{"product_id":"tel-lachish-excavation-no-8-c1938-vintage-magic-lantern-slide-israel","title":"TEL LACHISH EXCAVATION NO. 8, C1938 Vintage Magic Lantern Slide, ISRAEL","description":"TEL LACHISH EXCAVATION NO. 8, C1938 Vintage Magic Lantern Slide, ISRAEL\nSpecific title: Palestine Tell Duweir 4278 Lachish letter No. 5 Hebrew.\nOn the reverse (not visible in photos): \"University of London\" \"Institute of Archaeology\"\nThe first expedition at Lachish, then Tell ed-Duweir, from 1932 to 1939, was the Starkey-Tufnell British expedition which included James Leslie Starkey as expedition leader, Olga Tufnell, G.L. Harding, and C. Inge. It was funded by Charles Marston and Henry Wellcome with the aim of finding the Biblical city of Lachish. They succeeded in discovering Lachish, with a \"wealth of well-stratified pottery\", a \"key part of the ceramic corpus of Palestine\", and the Lachish letters \"written to the commander of the garrison at Lachish shortly before it fell to the Babylonians in either 589 or 586 B.C.\nStarkey was murdered in 1938 while travelling to Jerusalem to open the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Tufnell, Harding, and Inge remained for the 1938–1939 season. Tufnell returned to London and over the next two decades worked at the Institute of Archaeology in London, \"sorting, collating, studying and presenting the material found at Lachish.\" As these slides are titled \"Institute of Archaeology,\" I am confident that this slide is part of the work she did to present her findings; a true connection to the event.\nVery few examples of photos relating to his excavations at Lachish have been found, and as a result, this and others relating to the excavation are of significant historical importance.\nThis slide would have been produced from the negative in a similar way a photo was produced; however, it allowed the image to be enlarged so that a group of people could view it during a lecture.\nL654 A7\nIf the slide is watermarked in the image, it will not be watermarked when received—see photo 2.\n← ← ←\n← ← Our shop has over 25,000 photographic slides—please look for similar images\n← ← ←\nTHE SLIDE IS APPROXIMATELY 8.2 CM X 8 CM","brand":"gragramp.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57119750324555,"sku":"cmmoe7ssrlb4x9z3rhiqym5ou","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/5449\/1467\/files\/b3e684fd-c372-4238-9d1f-e5ede98dd447.jpg?v=1777116366","url":"https:\/\/shop.gragramp.com\/products\/tel-lachish-excavation-no-8-c1938-vintage-magic-lantern-slide-israel","provider":"gragramp.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}