Large 4to. Text Volume: 127 pp., 133 figures in text including 2 maps, 9 plates of which 1 in colour, biblio / Plans Volume: 8 folding plans, each with its own legend, loose in a folder as published, publisher’s original wrappers, set in mint condition, Nationalmuseets Skrifter, Storre Beretninger, XIII, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, 1997.

Synopsis

In 1930 the young Danish archaeologist, Harald Ingholt, travelled to the town of Hama, on the Orontes River in Western Syria, in order to dig some test trenches on the mound. Since these trenches proved promising, Ingholt was allowed to conduct full-scale excavations in the years from 1931 to 1938, with the support of the Carlsberg Foundation.
Although archaeologists had been working in Syria for some time already, it may be said that the Danish excavations at Hama played an especially important role in illuminating the history of the western part of the country, most significantly in the earlier periods. The objects from the excavation that were shipped to Denmark also came to play an important role in the collection of the Antiquities Department in the National Museum.