Last week I started this blog with the help of Meghan McFarlane, one of the conservators on the dig this season. Today I had the help of Victor Morgan when I was trying to place a photograph behind my blog heading. I took the photo this afternoon of the discard sherds in oneof Ameera's trench units. It sums up for me the reality of digging as this is the kind of material that archaeologists mainly deal with rather than the golden statues of Holywood imagination!
But speaking of Victor and vivid imaginations reminds me that I should tell you about a strange find which crossed my desk as registrar last week. A bag arrived in my in-box with a weird tag as you can see on the left. What was stranger was the contents of the bag, seen above on the right. We are digging in the Hellenistic levels of the site and so turning up a Chalcolithic Mother goddess figurine would be highly unlikely. Of course this is Victor's creation with the goddess sitting on her base with two "offering" vessels in front of her. It seems that the goddess was not amused for the day after her false image was created, Victor fell backwards into a trench and sprained his wrist!
If you wish to get the real scoop on the excavations at Tel Kedesh, check out the dig blog at University of Michigan Kelsey Museum website . The Tel Kedesh blog was the brainchild of the chief conservator at the Kelsey Museum, Suzanne Davis, and has entries on all aspects of the excavation.
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