Year: 1922
Type: article
Abstract: I have the honor to report for the Committee on Mesopotamian Archaeology as follows: Acting under the authority granted it by the Council, the Committee at the beginning of the year elected Professor James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Edward T. Newell, of the Numismatic Society of New York, to membership in the Committee.It also reports with sorrow that, by the death of Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., on June 22, the Committee lost one of its most energetic and valued members, and one whom it had hoped to send to Babylonia during the present winter.Early in the year the Committee took measures looking toward the establishment of an American School of Archaeology at Bagdad, and is happy to report that the undertaking is now on the eve of being accomplished.Your committee united with the Executive Committee of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and obtained in June a charter under the laws of the District of Columbia under the name "American Schools of Oriental Research."The members of your committee are numbered among the trustees of this institution.It is the purpose of this corporation to carry on the School at Jerusalem and establish one also at Bagdad.Possibly in the future other schools may be established by it in the East, if circumstances call for them.At the meeting of the Trustees of the American Schools held on September 27th, it was voted to begin the School at Bagdad as soon as political conditions in Mesopotamia make it safe to do so.Arrangements have been made with the American Consul for housing the School, and at the meeting referred to the Trustees
DOI: 10.1086/basor1354740
Author: George A. Barton
Language: English
Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4239386193