Lake Van, (Tilki Tepe) Turkey Expedition 1037 Finding aid prepared by B. Roberts A. Pezzati J. rodgers.

Last updated on March 02, 2017.

University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives

February 2017 Lake Van, (Tilki Tepe) Turkey Expedition

Table of Contents

Summary Information...... 3 Biography/History...... 4 Scope and Contents...... 5 Administrative Information...... 5 Collection Inventory...... 6 Correspondence...... 6 Field Notes...... 6 Reports...... 6 Photographs...... 7 Maps and Plans...... 7

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Summary Information

Repository University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives

Creator Cowley, Arthur E., Sir, 1861-1931

Creator Lake, Kirsopp, 1872-1946

Creator Lake, Silva, 1898-1983

Title Lake Van, (Tilki Tepe) Turkey Expedition

Call number 1037

Date [inclusive] 1938-1939

Extent 0.5 linear foot

Language English

Abstract The Lake Van, Turkey expedition was proposed by Sir Arthur Cowley, emimnent Semitic scholar. Jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and , it was led by Professors Kirsopp and Silva Lake. The Lake Van, Turkey Exoedition Records consists of one archival box of data and oversize materials housed in the map case.

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Biography/History

Sir Arthur E. Cowley worked with Alfred Neubauer, sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library, from 1890 onwards on the Samaritan liturgy; the results were published in two volumes in 1909. He was appointed assistant sub-librarian in 1896. Together, Cowley and Neubauer published The Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus (1897) and Facsimiles of the Fragments Hitherto Recovered of the Book of Ecclesiasticus in Hebrew (1901). When Neubauer left the Bodleian in 1899, Cowley became sub-librarian and also taught rabbinical Hebrew literature as well as working on a catalogue of the library's Sanskrit collections and (with Neubauer) the second volume of the library's catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts. He was appointed as a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in May 1902,[2] and was awarded a D.Litt. by the university in 1908. He moved to the in 1912 as Sandars Reader in Bibliography.[1] During his time as Bodley's Librarian, he continued to pursue his own research interests, and was regarded as one of the leading Semitic scholars of the time.[1] In 1923 he published The Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century, a revision of his 1906 work, incorporating the critical results of the best-known Semitic scholars, his original text largely unaltered.[1] He translated from German into English the last complete significant edition of Wilhelm Gesenius' Hebrew grammar, revised by Emil Kautzsch; this edition is still widely used in Hebrew language studies around the world in the 21st century. Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946) was a British biblical and patristic scholar and textual critic. He was born in Southampton, England, and died in South Pasadena, California. He was ordained into the and was curate of St. Mary the Virgin (Oxford, England) from 1897 to 1904, and was then a professor of early Christian literature at the University of Leiden until 1913. After 1914 he was a professor of early Christian literature at . In 1919 he was appointed to a Harvard chair as Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History. He retired from Harvard in 1938. Lake was interested in archaeology and participated in many expeditions to the Near East. He visited Mount Sinai, Mount Athos, Turkey and Iraq. His excavations were cut short by World War II. In the early twentieth century, Lake discovered a textual family of manuscripts known as (also known as Lake group). He also examined textual family Family II, and compared its text with text . Lake married his second wife, Silva New in 1932. Born in 1898, she was an accomplished scholar in her own right, and was a professor of Classics at . Silva Lake was born March 18, 1898 in New Haven, Connecticut to Bertrand Martin and Jane Downs Tipple. Following in her father’s academic footsteps – a pastor, biblical scholar and founder of the Methodist International College in Rome, Italy – she contributed to the fields of text criticism and New Testament research, published regularly, and participated in archaeological excavations in Serabit in the Sinai peninsula (1929, 1935), in ancient Palestine (1932, 1934), and Van, Turkey (1938-1940). She often collaborated with her second husband and fellow scholar, Kirsopp Lake. Silva was educated at the University of Vermont in 1924 and received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1936. She taught at the University of Vermont (1924), as head of the Latin Department at Miss McClintock’s School in (1924-1925), and Bryn Mawr as a classics professor. She was awarded a

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Scope and Contents

The Lake Van, Turkey Exoedition Records consists of one archival box of data and oversize materials housed in the map case. The textual records consist of correspondence, field notes, and reports. The graphic materials include drawings/plans and photographic reproductions.

Administrative Information

University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives

February 2017 Finding aid prepared by B. Roberts A. Pezzati J. rodgers.

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Collection Inventory

Correspondence, 1937-1939.

Box

1937. 1

January-May 1938. 1

May-December 1938. 1

January-April 1939. 1

April-June 1939. 1

Field Notes, 1938.

Box

Surveyer's Measurements (3 notebooks). 1

Reports, 1937-1939.

Box

Expedition Proposal. 1

Report 1938. 1

Report 1939. 1

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Miscellaneous. 1

Photographs, 1938.

Photographic Reproductions. Box 1

Maps and Plans.

Plan-Scale: 1:1000 meters A. E. P[arkinson?] & E. B. M[uller] 48.5 x 21.5 1938. Box M-28

Plan-Transverse Section through Citadel. Box M-28

Plan-Longitudinal Section. Box M-28

Six excavation plans, preliminary field drawings, untitled. Pencil and pencil and ink on Box paper. [Size 27.5 x 20.4]. M-28

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