By: Theresa Howard Carter
The very afternoon of the Barringers’ departure two of our three high hopes were shattered. The Lisa Sounding revealed a pair of enormous marble-faced vats occupying the entire floor area of our cut. Since there were other similar structures in previously dug fourth and fifth century Roman bath complexes at Leptis, we had no difficulty […]
By: Theresa Howard Carter
Late in August we assembled in the humid oil-bemused town of Benghazi, major city of Libya’s Cyrenaican province. The irrepressible Mediterranean lends its beauty to the natural harbor, along which many of the principal buildings front. Otherwise the city seems overlaid with the dust and paraphernalia of modern construction. We were five: Prof. Emily Vermeule, […]
By: Theresa Howard Carter
The 1964 staff of this expedition consisted of Mrs. Carter of the University Museum and David Oates, Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, as Directors. Barbara Parker of the London Institute of Archaeology served as epigraphist. David Crownover of the University Museum and Nicholas Kindersley and Julian Reade, Fellows of the British […]
By: Theresa Howard Carter
Early in the 1964 season of excavations at Tell al-Rimah one of our Bedouin excavators, a colorful Shammar tribesman, brought in a block of basalt roughly cut in anthropomorphic shape. We appreciated the statuette as a genuine primiÂtive product of perhaps recent antiquity, and cerÂtainly believed Ashawi when he described the find as half-buried face […]