Historical Images of Antakya (Antioch)
Antioch Excavations Staff Photograph (1933)
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Staff photograph of the 1933 Antioch expedition. William A. Campbell of Wellesley College, who served as field director of the eight campaigns, is seated at the far right; Jean Lassus, who represented the French in the expedition, is standing third from the left. Posing in the foreground is the Thorn-puller, a statue fragment found at Antioch.
Harvard University Art Museums. Public domain? The excavations of Antioch began in 1932 under the direction of the "Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity," which was made up of representatives from the Louvre, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, Princeton University, and later (1936) also the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and its affiliate Dumbarton Oaks.
Harvard University Art Museums. Public domain?
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