Sixth Season Research Articles

<italic>The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932–March, 1933</italic>. Edited by M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles. [Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters.] (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1936. Pp. xx, 518. Plates LIII. $7.50.)

<italic>The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932–March, 1933</italic>. Edited by M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles. [Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters.] (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1936. Pp. xx, 518. Plates LIII. $7.50.)

The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of the Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932-March, 1933. By M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles.

<i>The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of the Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932-March, 1933</i>. By M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles.

The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932-March 1933

The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October, 1932-March 1933

M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europus, Preliminary Report of sixth Season of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Milford, 1936. Pp. xx + 518, with 53 plates and frontispiece. 35s.

M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europus, Preliminary Report of sixth Season of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Milford, 1936. Pp. xx + 518, with 53 plates and frontispiece. 35s.

The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October 1932-March 1933

The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October 1932-March 1933

The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October 1932—March 1933. By M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles. Pp. xx + 518: 54 plates (of which 4 in colour) and many cuts in the text. New Haven: Yale University Press, and London: H. Milford, 1936.

The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October 1932—March 1933. By M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. R. Bellinger, C. Hopkins, and C. B. Welles. Pp. xx + 518: 54 plates (of which 4 in colour) and many cuts in the text. New Haven: Yale University Press, and London: H. Milford, 1936.

Zeppelin LZ–129

A NEW Zeppelin airship, LZ-129, is now nearing completion in Germany (Science Service, June 6), and if satisfactory will be put into service as a sister ship to the Graf Zeppelin, now operating for the sixth season between Europe and Brazil. The east-bound crossing of the new ship is expected to take less than two days, and the return against head winds a little less than three days. The calculated range without refuelling is 8,000 miles. Although only slightly longer than the American Macon, at present the largest airship extant, LZ-129 will be considerably larger, with a gas capacity of 7,070,000 cubic feet as compared with 6,500,000 of the Macon. On her trial flights this summer, she will be inflated with hydrogen gas. It is reported that the use of helium gas is being considered for normal passenger flights. The Diesel engines, totalling 4,400 horsepower, will be in gondolas attached outside the hull, with ladders permitting access to other parts of the ship as in previous Zeppelin designs. German aeronautical engineers have never accepted the recent American procedure of placing the engine compartments inside the ‘hull’ or skin. The accommodation includes two promenade decks, state-rooms for fifty passengers, running water and baths, and a special smoking room. Besides these appointments are quarters for a crew of 35 and space for a mail and freight load of ten tons.

Excavations at Kish, 1928–9

LAST winter was the seventh consecutive season of the Herbert Weld (for Oxford) and Field Museum Expedition at Kish, when Mr. Watelin, in charge of the excavations, reached virgin soil 28 feet below plain level, and 61 feet below mound level. At the end of the sixth season (1927–8), Watelin, Mr. Henry Field, and Mr. Eric Schroeder found the series of vaulted brick tombs and four-wheeled chariots, described in Art and Archœology, 1928, November, pp. 155–68. The Neo-Babylonian reconstruction of the temple Ehursagkalamma by Nebuchadnezzar and Nabunidus, whose pavement lies 20 feet below mound level, may be seen in the back ground on the photograph in Illustrated London News, 1930, 8th February, p. 206. Where the deep wide excavations now appear, stood a large mound, when Mr. Mackay and I first attacked this great tal in 1925. This mound marked Z on my plan of Kish, contained above the red stratum or temenos platform (see below) a ruined building from the periods of Sargon of Agade and the first Babylonian dynasty. Outside the wall near the ziggurat we found that year a marble statuette after the style of the one published in Art and Archœology, 1928, November, p. 160, with the cartouche on the right shoulder as figured on p. 602.

The Cinematograph in Anthropology

AT the Royal Anthropological Institute, on November 18, Capt. M. W. Hilton-Simpson showed a cinematograph film of native life in the Algerian Hills. Last winter, when they commenced their sixth season of ethnological research among the Shawiya tribes of the Aures Hills in S.E. Algeria, Capt. and Mrs. M. W. Hilton-Simpson were accompanied by Mr. J. A. Haessler, who is beginning to compile a “library “of cinema films destined to illustrate the ethnography of primitive peoples. He secured a series of pictures among the Shawiya, from which Capt. Hilton-Simpson and he have prepared a film which shows how arts, crafts, and customs, when once they ha\e penetrated to the remote valleys of the Libyan hills, have persisted there unchanged until this day.

The Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort, Sixth Season

The Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort, Sixth Season

XI.—Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester, Hants, in 1895

The report which we have the honour of submitting to the Society, on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Silchester Excavation Fund, of the discoveries made during the past year, is also the record of the systematic excavation of the site for the sixth successive season.

The Marine Biological Laboratory.—Sixth Season, 1893

The Marine Biological Laboratory.—Sixth Season, 1893