Palestine Exploration Fund Research Articles

Churches at Bosra and Samaria-Sebaste

In his notice of the above paper in the last number of the JHS, p. 287, the reviewer makes one remark which is likely to pepetuate an old error. ‘ In 1909,’ he writes, ‘ Butler found the base of a composite pier ’ etc. What I wrote was that ’ there was no trace of any [such] pier and it is evident that he [Butler] made some mistake when he was working up his notes in America ’ (op. cit., p. 8). The point is crucial, and in a previous account of the church I published photographs to show that the pier never can have existed : see the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement for January 1936, Plate II.

Excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in Nubia, 1936–37

AN exhibition of archæological finds by expeditions sent out by the Egypt Exploration Society at Tell el-Amarna and Sesebi on the Upper Nile in Nubia in the season 1936-37 opened in the rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, London, W.I, on July 5, and will remain open until July 24.

The Wilderness of Zin. By C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1915. 10¼ × 7¾, pp. 161, pls. xl, figs. 58. London: J. Cape, 1936. 18s.

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Palestine Exploration Fund Seventy-First Annual General Meeting

Palestine Exploration Fund Seventy-First Annual General Meeting

Samaria

THE article contributed to the Times of November 3 by Mr. J. W. Crowfoot, in connexion with the exhibition illustrating the excavations of Samaria now open at the rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund at 2 Hinde Street, London, W., gives a very in formative view of the general results which have been achieved by recent work on the site of the city of Ahab. It is evident that the joint expedition, for which Harvard University, the Palestine Exploration Fund and other bodies are responsible, has not only added a great deal to the map of ancient Samaria, as Mr. Crowfoot says, but it has also reached a most important phase in its undertaking in the proposed extension of the investigation on the north side of the site, where it is possible that the principal gate of the city may lie. The superior character of the stone work of the Israelitish levels was already known from the work carried out by the expedition of Harvard University in pre-War days. This skill in the construction of fortifications is confirmed by the discovery of the remarkable bastion to which Mr. Crowfoot refers. Even more suggestive of the influences at work in the northern kingdom are the remarkable ivories which have been discovered and are regarded as a corroboration of the reference by the prophet Amos to the “ivory couches” of Samaria, which these remains of plaques and other carvings once adorned. It may be trusted that the reference by Mr. Crowfoot to the dependence of the projected excavation on the provision of funds is a reminder rather than a warning.

Archæological Finds from Egypt and Samaria

Two exhibitions illustrating the results of the past season's excavations at Tell el-Amarna on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Society, and at Samaria for the Palestine Exploration Fund and other bodies, are being held at the rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, London, W, on September 17-October 13. Among the exhibits from Tell el-Amarna are perspective views of the Great Temple, upon the exploration of which the expedition has been engaged recently. They have been constructed on the basis of the remains of the temple as they have now been revealed, and show the position of the votive tables and other arrangements of the temple. A remarkable sculptured sandstone head, life-like in quality, is believed to be a representation of Smenkhkara, co-regent with Ake-naton. From the police head-quarters of the city come a large number of antiquities, including amulets and rings of glazed glass paste, clay moulds from which jewellery was made and numerous fragments of inscribed wine-jars. From the ‘record office’, clay tablets inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform and a list of scribes were obtained. The exhibition includes minutely accurate copies on ivory of the Tutankhamen jewellery by Mrs. Winifred Brunton and paintings by Miss A. M. Calverley and Miss M. F. Broome of the reliefs, paintings and inscriptions of the tomb of Seti I, showing the progress of the great undertaking of the complete record of material of this tomb which is being carried out by the Society in co-operation with the Oriental Institute of Chicago and with the financial assistance of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Exhibits from Tell Duweir, Palestine

IN order to afford those attending the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences in London an opportunity of viewing the antiquities from Tell Duweir, the Exhibition of the Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition in the rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Manchester Square, remained open until August 3. Much interest was aroused by the exhibits, the inscribed ewer naturally attracting a great deal of attention. Further fragments of the ewer have been found among the material brought from Palestine, and these have added definition to its form, while the line of decoration is now almost continuous. A card exhibited with, the ewer gave the alternative readings which have been proposed. Even more impressive were the relics from the sanctuary shrine in the fosse, of which the destruction is dated by the Rameses II plaque as not earlier than the first half of the thirteenth century B.C. The preservation in situ, and in some instances intact, of the appointments of the shrine gives the find a unique character. These objects, including the benches for offerings, the libation jar and offerings bin and the like, were displayed in and around a model reconstructed from squeezes. This exact record of a remarkable cult-object reflects the greatest credit on the initiative and technical skill of the members of the expedition.

Palestine Exploration Fund. Sixty-Ninth Annual General Meeting

Palestine Exploration Fund. Sixty-Ninth Annual General Meeting

Excavations at Tell el Duweir, 1933–34

AN exhibition of the material discovered by the Wellcome Archæological Research Expedition to the Near East in the second season's excavation at Tell Duweir, 25 miles south-west of Jerusalem, under the direction of Mr. J. L. Starkey, will be held at the rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 2 Hinde St., W.I, on July 2–21. The work of the Expedition during the past season has now established the extent of the Early Copper Age site as covering at least 150 acres. It includes the remains of a large dolmen. The upper terrace of a limestone ridge flanking the Tell across the western valley was found to be honeycombed with caverns which had been artificially enlarged and adapted as dwellings in the Early Copper Age, and re-used at a later date as burial places. Metal here occurred rarely, but unique for this early period was a heavy gold bead, contemporary with proto-early dynastic age in Egypt. Rough castings from moulds were found on the surface. Pottery was hand-made; and small pottery bowls showing a sharp impress afforded evidence of textiles. A large necropolis lower down the side of the ridge yielded contracted burials in small oval chamber-tombs with a shallow shaft. In these were daggers or darts, food vessels, etc. This cemetery is equated with the Egyptian Old Kingdom. At the north-west corner of the Tell, the Hyksos fosse and revetment were uncovered; and the later system of defence was traced in its entirety. The Persian residency superimposed on the Jewish palace-fort destroyed in the sixth century B.C. was cleared.

A Lecture Delivered at the Rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, on June 22nd, 1933

A Lecture Delivered at the Rooms of the Palestine Exploration Fund, on June 22nd, 1933

Note on the Map of the Principal Excavated Sites of Palestine, Compiled by the Palestine Exploration Fund

"Note on the Map of the Principal Excavated Sites of Palestine, Compiled by the Palestine Exploration Fund." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 64(4), p. 220

Palestine Exploration Fund. The 67th Annual General Meeting

Palestine Exploration Fund. The 67th Annual General Meeting

Topography and Tradition

IN the topographical exploration of Palestine, our countrymen have always taken a leading part. The names of Sir Charles Wilson, Sir Charles Warren, Sir Charles Watson, Col. Conder, and Canon Tristram are eminent, and the great survey of western Palestine undertaken for the Palestine Exploration Fund by Conder and Captain H. H. Kitchener (afterwards Lord Kitchener of Khartoum) is fundamental. Under the present regime, the Mandatory Power is responsible for the protection and maintenance of antiquities, and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem has been training a new generation of excavators and explorers. Joshua: Judges. By John Garstang. (The Foundations of Bible History.) Pp. xxiv + 423 + 73 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 20s. net

THE MOUNT OF GOD. By The Rev. W. J. Phythian-Adams. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, July 1930, pp. 135–49; October 1930, pp. 192–209, and sketch-map. - TRANSJORDAN: an ancient and a modern raid. By Group-Captain L. W. B. Rees. The Royal Air Force Quarterly, January 1930, vol. 1. no. 1, 138–159, folding map in colours.

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The Palestine Exploration Fund and the British School of Archæology in Jerusalem

The Palestine Exploration Fund and the British School of Archæology in Jerusalem

THE EXPLORATIONS IN THE TYROPOEON VALLEY, JERUSALEM 1927. By J. W. Crowfoot, C.B.E., M.A., and G. M. Fitzgerald, M.A.Published by order of the Palestine Exploration Fund Committee and sold at the Office of the Fund, 2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, W. I. 1929.

THE EXPLORATIONS IN THE TYROPOEON VALLEY, JERUSALEM 1927. By J. W. Crowfoot, C.B.E., M.A., and G. M. Fitzgerald, M.A.Published by order of the Palestine Exploration Fund Committee and sold at the Office of the Fund, 2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, W. I. 1929. - Volume 4 Issue 13

Palestine Exploration Fund. Sixty-Third Annual General Meeting

Palestine Exploration Fund. Sixty-Third Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting of the Palestine Exploration Fund

Annual General Meeting of the Palestine Exploration Fund

Annual General Meeting of The Palestine Exploration Fund

Annual General Meeting of The Palestine Exploration Fund

The Diamond Jubilee of the Palestine Exploration Fund

The Diamond Jubilee of the Palestine Exploration Fund