Vols. 1–58 (1958–2016) Index Comprehensive Listing of Articles contents

Near East

1959 “Expedition News: Tikal, Guatemala; Gordion, Turkey; El-Jib, Jordan.” 1(3): 40.

Albright, William F.

1962 “Recent Advances in Palestinian Archaeology.” 5(1): 4-9.
Avery, Emerson.

2013 “Life and Death at Beth Shean.” 55 (1): 28-32.

2007 “Science & Archaeology: Imaging Ur’s Sacrificial Dead” An Archaeological

CAT Scan.” 49(2): 48.
Bass, George F.

1966 “Troy and Ur: Gold Links Between Two Ancient Capitals.” 8(4): 26-39.

2007 “Early Transcausaian Cultures and Their Neighbors: Unravelling Migration,

Trade, and Assimilation.” 49(1): 7-17.
Bedal, Leigh-Ann

2000 “Paradise Found: Petra’s Urban Oasis.” 42(2): 23-36.

1978 “A Canaanite Site Near Sheikh Mukhsen: Recent Discoveries in Southern Sinai.” 20(4): 8-11.

1985 “The Road to Wadi al-Jubah: Archaeology on the Ancient Spice Route in Yemen.” 27(1): 2-9.

1986 “Introduction: The Origin and Growth of a Research Focus--Agricultural Beginnings.” 28(2): 2-7.

1977 “The Cult of the Jambiya: Dagger Wearing in Yemen.” 19(2): 27-34.

1987 “A Monumental Puzzle: Reconstructing the Ur-Nammu Stela.” 29(1): 54-64.

1976 “Middle Elamite Malyan.” 18(2): 33-42.

1964 “Early Assyrians in the Sinjar.” 7(1): 34-42.

1970 “The Stone Spirits.” 12(3): 22-40.
Civil, Miguel

1963 “Sumerian Harvest Time.” 5(4): 36-39.

1982 “Early Tin in the Near East: A Reassessment in the Light of New Evidence from Western Afghanistan.” 25(1): 14-19.

1959 “Clever People, These Armenians.” 1(3): 23.

1972 “Excavations in the Swamps of Sumer.” 14(2): 12-20.

1964 “Some Frit from Northern Mesopotamia.” 7(1): 43-44.

1970 “Alfred Bendiner and Iraq.” 12(3): 14-16.
Dales, George F., Jr.

1962 “A Search for Ancient Seaports.” 4(2): 2-10, 44.

1969 “On Tracking Woolly Kullis and the Like.” 12(1): 15-23.

1996 “The Tell es-Sweyhat Regional Archaeological Project.” 38(1): 34-36.

2001 “Palmyrene Funerary Sculptures at Penn.” 43(3): 33-40.

2002 “Field Experience: The View from the Tell: Nafila Villagers Make Room for an Expedition.” 44(2): 8-9.

2005 “Research Notes: Returning to Iran.” 47(2): 44-48.
Danti, Michael D. and Grant Frame

2005. 
      “Searching for the Kingdom of Musasir: The Rowanduz Archaeological Program.” 56(3): 26-33.
      

Danti, Michael D. and Richard L. Zettler

2002 “Excavating an Enigma: The Latest Discoveries from Tell es-Sweyhat.” 44(1): 36-45.
Darbyshire, Gareth and Christopher Ray

2014 “Modelling Gordion’s Citadel.” 56(2): 22-23.

1968 “Portable Architecture.” 10(3): 32-39.

1989 “Horse Gear from Hasanlu.” 31(2-3): 37-52.

1998 “The ‘Boat-Shaped’ Lyre: Restudy of a Unique Musical Instrument from Ur.” 40(2): 20-28.

1959 “An Iranian Drinking Vessel.” 1(2): 18-19.

1959 “Digging in Iran: Hasanlu, 1958.” 1(3): 4-17.

1960 “The Death of a City.” 2(3): 2-11.

1961 “An Iranian Gold Piece.” 3(3): 34-36.

1963 “A Babylonian Lion in Toronto.” 5(2): 14-15.

1963 “Archaeological Scrap: Glimpses of History at Ziwiye.” 5(3): 32-37.

1964 “A Stranger from the East.” 7(1): 32-33.

1968 “Early Work on the Acropolis at Susa: The Beginning of Prehistory in Iraq and Iran.” 10(4): 21-34.

1969 “A Decade in Iran.” 11(2): 39-47.

1971 “Iran: Eleven Thousand Years of Cultural History.” 13(3-4): 4-5.

1977 “Archival Glimpses of the Ur Expedition in the Years 1920 to 1926.” 20(1): 5-23.

1989 “Rediscovering Hasanlu.” 31(2-3): 3-11.

1989 “The Iron Age Architecture at Hasanlu: An Essay.” 31(2-3): 107-127.

2015 “Book News & Reviews: Resilience in Early Iron Age Communities.” 57(2): 54.

1971 “A Doomed Aqueduct.” 14(1): 32-38.

1973 “Recent Excavations in Jerusalem.” 15(3): 15-24.
Fuller, Tamsen

1998 “A Makeover for the Philadelphia ‘Ram Caught in a Thicket’.” 40(2): 60-62.

1964 “Leon Legrain, D.D., Sc.D.” 6(2): 2, 33.

1973 “Nippur 1972-1973.” 16(1): 9-14.

1974 “The Twelfth Season at Nippur.” 16(4): 23-32.
Good, Irene. See D’Addono, Beth
Gophna, Ram

1978 “‘En-Besor: An Egyptian First Dynasty Staging Post in the Northern Negev.” 20(4): 4-7.

1978 “Ancient Seals and Modern Science: Using the Scanning Electron Microscope as an Aid in the Study of Ancient Seals.” 20(2): 38-47.

1981 “The Origin and Devlopment of the Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seal: A Hypothetical Reconstruction.” 23(4): 17-30.
Guinan, Ann, Gary Oller and Dorothy Ormsby

1976 “Nippur Rebaked: The Conservation of Cuneiform Tablets.” 18(3): 42-47.

1981 “Beadmaking in Iran in the Early Bronze Age: Derived by Scanning Electron Microscopy.” 24(1): 10-23.

1987 “The Change from Stone Drills to Copper Drills in Mesopotamia: An Experimental Perspective.” 29(3): 15-24.
Hafford, William B.

2004 “What in the World: Glitterng Gold: No Other Substance Better Symbolizes Wealth and Excellence.” 46(2): 48.

2005 “Research Notes: Hanging in the Balance: Precision Weighing in Antiquity”

47(2): 35-37.

2005. 
      “Archaeology in the Digital Age: Creating an Online Research Tool for the
      

2013 “Death and Eternal Burial at Beth Shean.” 55 (1): 33-36.

2013 “Time, Memory, and Mosaics, at the Monastery of Lady Mary.” 55(1): 37-42.
Hardy, Thomas J.

2012 “Book News & Reviews: An Introduction to the Inca Empire.” 55(2): 44.

1968 “A Proto-Elamite Account Tablet from Susa.” 10(4): 30.

1980 “The Temporal Dimension: Monitoring the Changing Ecology of Settlement in Turan.” 22(4): 42-47.
Harris, Mary Virginia

1989 “Glimpses of an Iron Age Landscape: Plants at Hasanlu.” 31(2-3): 12-23.

1978 “Israelite City Planning: Seen in the Light of the Beer-sheba and Arad Excavations.” 20(4): 38-43.

1978 “Tel Michal: A Coastal Site in the Sharon Plain.” 20(4): 44-49.

2005. 
      “From the Director: Penn Museum and Afghanistan.” 53(1): 3.
      

Horne, Lee

1980 “Dryland Settlement Location: Social and Natural Factors in the Distribution of Settlements in Turan.” 22(4): 11-17.

1980 “Village Morphology: The Distribution of Structures and Activities in Turan Villages.” 22(4): 18-23.

1991 “Reading Village Plans: Architecture and Social Change in Northeastern Iran.” 33(1): 44-52.

1998 “Ur and Its Treasures: The Royal Tombs.” 40(2): 4-11.

1978 “Human Settlement Pattern in Israel: A Discussion of the Impact of Environment.” 20(4): 55-58.

1961 “Beth Shan.” 3(2): 31-36.

1962 “Lady Mary’s Monastery: An Early Christian Church at Beth Shan Excavated by a University Museum Expedition.” 5(1): 20-24.

1962 “The Pottery of the Old Testament.” 5(1): 36-41.

1974 “Stone Knobs and Chariot Tracks.” 16(3): 31-39.

1979 “The Revelation of Jerusalem: A Review of Archaeological Research.” 22(1): 33- 43.

2014 “New Acquisitions: An Elamite Inscribed Brick & the William L. Potter and

Joanne S. Ruckel Photograph Colloction.” 56(3): 59-61.
Keall, Edward

1971 “Partho-Sassanian Archaeology: A New Phase.” 13(3-4): 55-61.

1981 “The Lapidary Arts in Islam: An Underappreciated Tradition.” 24(1): 24-39.

1978 “Tel Masos: Its Importance in Relation to the Settlement of the Tribes of Israel in the Northern Negev.” 20(4): 29-37.

1962 “Biblical Jerusalem.” 5(1): 32-35.

1998 “The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music.” 40(2): 12- 19.

1978 “Canaanite Aphek: Its Acropolis and Inscriptions.” 20(4): 12-17.

1975 “Carved Chlorite Vessels: A Trade in Finished Commodities in the Mid-Third Millennium.” 18(1): 18-31.

2004 “Exhibit Notes: Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur.” 46(1): 48.

1959 “A Sumerian Document with Microscopic Cuneiform.” 1(3): 2-3.

1962 “The Biblical ‘Song of Songs’ and the Sumerian Love Songs.” 5(1): 25-31.

1966 “Ephraim Avigdor Speiser.” 8(2): 12-13.

1967 “Reflections on the Mesopotamian Flood: The Cuneiform Data New and Old.” 9(4): 12-18.

1977 “The Ur Excavations and Sumerian Literature.” 20(1): 41-47.

1971 “The Early Bronze Age of Iran as Seen from Tepe Yahya.” 13(3-4): 14-21.

2006 “Conservation Notes: The Ressurrection of Seven Clay Coffins from Nippur.” 48(3): 44-48.

1970 “A Remarkable Forger.” 12(3): 17-21.

1971 “Demons and Population Control.” 13(2): 22-26.

1982 “The Curators Write: The Sumerian Dictionary.” 24(3): 46-48.

1980 “Three Achaemenid ‘Fakes’: A Re-evaluation in the Light of 19th Century Iranian Architectural Sculpture.” 22(2): 5-16.

1971 “The Iron Age Revealed.” 13(3-4): 39-43.

1981 “Lapidaries in the Ur III Period: Written Sources Concerning Stoneworkers (ca. 2000 B.C.).” 23(4): 6-14.

1977 “Tin in the Ancient Near East: Old Questions and New Finds.” 19(2): 35-47.

1977 “Recollections of C. Leonard Woolley.” 20(1): 3-4.

1989 “Emblems of Authority: The Seals and Sealings from Hasanlu IVB.” 31(2-3): 53- 63.

1980 “Making a Living in Turan: Animals, Land and Wages.” 22(4): 29-35.

1980 “Pastoral Production: Milk and Firewood in the Ecology of Turan.” 22(4): 24-28.
Matney, Timothy

1995 “Reviews and Reports: Re-excavating Cheshmeh Ali.” 37(2): 26-38.

2013 “The Visits of St. Sabas to Beth Shean.” 55 (1): 43.48.

1990 “The Ultimate Attire: Jewelry from a Canaanite Temple at Beth Shan.” 32(1): 16- 23.

1997 “The Beginnings of Winemaking and Viniculture in the Ancient Neat East and Egypt.” 39(1): 3-21.

1974 “Yemen: Breaking with the Feudal Past.” 17(1): 31-39

1978 “Kuntillet ‘Ajrud: An Israelite Religious Center in Northern Sinai.” 20(4): 50-54.

1990 “Palm Trees in Paradise: Victorian Views of the Ancient Near Eastern Landscape.” 32(2): 52-60.

1999 “Science & Archaeology: Date Sex in Mesopotamia!” 41(1): 29-30.

2002 “Science & Archaeology: Food, Fodder, or Fuel?: Harvesting the Secrets of Ancient Seeds.” 44(3): 5-6.

2003 “End Notes: Spice and Rice: Dig In--Savor the Flavors of Persia.” 45(2): 48.
Miller, Naomi F. and Jill Ann Weber

1996 “Botanical and Faunal Remains from Tell es-Sweyhat.” 38(1): 27-29.

2005. 
      “Research Notes: Serendipity: Secrets of the Mudballs.” 48(3): 40-41.
      

Katherine Moore

2016 “In the Labs: The Evolution of Pigs.” 58(1): 42-43.
Moorey, P. R. S.

1977 “What Do We Know About the People Buried in the Royal Cemetery?” 20(1): 24-40.

1987 “Solomon, the Copper King: A Twentieth Century Myth.” 29(2): 38-47.

2016 “Secrets of Ancient Magic: The Power of Spells, Curses, and Omens.” 58(1): 6-15.

Muscarella, Oscar White

1971 “Qalatgah: An Urartian Site in Northwestern Iran.” 13(3-4): 44-49.

1974 “The Third Lion Bowl from Hasanlu.” 16(2): 25-29.

1989 “Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C.” 31(2-3): 24-36.

2002 “Village Air for Urban Elites: Heritage Cafe Complexes in Jordan.” 44(2): 10-18.

1989 “Persian Calligraphy: The Development of an Art Form.” 31(1): 26-39.

1981 “Investigating an Ancient Suburb: Excavations at the TUV Mound, Tal-e-Malyan, Iran.” 23(3): 39-47.

1977 “Malyan Wall Paintings.” 19(3): 2-6.

2013 “The Round Church at Beth Shean.” 55(1): 16-20.

1980 “Traditional Pastoralism: An Evolutionary Perspective.” 22(4): 36-41.

1971 “The Achaemenid Empire.” 13(3-4): 50-54.

1998 “Life on the Edge of the Marshes.” 40(2): 29-39.

2004 “Meet the Curators: Richard Zettler: Associate Curator-In-Charge, Near East Section.” 46(1): 10-11.

2006 “Meet the Curators: Holly Pittman: Curator, Near East Section.” 48(2): 4-5.

2007 “Meet the Curators: Barry L. Eichler: Associate Curator-in-Charge, Babylonian

Section.” 49(2): 4-5.

2009 “Meet the Curators: Lauren Ristvet, Assisant Curator, Near East Section.” 51(2): 4-5.

2005. 
      “When Stone Is More Than Stone: Clues to Prehistoric Resource Use in Jordan.”
      

2002 “An Ice Age Oasis in Jordan: Pleistocene Hunter-gatherers in the Wadi al-Hasa Region.” 44(1): 16-23.

2013 “From the Guest Editor: What Lies Beneath.” 55(1): 3.

2013 “Beth Shean Revisited: Reexamining a Late Antique City in Transition.” 55(1): 8

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Patankar, Meera

2005 “Class Notes: ‘Anthropologists in the Making’: Building Bridges of Cross- Cultural Understanding.” 47(1): 8-9.
Peasnall, Brian and Mitchell S. Rothman

2003 “One of Iraq’s Earliest Towns: Excavating Tepe Gawra in the Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.” 45(3): 34-39.

1996 “Geomagnetic Mapping at Tell es-Sweyhat.” 38(1): 30-33.

1999 “From the Archives: New Additions to the Bonfils Photographic Collection.” 41(1): 3.

2000 “From the Archives: Painted Walls, Painted Faces.” 42(3): 3-4.

2002 “From the Archives: Murder in Mesopotamia.” 44(1): 3-4.

2003 “From the Archives: The Inventor and the Sultan: Bright Idea Opens the Way for Excavations in Ancient Nippur.” 45(1): 4.

2005 “From the Archives: Nipper in the Jungle.” 47(1): 6-7.

2005. “From the Archives: The Scholar and the Impostor.” 47(2): 6-7.
Pickett, Jordan.

2013 “Contextualizing Penn’s Excavations at Beth Shean (1921-1933).” 55(1): 12-15.

2013 “Domestic Devotions in Late Antique Beth Shean.” 55(1): 21-23.
Pigott, Vincent C.

1989 “The Emergence of Iron Use at Hasanlu.” 31(2-3): 67-79.

1959 “The Hasanlu Bowl.” 1(3): 18-22.

1971 “Aspects of Elamite Art and Archaeology.” 13(3-4): 28-34.
Possehl, Gregory L.

2006 “What in the World: Shu-ilishu’s Cylinder Seal.” 48(1): 42-43.

1984 “Northeastern Arabia: From the Seleucids to the Earliest Caliphs.” 26(3): 21-30.

1959 “The Wine Industry at Gibeon: 1959 Discoveries.” 2(1): 17-25.

1961 “The Bible Reports on Gibeon.” 3(4): 2-9.

1962 “Civil Defense at Gibeon.” 5(1): 10-17.

1964 “Reconnaissance in Jordan.” 6(2): 3-9.

1964 “Two Tombs and a Tunnel in the Jordan Valley: Discoveries at the Biblical Zarethan.” 6(4): 2-9.

1965 “A Cosmopolitan Culture of the Late Bronze Age.” 7(4): 26-33.

1968 “An Eighth Century Traveller.” 10(2): 26-29.

1968 “The Palace of Tell es-Sa’idiyeh.” 11(1): 20-22.

1971 “The Phoenicians in Their Homeland.” 14(1): 14-23.

1962 “Editorial: The Museum Expands.” 5(1): 2-3, 43.

1998 “Rescue and Restoration: A History of the Philadelphia ‘Ram Caught in a Thicket’.” 40(2): 51-59.

1989 “Treasures from the Sea: Shells and Shell Ornaments from Hasanlu IVB.” 31(2- 3): 80-86.

2016 “Traders of the Mountains: The Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan.” 58(1): 16-23.

2004 “Portrait: Reminiscences: An Appreciation of Mary Virginia Harris.” 46(2): 5-6.

1986 “Excavations at Khirbet Iskander, Jordan: A Glimpse at Settled Life during the “Dark Age” in Palestinian Archaeology.” 28(1): 3-12.

2014 “Reports from the Field: Illuminating a Dark Age: New Work at Satu Qala, Iraq.”

56(2): 8-9.
Schenck, Helen

1998 “Introduction.” 40(2): 3.

1974 “The Use of Clay Before Pottery in the Zagros.” 16(2): 11-17.

1977 “The Earliest Uses of Clay in Syria.” 19(3): 28-42.

1997 “Animal Symbols at ‘Ain Ghazal.” 39(1): 48-58.

1989 “Assyrian Texts: The Inscriptions of Assurnasirpal II and His Son.” 31(2-3): 64- 66.

2002 “Through Assyria’s Eyes: Israel’s Relationship with Judah.” 44(3): 9-15.
Shamos, Geoffrey.

2013 “New Light on Daily Life at Beth Shean.” 55(1): 24-27.

2013 “From the Director: Telling the Human Story.” 55(2): 3.

1986 “Dietary Reconstruction and Near Eastern Archaeology.” 28(2): 16-22.

1985 “‘Trials of Strength’: Athletics in Mesopotamia.” 27(2): 7-9.

1971 “Iran, 9000-4000 B.C.: The Neolithic.” 13(3-4): 6-13.

1962 “Mesopotamian Motifs in the Early Chapters of Genesis.” 5(1): 18-19, 43.

1971 “Cultural Anthropology in Iran: Beginnings and Prospects.” 13(3-4): 66-71.

1980 “Cultural and Ecological Perspectives from the Turan Program, Iran: Introduction.” 22(4): 4-10.

2011 “Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globalization.” 53(1): 11-20.

2013 “Now in the Galleries: Unearthing a Masterpiece: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Isreal.” 55(1): 4.

1977 “The Urartian Bronze Hoard from Giyimli.” 19(4): 12-20.

1998 “Texts, Tablets, and Teaching: Scribal Education in Nippur and Ur.” 40(2): 40- 50.

2008 “From Clay to Computers: The Genesis of the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary.” 50(3): 23-29.
Tosi, Maurizio and Marcello Piperno

1973 “Lithic Technology behind the Ancient Lapis Lazuli Trade.” 16(1): 15-23.

1978 “Lachish: Renewed Archaeological Excavations.” 20(4): 18-28.

1962 “A Lion Bowl from Hasanlu.” 4(4): 14-19.

1983 “Irrigation in an Arabian Valley: A System of Highland Terraces in the Yemen Arab Republic.” 25(2): 26-34.

1966 “Clues to Iranian Prehistory in Modern Village Life.” 8(3): 9-19.

1969 “A Persian Puzzle: A Bronze Sword from Teheran.” 12(1): 24-27.

2002 “What in the World?: An Alabaster Mystery.” 44(1): 48.

1971 “Islamic Archaeology in Iran.” 13(3-4): 62-65.

1989 “The ‘Hasanlu Gold Bowl’: Thirty Years Later.” 31(2-3): 87-106.

1963 “Dalma Painted Ware.” 5(2): 38-39.

1971 “The Search for Understanding: Excavating the Second Millennium.” 13(3-4): 22- 27.
Zettler, Richard. See Zettler, Richard L.
Zettler, Richard L.

1986 “From Beneath the Temple: Inscribed Objects from Ur.” 28(3): 29-38.

1987 “The Empire of Ur-Nammu under His Descendants.” 29(1): 57.

1996 “Tell es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995: A City in Northern Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium B.C.” 38(1): 14-26.

2000 “The City of Petra.” 42(2): 31.

2000 “Mapping Petra.” 42(2): 37-41.