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LETTERS FROM EGYPT AND IRAQ

1954

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MARGARET BELL CAMERON 1916-2000

ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SPECIAL PUBLICATION * No. 71 THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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? 2001 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2001. Printed in the United States of America.

Chicago, Illinois Oriental Institute Special Publication Number 71 Published by the Development Office of the Oriental Institute

Printedby United Graphics Incorporated,Mattoon, Illinois

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CONTENTS

PREFACE. Gene Gragg ............................

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FOREWORD. Marion M. Lloyd ................................. .............

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MEM OIR. Erica Reiner .................................................................. ...............

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LETTERS FROM EGYPT ............................................

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LETTERS FROM IRAQ ....................................

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ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE SKETCHBOOK OF MARGARET BELL

Detail of Hoopoe Birds in the Garden at Chicago House, Luxor.......... Cover

Hoopoe Birds in the Garden at Chicago House, Luxor ......................... Title Page

Lateen-rigged Boats Tied Up below the Embankment at Luxor..............

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Hoopoe Birds in the Garden at Chicago House, Luxor .........................

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Promenade at Luxor............................................

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Some Houses behind the Moslem Cemetery at Karnak Village .................

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The Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Medinet Habu ..................................

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A Street in Damascus .............................................................................. ...............

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A Row of Houses on the West Bank of the Tigris at Baghdad..................

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The Auto Bridge and Irrigation Canal at Afak, Iraq, Headquarters

of the Oriental Institute Nippur Expedition........................................

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Uncovering 5,000-year-old Floor in the North Temple, Nippur................. 57

The Field Architect Leveling at the Inanna Temple at the Foot

of the Nippur Ziggurat ........................................................................ ..............

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Shergat Pickmen at Nippur .................................................................... ..............

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Part of the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem ................................

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PREFACE

Gene Gragg

Travel to the Middle East has been a part of the lives of Oriental Institute faculty and friends since before the Institute's creation in 1919. Our founder, James Henry Breasted, made several trips to the region and has been followed by generations of scholars and students.

The Institute's friends and supporters have been venturing to Egypt and Western Asia almost as long as our faculty. From Florence Miller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. through the tourists traveling under the auspices of our travel program today, our most devoted friends have made travel an integral part of their intellectual engagement with the Institute.

Margaret Bell Cameron made her journey almost fifty years ago and shared her experiences and her sketches with family and friends, including the Institute. We publish them now to honor her memory and to share her impressions of a world that has passed from view.

We would like to thank Oriental Institute Visiting Committee Member Margaret H. Grant for transcribing the letters for publication. John Larson, Tim Cashion, and Thomas G. Urban of the Institute staff readied the work for publication. We are indebted to Marion Lloyd and Erica Reiner for sharing their memories in this volume, and Marjorie Webster and the Margaret Bell Cameron's family for making this publication possible.

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