Fellows Colloquium—The Ancient Near East from Site to Museum - 17/03/2017, New York (NY, USA)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 17/03/2017

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Metropolitan museum of Art (New York, NY, USA)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Metropolitan Museum of Art

INFO: web

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

SESSION 1 10 AM

Seals from the Sumerian City of Umm al-Aqarib

Haider Al-mamori, Markoe Scholar, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

What Does the Materiality of Seals Evince about the Materiality of the Divine in the Context of the Neo-Assyrian Empire?

Anastasia Amrhein, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

"An Admirable Scheme": The Symbiotic Relationship of Archaeology and Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Caitlin Chaves Yates, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

SESSION 2 11:30 AM

Assyrians Abroad: Reimagining Identity through Text and Object

Nancy Highcock, Hagop Kevorkian Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Ornamented Body: The Power of Amulets in Ancient Mesopotamia

Miriam Said, Markoe Scholar, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

A Museum in Baghdad

Lamia al-Gailani Werr, J. Clawson Mills Scholar, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art