University of Pennsylvania
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

ARCHAEOLOGY LUNCHES /  Fall 2007

All events will take place in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Room 345, 12-1.30 p.m.

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Friday,  September 21 Graduate Student Fieldwork Reports

Seth Bernard, Jordan Pickett, Meg Andrews, “Villamagna 2007

Robin Ngo,Monte Polizzo 2007

Shannon Martino,Museum Research of Prehistoric Figurines from Bulgaria and Anatolia

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Friday, October 5 .Byzantine Studies Conference practice papers

Robert Ousterhout, “Life and Death in Byzantine Cappadocia

Justin Leidwanger, “Structure and Scale in the Maritime Economy of Early Byzantine Cyprus

Benjamin Mearns, “Web-Based Mapping of Aghtamar Church and its Surroundings in Eastern Turkey

Jordan Pickett, "Heal Us with Your Prayer and Petition’: A Pre-Iconoclastic Image of the Virgin’s Dormition

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Friday,  October 19

Scott De Brestian, University of Pennsylvania, Title TBA

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Friday, November 2

Philip Betancourt, Temple University and INSTAP, “The Discovery of a Middle Minoan Workshop for 'Royal Purple' Dye

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Friday,
November 9

David Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, “Recent Excavationand Survey at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion

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Friday, November 30

Morena Stefanova
, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Title TBA

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Friday, December 14 .AIA Annual Meeting practice papers

Stephan Zink, “Augustus’ Temple of Apollo on the Palatine: A New Reconstruction

Valentina Follo and Ann Brownlee, “From Orvieto to Philadelphia and Back Again:
The Reconstruction of Archaeological and Social Contexts for Museum Objects

Susanna McFadden, “A Painted Political Agenda in a Late Roman Domestic Context:
Constantine’s Rome and the Domus Faustae Megalographia