KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY

SPRING 2O12 NEWS NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR

Once again the articles in the Newsletter remind me of the power of collections such as ours to inspire creativity and the urge to discover new ways to wring more information out of long-studied material. STAFF John Kannenberg’s innovative MFA project—contemplations on infinity combining Sharon Herbert, Director art and music inspired by the collections and the building itself—is an excellent case in Lauren Talalay, Associate Director point. It took over our galleries for a night in March. The building and collections were made to speak through music based on the squeaky floors of Newberry Hall and the Curators Suzanne Davis, Conservation opening and closing drawers of our open storage. Elaine K. Gazda, Hellenistic and Roman From a completely different angle Caroline Roberts’s article shows how an ongo- Sharon Herbert, Greek and Hellenistic ing problem—deterioration of the stone stelae from Terenouthis, which began almost Janet Richards, Dynastic Egypt Margaret Cool Root, Greek and Near Eastern as soon as they came out of the ground—tackled with new techniques can bring new Lauren Talalay, Academic Outreach solutions and serve as a proving ground for new treatments. With Carrie’s use of X-ray Terry Wilfong, Graeco-Roman Egypt fluorescence spectrometry and collaboration with the University of Michigan’s mycology Research Scientist and electron microscopy laboratories, we have come a long way from the day of coatings Geoffrey Emberling with Duco cement. Elaine Gazda’s preparation for the Francis Kelsey exhibition this summer continues Research Associates/Affiliates Gary Beckman Christopher Ratté to uncover new facets to the life and work of this “man of many parts,” while Margaret Artemis Leontis Ann van Rosevelt Root’s account of the reuniting of the Seleucia materials housed in our collections gives a Despina Margomenou Carola Stearns new appreciation of the scope of materials from Seleucia and the vagaries of early excava- Laura Motta Nicola Terrenato Lisa Nevett tion dispositions. Lauren Talalay and Todd Gerring recount new ways to introduce our collections “up Support Staff close and personal” to more of the public, from behind-the-scenes champagne tours for Wade Beitelschies, Security Officer Claudia Chemello, Conservator our adult Associates to new and larger Family Days. Sebastián Encina, Coordinator of Museum Collections Not all our discoveries are within the building, however. As I was preparing to write Michelle Fontenot, Collections Manager these notes today, I received an e-mail from Janet Richards at Abydos about spectacu- Todd Gerring, Community Outreach Supervisor Margaret Lourie, Editor lar new discoveries there. Nic Terrenato and I are preparing for fieldwork at Gabii and Sandra Malveaux, Secretary Kedesh, respectively, and we are looking forward with excitement to Geoff Emberling’s Scott Meier, Museum Exhibition Coordinator work in the Sudan next year. Lorene Sterner, Graphic Artist, Gifts Manager Alex Zwinak, Graduate Program Coordinator All in all, it has been a productive year at the Kelsey with activities on many fronts, which build toward future discoveries. Gallery Hours Sharon Herbert, Director Tuesday–Friday 9 am–4 pm Saturday–Sunday 1 pm–4 pm

INFORMATION Web site: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/ phone: 734.764.9304 email: [email protected]

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 An Hour of Infinity PERFORMS kelsey sounds

On March 23 the Kelsey Museum was to attempt to draw a symbol related to bowl seemed the perfect challenge for her generous enough to allow me to present a infinity, either a circle or alemniscate —the particular skills as an artist. large-scale art performance and installa- sideways “figure eight.” This slightly The second score was based upon the tion event in the galleries housing its per- absurd, awkward drawing process leads to watercolor reproductions of the Room of manent collection as part of my Master of imperfect yet beautiful drawings, shaped the Mysteries by Maria Barosso, which Fine Arts thesis work. An Hour of Infinity as much by momentum and gravity as by are on display on the second floor of the occupied the galleries for one evening the artists’ intentions. Kelsey. To create a score based on these only and during its single hour presented I made field recordings of sounds of paintings, I overlaid a musical staff onto eight live drawing performers, two four- the Kelsey that were used as the source images of the paintings and included channel surround sound installations that material for the two surround sound musical notes wherever the heads of the manipulated the sounds of the Kelsey it- installations. The sound of my own foot- figures intersected with the musical staff. self, and two musical performances whose steps walking in a circle upon the creaky These notes were then repeated over scores were inspired by specific objects in wooden floor in Newberry Hall became a and over again for the duration of the the Kelsey’s collections. digitally manipulated sound of ghosts that hour-long performance by experimental As an MFA candidate at the University was played in the Dynastic Egypt gallery. guitarist James Warchol, who sat in the of Michigan School of Art and Design, A surround sound recording of opening Barosso room with his guitar, amplifiers, my research has centered on two primary and closing drawers in the Kelsey’s off- and electronic effects, creating a warm, topics: the sonic experience of museums limits basement archives was presented in melodic wall of sound that complemented and the human experience of the infinite. the reconstruction of the Temple Gentis the mystery of the paintings. The Kelsey, with its vast collections that Flaviae in the second floor galleries, giving I am grateful to everyone on the staff of reach back to the very beginnings of com- voice to museum objects that otherwise the Kelsey for helping to make the event plex human philosophical thought, was would be unavailable to the public. such a success. To see a short video from the perfect venue in which to present an In constructing musical scores for two the performance and to find out more event that explored these topics. With the performers, I chose two very different about the project, please visit help of my adviser, Dr. T. G. Wilfong, I methods of working. The first score http://www.johnkannenberg.com/infinity. was able to compose and curate an event was actually a repurposed Babylonian John Kannenberg that reflected upon the Kelsey’s own his- incantation bowl in the Ancient Near tory, the history of museums, and what Eastern gallery. This bowl, inscribed with Left above: Eight performers placed throughout the it means to try to count to infinity across an ancient text of indecipherable gibber- galleries draw circles or lemniscates using a fishing vast spans of time. ish, became a “graphic score,” a picture line attached to a charcoal pencil. Photos: K. W. Hunt. The drawing performers were stationed meant to be interpreted as instructions throughout the Dynastic Egypt gal- for generating music, by violinist Collin Right top above: Violinist Collin McRae plays next to a Babylonian incantation bowl. Photo: S. Encina. lery downstairs and the Ancient Roman McRae. McRae has spent the last three galleries upstairs. Each performer used years researching connections among Right bottom above: Guitarist James Warchol plays fishing line attached to a charcoal pencil music, image, and language, and this in the Barosso room. Photo: S. Encina. explorations and collection of artifacts. Exhibition on Francis Kelsey TO Open June 8 The Kelsey Museum itself is a testa- The publication of John Pedley’s superla- and Jenny Kreiger discovered Kelsey’s ment to the range and depth of the tive book on Francis Willey Kelsey in- family genealogy, more guidebooks, an- collection of archaeological materials spired the Kelsey Museum’s curators and nual reports of the professional organiza- that Kelsey acquired for the University, staff to prepare the exhibition A Man of tions he advised and led—in particular, both from expeditions he launched for Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis the Archaeological Institute of America— the University in the Mediterranean area Willey Kelsey, which both highlights and and a student’s well-used copy of Kelsey’s and by purchase with funds he personally complements Professor Pedley’s biogra- textbook edition of ’s raised from major donors in — phy. As work got under way, many people Commentary on the Gallic War. Gifts from among them Charles Freer and Horace offered creative ideas about how to pres- members of Kelsey’s family—his own Rackham. Throughout the Museum, the ent Kelsey’s extraordinary life and legacy copy of a rare sixteenth-century edition exhibition highlights objects Kelsey was to the public in a way that evokes the of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura recently responsible for acquiring, much of this person to whom the University, the com- given to the University by Kelsey’s grand- the work of former IPCAA student Hima munity, and this Museum owe so much. son, Easton Kelsey, Jr., and family papers Mallampati, now teaching at New York Guided by themes in the new biog- and photographs given by his grand- University, and her Museum Studies in- raphy, we immediately thought of our daughter, Patricia Arthur—help paint a tern at NYU, Brandon Greene, who also extensive collection of archival photo- fuller picture of Kelsey’s personal life. prepared a slide presentation of archival graphs and of Kelsey’s own papers, now Kelsey’s expeditions to the Mediterra- images to show in the exhibition galleries. at the Bentley Historical Library. Collec- nean region encompassed scholarly explo- To give a sense of the scope of Kelsey’s tions Manager Sebastián Encina scoured ration as well as humanitarian activity. En educational, scholarly, and professional our archives, finding photographs, slides, route to ancient sites, he noted the needs activities as well as the astonishing range postcards, stereoptic images along with a of Belgian children following World War of his contributions to the University, stereoscopic viewer, guidebooks used by I and of the Armenian population of Cili- the exhibition showcases examples of Kelsey on his expeditions, copperplates cia in southeastern Turkey. All the while rare manuscripts and ancient papyri for printing the illustrations of Kelsey’s he and photographer George R. Swain that Kelsey arranged to purchase for the landmark edition of a book on , amassed photographs, correspondence, University, now housed in the Special and much more. and diary entries of their travels. These Collections and Papyrology Collec- Meanwhile, in our Museum library expeditions laid the foundations of the tion at the Hatcher Graduate Library. IPCAA student librarians Nicole High Kelsey Museum’s current archaeological Meanwhile, staff at the Visual Resources Collections and Services of the Depart- tarian, lover of music, and devoted family Pedley Book Signing ment of the History of Art turned up man, Francis Willey Kelsey was indeed a lantern slides made by George Swain, the man of many parts. This exhibition, along On December 1 the Kelsey Museum photographer with whom Kelsey worked with John Pedley’s new book, acknowl- hosted a book signing for The Life and for decades to build the University’s slide edges the extraordinary human being that Work of Francis Willey Kelsey: Archaeol- and photograph collection. Along with Kelsey was and how his legacy has shaped ogy, Antiquity, and the Arts (University the acquisition of collections for research, the University of Michigan and the ar- of Michigan Press 2012), by Professor Kelsey was instrumental in establishing chaeological profession of today. Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and and editing a distinguished publication, Elaine Gazda past Director of the Kelsey Museum the University of Michigan Humanistic John Griffiths Pedley. Series, which planted the seed of what is As Pedley’s book documents, the now the University of Michigan Press. Clockwise from upper left: famously energetic Kelsey was not only As a lover of music and as president of U-M professor of Latin from 1889 to the University Musical Society from 1891 Kelsey (left) with an artist acquaintance in Pompeii, 1927; he was also crucially involved in until his death in 1927, Kelsey worked 1892–1893. KM neg. 128. the founding or growth of major educa- tirelessly to bring the best performers and Kelsey in a University classroom, ca. 1900. Bentley tional institutions. Taking full advantage programs to Ann Arbor, and he lobbied Historical Library. of innovations in technology, communi- to incorporate the Ann Arbor School of cations, transportation, and manufactur- Music into the University. He was deeply Kelsey buys some knucklebones, Baalbek, Syria, ing, he worked ceaselessly to promote engaged in campus planning. Few mem- 1920. KM neg. KS94.4. education for all, to further the expan- bers of the community today realize that sion of knowledge, and to champion the Kelsey begins the climb toward the Sanctuary of the decision to locate Hill Auditorium on Mên, Yalvaç, Turkey, 1924. KM neg. KS285.8. benefits of the study of antiquity. its present site emerged from discussions Kelsey wrote constantly: articles, between Kelsey and the architect, Albert Kelsey (third from right) and others among the ruins memoranda, letters, diaries, and books. Kahn, and that the Frieze organ now in at Pompeii, ca. 1901. KM neg. 4.4263. And his sharp interest in looking to Hill came to Ann Arbor as a result of contexts to explain the classical texts he Kelsey’s fundraising efforts. Kelsey and others with the University’s sedan, Ak taught sparked his interest in recovering Shehir Chaussée, Turkey, 1924. KM neg. KR98.8. Educator, scholar, editor, explorer, the material world in which Greeks and builder of collections, national and inter- Kelsey with his wife Isabelle at Palermo, Sicily, en Romans lived. This led to Michigan’s national figure in his profession, humani- route to Carthage, 1925. Bentley Historical Library. involvement in important international fieldwork projects at Pisidian Antioch (1924), Carthage (1925), and Karanis (1924–1935). In the 1890s Kelsey began acquiring antiquities for the University. These acquisitions, together with the large as- semblages of materials from the Karanis excavations, constitute a major strength of the Kelsey Museum collections. Turn- ing to papyri in the 1920s, he gradually assembled what may still be regarded as the best collection of papyri in America. Drawing heavily on Kelsey’s daily diaries now held at the U-M’s Bentley Historical Library, Pedley’s biography records the wide-ranging activities of this gifted and energetic scholar. Top row, left to right: Seleucia Reunited! Packing case holding terracotta and stucco items plus a remarkable cluster of glass wall mosaic Toledo extends Major Permanent Loan elements still embedded in brick. From the late 1920s through the late forty-one objects. Subsequent excavations Registrar Michelle Fontenot standing at one of the 1930s, the University of Michigan ex- at Seleucia by the University of Turin eight huge shipping crates. cavated for six discontinuous seasons at operated under different Iraqi legislation Seleucia-on-the-Tigris (in Iraq), a great that prohibited partage. View of bone objects in a packing case. city founded by Seleucos I around 312 Thus the Kelsey Museum and the To- Detail view of two fragments of beautiful bone BC. Seleucos was the general of Alexan- ledo Museum of Art have been stewards figurines from this packing case. der the Great who, following Alexander’s of the large portion of deep collections of untimely death, assumed kingship of the material from this important site—hold- Greater Mesopotamian region of territo- ings second only to those housed at the Opposite page, middle row left to right: ries conquered by the Macedonian armies. Baghdad Museum in Iraq. In the after- The University of Michigan was as- math of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 A large, beautifully preserved “pilgrim flask” still in its packing case. sisted financially in this ambitious enter- and the looting of the Baghdad Museum, prise by the Toledo Museum of Art and it is apparent that much of their Seleucia Unpacking the “pilgrim flask.” the Cleveland Museum of Art. According material has disappeared onto the black to the amount of their contributions to market or has been destroyed. Similarly, the excavations, these three Midwestern the site itself has been ravaged by war. Opposite page, bottom row left to right: American institutions received selections The Kelsey and the Toledo Museum Two bone combs, one finished, the other unfinished, of finds offered in an agreement accord- have enjoyed a longstanding collab- after unpacking. ing to then-current antiquities practices orative relationship. On a long-term in Iraq. These dispersals of selected finds renewable basis the Toledo Museum lent Lovely bone objects in female form after unpacking. removed from the host country were the Kelsey twenty-five especially fine called the partage—from the French word artifacts in order to complement displays meaning “apportionment.” in our new Near East gallery in the The Kelsey Museum became the Upjohn Wing. repository of 13,534 accessioned objects Now, the current director of the from Seleucia. These objects range from Toledo Museum of Art, Brian Kennedy, small fragments of glass and pottery to has initiated a staged plan to turn over coins, figurines, substantial architectural the entirety of Toledo’s still-accessioned elements, pottery, lamps, and more. Some Seleucia collection (702 objects) to the sense of the spread of our Seleucia hold- Kelsey—permanently. The first step in ings can be gleaned from installations in this transfer is a permanent loan, which the Near East gallery and also in the glass will become an outright gift of all the displays in the corridor near the connec- objects within five years, provided we live tor to Newberry Hall. up to our agreement to curate, conserve, The Toledo Museum acquired slightly and store the materials up to our schol- more than 700 artifacts, of which a few arly standards. were given to Wheaton College in 1949 Following this interim period, the in honor of Wilhelmina van Ingen, the Toledo Museum of Art will deacces- scholar who published the figurines sion all the objects. The records and from the site while a researcher at the database of the museum will be adjusted University of Michigan in the 1930s. with painstaking attention to detail; then The Cleveland Museum of Art received the museum leadership will process the deaccessioning formally. From there, the that its whereabouts and availability are are encouraged to make use of the new paperwork for the permanent transfer to immediately known to the international arrivals for research and display. the Kelsey will be drawn up. community. Once the loan has become The Toledo Museum of Art material Meanwhile, eight gigantic, meticu- a formal gift transfer, permanent Kelsey was selected in Baghdad primarily on lously packed crates of antiquities have accession numbers will be assigned and the basis of the suitability of the objects arrived at the Kelsey and are now in our entered, along with associated informa- for presentation in the context of a great climate-controlled storage undergo- tion, into our database. civic art museum. Thus, many of the ing systematic opening, acclimatization, The Kelsey is underwriting all costs items recently arrived in Ann Arbor are inspection, and documentary pho- associated with the relocation of the particularly beautiful examples of certain tography. At the same time, assiduous artifacts—from crating and shipping to categories of cultural production, such as recordkeeping tracks the exact storage all the effort involved on the part of our bone and terracotta figurines. The Toledo location designated for each object as it is collections management and conservation Museum holdings also include an impres- placed in its assigned unit. Each artifact professionals. And we will be tending the sive assortment of glass, pottery, lamps, is assigned a temporary number and will objects as needed even before they are of- and jewelry. be entered into our Kelsey database so ficially gifted to us. In the meantime, we Margaret Cool Root Carrie Roberts tests a stela’s surface stability.

Terenouthis stela, KM 21179, which retains much of its original paint.

Terenouthis Funerary Stelae: Development of a Treatment Protocol

In September 2011 I began a one-year current condition problems. Enoch terials used to restore structural integrity fellowship with conservators Suzanne Da- Peterson made note of similar problems to crumbling or powdery stone—were vis and Claudia Chemello in the Kelsey during a 1941 lecture, where he describes tested to determine an appropriate means Museum conservation laboratory. My fo- the systematic treatment of the stelae of slowing this deterioration. cus project, supported by the Samuel H. with a material known as Duco cement. Not all steps in the protocol in- Kress Foundation, has been the develop- Today this coating can be observed peel- volve treatment. An equally important ment of a treatment protocol for the Mu- ing off many of the stelae, leaving behind consideration is environmental control, seum’s collection of limestone funerary a powdery, weathered stone surface, which can be used as an alternative to stelae from Terenouthis, Egypt. As part eliminating details of inscription and stabilize the stelae. Salts interact with of this project I have researched the stelae carving in some areas. Salt efflorescences changes in the temperature and humidity collection’s archaeological context, exam- and fungal growths are also present. of the air, and controlling these climate ined and documented a selection of stelae My first task was to examine these factors can help prevent further damage in the lab, tested a variety of conservation condition problems up close, so I selected to salt-contaminated stelae. Over the treatment materials, and coordinated with a group of five stelae that would present a past five months I have monitored the scientists to learn more about the objects’ representative sample. I used microscopic storage and display environments of the physical makeup and deterioration. examination and chemical spot testing stelae and have found them to be well Excavations at Terenouthis took place to gain a better sense of what salts and controlled, which should keep the risk of during one six-week dig season in 1935 growths were present and was able to future salt damage at a minimum. A con- under the supervision of University of sample some for analysis. Working with trolled environment will also slow the Michigan professor Enoch Peterson. The scientists at the Detroit Institute of Arts deterioration of the coating and decrease necropolis of Terenouthis contained hun- and the mycology and electron micros- the potential for ongoing biological dreds of tombs built for members of the copy laboratories at the University of activity on the stelae. city’s middle class, who were of Graeco- Michigan, I have been able to character- Although the protocol itself is nearly Egyptian heritage. Niches were cut into ize different forms of deterioration and complete, I have only just started to the east-facing end of each tomb, and in pinpoint effective treatments for them. treat the stelae that are currently in the each niche was placed a carved slab of We were fortunate enough to have use of conservation lab. With approximately limestone, or stela. The stelae feature a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrom- 200 of these artifacts in the collection, 20 iconography that is a hybrid of Greek eter in January, which allowed for the percent of which have been given a high and Egyptian symbolism and religious characterization of pigment remnants on priority for treatment, the task of actively practice. Previous studies of the stelae a number of the stelae. conserving the stelae will take place over include Finlay Hooper’s graduate thesis In developing a treatment protocol the course of many years, and the proto- and 1961 catalogue, and Roger Mc- that addresses these different deteriora- col I have developed can be used by other Cleary’s 1987 exhibition catalogue Portals tion phenomena, I worked with Suzanne, conservators over time. Working with to Eternity. Claudia, and Associate Curator Terry these artifacts has showed me how much Deterioration had been documented Wilfong to prioritize stages of treatment. can be learned from the stelae themselves; on the stelae as early as 1961, in Hooper’s The most essential step would be to stabi- their shape, carvings, and painted surfaces detailed catalogue. Hooper provides a lize the deteriorated stone—especially in all convey important information and a short comment on each stela’s state of areas where information preserved in the potential for future discovery. This po- preservation, with descriptions ranging stone carving could be lost. Any coated tential makes the long-term preservation from “excellent condition” to “surface areas containing carved details or infor- of the stelae essential. worn and powdery” to “much salt encrus- mation would also have to be stabilized. A Caroline Roberts tation,” reflecting many of the stelae’s series of consolidants and adhesives—ma- Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellow Kelsey Associates Yuki and Praba Kawai join A participant in the Kelsey’s February Family Day This young Family Day enthusiast begins to Curator Lauren Talalay in examining star fish fashions a toy mummy using the materials she found assemble a Hathor headdress out of colored paper drawings (Histoire Naturelle, volume II, plate 5 of in her shoebox mummy kit. and shiny beads. the Description de l’Egypte) during a Behind-the- Scenes Champagne Tour.

New Associates Tours Mummy Day Invasion

In an effort to increase Kelsey member- Not quite an invasion, but with mummies ship benefits, the Museum launched a on the mind, the nearly 500 visitors we new program this past year. Named the hosted made the Kelsey extremely busy Behind-the-Scenes Champagne Tours, on our February 18 Family Day. The these events focused on aspects of the Museum hasn’t been that hectic since the collections that are rarely, if ever, seen by Upjohn Wing opened in November 2009. the public. There were sixty visitors in the building The tours, which are targeted to small well before the doors officially opened at groups, began in November with a visit 1:00 pm. The theme of the day was our to the conservation lab and an in-depth old standard: mummies, mummies, and discussion of what happens behind the more mummies. The eviscerated Barbie scenes to objects that eventually land in activity—candy organs included—was as the lab for one reason or another. popular as ever, even with the one child The second event, in March, included a who had a nut allergy. Anyone have a sug- trip to our basement storage area, where gestion on replacing the walnuts we use approximately 110,000 objects reside. for lungs? These artifacts are kept in a climate- and We quickly ran out of mummy masks, Another Family Day visitor pulls out a drawer in humidity-controlled environment and pectorals, and Eye of Horus amulets and the Upjohn Wing to explore an array of mummy masks from Roman Egypt. only “come out of hiding” for exhibitions, had to scramble to find more activities research, or occasional classroom use. to satiate the hordes of small people! Finally, the last event occurred in April, Even with the scarcity of materials, with an up-close and personal examina- everyone could at least sit in on one of tion of the famous and glorious Descrip- the two mummy presentations, although tion de l’Egypte volumes, which were both presentations were standing room produced by Napoleon in the early 1800s. only. The brain hook demonstration was These books, some measuring 43 inches particularly popular. tall, helped launch the interest in ancient The next Kelsey Family Day, “Mon- Egypt that continues to this day. sters and Myth,” will take place on Satur- We plan to continue these highly suc- day, May 19, 1:00–3:00 pm. The program cessful tours for the foreseeable future, will include such activities as make- with three to four events each year. Join your-own-monster, creating a Medusa now to become a member of the Kelsey headdress or a Cyclops headband, and a Museum Associates, and don’t miss out scavenger hunt in the galleries. We’ll see on these wonderful behind-the-scenes whether satyrs, cyclops, and gorgons can opportunities! compete with Egyptian mummies. Lauren Talalay Todd Gerring After the arduous task of drawing lemniscates continuously for an hour as a performer in the exhibition/performance Hours of Infinity, Curator Terry Wilfong relaxes at the show’s reception.

Staff Update for two Academy publication series. She is curating the F. W. Kelsey show that opens Conservator Claudia Chemello chaired on June 8. Also in June she plans to go to a session of the metal-working group at Pompeii for further research on Roman the International Council of Museums villas and to work with the Oplontis team IPCAA BRIEFS Committee for Conservation conference on preparing an exhibition on the villa for in Lisbon in September and coedited the 2015. Her article, “Roman Villas on the IPCAA students continue to garner postprints from this working group’s last Bay of Naples,” will appear in the Oplon- a multitude of prestigious awards. interim meeting. At the Archaeological tis Project e-book publication. Laura Banducci, Henry Colburn, and Institute of America conference in Janu- Director and Greek and Hellenistic Marcello Mogetta received Rackham ary she assisted the American Institute for Curator Sharon Herbert was voted Pres- Predoctoral Fellowships. Dan Diffendale Conservation with outreach activities for ident-elect of the Albright Institute of and Kate Larson will take up American the archaeological community and served Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and School of Classical Studies in Athens on the Conservation and Site Preserva- Vice President of the American Schools Fellowships. Nicole High was given the tion Committee. of Oriental Research. She will also receive John G. Pedley Award for Travel and Conservation Curator Suzanne Davis a lifetime achievement award for Galilean Research. Ryan Hughes won a Rack- presented a paper on conservation out- archaeology at Tel Hai College in June. ham Centennial Award and a Rackham reach at the Kelsey and how it supports Graphic Artist/Gifts Manager Lorene International Research Award. Neville University teaching at The Public Face of Sterner has been coordinating efforts to McFerrin was awarded a Philips Transla- Conservation conference in Colonial Wil- create new brochures for Kelsey visitors tion Prize. Jana Mokrisova received liamsburg in November. She will co-chair and donors. In addition, she is setting up an American School of Classical Stud- a conference session at the American a central repository of digital maps for ies in Athens Fellowship, a Rackham Institute for Conservation meeting in May, use by Kelsey affiliates. Centennial Award, and an International where she and Claudia Chemello will pres- Greek and Near Eastern Curator Institute Individual Fellowship. And ent survey-based research they conducted Margaret Root curated the small special Elina Salminen earned an International on the relation between conservation and exhibition Dominated and Demeaned: New Institute Individual Fellowship. field archaeology. The conservation team Kingdom Egypt / Jim Crow America. Her Two students offer more detailed is also preparing for the Kelsey exhibition seminar “Exhibiting Mesopotamia: Art, reports of their activities: Conserving Antiquity, which opens in Fall Politics, and the Museum” explored ways With her fellow graduate student 2012, as well as for upcoming field seasons to present the show Ancient Animations: instructors from Margaret Root’s “Art in Egypt and Israel. Social Networking in the Persian Empire, and Empire in Antiquity” course, Jenny Research Scientist Geoff Emberling which opens in Fall 2013. She deliv- Kreiger coauthored an article about the made a preliminary trip to northern ered public lectures on the “genius” of Dominated and Demeaned exhibition, to Sudan in January to plan for a new Pasargadae, on seals and sealing as tools appear in Academic Museums (Edinburgh excavation project at El Kurru, part of a of the social network, and on museums as 2012). She will be a summer intern at UNESCO World Heritage site and the stewards of the “Messo’potamia.” And she the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, location of the earliest royal pyramids in published a journalistic piece on archaeol- working on a traveling exhibition about ancient Nubia. He also finished papers on ogists Jane Dieulafoy and Gertrude Bell. the Book of the Fayum (an illustrated salvage excavation at the Fourth Cataract, Graeco-Roman Egyptian Curator Terry text on papyrus), as well as building a Mesopotamian cities, the rediscovery of Wilfong curated the exhibition Karanis Re- research database for the museum’s col- Sumer, feasting in the ancient Middle vealed and is at work on the exhibition cat- lection of Roman sarcophagi. East, ethnicity in the Assyrian empire, and alogue. He served as curatorial supervisor Kate Larson presented two conference politics in the archaeology of Eurasia. He for and a performer in the Hours of Infinity papers: one, with Emma Sachs and Mar- lectured in Detroit, Leiden (Netherlands), exhibition/performance at the Kelsey. He garet Root, on the upcoming Ancient Chicago, Toledo, and San Francisco. participated in the International Work- Animations exhibition at the American Hellenistic and Roman Curator Elaine shop for Papyrology and Social History at Schools of Oriental Research Annual Gazda became consulting editor for the Yale. He also published an article on the Meeting in November 2011; the other Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture. She Michigan expedition to Karanis in the Ox- on the social and spatial networks of rotated off the Board of Trustees of ford Handbook on Roman Egypt and entries Hellenistic sculptors at the University the American Academy in after for the Dictionary of African Biography and of Southampton in March 2012. She eighteen years and received the McKim the Encyclopedia of Ancient History. His plans to participate in excavations at Tel Medal for her service/accomplishments as “Egyptian Anxieties” project will be the Kedesh, Israel, in June. a board member. She continues as editor focus of summer research. The Kelsey Museum gratefully acknowledges the generous gifts to our library of books and journals about conservation by Amy Rosenberg and of books on numismatics by Dr. Adon Gordus.

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Benefactor Lois Kuznets Dowling Drs. Sarah & Brian Harvey Catherine M. Jones Dr. & Mrs. James Duderstadt Dr. Geoffrey Emberling Ruth & Paul Hays Shirley Knudsvig Dr. & Mrs. James Jerome Professor Ilene Forsyth Rod & Sharon Hayward Ms. Michele Kotowicz David Richardson & Cheryl Gross Mary Freiman John & Rose Henderson Bill Kryska Julie Sandler & Joel Friedlander Mr. Tom Freiman & John R. & Martha K. Hicks Mr. Henry Lum John D. & & Debra Ziegelman Ms. Diane Ulin Mrs. Praba Kawai Sally Lunn Priscilla Gallinger Linda G. Kelsey, Ph.D. Randall C. McCombs Patron Professors Elaine Gazda & Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Laity Judith L. McIntosh Rebecca S. Bonnell Jim McIntosh Jeffrey & Barbara Laufer Kay Oldstrom Dr. Cyrus C. Hopkins Cozette T. Grabb Ellen & Christopher Lynch Jonathan F. Orser Robert & Irita Grierson Professor & Mrs. Ernest McCarus Constance L. Osler Sponsor Ms. Lois Groesbeck Robert & Carol Meier Ms. Bonita R. Patterson Professor Lawrence Berlin & Dr. James E. Harris Dr. & Mrs. Robert Oneal Professor Maxwell Reade Ms. Jean McPhail Ms. Holly Heston Kevin & Louise Perrotta Nancy T. Reynolds Dr. Peter Bing Lynn L. Hobbs Stan & Dorothy Rehak Mrs. Sherry Roberts Professor H. D. Cameron John Jascob Amnon & Prudence Rosenthal Mr. John Rothchild Carolyn Carty & Thomas Haug Florence M. Johnston Glenn & Nancy Savinski Esther R. Rubin Dan & Janene Centurione Professor Diane Kirkpatrick Mrs. Sharon Lee Shafii Dr. Ellen C. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coates Dr. William L. & Betty G. Knapp Dorothy & Jerry Sims Harriet Selin M. Teresa D’Arms Mary & Ed Krasny Dr. Harvey Slaughter & Grace Shackman Susan T. Darrow John K. Lawrence Phyllis Wright-Slaughter Silva O. Stewart Danielle & Guy Gehlert Marjory S. Luther Lois & William Solomon Ms. Diane Tracy Marlene & Gregory Goldsmith Zelma & Milan Marich David & Ann Staiger Ms. Edith Wacksman Jon Douglas Hartman Ms. Jean Mervis Ruth & David Tabler Mr. Don Wagman Ms. Elizabeth Hastie Alvin B. Michaels, M.D. Laurie Talalay Mrs. Esther Warzynski Greg & Margene Henry Carmen & Jack Miller Ms. Janet Vavra Nora Webber Carol & John Isles Richard P. Miller Patricia Von Buren-Wright Harriet Wells Marian Gram Laughlin Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Park Joseph Walters Ms. Susan Whitelaw Robert & Pearson Macek Dr. & Mrs. Peter Reilly Charles Witke & Aileen Gatten George & Eathel Mendenhall Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Slote Frank B. Womer Student/OTHER Bernice & Herman Merte Haldon & Tina Smith Ms. Constance L. Cool Mr. & Mrs. Cruse W. Moss Dr. Denny Stavros Individual Ms. Andrea M. Davis Mr. Daniel Murray Len & Lois Stenger Andrew Arnoldy Richard L. Galant Zoe & Joe Pearson Dency J. Terrill Ms. Jocelyn Bennett Ms. Gwendolyn Kelly John & Mary Pedley Mrs. Barbara Stieler Thompson Linda Benson Mike & Bobbie Levine Dean & Zoe Stevens Terril & Patricia Tompkins Megan Blaha Janice L. Pearson William J. Wolff Drs. Susan White & Philip Bursley Ashley E. Tan Ethan Braunstein Joan H. DeBusscher Ms. Taisiya Tworek Contributor Jean A. Diekoff Dan Wilson Ms. Helen Adams-Murray Dual/Family Alice Dudley Karl & Ann Zinn Mr. Doug Anderson & Carl Abrego Nathalie E. Edmunds Dr. Peggy McCracken Margot & Fred Amrine Julia Falkovitch-Khain Bruce Artz & Martha Claus Diana Bowman Carol Finerman associates board Mr. & Mrs. Essel Bailey Robert & Jeannine Buchanan Christopher & Michele Ford Mary Freiman, President Mr. & Mrs. John Beatty Mary Norris & Donald Burian George R. Francoeur Bruce Artz, Vice President Professors Gary Beckman & David G. & Cilla M. Cameron Patricia L. Frye Florence Johnston, Secretary Karla Taylor Professors Ruth & Victor Caston Mrs. Bernard Galler Dan Centurione John & Leora Bowden Guy & Phyllis Coykendall Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster Marlene Goldsmith Carol & Ted Carzon Monte & Kris Del Monte Leonore B. Gerstein Marion Gormley Professor Carl Cohen Vince & Michelle Elie Mary Lou Gillard Dan Murray Melinda & Wayne Colquitt Alice Fishman & Michael DiPietro Susan & Hayden Harris Dr. Peter Reilly Clifford & Laura Craig Janice R. Geddes Louise S. Hauenstein Hal Smith Jeffrey & Christine Crockett Marian K. Gormley Ms. Mary Heumann Tina Smith Mr. Donald Davenport Martha & Mark Gregg Mr. Steve Hill Lois Stenger Mrs. Jean Dickinson Mark & Susan Griffin Donald Hitt Ann van Rosevelt non-profit organization u.s. postage paid 434 South State Street permit no. 144 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1390

calendar of events special EXHIBITION Francis Kelsey: Honorary Papyrologist FAMILY DAY A Man of Many Parts: by U-M Associate Professor of Papy- Monsters and Myth The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey rology Arthur Verhoogt and Professor Saturday, May 19, 1:00–3:00 pm Opens Friday, June 8, 6:00 pm Emeritus of Classical Archeaology and Closes Sunday, September 16 Greek John Pedley Thursday, July 26, 6:00 pm RELATED PRESENTATIONS Library Gallery Moving Pictures from Karanis Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (North) by Kelsey Curator Terry Wilfong Reception following at the Kelsey Thursday, June 28, 6:00 pm Kelsey Museum

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