Bamboula (…“Seal impressions…”) Benson 1955Jack L. Benson

Notes

I wish to take this opportunity to thank Professors Hetty Goldman, [handwritten: Mrs?] F.Matz, G. Mylonas, E.Porada and A.J.B.Wace for discussing various aspects of this paper with me and offering many very valuable comments and suggestions, not all of which it has been practicable to acknowledge individually in footnotes. [handwritten: Information from other scholars has been acknowledged in footnotes.] Also thanks are due to Dr. H.Fisher of the Egyptian Department, Dr. E.Gordon and Mr. R.Dyson of the Babylonian Department, The University Museum, Philadelphia, for very real assistance with bibliography and technical matters within their respective fields. Nevertheless, any errors in fact or interpretation are to be attributed solely to myself. R.Goldberg, photographer at the University Museum, produced excellent new photographs of Sh 720, Sh 580, Sh 579b, Sh 545 and Sh 615, [handwritten: and has obtained good results with Daniel's] negatives of Sh 579a and S 102, which are now in Cyprus, and S 3 which is missing.

Handwritten: of Sh 579b and Sh 545

All the sherds with the exception [handwritten: just noted] are now at the University Museum. However, Sh 720, Sh 580 and Sh 615 will ultimately be in the custody of the Cyprus Museum. Mr. G.R.H. Wright made the drawings of Sh 720, Sh 580 and Sh 579.

Handwritten: Mr. Leonard Woodworth

Thanks are due to [handwritten: Miss Nancy Yarnell] for generously contributing the profiles

Handwritten: (one space Woodworth 6-7 numbers)

[Figs.] [handwritten: for its support and] I finally wish to express my thanks to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the excellent facilities, which were at my disposal during the writing of this article.

1. Provisional report AJA 42 (1938) 261 ff. The present writer is preparing the final publication of the stratigraphy and finds of the excavation.

Handwritten: put under consideration in this paper

2. A concise survey of the international culture of the period [handwritten: in question] is given by T.B.Brown "1600-1400 B.C. in the Eastern Mediterranean" AAA 28 (1948) 8-26. His concern with the way in which ideas and techniques were spread (cf. esp.p.22) would find much to feed on in the material presented here. 3. Cf. L.Legrain, Archaic Seal Impressions (Oxford 1936) 1 ff. and A.J.Tobler, Excavating at Tepe Gawra II (Philadelphia 1950) 175; and, e.g. Pl.XXXVIIb. This … continues