ABSTRACT
A s usual there was great difficulty obta in ing enough money to excavate at T e l l Rifa 'at ; eventually we managed to get a grant from the A m e r i c a n W e n n e r - G r e n Founda t ion of $500. It does not sound very m u c h but, combined wi th what else we had scraped together, we managed to get an expedit ion into the field i n the spr ing of 1956. T h i s consisted of J o a n d u Pla t T a y l o r , Margare t M u n n - R a n k i n , D a v i d Stronach, who had been a student of Margare t ' s at Cambr idge and later became the Di rec tor of the B r i t i s h Institute of Persian Studies at T e h r a n and is now a professor i n the U S A ; Carey M i l l e r , who had been one of my students, as d raughtswoman - she later jo ined the Br i t i sh M u s e u m and became a senior i l lustrator; and T o n y Peters as architect. After this excavation I often used m y extra m u r a l students as supervisors at both T e l l Rifa 'a t and T e l l e l -Fa ra ' in .
