It seems appropriate to select as a subject for discussion in honour of my friend C. J. Gadd, some long lost bones, now resuscitated, from Arpachiyah, for these relate to material published in the second volume of this Journal, thirty-six years ago, by which time each of us had written a first article for a periodical which was destined to be long lived.

For the sake of younger students it may be necessary to recall that Arpachiyah, a small prehistoric site, about four miles east of Nineveh was the first archaeological expedition directly sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, in 1933. The excavations were directed by me and published jointly with a colleague, J. Cruikshank Rose, with whom I had previously worked at Ur. We were accompanied by my wife who shared the work with us, and never has so small a supervisory staff worked harder or with more enjoyment and better reward.