIII / No. 1

Doctor Harrison Elected President

At a meeting of the Board of Managers held on January 19, Dr. Charles Custis Harrison was elected President of […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

Notes

The firm of Lai-Yuan & Co. (Mr. C. T. Loo) has presented to the Museum the original base of the […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

By: S. B. L.

A Red-Figured Pyxis

The vase which forms the subject of this article is one of the latest acquisitions of the Mediterranean Section of […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

By: S. H. L.

An Ancient Babylonian Map

Among the collections in the Babylonian Section of the Museum is a clay tablet upon which an ancient engineer drew […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

By: C. W. B.

Two Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures

Few examples of early Chinese sculpture are more widely known than are the two Buddhist pedestals recently acquired by the […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

By: W. C. F.

The Amazon Expedition of the University Museum

The Indians of South America are physically so similar to those of North America, and so unlike any other possible […]

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Vol. VII / No. 4

The Year’s Progress

Each number of the JOURNAL contains a record of events at the Museum during the preceding quarter and by reference […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

Notes

The following gifts have been received since the last number of the JOURNAL went to press. From Mr. Charles L. […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

By: H. U. H.

The Bagobo

Some Notes on a Lately Acquired Collection “The owners of these islands,” says an old writer, speaking of the Southern […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

By: S. L.

Ishtar’s Journey to Hell

The legend of the journey of Ishtar to the lower world, in quest of her lover, the dying god of […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

By: C. W. B.

Notes on Chinese Statuary

It would perhaps be too much to say that but for the Buddhist faith there would have been no art […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

By: A. H. Sayce

Oriental Art in the University Museum

The University Museum has on exhibition a collection representing the art of the Far East, which, though not as large […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

Some Problems of Museum Development

It has sometimes been said that the ideal museum should contain everything. This is impractical even if it is not […]

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Vol. VII / No. 3

Eckley Brinton Coxe, Junior

At the moment of being put to press, this issue of the JOURNAL has been held back owing to the […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

Notes

The following gifts have been received since the last JOURNAL went to press. From Miss Lydia T. Morris, a collection […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

By: B. W. M.

Wampum

In studying the culture of the American Indians one is surprised at the many ingenious devices used. Many of the […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

By: C. W. B

The Expedition to the Far East

In planning the University Museum’s Eastern Asiatic Expedition, or, more properly speaking, reconnaissance, it was considered desirable to study the […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

By: B. W. M.

Some Ojibway Buffalo Robes

Recently an elaborately painted buffalo robe was presented to the Museum by Mrs. Harry Wain Harrison, in whose family it […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

By: S. B. L.

A Greek Torso

One of the latest acquisitions of the Museum is a marble torso between 50 and 75 centimeters in height, which […]

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Vol. VII / No. 2

The University Museum

An Appeal At this moment of its highest achievement and most marked success, which happily corresponds to a time of […]

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Vol. VII / No. 1

Notes

During the month of January important additions were made to the Chinese collection by the purchase of several stone statues […]

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Vol. VII / No. 1

By: G. B. G.

The Double Axe and Some Other Symbols

The origin and development of symbolism, letters, and designs used in decoration either with or without symbolic meaning is a […]

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Vol. VII / No. 1

By: S. B. L.

Five Roman Mosaics

In 1904 Mrs. Dillwyn Parrish of London presented to the Museum in memory of her husband, the late Mr. Dillwyn […]

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Vol. VII / No. 1

An Exhibition of Oriental Art

The three months beginning November 1, 1915,were occupied by the installation of the Exhibition of Oriental Art that had been […]

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Vol. VI / No. 4

Notes

Dr. Stephen B. Luce, Jr., has been appointed Assistant Curator in the Graeco-Roman Section of the Museum. Dr. Luce returned […]

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Vol. VI / No. 4

Sucaneb

In the last MUSEUM JOURNAL were printed some myths related by the Kekchi Indians of Guatemala. They are a branch […]

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Vol. VI / No. 4

By: E. H. D.

Four Covered Bowls From Orvieto

MENTION has frequently been made in the pages of this JOURNAL of the fragments of Greek vases, which were found […]

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Vol. VI / No. 4

By: S. B. L.

An Attic Black-Figured Panel-Amphora in the University Museum

In 1896 the Museum obtained a small group of Greek vases, which are said to have come from the Greek […]

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The Duende can grant any request no matter how extravagant, if one takes the trouble to go alone to the […]

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Vol. VI / No. 3

The Boy and the Sword

There was once a poor man who lived by tilling the soil. This man had one son who from his […]

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Vol. VI / No. 3

The Horned Serpent

On a certain day long, long ago there was a great trembling of the earth and all the people said, […]

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Vol. VI / No. 3

Li Poo

(THE MOON) There was a great cacique in the land and he had a beautiful daughter. He loved her so […]

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Vol. VI / No. 3

By: G. B. G.

Guatemala Myths*

In Guatemala are many high mountains and many fertile valleys with beautiful lakes and running streams. Nowhere in the world […]

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Vol. VI / No. 2

Notes

An interesting Eskimo collection obtained at Chesterfield Inlet has recently been acquired by purchase. This collection consists of caribou skin […]

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Vol. VI / No. 2

By: William Curtis Farabee

Conebo Pottery

The Conebo is one of several related tribes occupying the territory along the Alto-Ucayali River speaking dialects of the Pano […]

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Vol. VI / No. 2

By: E. H. H.

Two Black-Figured Amphorae from Orvieto

Two black-figured amphorae in the Museum are here for the first time adequately illustrated. One, Figs. 68 and 69, has […]

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Vol. VI / No. 2

The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. Egyptian Expedition

Mr. Clarence S. Fisher, Curator of the Egyptian Section of the Museum, arrived in Egypt on December 16, 1914. On […]

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Vol. VI / No. 1

Notes

Mr. John S. Newbold has been elected on the Board of Man¬agers to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation […]

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Vol. VI / No. 1

By: George A. Barton

Kings Before the Flood

Among the valuable texts published by Dr. Poebel in Volume V of the Publications of the Babylonian Section of the […]

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Vol. V / No. 4

By: G. B. G.

The Year at the Museum

The chief event that marks the history of the Museum during 1914 is the successful completion of the building operations […]

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By: E. H. H.

A Granite Sphinx From Memphis

OF all the hybrid creatures, half man and half beast, which are represented in ancient art, the most famous is […]

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Vol. IV / No. 4

The Graeco-Roman Section

The progress made by the Museum in 1913 includes no more important step than the development and scientific treatment of […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

Notes

Mr. Louis Shotridge, who with his wife contributes the leading article to this number of the JOURNAL, has been in […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

By: M.R. Harrington

A Visit to the Otoe Indians

Although well known as an offshoot of the great Siouan stock, and as similar in dialect and habits to the […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

By: Geo. H. Pepper

An Indian Shrine

An Hidatsa shrine has been added to the Heye Collection. It represents one of the most interesting phases of the […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

By: Florence Shotridge

The Life of a Chilkat Indian Girl

With the Chilkats, as with all the peoples of Southeastern Alaska, the training of a child was not a difficult […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

By: Louis Shotridge and Florence Shotridge

Indians of the Northwest

The Northwest Coast of America is inhabited by a number of Indian tribes who possess a culture differing in a […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: G. B. G.

Important Historical Documents Found in the Museum’s Collection of Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablets

In the spring of 1910 one hundred and fifteen boxes of inscribed tablets and fragments of tablets, excavated by the […]

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Vol. IV / No. 1

Notes

By resolution of the Board of Trustees, passed on March 10, 1913, on the recommendation of the Board of Managers […]

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Vol. IV / No. 1

By: E. Torday

The New Congo Collection

During the summer of 1912 the Museum acquired by purchase a collection of about two thousand specimens consisting of weapons, […]

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Vol. IV / No. 1

The Amazon Expedition

The Amazon River has challenged exploration since the men who conquered Peru passed over the Andes and launched their improvised […]

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Vol. III / No. 4

The Art of Great Benin

AMONG the collections purchased last summer none is of greater importance than the bronzes and carved elephant tusks from Benin. […]

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Vol. III / No. 3

By: E. H. Hall

The Cretan Expedition

THE story of the archaeological discoveries in Crete is now ten years old. Even our school-boys are learning to-day that […]

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Vol. III / No. 3

By: G. B. G.

The Museum and the Public School

ONE of the most interesting and useful developments in the activities of the Museum is the co-operative work which is […]

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Vol. III / No. 2

Notes

THE following collections have been purchased since the last JOURNAL went to press. A collection of ethnology from Africa and […]

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Vol. III / No. 2

By: C. E. Keiser

Tags and Labels from Nippur

As clay was the common writing material among the Babylonians, it is quite possible to duplicate among the thousands of […]

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Vol. III / No. 2

By: James A. Montgomery

The Original Script of the Manichæans on Texts in the Museum

The writer has had more than once the opportunity of presenting to the readers of the JOURNAL an account of […]

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Vol. III / No. 2

By: A.T. Clay

An Ancient Antiquary

The museum possesses a Babylonian tablet of baked clay, which has been secured by purchase. Unfortunately its provenance is unknown. […]

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Vol. III / No. 1

Notes

Mr. Richard B. Seager, in charge of the Cretan excavations, and Dr. Edith H. Hall, Assistant Curator of the Mediterranean […]

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Vol. III / No. 1

By: Gerda Sebbelov

Maori Face-Tattoo

A TATTOOED Maori head is becoming a rare thing. One large collection (the Robley Coll.) is owned by the Museum […]

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By: M. R. Harrington

The Northwest Coast Collection

AN ethnological collection from the Indian tribes of the Northwest Coast of America, constituting a part of the George G. […]

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By: M. R. Harrington

The Devil Dance of the Apaches

AMID the rugged foothills of the Wichita Mountains, on the military reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, lives a remnant of […]

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By: George A. Barton

One of the Oldest Babylonian Tablets in the World

THE University Museum possesses one of the oldest Babylonian tablets in the world. There are but four other objects which […]

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Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel

We record with very deep regret the death of MRS. LUCY WHARTON DREXEL which took place suddenly on January 25th. […]

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1911 Notes

Accessions. AN ethnological collection comprising 402 specimens from New Zealand, Australia and the Islands of the South Seas. This collection, […]

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The Museum and the Schools

The management desires to extend the educational influence of the Museum by a plan for systematic participation in the work […]

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Some East African Tribes

The Museum has recently acquired, through purchase, a collection of photographs representing several of the tribes in British East Africa. […]

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Notes

MR. HERBERT L. CLARK has presented to the Museum in memory of his father, the late Mr. Edward W. Clark, […]

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By: M.R. Harrington

Some Customs of the Delaware Indians: American Section

When Penn made his first treaty with the Indians, their council fires burned at Shackamaxon, the site of Germantown. Here, […]

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An Algonkian Myth: American Section

In the Indian villages of New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada where the Penobscots, the Mali-sits, the Micmacs […]

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By: J. A. Montgomery

A Love Charm On an Incantation Bowl: Babylonian Section

The incantation bowls from Babylonia are mostly of a prosaic and monotonous character. As one of the bowls in the […]

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By: C. L. Woolley

The Eckley B. Coxe Expedition: Egyptian Section

While Dr. Maclver carried on at Haifa the main work of the season, described in the last number of the […]

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A New Departure

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Table of Contents

Summary and Conclusion: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Anthropological Discussion: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Migration Routes: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Folsom and Related Artifacts: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Geological Estimates: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Clovis: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Burnet Cave: Evidence of Early Man in North America

Introduction: Evidence of Early Man in North America Based on Geological and Archaeological Work in New Mexico

Foreword: Evidence of Early Man in North America

The First Assyrian Level at Tell Billa

The Earliest Pottery of Beth-Shan

Catalogue

Luristan Bronzes in the University Museum

Appendix: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

Summary and Results: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

The Sasanian Palace: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

Hissar III: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

Hissar II: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

Hissar I: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

The Expedition: Tepe Hissar: Excavations of 1931

Foreword: Tepe Hissar Excavations 1931

The Pottery of Tell Billa: A Preliminary Account

Excavations at Ur, 1931-32

List of Plates

Primitive Peoples of Matto Grosso: An Account of Archaeological and Ethnological Field Work at the Headwaters of Paraguay and Xingu Rivers in Matto Grosso, Brazil, During 1931

Description of Plates: Primitive Peoples of Matto Grosso

Two Vases from the Hegeman Collection: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

A Lydian Imitation of a Laconian Vase: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

A Late Minoan Pyxis: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

A Portrait of the Late Roman Empire: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

Four Vases from the Henry C. Lea Collection: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

Battle-Loutrophoros: Recent Additions to the Classical Collections

The Palace Building of Nabonidus

Excavations at Ur, 1930-31

Excavations at Fara, 1931

Dress and Decoration of the Maya Old Empire: A Study of Stone Carvings with some Comparison of Corresponding Features on Pottery and Jades

An Aerial Expedition to Central America

Description of Plates: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

Bibliographical References: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

V. The Pyramid Temple, Silo, and Causeway: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

IV. The Pyramid: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

III. The Site and Its Name: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

II. Chronological List of People Associated with Meydûm Since the Twelfth Century A.D.: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

I. Introduction: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

Foreword: The Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition Excavations at Meydûm, 1929-30

How Ats-ha Followed the Hide of His Comrade to Yek Land

Archaeological Research in the Guadalupe Mountains

Excavation of an Indian Mound at Beech Bottom

Appendix: Tablets and Seal-Impressions

Excavations at Ur, 1929-30

Explorations in the Highlands of Western Guatemala

Excavations at Chocolá

The Kaguanton Shark Helmet

The Texas Expedition

The Lock Haven Expedition

Gem Cutters in Ancient Ur

Scientific Notes on the Finds From Ur

The Boudoir of Queen Shubad

Announcement

Museum Notes

The Director of the Museum

Zapotec Funerary Urns from Mexico

Turquoise Mosaics from Northern Mexico

The Bride of Tongass: A Study of Tlingit Marriage Ceremony

Two Sections of Chinese Fresco Newly Acquired: Belonging to the Great Kuan Yin Wall

A New Expedition to Egypt

Museum Notes

Note on the Inlay Standard

The Two Royal Stelæ of Beth-Shan

The Palestine Expedition: Report of the 1928 Season

Ur of the Chaldees: More Royal Tombs

Dr. Charles Custis Harrison

Twins in the Upper Guinea

The Sumerian Art Shop

The Emblems of the Tlingit Culture

Ladies of the Court: An Early Chinese Scroll Painting

Some Unusual Spearthrowers of Ancient America

Introduction: Evidence of Early Man in North America
Based on Geological and Archaeological Work in New Mexico