KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

SPRING 2010 NEWS NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR

STAFF What a year it has been! From nonstop preparation by the staff and curators over the Sharon Herbert, Director summer and fall for the spectacular opening of the Upjohn Wing on November 1 to Lauren Talalay, Associate Director ongoing planning for optimal use of our wonderful new spaces. We have begun to work Curators with other departments to bring in small, short-term special exhibits. The first of these Suzanne Davis, Conservation opened the evening of April 13. It is “Personae,” a School of Art & Design MFA thesis Elaine K. Gazda, Hellenistic and Roman Sharon Herbert, Greek and Hellenistic show by Libyan-American artist Reem Gibriel. The exhibition plays on the tension Janet Richards, Dynastic Egypt between museums’ goals of preservation and the inevitable decay of materials. It features Margaret Cool Root, Greece and Near East newly made amphora crafted to disintegrate during the time of the exhibit. The show Lauren Talalay, Academic Outreach Terry Wilfong, Graeco-Roman Egypt will be up until April 26 and is well worth seeing. In the fall of 2010 we will be putting on display in the Meader gallery Ahmet Research Associates/Affiliates Ertug’s spectacular color photographs of Byzantine church frescoes from Turkey. These Sussan Babaie Lisa Nevett Gary Beckman Christopher Ratté were last displayed in 2006 at the World Monuments Fund Gallery in New York City. Traianos Gagos Ann van Rosevelt We plan a series of lectures on the Byzantine and medieval periods both in Europe and Artemis Leontis Carola Stearns Asia in conjunction with this exhibition. Meanwhile curators and staff are hard at work Laura Motta Nicola Terrenato choosing and preparing hundreds of objects for display in the gallery storage drawers. Support Staff We will be having a series of “drawer openings” as these get filled. Helen Baker, Museum Administrator Our collection and field research programs continue to flourish, with curators Kate Carras, Assistant Registrar Claudia Chemello, Conservator lecturing around the world on the Kelsey’s collections. We will have three projects in the Sebastián Encina, Coordinator of Museum Collections field this summer: my own excavation at Kedesh in Israel, Nic Terrenato’s work at Gabii Michelle Fontenot, Collections Manager near Rome, and Chris Ratté’s in the Republic of Georgia. Todd Gerring, Community Outreach Supervisor Lance Johnston, Security Officer In our public outreach programs we have been working on raising our profile and Margaret Lourie, Editor bringing in more visitors by establishing a presence on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace Sandra Malveaux, Secretary (story on page 7). The new Museum Shop is up and running and will soon be a positive Scott Meier, Museum Exhibition Coordinator Jackie Monk, Assistant Financial Manager revenue source (story on page 10). As another means to support our public programs, we Barret Roebuck, Exhibits Technician have been renting out our lecture hall and public programs spaces for evening events. Lorene Sterner, Graphic Artist, Gifts Manager We continue to give school tours and send out kits to schools. We also mounted a very Alex Zwinak, Student Services Assistant successful Family Day on April 17th. Our final event for the year will be the Associates’ Gallery Hours Spring Meeting at 6:00 on May 20. After a short business meeting Curator Terry Wil- Tuesday–Friday 9 am–4 pm fong will talk about the selection of objects for the display drawers in the Upjohn Wing. Saturday–Sunday 1 pm–4 pm This is a fascinating process of “excavating” the Museum’s storage area. All in all this is an exhilarating and transformative time for the Kelsey Museum. I INFRI O MAT ON Web site: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/ am pleased to serve as director at this time and have just signed on for a final three-year phone: 734.764.9304 term. I hope to see you May 20th and at events to follow. email: [email protected] Sharon Herbert, Director

University of Michigan Regents Julia Donovan Darlow Andrea Fischer Newman Laurence B. Deitch Andrew C. Richner Denise Ilitch S. Martin Taylor Olivia P. Maynard Katherine E. White Mary Sue Coleman, ex officio

Design Steven Driscoll Hixson THE WILLIAM E. UPJOHN EXHIBIT WING OPENS TO THE PUBLIC

Whether your taste runs to Near Eastern Mary Meader donated $8.5 million to regular basis. Now on view in that space magical amulets, Egyptian mummies, fund the new exhibit wing. As an under- are photographs documenting the Mead- Greek pottery, or Roman sculpture, if graduate in the 1930s, Edwin Meader had ers’ extraordinary lives of adventure and you are fascinated by ancient artifacts, the seen rare artifacts, pottery, and sculpture, philanthropy (see story on page 10). gala opening of the Kelsey Museum’s new excavated by U-M scholars in the Medi- Most of the Museum’s 100,000 objects William E. Upjohn Wing was the place terranean and Near East, being delivered have been in storage for decades, partly to be on November 1, 2009. The many to what was then called the Museum of because of insufficient exhibition space. guests who crowded into the Museum Classical Archaeology (later the Kelsey The new Upjohn Wing allows us to not only marveled at the new custom- Museum of Archaeology) and said to him- display about four times as many of built displays but also listened to music by self, “These things deserve a better place.” these holdings as we could in the old harpist Rochelle Martinez and purchased The new 20,000-square-foot wing, space. Visitors will find more than 1,100 mementos from the new museum shop named in honor of Mary Meader’s grandfa- artifacts on the two floors of the Upjohn staffed by Kelsey Associates (see story on ther, realizes that seventy-year-old dream galleries. page 10). of a better place. By the end of January Soon even more of the Kelsey’s col- A highlight of the reception held in the 2010, nearly 5,000 visitors had explored lection will be available for visitors to original Kelsey building was the delicious the new installation that the Meaders’ gift examine. These additional items will food based on ancient recipes that was made possible. be installed in the open storage draw- prepared and described by docent Dan Located on Maynard Street behind ers located in the base of some exhibit Centurione of Great Harvest Bread Co. the turreted stone building at 434 S. cases. Altogether forty-four such drawers Guests feasted on various Near Eastern, State Street, the new wing provides will eventually contain objects related Egyptian breads, and Roman breads and study, storage, and display space in a to those on display in the cases above Ma’Moul (a sweet treat made of butter- climate-controlled facility that now them. Museum-goers will be invited to enriched dough filled with fruits and holds all of the Kelsey collections. The open each drawer to glimpse the hidden nuts), as well as hummus and olive relish. old building currently houses adminis- treasures within. Labels alongside the dishes revealed, for trative and curatorial offices as well as instance, that the oldest known recipe in providing meeting rooms for classes and the world—from the Near East in the public events. Guests at the Upjohn opening enter the Museum after the ribbon cutting. second millennium bc—explains how to In addition to the permanent exhibi- prepare mersu, a sweet bread or tart with tion, the new display space includes the LS&A Dean Terry McDonald, Kelsey Director a fruit or nut filling. Edwin E. Meader and Mary U. Meader Sharon Herbert, and Provost Teresa Sullivan cut This festive occasion could take place Special Exhibition Gallery, dedicated to the ribbon to open the Upjohn Wing. only because in 2003 the late Edwin and special exhibitions that will change on a Photos M. Harvey CURATORS EXPLicate underlying THEMES FOR NEW EXHIBITS IN the Upjohn wing

Kelsey curators worked together for sev- section is the multiple lives that objects eral years to develop the new permanent may have. For instance, the seals used to exhibition. One of their chief consider- ratify written records and worn as valued ations during this planning phase was personal adornments were often handed to ensure that the assemblage of objects down as heirlooms by their original own- would highlight interconnections among ers. Because of their value they might also the cultures and peoples of the ancient be placed many years after their manufac- Near East, Egypt, and the world of the ture in wall niches to serve as good luck Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans. They charms. Such is the case with a banded also wanted to foreground certain com- agate cylinder seal in Babylonian style mon themes. dating to the Persian period (550–330 bc) To that end, Margaret Root, who that was found embedded in a mudbrick curated the exhibits on the ancient Near wall at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Iraq. That East, positioned a cast of the Bisitun brickwork dates to at least 500 years after Monument to greet visitors as they enter the seal was made. the exhibition. Her aim was partly to introduce the powerful symbolic associa- THEMES FROM MYTH AND DAILY LIFE tions cultivated by Near Eastern kings Lauren Talalay, who curated the Cypriot to express their collaboration with the and Greek cases, points out that one of natural forces of earth and sky. the great joys of looking at Greek pottery The text for this display reveals that is the wonderful images painted on them on Mount Bisitun in northwestern Iran, by the ancient artists. These images serve the Achaemenid Persian king Darius the as “photographs” from the ancient world, Great (522–486 bc) commissioned an showing us scenes of daily life, mythol- extraordinary relief sculpture to be carved ogy, weddings, war, death, or ritual. high above the Khorasan Highway (the western reaches of the route later known as the Silk Road), which passes 322 feet below. The image of Darius himself on this monument is calculated to project his Cylinder seal reused cosmic connections: for the first time in as good luck charm in history it portrays a king whose crown is Parthian Seleucia, Iraq topped by crenellations—age-old symbols (KM 94527). of mountain peaks and nearness to the heavens. Beneath the crenellations the diadem is adorned with eight-pointed stars of Shamash, the ancient Mesopota- The coffin of Djehutymose (KM 1989.3.1) is displayed open to show the images of the two mian god of light and justice. goddesses who would protectively embrace its Another theme that Margaret Root occupant in the afterlife. Photo S. Encina stresses in the ancient Near Eastern As one example, the Upjohn’s Greek out with protective spells from the Book case features an amphora, or storage of the Dead, representations of power- jar, with a scene taken from mythology ful deities, and repetitions of its owner’s painted on the front. Herakles—one of name and family and professional affili- the major heroes of Greek myth—was the ations, it contains everything its owner son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman, needed to ensure the afterlife. Its interior Alcmene. He is usually identified by his also bears large-scale representations lion-skin cloak and club. Hera, Zeus’s of goddesses who, once the coffin was wife on Mount Olympus, continuously closed, would embrace him protectively schemed to make Herakles’ life difficult, and permanently in the afterlife. and this led to his being assigned a series The Egyptians also commemorated of twelve labors by his cowardly cousin, their identity in sacred spaces focused on Eurytheus. The ninth of those labors is the living: ancient individuals dedicated depicted on the front of this amphora: the 12th Dynasty (1991–1783 bc) statue Herakles battles three Amazons in order of a seated priest named Ren-Seneb and to steal the magic “girdle,” or belt, of the the numerous Late Period (664–332 Amazonian queen Hippolyta. bc) bronzes of the god Osiris in votive The reverse of this amphora shows a contexts adjacent to temples as a way of scene from daily life in Athens at the time communicating identity, gaining personal the pot was painted. In this instance that favor from the gods, and in their own way scene depicts men preparing to depart for contributing to the maintenance of maat war. A warrior bids farewell to an older (cosmic order). man, while an archer helps a cavalryman tend his horse. story continues next page...

MEANINGFUL INHABITED SPACES According to Janet Richards, who curated The Bisitun Monument display greets visitors Attic black-figure amphora (KM 1979.1.1) depict- the Dynastic Egyptian portion of the ex- entering the Upjohn Wing. ing Herakles stealing the magic “girdle” from the hibition, two intertwined themes for her Amazonian queen Hippolyta. section are ancient individuals actively The Greek exhibit features elaborately decorated inhabiting landscapes of life, death, and pottery. piety, and their experience of the mean- ing and purpose of the Kelsey’s objects in The display of Dynastic Egyptian votive objects includes a statue of the priest Ren-Seneb (left), a those original contexts. group statue, and two votive mini-vessels. One such inhabited space is the Saite Period (685–525 bc) coffin of the priest The grave goods from Graeco-Roman Egypt Djehutymose, which Janet Richards in this case include brightly painted mummy chose to display in a manner that conveys masks and funerary stelae. its owner’s belief in its function as a “House of Eternity.” Saturated inside and Photos M. Harvey Transport amphoras lead visitors from the EXCAVATING GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT cally produced goods and food products first-floor exhibits on Egypt to the second-floor The curator for the Graeco-Roman circulated in the local market as well as displays on Italy and the Roman provinces, fol- Egyptian portion of the installation, being sent for payment of taxes to the lowing lines of trade. Terry Wilfong, explains that the larger capital in Alexandria. From there, most of part of his area concentrates on daily life The vibrant watercolor replicas of murals in the the grain was shipped to Rome for distri- Villa of the Mysteries occupy their own room. in Graeco-Roman Egypt, especially the bution throughout the Roman world. village of Karanis, which was founded Objects in the “temple” zone show that Photos M. Harvey around 250 bc in the area known as the Egyptian temples remained centers of lo- Fayum. The “house,” “market,” and cal religious, social, cultural, and econom- Curator Terry Wilfong and Conservator Clau- “temple” zones represent the spaces in dia Chemello prepare the child mummy (KM ic life in the Greek and Roman periods. 1971.2.179) for installation in its tomb environ- which the people of Karanis lived their The continuing worship of Egyptian gods ment. Photo S. Encina lives. The “house” zone draws on Uni- was augmented by the Greek, Roman, versity of Michigan excavations, which and hybrid gods imported into Egypt. All uncovered hundreds of homes contain- these areas are illustrated by individual ing thousands of objects. Much of the archaeological discoveries in the “excava- material displayed in this area attests to tion” case. The open-storage drawers in the domestic lives of the people of the this area (currently being prepared) will town—what they ate, worked at, read, elaborate on these themes. and how they lived. The rest of the Graeco-Roman In the “market” zone fish hooks, stor- Egyptian section explores death and the age containers, agricultural products, and afterlife: how Egyptians of this period textiles testify to a diverse economy. Lo- prepared for death and how these prac- tices were shaped by expectations of an afterlife. The case of funerary artifacts shows the range of Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman styles of funerary art in this period, while the child mummy in its tomb environment gives an idea of how a burial would have functioned in space.

AN INTERCONNECTED EMPIRE Elaine Gazda, who curated the portion of the installation on the Roman Empire, designed her displays to demonstrate that Italy—especially Rome and the Bay of Naples area—was intricately linked to the Roman provinces through ties of trade, government, and the military, as well as Latin inscription commemorating an Egyptian through the mutual influences of mate- sailor stationed at the imperial Roman naval base of Misenum (KM 822). rial culture. This theme begins to appear at the bottom of the stairwell leading from the first to the second floor of the The findspot of this statue of a local official near the Karanis South Temple associates it with life Upjohn. Here visitors can view the large in the “temple zone” (KM 8218). transport amphoras used to carry wine, Kelsey Expands Online Presence

Sometime in the next few months the and Sweden. Their native languages are Kelsey Web site will be redesigned to English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portu- conform to those of other units in LS&A. guese, and Turkish. The redesigned homepage will feature photographs of Kelsey activities past and Twitter present as well as links to current news Currently, our Twitter account has 177 and events. followers plus 17 follower lists, at the mo- In the past few months we’ve also been ment largely made up of museums, travel olive oil, olives, salted fish, fish sauce expanding our online presence to social organizations/publications, and mass (garum), fruits, and honey throughout the media such as Facebook, Twitter, and media from the U.S., Canada, Germany, empire. Grain was another major trans- MySpace. Now, in addition to the Web Indonesia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Hungary, port commodity: the Roman provinces of site, you can receive exclusive Kelsey Australia, Serbia, the United Kingdom, Sicily, Africa, and Egypt were popularly bulletins delivered directly to your own New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, known as the “breadbasket of the Roman Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace accounts. Austria, Peru, and the Philippines. Empire.” Daily and weekly posts feature upcoming Museums following the Kelsey in- Farther along the wall leading up events and lectures, behind-the-scenes clude the U-M Museum of Art, Detroit the staircase are Latin inscriptions that tidbits, staff research and awards, and Institute of Arts, Portland Art Museum, marked the graves of military personnel, new merchandise arrivals in the Museum Alanannen Museum, Museums Associa- who often came to Italy from the Roman shop, as well as the ability to interact tion, Getty Museum, Frye Art Museum, provinces and thus suggest another source with Kelsey posts. Woom Gallery, Akron Art Museum, of cultural interconnection. Michigan Museums, Art Institute of At the top of the stairs a second theme Facebook Chicago, San Diego Museum of Art, Dis- of the Roman section emerges. Here At the time of this writing, our Facebook covery Museums, and many more. many exhibits explore life in the vil- Fan page had 215 fans from all over the Media include Conde Nast Traveler, Ar- las of wealthy Romans around the Bay world. In addition to U-M students, fans chaeology Daily News (Istanbul), Architec- of Naples. The most elaborate of these include students from Harvard Univer- tural Record, Toledo News, Associated Press, estates were provided with everything sity, Princeton University, University of BBC, Museum Media (Netherlands), necessary for a life of leisure, including Chicago, University of Virginia, Virginia Museum Trekker, and others. The United bathing and exercise facilities, dining Tech, University of Texas, College of Kingdom’s Archaeology Shop also follows rooms for entertaining guests, and a host William & Mary, Central Michigan the Kelsey. of other amenities. Objects in this section University, Grand Valley State Univer- of the exhibit document these cultural sity, State University of New York at MySpace practices. Buffalo, Kent State University, Liceo Our MySpace page is new and just start- Many such villas served not only as Classico Statale, University of North ing to build an audience, more geared to luxurious get-aways but also as profit- Carolina at Charlotte, Cambridge Uni- high school age students. able farms, typically producing olive oil versity, McMaster University, University and wine. They also cultivated wheat, of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Accessing OUR social media vegetables, and fruit orchards and raised University of California at Berkeley, You can get to the Kelsey social media animals of various kinds. The agricultural Tufts University, University of Cincin- sites through links on the Kelsey implements displayed here were used nati, University of Minnesota, Eastern homepage at www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey. mainly to cultivate vineyards, and the Michigan University, Bowling Green Or use the addresses below: large mill ground flour for bread to feed State University, University of Ari- the villa’s owners and staff. zona, Columbia University, New York Facebook: www.facebook.com/kelseymuseum The highlight of this section is the University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Twitter: twitter.com/kelseymuseum special room dedicated to large-scale Macalester College, Universita degli MySpace: www.myspace.com/kelseymuseum watercolor replicas—painted in the 1920s Studi di Firenze, and Shanghai Singa- by Italian artist Maria Barosso—of murals pore International School. Help us build our online audiences by from a reception/dining room at the fa- Fans also include many people not af- spreading the word about these new mous Villa of the Mysteries near Pompeii. filiated with a university from the United sources of Museum information to your Here visitors can immerse themselves in States, Canada, Greece, Egypt, Italy, friends and colleagues. An expanded the opulent environment of a Roman villa. Turkey, Brazil, Germany, the United museum needs expanded support. Margaret Lourie Kingdom, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Marlene Goldsmith Adela Sobotkova briefs a group of field walkers during archaeological survey work in Bulgaria.

FROM SUBURBAN SEUTHOPOLIS TO THE THRACIAN HINTERLAND FIELD REPORT FROM A PEDLEY WINNER

Herodotus states in his Histories that the need some economic basis for its suste- month and a half of tireless walking. It is ancient Thracians were the most popu- nance; this basis, in the classical sense of necessary to add that the Yambol region lous people on Earth after the Indians permanent productive centers, failed to was partially in a military zone, which and that they would also be the most materialize upon our first inspection ei- restricted modern activity and resulted in formidable if only they were united. A ther due to limited sample size or because better landscape preservation. In cover- modern map of ancient Thrace contra- it did not exist in the classical sense. ing an organic area of 28 km2, we found dicts Herodotus, showing large empty The longer we suffered the sandblast- twelve sites and offsite scatters, a much spaces only occasionally interrupted by ing winds of this mountain valley, the higher density of habitation than around a cluster of black dots. These dots in more it seemed an unlikely place for one Seuthopolis, which had yielded half as most cases represent burial mounds or of the most powerful Thracian dynasts to much. Most of these concentrations megalithic structures, the remains of a settle in. Except for its remoteness and displayed continuity from the Early Iron dead rather than a living population. The the protection of formidable mountain Age through Roman and later periods, settlements in the interior are too few and shields, there seems to have been little equally remarkable in such a small area. far between to satisfy the claim of dense strategic or economic benefit in this val- Their position copied neatly the lines of habitation. ley. It remains unclear why Seuthes III local topography, with habitation sites A year ago I arrived to Bulgaria with built a city on a classical Greek model in spread on the fertile hillsides and terraces the intention of testing the veracity of the middle of a wasteland. above two streams draining the region Herodotus’s text and seeing what evi- Upon trial excavations, the contem- and with some fifty burial mounds dot- dence the Bulgarian landscape offered to porary sites we discovered near the city ting the ridge above them. Such even and prove or reject his bold claim. offered a baffling combination of elite predictable distribution seemed more After a number of initial challenges, ceramics layered on top of a field of post- like a geographer’s dream than reality. I found myself involved in a regional holes, rather poor daub features, and stor- Herodotus may have been right after project spanning a number of administra- age pits with no mark of any permanent all. It, however, remains to be confirmed tive boundaries, with the aim of exploring structures. Interpretation of these satellite whether this study area is representative the archaeological traces of Thracian settlements ranges widely from ritual of all of southeast Bulgaria or whether we complexity as well as the economic and feasting sites to semi-permanent camps. were just enjoying beginners’ luck. other bases of their rise. Neither fits very convincingly with Overall, I had a thrilling year in Bul- We started in the spring of 2009 with the showcase of a Hellenized lifestyle garia. Every aspect of this project from the suburban landscapes of Seuthopolis, projected by the city dwellers or with the planning to execution proved to be an a Hellenistic capital of the Thracians in exceedingly rich burial mounds that gave education. Despite my previous experi- central Bulgaria. In the fall we moved this valley its appellation, the “Valley of ence in Bulgaria I encountered a number to southeastern Bulgaria, exploring the the Kings.” These contradictions will of surprises; the most rewarding of them alleged Early Iron Age homeland and be further investigated during a spring included finding new Bulgarian partners, powerbase of the Thracians, who were 2010 expansion of the study area in the building and training teams of student northern neighbors of the Greeks. Kazanluk region. field walkers, and field testing methods Besides having suffered from modern Southeast Bulgaria, namely the Yambol and theories discussed in seminars back improvement, the landscape of Seuthopo- region, provided a very different image at U-M. lis yielded a rather incoherent picture of for my three teams of enthusiastic field For questions and comments please settlement. The only apparent pattern walkers. Unlike the puzzling barren- contact me at [email protected]. For more was the vacuuming effect of a metropo- ness of Seuthopolis’s hinterland, a much information about the project visit our lis on its immediate hinterland. It goes neater and more coherent picture of a webpage at www.tundzha.org. without saying that a large city would rural landscape emerged after only a Adela Sobotkova, IPCAA Student STAFF UPDATE

In the fall of 2009 Conservator Claudia Greek and Near Eastern Curator Mar- IPCAA briefs Chemello delivered invited lectures for garet Root visited Egypt over Christmas the Art Conservation Department at Buf- break. In Winter Term she delivered an James Cook taught a course on Ancient falo State College and for the Clemson invited paper at a special session of the Technology at U-M last semester Conservation Center, Charleston, SC. annual meetings of the American Oriental under a new initiative from LS&A to Along with Curator for Conservation Society featuring iconographical evidence encourage senior graduate students Suzanne Davis, she will speak on field con- derived from the Kelsey’s cast of the Bisi- to teach their own courses. He is con- servation at the Midwest Regional Con- tun Monument. She is trying to integrate tinuing to write his dissertation, but servation Guild’s spring 2010 meeting. the much-expanded Upjohn displays of this summer he will once again return In addition, she and Suzanne, with two Near Eastern material into her teaching to Pompeii to work as a ceramicist for other coauthors, will discuss the conser- as well as designing computer program- the Pompeii Archaeological Research vation and display of the Kelsey’s Barosso ming for the touch-screen station in the Project: Porta Stabia (PARP: PS). watercolors at the American Institute for Near East gallery. She has also asked Pro- Kevin Dicus has continued his Conservation meeting in May. fessor H. D. Cameron to record selected residency in Tolfa, a small mountain Hellenistic and Roman Curator Elaine passages of the text of Darius the Great village in Italy fifty miles north of Gazda recently won the U-M’s John H. on the rock at Bisitun for installation as a Rome, where he is researching an D’Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished “sound shower” in the gallery. Watch for Etrusco-Roman sanctuary and its Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities. an announcement of the sound shower on votive offerings for his dissertation. She serves as IPCAA graduate advisor the Kelsey Web site. In the summer, he will continue his and recently organized a reunion for Graphic Artist/Gifts Manager Lorene supervisory position with PARP:PS. IPCAA graduates (story next page). In the Sterner finished her work onTel Anafa Leah Long is presenting a paper, fall she coordinated the mounting of the Vol. II, part ii (glass, lamps, metals, stone “Mobility and Materials: The Case of new permanent exhibition in the Upjohn tools) and began on the final installment Aphrodisian Marble,” at a workshop Wing, made the last of her eight Phi Beta (Attic pottery, prehellenistic pottery, called “Marble–Change–Landscape” Kappa visits (to Williams College) and Islamic and medieval pottery, weaving at the University of Kiel, Germany, keynoted a symposium honoring Natalie tools, beads and jewelry, architectural from April 15 to 17, 2010. Kampen at Barnard. She chaired the fel- elements). Eventually all the Tel Anafa In fall 2009 Alex Nagel worked lowships jury for the School of Classical dig documents will be scanned and made in Persepolis and Tehran on docu- Studies of the American Academy in accessible online. On the gift administra- menting the polchromy of ancient Rome and the Gold Medal session honor- tion side, the Kelsey is participating in monuments in Iran. More recently, ing John Humphrey at the Archaeological the LSA Spring Mailing for the first time. he presented papers in Cambridge, Insitute of America meetings. She was Some Associates may receive a Kelsey Copenhagen, Berlin, and Ghent/Bel- elected a corresponding member of the solicitation on LS&A letterhead in the gium. He also edited the third volume German Archaeological Institute. beginning of April. This is part of our ef- of the Coroplastic Research Interest Dynastic Egypt Curator Janet Richards fort to recruit new Associates and contact Group Newsletter. Following a Freer installed the Dynastic Egyptian area in those who have not participated recently. Fellowship, which he holds until Au- the Upjohn Wing and, with Associate We will have our own membership mail- gust 2010, he has accepted a position Director Lauren Talalay, co-curated the ing in the fall, as usual. as curator of Ancient Near Eastern Upjohn’s first special exhibition, “Mary Graeco-Roman Egypt Curator Terry Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Upjohn Meader: Pioneering Adventures Wilfong finished his work on the Graeco- Washington, DC. over Africa.” In the fall she delivered lec- Roman Egypt sections of the Upjohn tures on her fieldwork at Abydos in Penn- Wing and is now working with under- sylvania and California (for chapters of graduate and graduate students on the the American Research Center in Egypt) open storage drawers in this area. He has and on the rhetoric of political crisis in authored several review articles, includ- the Amarna period at the de Young Muse- ing a review of the Oriental Institute um, San Francisco. In February she pre- Museum exhibition “The Life of Meresa- sented her work on political landscapes at mun” for American Journal of Archaeology, the Auditorium of the Louvre Museum, and is currently working on articles for Paris. Her monograph Society and Death the Oxford Handbook on Roman Egypt. He in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge University will spend the summer working on his in- Press) was released in paperback this year. progress book on Late Period Egypt. MEADER EXHIBITION The Kelsey’s NEW Shop

Mary Meader seated in the Bellanca CH-400 Come see “Mary Upjohn Meader: Pio- For fifteen years or more the Kelsey Mu- Skyrocket monoplane from which she took neering Adventures over Africa,” cur- seum Associates Board has talked about a aerial photographs of Egypt in 1937–1938. rently displayed in the Edwin E. Meader museum shop. Several years ago we began and Mary U. Meader Special Exhibition humbly with a showcase in the lobby Associates Board members Tina Smith (left), Hal Smith, and Ann van Rosevelt staff the new Gallery on the second floor of the Upjohn featuring reproductions, children’s gifts, museum shop. Photo M. Harvey Wing. The show, curated by Lauren Ta- jewelry, etc. The addition of the Upjohn lalay and Janet Richards, features some of Exhibit Wing eliminates the problem of the dramatic aerial photographs that Mary space for a shop. The Kelsey Museum Meader took over Egypt before modern Associates Gift Shop now occupies a large development had encroached on the pyra- room, formerly exhibit space in the old mids and other ancient monuments. building. We have several cases filled with Taking off from Michigan on Septem- items for children and adults that reflect IPCAA REUNION ber 16, 1937, Mary Meader and her first the artifacts in the Museum. husband, Richard U. Light, embarked on The shop is located between the old For the first time in its forty-year his- a journey that they hoped would cre- and new buildings. From the Upjohn tory, the Interdepartmental Program ate one of the first aerial photographic Wing, look for signs to the shop, or ask in Classical Art and Archaeology records of western South America and the guard for directions. We even have a (IPCAA) hosted an alumni reunion at eastern Africa. Aerial photography was rocking chair and a place to rest your wea- the Kelsey Museum on the weekend of still a young field, and the Lights hoped ry feet and read past Kelsey Bulletins while March 19. More than twenty IPCAA to record landforms, farms, ports, and deciding on your purchases. Among the graduates and their families traveled industrial facilities that portrayed human many new items in the shop are children’s from Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Mas- activity on a grand scale. t-shirts in vibrant colors with the logo sachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyl- In preparation for her epic journey, “Archaeologists Love Their Mummies”; vania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Mary had taken flying lessons and learned small hand-painted Roman soldiers, some DC, and Italy to renew acquaintances Morse code so that she could serve as on horses; books and Museum catalogs; with old friends and colleagues. A copilot, navigator, and radio operator. handcrafted jewelry exclusive to the number of current IPCAA students She also practiced using an aerial camera Kelsey; and note cards with photographs joined the group as they socialized, on flights all over Michigan. Although of former Kelsey excavations. toured the Kelsey’s new facilities, and the Lights’ Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket The shop is open Tuesday through listened to several short presentations. monoplane was one of the most up-to- Sunday from 1 to 4 pm. We accept cash, date planes of the 1930s, it was not pres- checks, or credit cards. The “sales staff” surized, insulated, or heated. At higher consists of volunteers from the Board altitudes Mary wore a fur coat and boots, and docents. We would like to expand breathed oxygen through a wooden this group by inviting new members to mouthpiece, and communicated with the volunteer their time in the shop. If you pilot by intercom. Her stunning aerial are interested, please call Todd Gerring at views were shot with a Fairchild F-8 734.647.4167 for more information. aerial camera and a 35 mm Leica. Grateful thanks for help and support The Lights kept to a demanding in making the shop a reality go to Sharon schedule, flying all morning and visit- Herbert, Laurie Talalay, Todd Gerring, ing farms, mines, and local settlements Bruce Artz (who organized the work in the afternoons as part of their project schedule), and the start-up committee— to record modern human activity in the Hal and Tina Smith, Ann van Rosevelt, African landscape. Although archaeol- and Priscilla Gallinger. ogy was not their primary interest on this We hope you will make the Kelsey trip, in Egypt they visited ancient sites shop a destination for gift buying, including the temples at Luxor and the whether for yourself or for others. pyramids near Cairo. Priscilla Gallinger The Kelsey Museum Associates sponsor the Museum’s outreach and development activities and provide program support. The public is encouraged to join the Associates and participate in Museum activities. For more information call 734.763.3559.

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Caralend of Events Drop-in GALLERY Tours F.A.S.T. LECTURE Sundays at 2:00 pm (Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays) EXHIBITIONS April 11 and 25 Marble quarries in Roman Asia Minor Mary Upjohn Meader: May 2 and 16 by Leah Long, IPCAA PhD Candidate Pioneering Adventures over Africa June 13 and 27 Meader Special Exhibition Gallery April 29, 5:30–7:00 pm Cosponsored by IPCAA Victorian Views of Italy and Rome: Children’s Activity Days Saturdays at 2:00 pm Photographs from the Parker Collection ASSOCIATES’ SPRING MEETING May 8, Eypgtian Mummies Corridor of original Museum building Thursday, May 20, 6:00 pm May 22, Toys and Games Curator Terry Wilfong will speak on Personae June 5, Pompeii choosing objects for the display drawers. Upjohn Gallery, April 13–25 June 19, Roman Soldiers

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