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Photo TEL LACHISH EXCAVATION NO12 C1938 Vintage Magic Lantern Slide ISRAEL Specific Title: Palestine Tell Duweir 4312 Gold pendant with embossed head from temple. On the rear ( not visible in photos ) "University of London" "Institue of Archaeology" The first expedition at Lachish, then Tell ed-Duweir, from 1932 to 1939, was the Starkey-Tufnell British expedition which included James Leslie Starkey as expedition leader, Olga Tufnell, G.L. Harding and C. Inge. It was funded by Charles Marston and Henry Wellcome with the aim of finding the Biblical city of Lachish. They succeeded in finding Lachish, with a "wealth of well-stratified pottery", a "key part of the ceramic corpus of Palestine", and the Lachish letters "written to the commander of the garrison at Lachish shortly before it fell to the Babylonians in either 589 or 586 B.C. Starkey was murdered in 1938 while travelling to Jerusalem to open the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Tufnell, Harding and Inge remained for the 1938–1939 season. Tufnell returned to London and over the next two decades, worked at the Institute of Archaeology in London, "sorting, collating, studying and presenting the material found at Lachish” and as these slides are titled “ Institute of Archaeology “ I am confident that this slide is part of the work she did to allow her to present her findings; a true connection to the event. I have found very few examples of photos relating to his excavations at Lachish and as a result feel that this and the others relating to the excavation are of significant historical importance. This slide would have been produced from the negative in a similar way a photo was produced however allowed the image to be enlarged so that a group of people could view it; in for example a lecture. L654 A20 If the slide is watermarked in the image it will not be watermarked when received - see photo 2 ← ← ← ← ← Our shop has over 25000 photographic slides in it - please take a look for similar images ← ← ← THE SLIDE I

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