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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928
TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY
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PROFESSOR LEROY WATERMAN RETURNS AFTER LEA'VI
SPENT IN UNEARTHING ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
Absent on leave in Mesopotamia pedition was financed by the To-
for the past year, Professor Leroy ledo Museum of Art and 1100 arti-
Waterman of the Department of Iles he discovered and brought back
Semetics has been excavating in with him will be divided between
the ruins of Seleucia, one of the the University and the Toledo Mus-
greatest cities of the Old World,!
and one that has stood on the same
site for at least 3700 years. Sele-1
ucia was the successor of an earlier.
city known as Opis, which Greek 1
students will recognize as lying in
the route taken by Xenophon and:
his ten thousand Greeks.
Tel Omar, as the present site ofI
Seleucia is called, is about fifteen
miles south of Bagdad, in which
city Professor Waterman has been
on leave of absence as annual pro-
fessor of the American School of
Oriental Research. After some pre-I
paration, working with the Univer-
sity of Chicago expedition at Me-t
diggo and the Philadelphia expedi-,
tion at Beisan, Dr. Waterman feltt
ready to undertake the excavations
at Tel Omar. The cost of the ex-
eum.
Before the excavators started in,
the site appeared as a complex of
hills rising as high as fifty feet in
the air, composed largely of the
debris of sun-dried bricks, used by
countless generations of Sumarians
and Babylonians in their buildings.
A most obvious proof of ancient oc-
cupation were the numerous coins
picked up by the Arabs here and
there in the dust and debris. A
majority of the coins were of
bronze, although some of gold and
silver were found. They were, how-
ever, so badly corroded that they
will have to be treated before they
can be identified. They range all
the way from Seleucus, the founder
of the city, through the period of
Nero down to Turkish times.
Other objects which were exca-
vated by the workmen include wa-
ter jars, beads of amber, glass, cor-
al, semi-precious stones-some of
which were still in strings; and a
quantity of gold foil in a brick-
lined tomb, used apparently for a
body covering, although all traces
of a skeleton had practically disap-
peared. Several skulls were also
brought back by the expedition
which will enable anthropologists
to arrive at some conclusions re-
garding the type of people living in
ancient times.
To carry on his work, Professor
Waterman commanded a force of
from 25 to 75 men, all native Arabs.
Ordinarily, one man was employed
to do the digging and two or three
boys carried off the material exca-
vated. Professor Waterman has
thus not only returned with a very
interesting and valuable collection
of ancient objects but he has set-
tled the question, "Where was
Opis?"
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GUGGENHEIM FUND
RECIPIENT NAMED =
Milton J. Thompson, '25E, M. S. I22
Aero, '26, assistant to Professor Fe-
lix Pawlowski of the Department of
Aeronautics during the past year, is
the recipient of one of the first
awards of the two Fellowships of-
fered by the Daniel Guggenheim
fund for the promotion of Aero- I2=
nautics.
The Fellowship carries with it the
sum of $2,500 which will enable
Thompson to spend a year in War-
saw where he will study under Pro-
fessors Witoszynski and Brosko, of
the Warsaw Polytechnic School. In
addition to his studies in Warsaw,
Thompson will have time for travelat b
and investigation abroad. 2
The Guggenheim fellowships are
designed to assist the training of =2
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field of aeronautical science.
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previous occasions, first about ten yea
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ponent of Coloratura sijging. She will
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appearances with the Chicago Opera, a
November 12 VLAD
Soloist
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chestra, under the baton of Victor
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farewell tour after twenty-five years c
success. During all these years, with o
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none has won and maintained that ho
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of a former slave Mother, he underwe
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concerts, one of which will take place i
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Alfred Hertz, who will wield the ba
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second appearance in this season's seric
standing conductor. Formerly Wagner
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head of the San Francisco orchestra