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
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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”