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Nippur, Iraq Expedition Records 1017 Finding Aid Prepared by L Nippur, Iraq expedition records 1017 Finding aid prepared by L. Daly, K. Moreau, M. E. Ruwell, & M. Fredricks. Last updated on March 02, 2017. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives Nippur, Iraq expedition records Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 7 Haynes Collection [Including Wolfe Expedition, 1884-85]................................................................... 7 Expeditions I & II................................................................................................................................... 8 Expedition III.........................................................................................................................................12 Expedition IV.........................................................................................................................................15 Photograph Catalogs / Photographs.......................................................................................................18 Bound Letterbooks and Reports............................................................................................................19 Squeezes.................................................................................................................................................19 Original Drawings of Clarence S. Fisher Folio of "Architectural Details" — Expedition IV...............20 Oversize Maps and Drawings............................................................................................................... 23 - Page 2 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records Summary Information Repository University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives Creator Haynes, John Henry Creator Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925 Creator Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921 Title Nippur, Iraq expedition records Call number 1017 Date [inclusive] 1881-1900 Extent 20 linear feet Language English Abstract In 1887, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to sponsor an expedition to the Near East. The idea was conceived by Reverend John Punnett Peters, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Hebrew. Nippur was a pre- Biblical city-state located in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates, the area believed to be the "cradle of civilization." The museum conducted four expeditions between 1889 and 1898. The textual records for Nippur consist of 20 linear feet of files are arranged by Expedition (I, II, III, IV), as well as publications, maps and drawings. The documents for each expedition are separated according to type: Field Notes, Reports and Narratives, Correspondence, Financial Records. - Page 3 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records Cite as: [Item name]. Box [Box number]. Nippur, Iraq expedition records. Penn Museum Archives. Accessed [Date accessed]. Biography/History In 1887, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to sponsor an expedition to the Near East. The idea was conceived by Reverend John Punnett Peters, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Hebrew and already a fund-raiser for William Hayes Ward of New York who made a site survey in Babylonia in 1885. Peters raised interest among Philadelphia donors for an excavation project. Contributors to the Babylonian Exploration Fund eventually included Charles C. Harrison, the banker Edward W. Clark and his brother Clarence H. Clark, William West Frazier, Joseph D. Potts, Henry Charles Lea and William Pepper. In January of 1889, the expedition party directed by Peters arrived in Nippur. Nippur was a pre-Biblical city-state located in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. British archaeologists had done some preliminary work in the 1850s; Ward's report on the site during his 1885 survey indicated promising archaeological resources. Two members of the 1885 investigation joined the Museum party: John Henry Haynes, photographer and business manager, and Daniel Z. Noorian, interpreter and work foreman. Other members of the 1889 team included Herman Volrath Hilprecht, newly appointed Professor of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, Perez Hastings Field, architect and engineer, and Robert Francis Harper of Yale, co-Assyriologist with Hilprecht. The first campaign ended in the spring of that year, due to difficulties from climatic conditions, sickness, and violent attacks by local inhabitants. The excavations resumed in 1890, again from 1893 to 1896 and finally from 1898 to 1900. A fifth expedition was proposed but never realized. A rich tablet collection, a Sumerian temple, and city walls were excavated. Because Peters left the University, Haynes and Hilprecht took over as leaders after 1893. Unfortunately, a scholarly controversy arose over Hilprecht's acquisition and interpretation of the tablets, culminating in his resignation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1910. The museum did resume excavations in the 1940's jointly with the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and turned its rights to the site over to them in 1949. Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section from 1920 to 1948, organized the documents relating to Nippur in 1926. In a little less than a month, he numbered all the documents concerning the excavation and prepared a catalog describing each item. In 1978, a doctoral student from the University of Chicago, Diane Taylor, assembled all the Nippur documents, finding not only Legrain's original material, but adding papers collected from the estates of J. H. Haynes and others. She arranged the papers by expedition and thereunder by Legrain number. For convenience, the papers are now arranged - Page 4 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records chronologically with cross-references to the Legrain number. Items acquired by Diane Taylor, often duplicates, have been interfiled with the original material, but are identifiable because they carry no red Legrain number. For further details on Taylor's work, please refer to her notes in the Near East finding aid file. Scope and Contents Most drawings and plans are located in the Map Case and smaller items have been placed in the Print Cabinet. Related files may be found in the Near East Section curatorial records and the Director's Office correspondence. Administrative Information University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives Finding aid prepared by L. Daly, K. Moreau, M. E. Ruwell, & M. Fredricks. Use Restrictions Although many items from the archives are in the public domain, copyright may be retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. The user is fully responsible for compliance with relevant copyright law. Controlled Access Headings Corporate Name(s) - Page 5 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records • University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Form/Genre(s) • Correspondence • Field notes • Maps Geographic Name(s) • Nippur (Iraq) Personal Name(s) • Fisher, Clarence Stanley, 1876-1941 • Haynes, John Henry • Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925 • Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921 Subject(s) • Archaeological expeditions • Archaeology--Architecture, ancient • Excavations (Archaeology) - Page 6 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records Haynes Collection [Including Wolfe Expedition, 1884-85] Collection Inventory Haynes Collection [Including Wolfe Expedition, 1884-85], 1881-1889. Box 1 Scope and Contents note Earlier explorations by John Henry Haynes, including the Wolfe Expedition, 1884-85 Box Certificate from the Archaeological Institute of America, May 6, 1881 [Haynes Coll. 14]. 1 J. H. Haynes Journal-Trip to Mt. Ida in Troad (Aug 26-Oct 22, 1881) [Haynes Coll. 15]. 1 J. H. Haynes Journal-Trip to Greece and Assos, Turkey (Jul 12-Aug 10, 1882) and 1 Trip to Assos (Apr 26-May 19, 1883) [Haynes Coll. 17]. Scope and Contents note See Box 18, Folder 10 for photographs possibly from Wolfe Expedition. See also Photographic Archives boxes 234 and 235 — Haynes Collection photographs. J. H. Haynes Journal-Constantinople (Feb 1-May 23, 1884) [Haynes Coll. 18]. 1 J. H. Haynes Journals-Trip to south and central Turkey [Haynes Coll. 73]. 1 Journal No. 1 (Jun 21-Jul 6, 1884). 1 Journal No. 3 (Jul 9-Jul 21, 1884). 1 Journal No. 5 (Aug 7-Aug 18, 1884). 1 Journal No. 6 (Aug 19-Sep 10, 1884). 1 Journal No. 7 (Sep 11-Sep 20, 1884). 1 - Page 7 - Nippur, Iraq expedition records Expeditions I & II J. H. Haynes Journals-Wolfe Expedition [Haynes Coll. 19]. 1 Journal Vol. I-Constantinople to —Oct 30-Dec 1, 1884. 1 Journal Vol. III-Mesopotamia from Baghdad to Shatra on the Schatt el Hai Jan 11-Feb 7, 1 1885. Vol. IV-Mesopotamia (Chaldea) from Shatra to Baghdad (Feb 8-Mar 16, 1885). 1 Vol. V-Mesopotamia from Baghdad to Damascus (Mar 18-Apr 25, 1885).
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