Talk by Seton Lloyd , O.B.E. Director of the British Institute of Archaeology. Ankara
Last summer an Anglo-Turkish party set
out to examine one of the Harranian temples, where as late as the twelfth century A.D. the moon-god Sin was worshipped as he had been by the ancient Sumerians three thousand years earlier. Seton Lloyd , who directed the work in collaboration with the Turkish Antiquities Department, speaks of the significance of this curious religious survival, of the difficulties of the excavations, and of the discovery of a tablet bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh.