The Rockefeller Boards' appropriations 1927-1937

Caption: "Tikal - taking rubbing of Maya hieroglyphs." RF photo #24979g.

Caption: "Temple of the Giant Jaguar. The temple after clearing and cleaning at end of the past season. It is now ready for restoration of its temple room, centerline exploration for tombs and then restoration. This is an example of our need for proper scaffolding. Also shown in left foreground is Temple of the Red Stela. Plaza has been cleared and many stelae have been reset in their proper places. This temple originally contained magnificently carved lintels and wall decorations. They were ripped out and carried to Switzerland. Recently I arranged to have replicas made by the Museum in Basle and we will place those this season." RF photo #24185a

Caption: "The terrace of Persepolis (air view). The terrace at its front of west edge is 50 feet high, built of blocks weighing as much as 40 tons. The roofed building in the right foreground is the Harem palace of Darius and Xerxes, reconstructed by the Institute's Iranian expedition for which it serves as a field headquarters. In right centered near foreground is the Palace of Xerxes, at its immediate left, at the terrace edge, the winter palace of Darius. The thirteen tall columns in the area again at the left, are all that remain of the forest of them which supported the roof of the Royal Audience Hall. At the east end of this the expedition discovered the superb royal stairway with its sculptured reliefs." RF photo #21220a.

Caption: "Northern portion of the Persepolis terrace, seen from the air (approximately 3000 feet). The large ruin at the left is the Hall of One Hundred Columns. The open space to its right is the concourse on to which gives the great double stairway leading to the Royal Audience Hall. The trences, at the lower left-hand corner of the terrace, are actually the bastion store rooms or archives where the expedition uncovered 30,000 cuneiform clay tablets. This entire great area still awaits excavation and promises to yield epoch-making finds. The seven stone foundation documents of Xerxes shown in Fig. 3 were found in a room of the terrace garrison, the ruins of which are at the head of the stairway leading to the terrace from the bend in the highway." RF photo #21220b.

Caption: "Seven inscribed stone foundation documents of Xerxes. These tablets are seen in situ exactly as uncovered by the expedition. The seventh table is at the right, facing the others. The inscriptions are in Elamite, old Persian and Babylonian cuneiform. Three of the tablets contain wholly new historical material of the firs importance: the remaining four are duplicates of known inscriptions." RF photo #21220c.

Caption: "Restoration of magnificent audience hall stairway reliefs by the Iranian expedition. When Alexander the Great destroyed Persepolis in 331 B.C., the great adobe walls of the buildings tumbled in, covering these carved stone reliefs. Wherever the stone was broke by the crash, the fragments were largely preserved under the protecting mass of slowly disintegrated adobe. The expedition is thus able to mend and restore broken places like the above." RF photo #21220d.

Caption: "Southern sector. Street and back of Zeus Stoa." RF photo #20790a

Caption: "Excavation of the Athenian Agora. The uncovering of this ancient market place, which is being carried out by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has entailed the buying and demolishing of 370 houses and the excavation of sixteen acres of land in the heart of the modern city. The Foundation has contributed toward this project. RF photo #21096

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Caption: "Agora." RF photo #21350k

Caption: "West side of the Agora as it looked in the time of Pericles." RF photo #21554.