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Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920

October 24, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Amy Lunday
acl@jhu.edu
443-287-9960


Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex
Discovered in Syria

— Additional Images —

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO A: Aerial view (kite photograph) of tomb area

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO B: Mudbrick installation with four decapitated equid skeletons, skulls on ledge

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO C: Mudbrick installation with two decapitated equid skeletons, skulls on ledge

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO D: Mudbrick installation with four decapitated equid skeletons, skulls on ledge

Glenn Schwartz at
Acropolis Center mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra,
Syria
PHOTO E: Glenn Schwartz excavating equid skeletons

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO F: Zooarchaeologist Jill Weber, an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania, cleaning excavated equid skeletons

Acropolis Center mortuary
complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO G: Ivory hair ornaments from Tomb 4

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO H: Middle Bronze Age circular stone platform built above earlier tombs

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO I: Silver vessels from Tomb 4

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO J: Bones of adult female from Tomb 4, lower level

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO K: Gold plaques (possibly ornaments for the sheath of a dagger), Tomb 4 lower level

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO L: Stone and shell inlay eyes (possibly from a statue), Tomb 4 lower level

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO M: Upper level Tomb 4

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO N: Tomb 8, exterior

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO O: Excavators cleaning Tomb 8

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO P: Disturbed chamber inside Tomb 8 with bones and pottery

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO Q: Graduate student Sarah Koplik cleaning pots inside Tomb 8

Acropolis Center
mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, Syria
PHOTO R: View of Tombs 3, 4, and 8.

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