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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Behistun Rock in Iran. Photo courtesy of George G. Cameron and the American Schools of Oriental
Research 		22
2. Air view of the mound of Megiddo, after excavations. Oriental Institute Photo 38965 23
3. Sir Flinders and Lady Petrie, in the garden of the American School of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, May,
1939. Photo Nelson Glueck 		24
4. Père L. H. Vincent (left) and W.F. Albright (center) examining the pottery of the last Canaanite occupation
of Bethel. Photo G. E. Wright 		24
5. The American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. Photo J. C. Trever 25
6. A section of the mound of Megiddo, showing the levels of occupation. Oriental Institute. Photo 39350 26
7. A dolmen in the Jordan Valley. Photo Nelson Glueck 30
8. Prehistoric caves in the Wadi Mugharah. Photo V. D. Melconian 31
9. Late Stone Age city walls at Jericho. From The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. XVII, No. 4, Fig. 7, by per-
mission of the Jericho Excavation Fund 		32
10. Late Stone Age skull, with features modelled in clay, as found at Jericho. From The Biblical Archaeologist,
Vol. XVI, No. 3, Fig. 3, by permission of the Jericho Excavation Fund 		32
11. A painting on the wall of a building excavated at Teleilat el-Ghassul in the Jordan Valley. From A. Mallon
and R. Koeppel, Teleilā GhassiÛ I (Rome, Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1934), Frontispiece 		32
12. City wall of Megiddo, Stratum XVIII. Oriental Institute Field Negative 4231 33
13. A bronze head of a prominent person, probably Sargon of Akkad, found at Nineveh. From M. E. L.
Mallowan, Iraq, Vol. 3 (1936), Pl. V, and by courtesy of the Directorate General of Antiquities, Govt. of Iraq 		34
14. Air view of the ruins of the palace of Mari. From A. Parrot, Mari, Pl. 81 (Ides et Calendes) 36
15. A diorite head, dating from the First Dynasty of Babylon; perhaps representing Hammurabi. Life-size.
Photo courtesy of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri 		37
16. A model of the temple-tower of Babylon as it stood in the time of Nebuchadnezzar (after Unger). Oriental
Institute Photo 28859 		38
17. A Nuzi. tablet. From The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. III, No. 1, Fig. 5. Photo Oriental Institute 43
18 Household idols ( teraphim) from Nuzi. From The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. III, No. 1, Fig. 3 44
19. A caravan of Asiatics entering Egypt. From Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, Vol. 4,
Section II, Pl. 133 		46
20. A tomb at Jericho from about the 17th century B.C., showing the remains of a wooden table (left), bier (right),
bowl, baskets and pottery. From The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Fig. 9, by courtesy of the
Jericho Excavation Fund. 		47
21. An inscribed figurine from Egypt, purposely smashed in a cursing ceremony. From G. Posener, Princes
et pays d'Asie et de Nubie, Frontispiece, by courtesy of the Musées Royaux d'Art et l'Histoire, Brussels 		48
22. The mound of Gezer, from the north. Photo G. E. Wright 49
23. Three temples with altar for burnt offering found in Stratum XV (about 1900 B.C.) at Megiddo. Oriental
Institute Photo 32209 		49
24. A large altar for burnt offerings found at Megiddo. Photo Oriental Institute; from Loud, Megiddo II. Text,
Fig. 165 		49
25. Pillars at Lejjun in Transjordan. Photo Nelson Glueck 51
26. Tomb monument of an Egyptian official of the Eighth Dynasty, dating shortly before 2000 B.C. From
W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, Fig. 83; courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 		54
27. Egyptian granaries, represented as full of grain in the top register, and as being filled in the lower register.
From Erman, Aegypten und Aegyptisches Leben in Altertum (Tübingen, J. C. B. Mohr), Abb. 210 (p. 520) 		55

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