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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity.
- Title:
- Antioch Excavation Financial Records
- Repository:
- Princeton University Archives
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v979v309c
- Dates:
- 1935-1938
- Size:
- 2 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Formed in 1932, the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity was chaired by Princeton University's Charles Rufus Morey and included representatives from the Louvre, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and Dumbarton Oaks. Consists of detailed expense vouchers from the second half of the excavation of Antioch.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of detailed expense vouchers from the second half of the excavation of Antioch. Each voucher lists a single expense, its cost, and its purpose. Also included as expenses are purchases of antiquities found during the excavation.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity.
Formed in 1932, the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity was chaired by Princeton University's Charles Rufus Morey and included representatives from the Louvre, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and Dumbarton Oaks. Princeton's involvement with the excavation of Antioch begins in 1927 when the French Antiquities Service asked if Princeton would be interested in excavating the ancient city of the Roman Empire. A year later Charles Rufus Morey made a formal proposal and a six-year term was granted starting in 1931. When the initial term expired a second six-year excavation term was agreed to, however by late 1939 the effects of the Depression as well as political changes in the region which hampered the export of antiquities had slowed the expedition. Work on the project was suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War.
Collection History
- Processing Information
Container list added by Christie Peterson in February 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Credit this material:
Antioch Excavation Financial Records; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v979v309c
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Antioch.
- Genre Terms:
- Vouchers.
- Names:
- Princeton university. Department of art and archaeology
- Places:
- Antioch (Turkey) -- Antiquities.
