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TEL LACHISH EXCAVATION NO. 8, C1938 Vintage Magic Lantern Slide, ISRAEL Specific title: Palestine Tell Duweir 4278 Lachish letter No. 5 Hebrew. On the reverse (not visible in photos): "University of London" "Institute 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 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 did to present her findings; a true connection to the event. Very few examples of photos relating to his excavations at Lachish have been found, and as a result, this and 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, it allowed the image to be enlarged so that a group of people could view it during a lecture. L654 A7 If the slide is watermarked in the image, it will not be watermarked when received—see photo 2. ← ← ← ← ← Our shop has over 25,000 photographic slides—please look for similar images ← ← ← THE SLIDE IS APPROXIMATELY 8.2 CM X 8 CM

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