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...East expanded as the Museum became the sponsor of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon ion 1987. This continued the enterprise of the early days, the excavations at Samaria, funded by Jacob Schiff, the benefactor who provided funds for the building of the Semitic Museum, and the excavations at Nuzi (with the Fogg Museum), and later (with the Museum underground) at Shechem, Idalion in Cyprus, Carthage in Tunisia, Numeirah in Jordan, and (underwater) at Tharros in Sardinia. Stager heads the current, primary enterprise of the Museum in the field, the excavations at Ashkelon, Which in addition to its contributions...
Although he died in 1920, the more than $275,000 he contributed to the museum helped enrich collections well into the future and helped finance the acquisition of thousands of Nuzi artifacts, the museum's most important collection...
...Nuzi, a site in upper Mesopotamia, was once a provincial center of the mysterious Hurrian people whose writings continue to baffle archaeologists. The Semitic Museum's collection of Nuzi artifacts is the largest in the world, according to museum Director Frank M. Cross...
Harvard's Semitic Museum deserves congratulations for its decision to return to Iraq the collection of cuneiform tablets excavated from the ancient city of Nuzi...
Pfeiffer directed the 1928-29 excavations at Nuzi, Iraq, conducted by the Harvard-Baghdad School. A noted Biblical scholar, he was pastor of the Methodist Church in Sanborn, N.Y., from 1916 to 1919 and editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1943 to 1947. In 1950 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis...