LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Amheida: Excavating a Town in the Dakhla Oasis

    Amheida: Excavating a Town in the Dakhla Oasis

    Presented by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

    October 14, 2010


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    Seven seasons of excavations at Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis have uncovered a large, middle-class house with both mythological and decorative wall paintings, a smaller, middle class house, a 4th century school with Greek poetry on the walls, hundreds of decorated and inscribed blocks of the now-destroyed Temple of Thoth, and parts of Roman baths. Dr. Roger Bagnall, project director of the Joint NYU-Columbia Excavation Project at Amheida, and Professor of Ancient History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, discusses the excavation's
    objects and results, including its strategy for site conservation and presentation.
    Sponsored by ARCE-PA.


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        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

        3260 South Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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        Tickets:

        Regular Admission $5; $3 for Penn Museum members and PennCard holders; FREE for ARCE-PA members.

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 14, 2010

        Times:

        6:30 PM

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