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MuIIer, W* Max, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grant No. 355. Contin- 



uation of Archeological Researches in Egypt. (For previous report see 



Year Book No. 3, p. 84.) $2,000. 



Dr. Miiller pursued archeological researches in Egypt during the summer 



and fall of 1906. After working at the Cairo Museum for several weeks, 



he copied and photographed in the temples of Eastern Thebes. A fuller 



report will be forthcoming in 1907. 



Pumpelly, Raphael, Newport, Rhode Island. Grant No. 229. Trans- 



Caspiayi Archeological Expedition. (For previous reports see Year Book 



No. 2, p. xxxiii; Year Book No. 3, pp. 75-79, and Year Book No. 4 



p. 55.) $26,000. 



Work upon the results of the expedition of 1904 has been pushed during 



the past year and the report is in press. 



"Ward, William H., 130 Fulton street, New York, N. Y. Grant No. 305. 

 Completion oj study of oriental art recorded on seals, etc., from western Asia 

 and Egypt. (For previous reports see Year Book No. 2, p. xvii; Year 

 Book No. 3, p. 85, and Year Book No. 4, p. 55.) $250. 



Dr. Ward reports that he has met with unexpected delays in completing 

 his work on oriental seal cylinders, but that the text is all written in seventy 

 chapters, covering with great care the Babylonian, Persian, Assyrian, Syrian, 

 Hittite, and Phenician art of Asia, but not the Egyptian, which has been 

 provided for by other scholars. At present he is engaged, with the help of 

 two artists, in completing the drawings, many of them hitherto unpublished, 

 not only from his own collection of over a thousand cylinders, the majority 

 of which have gone to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, but from 

 the Eouvre, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the British Museum, the 

 Museum in Berlin, and other public and private collections. It has been 

 his especial aim to study the mj'thological art of these cylinders and to 

 identify both the gods represented and their emblems. Accordingly the 

 cylinders are classified by their nationality, their period, and their subject, 

 particular attention being paid to the archaic period, when motives were 

 being developed and mythological ideas had not yet been conventionalized 

 and fossilized into fixed forms. It has been a further purpose to show 

 how the earliest forms in Chaldea, of more than 3,000 b. c. , have been 

 adopted and modified in Assyria, Persia, Syria, and Pheuicia, and to learn 

 what new elements have been successively introduced from Egypt or of 

 native local origin. In order to give completeness to the work, it has been 

 necessarj^ to multiply the illustrations in the rarer scenes depicted, if im- 

 portant, giving all that are known, and in other cases showing the variations 

 of type that were allowed. 



