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My Dura-Europos : the letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935 / [contextualized and annotated by] Bernard M. Goldman and Norma W. Goldman.
- Title
- My Dura-Europos : the letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935 / [contextualized and annotated by] Bernard M. Goldman and Norma W. Goldman.
- Author
- Hopkins, Susan M. (Susan Mary)
- Publication
- Detroit [Mich.] : Wayne State University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xiv, 310 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Hopkins, Susan M. > Correspondence
- Hopkins, Clark, 1895-
- Hopkins, Susan M. > Travel
- Archaeologists' spouses > Correspondence
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Syria > Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
- Synagogues > Syria > Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
- Chapels > Syria > Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
- Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
- Middle East > Description and travel
- Europe > Description and travel
- Genre/Form
- Personal correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Historical overview and the role of Susan M. Hopkins in the Dura campaigns -- Archaeology, war, and Syria -- Dura-Europos : discovery and recovery -- "Where the journey began" : the summer school at the American Academy in Rome -- The American School of Classical Studies at Athens : excavation experience at Olynthus -- Summer tour in Europe : with the Pillets in Paris -- The road to Beirut via Aleppo -- Maurice Pillet and his American crew -- Beirut to Dura : the journey to the site -- Letters from Dura-Europos : the first joint Yale University and French Academy excavation -- Trip to Baghdad -- Back at Dura : preparations to return to the USA -- Return via Deir ez-Zor, Palmyra, Aleppo, Beirut, Palestine, Jordan -- Traveling back to Greece via Cyprus and Rhodes -- Pillet and after -- The sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons, 1932-35 -- The Dura-Europos synagogue and its paintings -- The return trip of Mary Sue Hopkins Coates to Damascus and to Dura-Europos -- Addendum A: The seasons at Dura-Europos -- Addendum B: The chronology of Dura-Europos -- Addendum C: Those intrepid ladies -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 9780814335888 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814335888 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010053418
- OCLC
- 695683643
- SCSB-11580873
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library