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cases in the castle. But she had not
counted on the commercial instincts
of the urchins of Lebus. To obtain
more candies, the children smashed
the vases which were still intact, or
nearly so, and brought her one piece
at a time. Only after having increased the reward for bigger pieces
was she able to recover a few vases.
It appears, however, that the
most precious part of the Schliemann collection, the objects of gold
known as 'Priam's Treasure' and the
coins, were not evacuated to Lebus,
but "deposited in the great bunker in
the zoological garden of Berlin, which
the British military authorities demolished not long ago. The treasure
had been removed beforehand, but no
one knows what has become of it."
Athens School
The American School of Classical
Studies at Athens reports a full house:
FULBRIGHT
RESEARCH
FELLOWS
Margaret Crosby
G. Roger Edwards
Virginia R. Grace
John H. Kent
Lucy Talcott
Eugene Vanderpool
Marian Welker
FULBRIGHT
JUNIOR
FELLOWS
Kevin Andrews
Anna S. Benjamin
Donaldson
M. Katherine
Evelyn B. Harrison
Shirley M. Hersom
Michael H. Jameson
Ellen L. Kohler
Charlotte
D. Rider
Evelyn L. Smithson
Gerald J. Sullivan
OTHER MEMBERS
Robert E. Carter,
Ryerson Fellow
Emily L. W. Cleland
Hazel D. Hansen,
Honorary Member
Virginia B. Jameson
Margaret E.» Reasor,
Seymour Fellow

ARCHAEOLOGY
Dean M. Robertson
Rev. R. V. Schoder, S. J.
John B. West
Frederick E. Winter,
White Fellow
With John L. Caskey as director,
Eugene Vanderpool
as professor
of archaeology, and Gertrude
Smith as annual professor, prospects
are for a busy year.
Jerusalem School
During the recent war between
Arabs and Israelites, the building and
mounds of the American School of
Oriental Research at Jerusalem suffered substantial damage from rifle
fire, a bomb explosion, and heavy UN
traffic. The School also provided
emergency shelter for native families
made homeless by hostilities. This
damage has now been nearly nullified ;
"The gates can again be locked, the
garden is in order, windows and shutters have been repaired, the structure
of the building has been examined and
found unaffected by the bomb explosion, the services have been investigated and improved, furniture
has been repaired, and redecoration of
the rooms has been undertaken where
possible. There is as yet no electric
current för light, heating, and refrigeration, but steps are being taken
to provide at least the last two in the
not too distant future." The School
has made two rooms available to the
State Department, which will establish consular services on the eastern
or Arab side of the "wall of partition," the frontier line which runs
through Jerusalem.
A. Henry Detweiler of Cornell
University was in Jerusalem last summer as acting director of the School.
During July and August he made a
survey of the picturesque site of Madeba in the modern kingdom of Jordan. The site, already famous for
the mosaic Madeba Map, promises
significant finds from the Byzantine
and Roman periods, and air photographs especially made by the Jordan
Air Force should help to clarify the
plan. But if archaeological excava-

tion is to be undertaken, there is need
for haste ; refugee housing now going
up threatens to engulf the site.
James L. Kelso, Professor at
Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, is director of the Jerusalem
school for 1949-50. The improving
political conditions make field trips
once more possible, and Annual Professor Kenneth
Clark of Duke
University is giving a course in textual criticism.
Nelson Glueck's report of the
latest phases of his explorations in
Eastern Palestine, which will appear
as two double numbers of the Annual
of the School of Oriental Research,
is near completion and should be published before the end of 1950. Millar Burrows reports that work on
the first volume of the publication of
the Ain Fashkha scrolls, to contain the
new Isaiah text and the Habakkuk
commentary, is proceeding rapidly.
Kraeling to Chicago
Carl H. Kraeling, chairman of
Yale University's department of
Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, president of the American
School of Oriental Research, sometime annual Professor and acting Director of the American School of
Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and
a veteran of Yale's Dura-Europos
excavations, goes to a new position:
Beginning February 1, 1950, he is
to be the director of the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago. A native of Brooklyn, Professor Kraeling took his A.B. and
Ph.D. degrees at Columbia University, and holds the degree of Doctor of Theology from the Universitv
of Heidelberg.
Nippur Expedition
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and the University
of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, have joined forces again, this
time to reopen excavations at the
ancient city of Nippur in southern
Mesopotamia. Establishing headquarters at Afeq, the staff began work
early in November.

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