Research Guides: Tarsus Excavation: Home

This guide is intended to improve discoverability of resources across collections at Bryn Mawr College related to the excavations at Tarsus in present-day Turkey, including the Cilicia, Reconnaissance of 1934, and the Gözlü Kule-Tarsus excavations, both in Turkey, of 1935–1939, and 1947–1949, led by alumna Hetty Goldman, the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation at the time.

Resources

Tarsus Collection, College Archives
This collection contains the raw and processed data from the Tarsus excavations – notebooks, photographs, card catalogues and inventories, etc.

There are thirteen series in the collection. They are: the 1: Tarsus Files, 2: Tarsus Research Notes, 3: Tarsus Research Cards, 4: Tarsus Inventory Books, 5: Tarsus Pottery Inventory, 6: Tarsus Catalogue Cards, 7: Tarsus Slides, 8: Tarsus Negative Books, 9: Tarsus Photographic Negatives, 10: Tarsus Prints from Negatives, 11: Tarsus Publication Materials, 12: Tarsus Excavation Notebooks, and 13: Tarsus Plans.
Tarsus Excavation Pottery
Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College houses over 1200 unique pottery samples excavated at Tarsus.
Illustrations by Piet de Jong of Materials Excavated at Tarsus
Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College houses over 100 original watercolor or ink illustrations of materials excavated at Tarsus by British artist Piet de Jong.

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