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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920
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October 24, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Amy Lunday
acl@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
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Early Bronze Age Mortuary
Complex Discovered in Syria
— Additional Images —
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PHOTO A:
Aerial view (kite photograph) of tomb area |
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PHOTO B:
Mudbrick installation with four decapitated equid
skeletons, skulls on ledge |
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PHOTO C:
Mudbrick installation with two decapitated equid skeletons,
skulls on ledge |
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PHOTO D:
Mudbrick installation with four decapitated equid
skeletons, skulls on ledge |
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PHOTO E:
Glenn Schwartz excavating equid skeletons |
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PHOTO F:
Zooarchaeologist Jill Weber, an affiliate of the
University of Pennsylvania, cleaning excavated
equid skeletons |
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PHOTO G:
Ivory hair ornaments from Tomb 4 |
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PHOTO H:
Middle Bronze Age circular stone platform built above
earlier tombs |
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PHOTO I:
Silver vessels from Tomb 4 |
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PHOTO J:
Bones of adult female from Tomb 4, lower level |
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PHOTO K:
Gold plaques (possibly ornaments for the sheath of a
dagger), Tomb 4 lower level |
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PHOTO L:
Stone and shell inlay eyes (possibly from a statue), Tomb 4
lower level |
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PHOTO M:
Upper level Tomb 4 |
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PHOTO N:
Tomb 8, exterior |
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PHOTO O:
Excavators cleaning Tomb 8 |
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PHOTO P:
Disturbed chamber inside Tomb 8 with bones and
pottery |
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PHOTO Q:
Graduate student Sarah Koplik cleaning pots inside Tomb
8 |
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PHOTO R:
View of Tombs 3, 4, and 8. |
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