393, Lot: 522. Estimate $50. Sold for $35. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Goldman, Hetty, ed. [Tarsus] Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Volume I. (Princeton: Princeton University Press for University of Cincinnati, 1950). 420 pages, 276 plates, 8 fold-out maps. Hardbound with dust jacket. The original edition of this important reference in two parts (text and plates). Very Good condition, volumes have mildew along bottom, dust jackets are torn and soiled, but nearly complete.

From the library of Arthur A. Houghton III.

The first woman to direct an officially sanctioned archeological excavation, Hetty Goldman was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, and Radcliffe College, from where she received her PhD in 1916. Beginning in 1911, she excavated a number of sites in Greece and Turkey, including Halae, Colophon, Eutresis, and Tarsus. In her numerous publications, she illuminated the continuity of culture within the Mediterranean between the Semitic and the Greek cultures. In 1936, Goldman joined other intellectual luminaries - including Albert Einstein - at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. At the time of her death on May 5, 1972, she remained the only woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her published books include Excavations at Eutresis in Boetia (1931) and three volumes about excavations in Tarsus published in 1950, 1956 and 1963.