Companion in the Trenches

I have known, admired and have been deeply impressed by 3 Dutch scholars: 1. Henry Frankfort, (fig. 1) the distinguished authority on Near Eastern Archaeology, who conducted the renowned seminars on Near Eastern Studies in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, out of which came numbers of scholars of the Near East 2. Emily Haspels, (fig.2) authority on Grek vase Painting, excavator of the Midas City, author of “The Highlands of Phrygia, the last of the great travellers in Anatolia (fig.3) and 3. Machteld Mellink, of my own generation, Senior Foreign Archaeologist in Turkey, whom everybody knew (fig.4)

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