Friday, May 6: CHICAGO/PARIS Assyrians. Among the treasures in this collection are the interesting exhibitions. After visiting some of the highlights Depart for Paris, via Frankfurt, on Lufthansa Airlines. Vulture Stela of King Eahnatum; the Stela of Naram-Sin, of this huge complex together, we will have time to explore King of Akkad; several statues of Gudea of Lagash; the wall on our own. The remainder of the day will be at leisure to paintings from Mari; the famous Stela of Hammurabi visit some of the many museums and monuments open Dear Members and Friends of the Oriental Institute: Saturday, May 7: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel containing his law code; and reliefs from the palace of Susa today. This evening we will have our farewell dinner at one of We will be met upon arrival at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle We are pleased to offer a very special tour to the famed built for Darius the Great. After a break for independent the city’s fine restaurants. BD Airport by our tour manager who will accompany our collections of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern art in lunch in one of the museum cafes, we will complete our visit transfer to the four-star KK Cayre Hotel on the Left Bank. Paris and Berlin. Because the collections are so rich and to the Near Eastern collection with time remaining to visit Monday, May 16: BERLIN/CHICAGO This afternoon we will walk to the Musée du Louvre for the diverse, we have invited two Oriental Institute faculty with some of the major works of art in the painting galleries. first of three visits we will make to this spectacular museum. We will transfer to the airport for our flights to Chicago via members-Egyptologist Peter Dorman and Assyriologist The remainder of the day will be at leisure. B Munich. Christopher Woods-to accompany this program. The focus of this afternoon’s touring will be the Greek and Roman collections which include the famous Winged Victory Thursday, May 12: BERLIN - Hotel Palace The Oriental Institute has long-standing academic ties with of Samothrace; the personification of the Tiber River; the Archaeological Tours will be happy to assist tour members in the Louvre and with Berlin's Egyptian and Near Eastern Venus de Milo; the Borghese Hermaphrodite; part of the We will transfer back to the Charles de Gaulle Airport for our purchasing tickets to cultural performances (opera, theatre, Museums. You will find that this program will enrich your sculptural decoration of the Parthenon; the Hera of Samos; flight to Berlin where we will be met buy our German Tour philharmonic, etc.) available in Paris and Berlin in May. understanding of our own collections because Paris and an array of Roman portraits and much more. After an Manager and transferred to the centrally located, Palace Berlin have material that is so closely related to ours. In introductory lecture by Professors Peter Dorman and Hotel. The afternoon will be spent visiting the TOUR COST: $5930 Paris, we will see reliefs from Khorsabad excavated by the Christopher Woods, we will walk to Les Ministeres, a 1900 Charlottenburg Palace Museums. Touring begins in the (includes group airfare from Chicago) French in the 19th century and, of course, the cast of our bistro, for dinner. D Aegyptisches Museum, which houses one of the most own winged bull that now dominates the Louvre's important collections of Ancient Egypt, including the famous Single Supplement: $1155 Khorsabad Court. We will also study the incredible array of Sunday, May 8: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel limestone bust of Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tiy and Land Arrangements Only: $4910 architectural fragments from Susa that are contemporary “The Berlin Green Head” (300 BC), as well as the temple (without airfare from Chicago) This morning a short drive brings us to St-Germain-en-Laye with our own material from Persepolis. Our sections of gate of Kalabsha (20 BC), built by the Roman Emperor glazed brick from Babylon come alive in Berlin as you see where our local guide will introduce us to the art and Augustus, and the great Column Hall from the pyramid RESERVATION FORM artifacts of prehistoric man at the Musée des Antiquités the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate. Berlin's very strong temple of King Sahure. We then cross the street to the Nationales. After lunch at Cazaudehore et la Forestière, holdings of Hittite and Neo-Hittite artifacts are a perfect Sammlung Berggruen to view Germany's largest collection Please make reservations for the following people on the Museums of complement to our Syrian-Anatolian gallery that opens in we will return to Paris with time for independent touring in Paris and Berlin tour. of Picassos as well as other 20th-century artists. We will early 2005. The extraordinary holdings from the Amarna the late afternoon. BL break for lunch in one of the restaurants within Period in Berlin-including the bust of Nefertiti-recall the Name #1 Charlottenburg Palace complex. BLD historical setting of our colossal statue of Tutankhamun. Monday, May 9: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel Street address City/State/Zip code This promises to be an extraordinary trip, with in-depth Our second visit to the Musée du Louvre will focus on the Friday, May 13: BERLIN - Hotel Palace Home telephone Business telephone visits to the finest collections of ancient art with expert Egyptian collection. Among its treasures are objects from the The morning will be spent in East Berlin visiting the cultural and historical background provided by Oriental First Dynasty royal tombs at Abydos, including the stela of Pergamon Museum, which displays antiquities from both the Name # 2 Institute faculty. Space is limited. I urge you to sign up King Djer; slab stelae from the Giza mastabas near the Great ancient orient and the Greek and Roman worlds. Among the today! Pyramid; the Louvre seated scribe; statuary and relief from architectural masterpieces reconstructed here in their original Street address City/State/Zip code the Old and Middle Kingdoms; the gold bowl of general Sincerely, sizes are the famous Hellenistic altar from Pergamon, the Home telephone Business telephone Djehuty; sculpture and minor arts from the Amarna period, fabulous Ishtar Gate from Babylon, and the Market Gate from Gil J. Stein including the Akhenaton colossus from Karnak; funerary the Greek city of Miletus on the Turkish coast. After a late Total deposit enclosed $600 per person (payable to Archaeological Director papyri and luxurious cosmetic implements from the New lunch at the XII Apostel, a popular Italian restaurant near the Tours)______Kingdom; stelae of the Apis bulls from Memphis; and the museum, we will explore the historic city during a one hour Please charge my deposit of $______to my credit card. zodiacal ceiling from the temple of Dendera. This evening’s boat tour on the Spree, the river that helped build Berlin. BL Peter Dorman is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the will be at Procope, one of the oldest restaurant in Paris.BD Name as listed on the credit card Oriental Institute, and Chairman of the Department of Saturday, May 14: BERLIN - Hotel Palace Tuesday, May 10: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University This morning we return to east Berlin to visit the Altes Card name and number of Chicago. From 1978-88, he served as a Curator in the This morning our guide will take us on a walking tour in the Museum which houses the collection formerly on display in Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum Expiration date Marais Quarter, which stretches between the Quartier du the Charlottenburg and part of the material from the in New York. For the next nine years he served as Field Temple and the Seine. We will examine the pre-Revolution Pergamon Museum, including the so-called Berlin Amphora __ I request a single room for which I understand there is a supplement Director of the Epigraphic Survey in Luxor. Presently, he residential architecture including the oldest square in Paris, from Vulci, Greek sculpture, Sythian treasures from charge. teaches Egyptian language and history at the Oriental Place des Vosges and the private town-houses of the Institute, where his research interests include the Theban Vettersfelde and treasures from Thyreatis in the Pelepponese, __ I request a twin-room; my roommate’s name is nobility. We will stop to visit the Musée Carnavalet’s as well as a collection known as the Hildesheim Silver from region and tomb documentation, as well as the relation of collection illustrating the history of Paris. We will then visit ______Egyptian material culture to text and representation. the first century BC. The remainder of the day will be at Place de la Concorde to view the obelisk inscribed to leisure. B __ I request a roommate. I understand that a roommate is not Christopher E. Woods is currently Assistant Professor of Ramses II, which originally stood in front of the first pylon at guaranteed. Sumerology at the Oriental Institute, the University of the Luxor Temple. The morning ends at the Cathédrale Sunday, May 15: BERLIN - Hotel Palace I(We) have read the Tour Conditions and Responsibility clause and Chicago. He received his B.S. from Yale University and his Notre-Dame where we will see traces of the city's original Our first stop this morning will be the new Jewish Museum agree to all therein. Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University and has just ramparts and visit the archaeological crypt. The afternoon designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind in the completed a three-year fellowship in the Harvard Society of will be at leisure. B Signature shape of a broken Star of David. The zinc-paneled building fellows. His research interests include Sumerian grammar creates a close relationship between the museum’s themes Signature and writing, and early Mesopotamian religion and history. Wednesday, May 11: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel and its architecture. We then continue to the Dahlem He is currently preparing the final volume of the long-term Return this form to: Archaeological Tours, 271 Madison Our last visit to the Musée du Louvre will take us through Museum complex which houses ethnographic and OI project, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, as well as a the Near Eastern collection. Five Mesopotamian galleries Avenue, Suite 904, New York, NY 10016. For additional book on the Sumerian prefix system. archaeological artifacts from Southeast Asia, the Americas, information, please call Archaeological Tours at 866-740-5130. focus on the Sumerians, Akkadian empire and the Neo- China, India as well as bronzes from Benin and many other THE TOUR RATE INCLUDES: will be no refund for cancellations on the day of departure or thereafter. In addition, if cancellation is made within 60 days of * Transatlantic group flights from Chicago on Lufthansa departure, the airlines require a penalty. Cancellation of program Airlines including flight from Paris to Berlin. Surface travel by The Oriental Institute/Archaeological Tours: full refund. by motor coach as detailed in the itinerary. 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