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In April, 1951, the American Foundation for the Study of Man, headed by Wendell Phillips, obtained a year's contract from the Imam Ahmed, king of Yemen, permitting the Foundation to excavate anywhere within a 25 kilometer radius of the ancient city of Marib, once capital of the land of Sheba. The Imam was to erect housing and working quarters, while the Foundation was to have all rights to publication. Local preparations were very slow, but the expedition had been carrying on preliminary work under the field direction of Robert Carmean and the supervision of our epigrapher, Dr. Albert Jamme. The expedition was just about to go into full operation when it was suddenly disrupted on February 12th, 1952. I had been nearly two months at the site, and Dr. Jamme had been there a month and a half longer, copying inscriptions and directing small-scale excavations at the Temple of the Moon, some two miles southeast of Marib. Two more young archaeologists, James Rubright and Ralf Andrews, and the architect, John Henry Scarff of Baltimore, arrived in time to take part in the last few days of the excavation. Mr. Scarff was able to take the measurements which made his plan of the temple possible

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Author

Frank P. Albright

Published

1952

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)