The Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar, and an Archaeological Survey of the Ḫabur Region, 1934–5

Iraq ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. L. Mallowan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
British School ◽  
Generous Financial Support ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The Archaeological Expedition to the Ḫabur region of N. Syria was under the auspices of the British Museum and of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. For financial assistance we were greatly indebted to a number of scientific bodies and to individual subscribers. The British Museum made it possible for Mr. R. D. Barnett of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities to give us his valuable help, and generous financial support was forthcoming from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, and from the Auckland Museum, New Zealand. Our warmest thanks are also due to the munificence of individual subscribers among whom were Mr. Louis G. Clarke, Lord Latymer, Sir Charles Marston, and Mr. A. L. Reckitt.

Correlations between composition and provenance of Mycenaean and Minoan pottery

1963 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 94-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Catling ◽  
E. E. Richards ◽  
A. E. Blin-Stoyle
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Director General ◽  
Potential Importance ◽  
British School ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

This investigation into the compositions of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery fabrics was carried out in Oxford at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art by permission of the Director, Dr. E. T. Hall. Mrs. E. E. Richards, co-author of this report, was in charge of the investigation, latterly with the assistance of Mrs. A. Millett. The potential importance of the work undertaken was first suggested by Mr. M. S. F. Hood, then Director of the British School at Athens. Mr. Hood has maintained lively interest in the investigation, and has made many valuable suggestions about the course it should take, as well as providing much of the sherd material. In this connexion we are greatly indebted to Dr. J. Papadimitriou, Director-General of Antiquities in Greece, for granting the necessary export permits. We are also grateful to Mr. M. R. Popham, for scraping selected sherds in the Herakleion Museum and in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos, and to Dr. N. Platon, then Ephor of Antiquities in Crete, for allowing this to be done. Sherds from Thebes in the University Museum, Reading, were loaned by Mrs. A. N. Ure; the Rev. Dr. A. J. Arkell provided a set of Mycenaean sherds from Tell el Amarna from the collections in University College, London. Fragments from Rhodes were given by the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum through the kindness of Mr. D. E. L. Haynes and Mr. R. A. Higgins. Other sherds were provided from the reserve collection in the Ashmolean Museum. The sherds tested in the course of the investigation are now housed in the Ashmolean, with the exception of the group from Thebes (Reading).

A Roman Villa near Anguillara Sabazia

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Lyttelton ◽  
Frank Sear
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The South ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
British School ◽  
Santo Stefano ◽  
South Wall ◽  
The University

Investigations at the site of the Mura di Santo Stefano near Anguillara began as a study of the standing remains of the Roman period by the two authors of the present paper. Subsequently it became clear that some of the problems involved could only be elucidated by the excavation of selected areas of the site and more extensive researches. As a result a more general publication about the site is envisaged and further work is in progress, including a study of the inscriptions by Miss J. M. Reynolds, and of the classical and medieval settlement of the area by Dr. A. T. Luttrell. Excavations on the site conducted by Dr. D. Whitehouse commenced in September 1977, with financial support from the British Academy, the British Museum, the British School at Rome, and the University of Adelaide.The present authors wish to thank Professor H. Burns, who generously advised on problems connected with the drawings and text of Ligorio and Palladio, and T. F. C. Blagg who produced the drawing of the south wall, and added a number of useful observations.The British Academy, the British Museum, and the University of Adelaide generously made contributions to the expenses incurred in carrying out these researches.

The Excavations at Ur, 1924–1925

1925 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Leonard Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Card Index ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania restarted its excavations at Ur on 1st November 1924 and closed down on 28th February 1925 after a most successful season. For the epigraphical side of the work I had associated with me this year Dr. L. Legrain, of the University Museum, to whose help I owe much more than I can express: even in this preliminary report it will be clear how greatly our discoveries gained in interest and value from his study of the inscriptions. Mr. J. Linnell, who was in the field for the first time, assisted on the general archaeological side and kept the card index of objects. Unfortunately there was no architect on the staff, and we had to make what shift we could without, in a campaign peculiarly rich in architectural results; all the time I had reason to regret the loss of Mr. F. G. Newton, whose skill and experience had proved invaluable in former years. The main reason for the lack of an architect was shortness of funds: the British Museum was unable to provide from its own resources its due half of the cost of the Expedition, and we could not have taken the field at all but for the generous help given by friends in London; and even so I should have been obliged to bring the season to a premature end in January had not the British residents in Iraq come forward with subscriptions for the British Museum's side of the work which, met by Philadelphia with an equal sum, enabled me to carry on for another month. To all these I wish to acknowledge my gratitude.

Notes on the Streblinae, a Subfamily of the Streblidae (Diptera Pupipara)

Parasitology ◽  
1924 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinta Cattell Kessel
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Done

The following paper is part of the result of work done in the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, between Nov. 1922 and June 1923. The present writer has for some years been receiving specimens of Nycteribiidae for determination, and with them there had accumulated at Cambridge a small collection of another family of bat-parasites, the Streblidae. At the writer's suggestion, Mrs Kessel undertook a systematic examination of this collection, and with it of material kindly lent by the British Museum through Major Austen and Mr F. W. Edwards, by Professor Poulton from the Hope Museum, Oxford, by Dr G. A. K. Marshall from the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, and by Mr S. Hirst. To all these gentlemen thanks are tendered, also to the authorities of the British Museum for the gift of certain named duplicates, and to Mr Oldfield Thomas for checking the names of the mammalian hosts. Thanks are also due to Mr Gillings for the care exercised by him over the drawings, and to the editors of Parasitology for accepting this paper for publication.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1926 ◽  
Vol 100 (705) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Birds ◽  
Limb Bones ◽  
Vertebrate Palaeontology ◽  
General Catalogue ◽  
Fossil Bird ◽  
London Clay ◽  
The University ◽  
Geological Research

Charles William Andrews was born at Hampstead in 1866, and died in London on May 25, 1924, having spent his active official life in the service of the British Museum. He was a graduate in both arts and science of the University of London, and began his career as a schoolmaster. His main interest, however, was in biological and geological research, and in 1892 he was fortunate in being the successful candidate in a competitive examination for an assistantship in the Department of Geology in the British Museum (Natural History). Here he soon began to add original investigation to his curatorial duties, and he eventually became one of the foremost exponents of vertebrate palæontology. Dr. Andrews at first paid much attention to the fossil birds, of which a useful general catalogue had just been published by Lydekker. He made himself well acquainted with the osteology of birds, and so was adequately equipped for dealing with the large collections of bones of extinct birds which were then being discovered in the surface deposits of lands in the southern hemisphere. In his earliest paper, published in the Geological Magazine in 1894, he described some limb-bones of the largest known running bird from Madagascar, which he named Aepyornis titan . In subsequent years he made several important contributions to our knowledge of both the Aepyornithes and the fossil carinate birds of Madagascar. At the same time he studied the extinct birds of New Zealand, and a large collection of fossil bird-bones from the Chatham Islands which Lord Rothschild had obtained for the Tring Museum. He pointed out especially that the occurrence of closely related flightless rails in Mauritius, the Chatham Islands, and New Zealand, did not necessitate a former con­nection between those widely separated lands. The rails might have become flightless independently in the different restricted habitats, and an almost flightless rail, Nesolimnas , among the fossils from the Chatham Islands seemed to show that in this form the wings were actually being reduced on the spot. Dr. Andrews also published important new observations on the remains of the Stereornithes and other remarkable extinct birds, discovered by Ameghino in Patagonia, which were received by the British Museum in 1896. To the end he retained an interest in all fossil remains of birds, and his descriptions of an ancestral tropic-bird, Prophaethon , from the Eocene London Clay of Sheppey, and a sternum of the largest known flying bird from an Eocene formation in Nigeria, are especially noteworthy.

Some Sumerian Tablets of the Third Dynasty of Ur

1939 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
T. Fish
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Dynasty Of Ur ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The tablets published here for the first time belong to the British Museum and to the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. I am indebted to Mr. Sidney Smith for permission to publish the British Museum tablets and to Dr. L. Legrain for permission to publish the tablet in the Pennsylvania University Museum.

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