Fourteen cases of antiquities, part of the results of the Yale excavations during the past year at Doura-Europos in Mesopotamia, arrived at New Haven yesterday afternoon, according to a dispatch from Syria. These will be put on exhibition at the Yale gallery of fine arts during Commencement.
Doura, which is on the Euphrates, has been covered by the sand of the desert for more than a score of centuries, in collaboration with the French Academy and with the permission of the Syrian government, excavation work on the city has been going on intensively for the past brace of years.
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