University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations December 2015 A Preliminary Museological Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Euphrates Valley Expedition Metal Collection Jamie Patrick Henry University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Islamic World and Near East History Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Henry, Jamie Patrick, "A Preliminary Museological Analysis of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Euphrates Valley Expedition Metal Collection" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 1054. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1054 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A PRELIMINARY MUSEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM’S EUPHRATES VALLEY EXPEDITION METAL COLLECTION by Jamie Patrick Henry A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Anthropology at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee December 2015 ABSTRACT A PRELIMINARY MUSEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM’S EUPHRATES VALLEY EXPEDITION METAL COLLECTION by Jamie Patrick Henry The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Bettina Arnold Destruction of ancient sites along the Euphrates River in northern Syria due to the construction of the Tabqa Dam and the formation of Lake Assad led to many international salvage expeditions, including those conducted between 1974 and 1978 by the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) at the site of Tell Hadidi, Syria under the direction of Dr.