Hubert L. Allen Papers, 1965-79 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Hubert Lee Allen, III (1938- ), Professor of Classics and Curator of the Classical Collection, World Heritage Museum (1972-77), including correspondence, research materials, excavation site materials, grant proposals (1973-78), administrative records, and publications. The papers concern the Illinois-Princeton Excavations at a Hellenistic Era Greek site at Morgantina, Sicily, where Allen was Director (1968-79). The excavation records include correspondence with the Italian Antiquities Service and museums, and archaeologists, financial accounts, site photographs and maps, excavation notebooks and logs with observations on archaeological techniques, pottery and other artifacts, find inventories and publications.