The University of Michigan's 1924 Archaeological Expedition
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Antioch
of Pisidia: The University of Michigan's 1924 Archaeological Expedition |
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| • Articles and Reports • Biographies • Correspondence • Expedition Journal • Photographs • Photograph Captions • Sculpture Inventory • | ||
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"Our
excavation is rich in discoveries, and it will take another long campaign
to finish up the work so as to make up a volume which will be in any
sense complete. Professor Robinson has unearthed not only the remains
of a superb temple of the time of Augustus with an imposing propylea
but also the sculptured blocks and architectural members of a triumphal
arch of the same period and the foundations of a great
Christian Church of the fourth century." |
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From the
beginning of May through the first week of September, 1924, an archaeological
team from the University of Michigan, under the leadership of Professor
Francis W. Kelsey, excavated at the site of ancient Antioch of Pisidia
in Turkey. The findings of the expedition were notable: in a number of
his letters, Francis W. Kelsey wrote that he did not want to publish the
expedition's findings until a second season at the site had been completed.
With the rich findings at Karanis in Egypt, beginning in 1924, and with
the death of Kelsey in 1927, the second season never took place.
This website
presents a sample of the papers and publications about the expedition
and its findings. The original papers are housed at the Bentley
Historical Library. The photographic archive and associated documentation
is housed at the Kelsey Museum
of Archaeology, and consists of photographs in a variety of camera
formats taken by several different expedition photographers in 1924. The
Kelsey Museum also has a small number of artifacts from the site accessioned
within its holdings. |
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| The Key Players |
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| Francis
W. Kelsey • Expedition Director |
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| David
M. Robinson • Site Director |
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| Sir William M. Ramsay • Researcher and excavation permit holder | ||||
| Other Players | ||||
| The Documentation |
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| Articles and Reports | ||||
| Biographies | ||||
| Correspondence | ||||
| Expedition Journal | ||||
| Photographs
(selection of 65) |
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| Photograph
Captions (entire listing of 1770 photos) |
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| Sculpture Inventory | ||||
