Lachish II (Tell-Ed-Duweir)

Abstract

TELL-ED-DUWEIR is the site of an ancient city, probably the Biblical ‘Lachish’, on the edge of the Judæan foothills, overlooking the Philistine lowland. It was excavated from 1932 to 1938 by the Wellcome-Marston Archæological Research Expedition to the Near East, of which the late Sir Robert Mond also was an early and generous supporter. The tragic death of the director, Mr. J. L. Starkey, and the political situation, suspended the work at a very interesting phase, and even the material now in London needs much further study; but the ‘Fosse Temple’, lying outside the city, had been completely explored, and is now published separately, in advance, on behalf of the Wellcome Trustees. It is a fine piece of work, a worthy memorial of the able leader of the expedition—of whom there is a characteristic likeness on p. 7—and testimony to the skill, zeal, and team-work of his helpers.

Lachish II (Tell-Ed-Duweir):

The Fosse Temple. By Olga Tufnell, Charles H. Inge and Lankester Harding. (The Wellcome-Marston Archæological Research Expedition to the Near East, Publications, Vol. 2.) Published for the Trustees of the late Sir Henry Wellcome. Pp. 104 + 73 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 25s. net.