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Photo TEL LACHISH EXCAVATION NO17 C1938 Vintage Magic Lantern Slide - ISRAEL Specific Title: Palestine Tell Duweir 4302 General view Camping house. On the rear (not visible in photos): "University of London" "Institute of Archaeology" The initial expedition at Lachish, then Tell ed-Duweir, spanning 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. Funded by Charles Marston and Henry Wellcome to locate the Biblical city of Lachish, they succeeded in discovering 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"; as these slides are titled "Institute of Archaeology" I am confident that this slide is part of the work she conducted to present her findings; a true connection to the event. Very few photographic examples relating to his excavations at Lachish have been located, and as a result these slides 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 groups could view it; for example in a lecture setting. L654 B50 If the slide is watermarked in the image it will not be watermarked when received - see photo 2 ← ← ← ← ← Our shop contains over 25000 photographic slides - please browse for similar images ← ← ← THE SLIDE IS APPROXIMATELY 8

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