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I pal t of our finds. They were la-' greatly disturbed condition of the
:soriously chipped out of limestone! human remains and the mere rem-
bedrock. As a rule, the orifice was nants of gold and carnelian bead
so narrow that it barely admitted ornaments which came to light.
the body of a man and this circum- Only une skeleton under a protect-
stance may partly account for the ing overhang of Tomb II was still
I tart that most of them had not intact and showed that the body
been cleaned out for centuries. had been deposited in an extended
By DEAN WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE
I Hen, the crocks and jars that position with the face toward the
ercke in drawing water were found south.
Of the pottery found in the
bedded in layers of mud washed in
The excavations of American archaeologists at Tell en-
during
rainy seasons. Comparison tombs only a summary report can
Nasbeh have attracted wide attention recently. In this
()f a series of layers in different here be made. The distinguished
article, Dean William Frederic Bade gives a detailed account
cisterns may furnish interesting re- Palestinian archaeologist, Pore II.
of the progress of the work and the findings made.
inmost, referred the tombs to the
sults. For what was the upper
stratum in one cistern was found Erie slithic Period, 2000-2500 B. C.
Seven miles north of Jerusalem, oilers himself particularly fortu-
to eorrespond to the middle or bot- This judgment is confirmed by such
on the west side of the Nablus road, nate in being able to gain a prac-
tom layer in another. The women evidence as the writer has been
lies a commanding hill whose sum- tical acquaintance with Dr. Fish-
Styles for Every Occasion!
ffiten went to draw water at night able to gather since then by visits,
nut has all the earmarks of an rn- errs archaeological technique. It is
and accidently dropped their lamps to the leading museums of Europe. I
cant city mound. It is one et acs- a field in which he is an acknowl-
WE GUARANTEE TO FIT THE FOOT!
into the cisterns, thus providing, All the pottery' is Made by hand and
eral te which my &Menthol' was di- edged master, and in the interest of
,Inatentionally, another means of it curious feature is loop handles
(et ted I y Dr. William F. Albright science it is greatly to be hoped that
eleseifying. the strata. In two in- made of duplicate. and triplicate
when, in 1925, I consulted hint wah his method may prevail more and
stancos, at least, the lowest strata ropes of clay. •rhe decorations in
•00.w.t.tot•tetwAtotwootwott.w.vo.,t a view to an excavation in Pales- m ore widely.
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back beyond the Israelite stripes off red hematite• are in some
c
e tine under the auspices of the Pa-
rl
;
eases obvious imitations of basket-
During a preliminary study of
ry weaves. Most curious of all and
eine Seta" of Iteligi". Plano ma - xeavation projects in • Fg mt. h
The first cistern we found caste
turd during t he autumn of that ' writer had become imprek4d with
,quite unique, is a series of double
G. MERLE MONI1()F", Prop.
as
a
great
surprise.
Its
mouth,
year, and at the beginning of 1926 the value of aeroplane photo erashy
I cups fashioned crudely out of clay.
the writer was :ash. to leave for in locating great 'buried struttu r i es. securely sealed w ith clay and a The much smaller inner cup is at-
a t.
I
rge
round
stone,
formed
the
b
cient for Under a slanting li ht such hoto-
Pslestine with funds sufficient
: tached by a stem to the rim of the
an initial campaign. It was fortu- graphs make visiblegthe gentle con- (on of one cif the Exilie silos near outer one. They were evidently in-
Like the!
nate for our Maiden enterprise that i: sees that result from the age-long rot the citadel tower.
I tended to seisea ritual purpose
others, its sh ap e . Ni ! as th a t o f
we were able to out ourselves ofsettl
of debris over solid
b
enormous
enormous jug or 'souk., largest at
"Quality in Work and Materials."
co-operation of the American structure like city walls.
whether they tulip not have been
As a
School of Oriental Research in Jo- blanket flun g 4,ver a ch ant su the. middle depth s. mewhat smaller at intended
pour simultaneous
to
the'
bottom and tapering g li
rusalem, A general plan for the covering of earth reveals
double libations of oil and wine.
abler of a tattle toward the con.' , A very great variety of pottery
yordination of American archae- • l ines ti tin. ngs u
.cicted opening above. A rune of
iu s
'logical work in P
set forth s visible
, logical
I was found at all levels in our eX-
general outlines tot" y, ' . •
uch
0, ey Dr. Clarence S. Fisher had led I visible to one on the surface;?a likI nV debris rose from the bottom citVations, including fine specimens
tal the walls had been freshly
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us to hope that our undertaking
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photo graphs of ',
re exrie of men familiar with'
,
S'a t ell f `w
pee nc
seral fine pieces of so-called "Philis-
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material
coating of the same
sam material
4. , methods s and conditions or research:en-Nasbeh brought to light several
,
tine"
or
Aegean
ware,
with
the
taken by a German aviator during which wass thickly pitted with chisel
; in that country.
decoration,
swan
!characteristic
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In this ex 'sect a t ion we were not the war. One of them seemed to holes, evidently intended to furnish tt,),(eh .:. also been found. This is said I 'I-
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•- (lisappointed. Dr. Albright, direc- , give choir indication+ or significant a hold for the last mat. Here, at
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the first sported discovery of
ii
a-i contours. Through the kindness of k t was a cistern that had been I this ware in IN it,
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lelle%%,(4%,04%••••• ..VONIAMII04104-44,4%10.14.•%••••••SWIeVes for of the school, initiated negot i
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te,voa r tnula
lions with some of the Arab own- . rofessor Gustav Dittman of the
tral Palestine. Great care has been
of Griefswald, applica-
for ao
as
assisted
en-Nasbeh
Nbeh a
0. as of f T
ate
sequences
accur
re
eu
as found only taken to se
it) reaching a formal agreement , tion was made to the Bavarian the edge of the cone wars
the ceramics found on Tell en-
0 ,v ith them in the presence of Mr, I Archives of the War for an en- i(ottery which, l i p comparison with t
Raul-largement
from
the
original
plate.
tity
other
cisterns,
belongs
to the Nasbeh and its this endeavor the
i
L. Lubbat, governor of the
.
contents of the cisterns
strlitilied
t
clearly
revealed
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hen
It
came
i
many
.
n I ic g
Dr. l'. S. Fisher,
et !fah District.
furnish an additional and admir-
the course of a great wall which en-
[ion
; Professor of Archaeology in the
able
means
of control as far bark
school and director of the Megiddo circled the entire top of the hill, delsris of this cistern were clays
as the beginning of the late Bronze
, hi, and eonfirmed
. us in our decisissn to toys representing riders in horse., : Age. If. some ceraniographic ex-
.
.
Y Expedition, outlined for ir k
.!t
.
bask and broken statuettes of the. I
as', Is
p0 technique, gave me an experience, begin
• the
Babylonian Astarte, the "Queen of , ports are inclined
assistant in the person of Mr. La
copious
emerges
from
the 'h aven ,- against whose worship :lower strata of the two Eneolithic
!sib Soria!, besides several trainee a corner
Of spring
the Tell.
At this
point
Egyptian workmen, and undertook limestone, but too far below the the pi untied Jeremiah warned the tombs reach back into the Neolith-
ic Age, we have here a ceramic
Israelites of his day.
the task of general sup edge of the Tell to be includes'Israelites
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Also Spray Painting. Estimates Given.
resold Which t•xtends over three
the city wall.
The fortieth and forty-first chap- thousand years.
e -rvision. The Pacific Selmer! of Re within
By the end of March the topo-
si g i on,
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mound
and
events which one is tempted to I to our excavations during the
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and on the third of April, the .'"
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In. In the external ((chic!. while the Archaeological Congress 0
the have given. The writer eon vd ,
Pontiac, Michigan.
day before Easter, the first explor- "
se is nothing which does not fit
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story treneh was sunk at the point thi
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s the tragic story of Gedaliah,
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selected. Almost immediately we I r lily, some special reason must
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struck what resembled the surface " el
•s. caused the abandonment of m.'
of an irregular stone pavement. hns' viceable a cistern. But to find
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After five days of digging it re- 'sir
the key to its mystery in the death
vealed itself as the upper part of
(led:di/Lb, and that of his mon-
ei
a great citadel-tower which formed
eons, is to identfy Tell en-Nan- I
a corner of the city wall. The tat- 1 P" as the Biblical Mizpah of Ben-
Architect.
ter was found to he of surprising ','"' nie Since the further ((velem(-
thickness. The section of it exca- ,4,' n ' of the Tell may introduce new
n,'
salted during the past season var. `i derive into the problem, and
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ies between fourteen feet nine in- "," so my friend, Professor Albrecht
ches and eighteen feet nine inches. 't', , has presented new and weighty
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The average thickness was about '-'" siderations for identifying our
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sixteen feet, solid rock-laid-in-clay c,.,,u ;
,r(t itsh enG t.ibeon, we prefer to post-
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structure of the Bronze Age tpe. "" :e. discussion of the question for
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The corner tower, probably intend-
intend- flit
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jecting smaller towers articulatedcis its within the city. In the or-
with the wall. Soundings as well str - so for excavated the deposits
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as the aeroplane photograph indi- vn ': re deepest near the wall and then
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tale that the wall encloses the en- we allowed rapidly toward the lime
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tire top of the hill, about eight I, ny outcrop in which the cisterns
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acres,
and
from
the
nature
of
the
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el 'seen excavated. A cross-see-
defenses already laid bare it is pas- i " t n of the deposits therefore takes
:
sible to assert that this is the most :"
form of a wedge with the thick
formidable defensive structure so `' w it against the wall.
A pier of
far discovered in Palestine. A cross." rth left standing against the wall
section trench, cut through the ex- ' en rvcd as a check on the stripping
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tramural &his at right angles Pi st* erations and yielded interesting
Models.
the corner citadel, showed that the , ''P sults, both in pottery and in
t
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well-built protective revetment wall
atitication. But more evidence is
must have reached up about 20 feet ''' -deal for safe conclusions, since!
around the exposed front of the I n h e' 0 contents of the cisterns have lo
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correlated also.
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Among the first structures that he (lur most interesting individual
came to light, when we began to ., d was the discovery of two cave :
strip layers within the rite wall.'" nibs with pottery of the type de-
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were what we Bask to be grain bins, ' t° ribed by Macalister as "pre-Sens- ,
or silos, circular ill form and con- I 7, c." If the great wall is elated
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struck(' of one tier of rock laid in ' „iti an about 1800 B. C. these tombs
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clay. They were ahout five feet : tri ust be at least a thousand years
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0 ' deep and from three to four feet ii ler. When the superincumbent
in diameter. By the evidence of " " rata had been removed from the
their position upon earlier debris : st (frock, a low scrap of limestone, I
they must be referred to the period ',he rdly more than six feet from the -
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of exile. Farther back from the n" side base of the wall, was at my
wall were later found more than 30 in quest examined and cleaned more
silos excavated from bedrock and of ! e t rattily by one of the workmen, I!
much greater capacity. These I ea,
ter the area had already been
clearly were of the Bronze Age and, a; sandoned finishml. A small',
contained abundant and intersMing a'
drown into !'
the Canaanite periodIPassage found to g"
evidence
rid a ottery
of a very rare
p
t hk
• roc
of the city's occupation. Adiacent ii !kind began to appear at once. For'
to them we found nine rsw k.h i. w
cisterns, mostly pre-Israelite. TheIthree weeks from two to three (d
vow000mcwomwomoomv......wom .
,
massing of silos and cisterns in this our trained Egyptian workmen
, I ,craped and brushed until layer at- .
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that •ais section of the city both ' mains
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had been removed. It seems '
Better at a Little Less'
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all
of
their
friends
and
during t he Canaanite and the
kely that the tombs were included ,
Is ' , 'I likely
raelite periods, was used as a stor-
relatives for a happy
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