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“A Glimpse into the Past” Ternbach Collection at Israel Museum

Joseph Ternbach, whose death came suddenly this past January, was an internationally renowned restorer of arms, armour and three-dimensional art. He was also a noted collector. But Ternbach’s collection is unlike most others; it includes not only rare and beautiful art but also roughly made and unfinished objects that illuminate the techniques of craft used by artists and artisans in antiquity.

Over 200 objects from the Ternbach collection will be on display at the Israel Museum through the summer. The items span a period from 3,000 B.C. to 1,300 B.C. and include deities and votive offerings, along with everyday pieces like tools, harness, armour, tableware, belts and charms.

The Israel Museum exhibit is the first showing of the bulk of the Ternbach collection and is accompanied by the first catalogue of the collection.

More Dig Information for Summer 1982

Three Sites Near Jerusalem

Horvat Eged, Horvat Mazad and Emmaus Thermae will be excavated from July to September 1982 by Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Mordechai Gichon will be field director at Horvat Eged, a fortified hill site, and probably a Hasmonean district center, near Emmaus. The site, on the Emmaus-Jerusalem road, was destroyed in the war against Rome, 66–73 A.D., and reoccupied during the Bar Kochba period, around 132 A.D. Of special interest are the subterranean rock-cut rooms which served as a clandestine base for the Jews in the war against Rome.

Dr. Moshe Fisher, field director at Horvat Mazad, seeks volunteers to excavate this road station, occupied from the Hasmonean period to the Middle Ages.

Emmaus Thermae, a Mishnaic-Talmudic period bath house preserved up to and including the original roof, will be excavated by Dr. Gichon.

Volunteers for all three projects will be housed in Canada Park, about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. Diverse afternoon recreational and educational activities will include staff lectures and field trips. For details, including cost and academic credit, write to: Division of Archaeology, Department of Classics, Yad Avner, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Cave of Tabun, Mt. Carmel

Layers of prehistory spanning a time from 250,000 to 50,000 years ago will be excavated at the cave of Tabun, Mt. Carmel, near Haifa. Volunteers at least 18 years old may participate in either of two two-week sessions, June 6–18 and June 20–July 2, 1982. Two weeks’ participation, including lectures by dig director Avraham Ronen and other staff members, costs $150. Excavation sponsors, the University of Haifa and the Museum of Prehistory at Haifa, provide lodging and food. Credit courses are not offered. For application, write: Professor Avraham Ronen, Laboratory of Prehistory, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31999, Israel.

Negev Rescue Excavation and Survey

Since 1979, many archaeology instructors and students in Israel have spent their university intercessions excavating Negev sites. Some of these important sites were scheduled to become off-bounds or occupied by military installations relocated from Sinai. Volunteers are welcome to participate in the on-going Negev Rescue project. Write to Rudolf Cohen, Department of Antiquities, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. (A more complete listing of 1982 excavation opportunities for volunteers appeared in “Excavation Opportunities 1982,” BAR 08:01.)

Flute Credit Inadvertently Omitted

We regret that proper credits were omitted from the pictures and the text of “How Scholarly Communication Works,” BAR 08:01.

The drawing and photograph of the flute from Tel Dothan should have been credited to Dr. Robert E. Cooley, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Dr. Cooley identified the Tel Dothan bone fragment as a flute on the basis of its similarity to the City of David bone flute.

The picture of the flute from the City of David was by courtesy of Yigal Shiloh of the City of David Archaeological Expedition. It was reprinted from our July/August 1979 issue and originally illustrated an article by Dr. Shiloh and Mendel Kaplan on the results of the City of David excavation (“Digging in the City of David,” BAR 05:04).

As noted in that 1979 article, the identification of the flute as a bone from a cow’s leg was made by Hebrew University zoologist Joseph Heller. The flute has also been studied by musicologist Dr. Bathja Bayer, who wrote the article “The Finds That Could Not Be,” BAR 08:01.

David Glenn Rose Dies in Jerusalem

Dr. D. Glenn Rose, Project Director of the Tell el-Hesi Archaeological Expedition suffered a massive heart attack and died at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem on August 6, 1981. At the time of his death Rose, 54, had just completed a successful excavation season and was settling down to prepare preliminary reports. The news shocked the Hesi staff, who respected Rose both for his archaeological skills and for his unfailing kindness to them.

Dr. Rose was born on January 2, 1928 in Louisiana, Missouri. Following his early interest in Biblical Studies he entered Yale Divinity School from which he graduated cum laude in 1955. He continued at Yale until 1959 when he received a Ph.D. for a dissertation entitled “The Use of Exodus Imagery in Isaiah 40–55.” Rose’s interests began to shift toward field archaeology in the late ‘60’s, following work at the Gezer dig. He became Project Director at Tel el-Hesi in 1974.

Dr. Rose’s contributions to archaeology were recognized in 1980 by Phillips University when he was appointed to the Darbeth Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Archaeology. Rose served as a Trustee and a member of the Committee on Archaeological Policy of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

“A Glimpse into the Past” Ternbach Collection at Israel Museum