British Museum Fieldtrip
British Museum Fieldtrip:
The main aim of this trip is to visit the Archaic and Classical monuments of Asia Minor, backing up the lectures so far this term. When not engaged in seminar work with me, use the time to visit the other monuments in the Museum, paying especial attention to rooms 13, 15, 17, 20, 20a, 21 and 22.
Our seminar groups will run from approx 11.30-2pm. We will meet again at the Great Court at 4pm for the return journey.
2-4pm is free time - feel free to explore the rest of the museum. If you go out of the museum, ensure you are back in good time for the coach home.
Preparation:
In addition to the seminar reading on the Nereid Monument and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, look at the powerpoints and lecture notes take so far and revise your notes on the following:
Archaic and Classical Temples at Ephesus
Temple of Athena at Priene
Lycian Tombs (esp. Harpy Tomb, Payava and Merehi Sarcophagi)
In the Museum
When in the Museum, pay particular attention to rooms and make notes on the following:
Room 15: Archaic art, objects from Didyma
Room 15: Harpy Tomb and other Lycian tomb fragments:
Date
Style
Iconography
Overall meaning and interpretation
What do these tombs tell you about Lycian culture and their commissioner?
Room 20 and 20a:
Tomb of Payava:
Date
Style
Iconography
Overall meaning and interpretation
What does this tomb tell you about Lycian culture and its commissioner?
Merehi Sarcophagus
Date
Style
Iconography
Overall meaning and interpretation
What does this tomb tell you about Lycian culture and its commissioner?
Room 22:
Temple of Artemis:
which bit of the temple is on display?
How does it relate to the literary evidence?
What is the style and iconography?
Temple of Athena at Priene:
Which bit of the temple is on display?
What is the significance of this? How does it relate to the literary evidence?
Other Rooms:
Visit the mosaics from Halicarnassus on the West stairs and in gallery 70 upstairs.
1st floor: Visit galleries 69-73 on ancient art, and 49 on Roman Britain
Ground floor: 1 on Enlightenment, 13 and 14 on Greek vases, 18 on Parthenon.
Second years can also use Room 22 to explore Hellenistic Art more generally – see particularly the Archelaos Relief of the crowning of Homer and the portraits of intellectuals.
