mideastcuts:Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht in his study in Istanbul c. 1895 (unknown photographer). Digi
mideastcuts:Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht in his study in Istanbul c. 1895 (unknown photographer). Digital print. Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA.The German-trained Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht was Professor of Assyriology at Penn. He claimed to be too delicate to carry out actual excavations (complaining about the bugs, beggars and his colleagues) so oversaw the Nippur site from a desk in Istanbul, and later from Philadelphia. He nonetheless took credit for ten years’ worth of finds at the site. Ultimately accused of faking work and stealing artifacts, Hilprecht was forced to resign his professorship.“but I’m too delicate for fieldwork…” -- source link