Allegro Photographs: Private Collection of Mrs Judith Brown

These photographs remain in the private collection of Mrs Judith Brown, where their copyright remains held by the estate of her late father, John Marco Allegro. Kindly note that they may not be distributed or used without the copyright holder’s  permission. All Copyright Estate of John Allegro (labelled here as JMA, indicating copyright holder).

Visit of HRH King Hussein of Jordan to Ein Feshkha by helicopter. Christmas Day, 1962.
Fr. Roland de Vaux visiting a church ruin, England. 1960s.
Visit of HRH King Hussein of Jordan to Ein Feshkha by helicopter. Christmas Day, 1962.
Visit of HRH King Hussein of Jordan to Ein Feshkha by helicopter. Christmas Day, 1962.
Visit of HRH King Hussein of Jordan to Ein Feshkha by helicopter. Christmas Day, 1962. King Hussein talks to John Gray (Aberdeen) at Ein Feshkha camp. To the right of John Gray is Anne and then Joan Allegro.
John Strugnell, c.1956.
Yusef Saad with plastered benches from Qumran and inkwell, c.1956.
John Allegro in the ‘Scrollery’, Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem, 1956.
Allegro with jar (now Schøyen jar) visiting Qumran in the 1960s.
New materials received from the Bedouin from Cave 11Q including Psalms Scroll. While these were found in January 1956 they were not shown to the Scrolls team until 5 September 1957, 18 months later, and then only for 1 hour. This is because de Vaux and Saad put them back in the vault because money was still needed to buy them. This date and information is known thanks to the diary of Prof. Hunzingerand supported by related photos he took at the time, evidence supplied kindly by Alexander Schick, to whom we are very grateful.
Claus-Hunno Hunzinger examining Psalms scroll from Cave 11Q: 5 September, 1957.
Kando’s shop in Bethlehem, c. 1956.
John Allegro studying the Pesher Nahum, c.1956.
John Allegro with jar (now Schøyen jar) visiting Qumran in the 1960s
Khalil Iskander Shahin (Kando) in his Bethlehem shop, c.1956.
John Allegro with scroll in ‘Scrollery’, c.1956.
Box of 11Q materials with Psalms Scroll roll at bottom right: 5 September, 1957.
Dead Sea Scrolls team at Palestine Archaeological Museum, from left, Fr. Pierre Benoit, Yusef Saad, Claus-Hunno Hunzinger (front), Josef Milik, Roland de Vaux, Jean Starcky, Joseph Fitzmyer and John Allegro. We are grateful to Alexander Schick for help with these identifications.
Man working with metal detector on Qumran water channel (1956?).
On the ‘Scrollery’ workbench, Joseph Milik with scroll fragments newly purchased on their receipt from the finders, c.1956.
Father Pierre Benoit in the ‘Scrollery’ in the Palestine Archaeological Museum.
Harding, Milik and bereted man at Qumran during excavations (1956?).
11Q Psalms Scroll, found in January 1956, before it was unrolled. Materials from Cave 11Q were not shown to the Scrolls team until 5 September 1957, 18 months after their discovery, and then only for 1 hour. This is because de Vaux and Saad put them back in the vault because money was still needed to buy them. This date and information is known thanks to the diary of Prof. Hunzinger and supported by related photos he took at the time, evidence supplied kindly by Alexander Schick, to whom we are very grateful. All the photos of Cave 11Q materials in Allegro’s collection come from this 1 hour of study.
John Allegro studying scrolls fragments, c.1956.
Roland de Vaux, J. T. Milik and Gerald Lankester Harding examine a sealed juglet, Qumran (1956?)
Dead Sea Scrolls team at the Palestine Archaeological Museum, from left, Fr. Pierre Benoit, Claus-Hunno Hunzinger (seated), Yusef Saad (Director of the Palestine Archaeological Museum), Josef Milik, Roland de Vaux and Jean Starcky, with Allegro standing behind, and Joseph Fitzmyer The photo was taken when Hunzinger in the team. The photo was taken 1 October, 1956. We are grateful to Alexander Schick for additional information for this caption.
John Allegro and Joseph Milik with scroll fragments, c.1956.