Archaeology Odyssey

See Mostafa El-Abbadi, Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria, (Paris: UNESCO/UNDP, 1990), pp. 145–179. Also see Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, translated by Martin Ryle, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); Ellens, The Ancient Library of Alexandria, pp. 6–12 and 50–51; and Edward A. Parsons, The Alexandrian Library, Glory of the Hellenic World: Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions, (London: Cleaver-Hume, 1952), pp. 356–429.

See J. Harold Ellens, The Ancient Library of Alexandria and Early Christian Theological Development, Occasional Papers, Number 27, (Claremont: The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity of Claremont Graduate School, 1993), pp 7–12.

Daniel David Luckenbill, “Historical Records of Assyria,” Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 2 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1968), p. 206.

J.A. Scurlock, “Magical Means of Dealing with Ghosts in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Ph.D. dissertation, Prescription 74 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago, 1988), pp. 322–323.

Assyrian Dictionary, vol. 5, “Gulgullu=skull,” p. 128.

Assyrian Dictionary, vol. 5 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago, 1956), “Gulgullu=skull,” p. 128.

See McCann, “The Riace Bronzes: Gelon and Hieron of Syracuse?” in From the Parts to the Whole: I. Acta of the 13th International Bronze Conference, held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 28 to June 1, 1996; see also C.C. Mattusch, A. Brauer and S.E. Knudsen, eds., Journal of Roman Archaeology supplemental series no. 39 (2000), pp. 97–105.

Anna Marguerite McCann and John P. Oleson will publish the material on the 1997 Skerki expedition in a forthcoming volume of the Journal of Roman Archaeology.

The 1997 archaeology-conservation team headed by McCann included: J.P. Oleson, University of Victoria, British Columbia; J. Adams, University of Southampton; B. Foley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; D. Piechota, Object and Textile Conservation, Arlington, Massachusetts; C. Giangrande, Institute of Archaeology at University College, London.

The pine tar was analyzed by Curt W. Beck, Amber Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Vassar College.