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Kelsey Team Explores Kedesh in Upper Galilee between Jonathan and the Seleucid king Demetrias took place here in 145 BCE In May 1997 the Kelsey began excava­ homicide (Josh. 20: 1-3). It also appears and that the site was abandoned after tions at Tel Kedesh in the Upper Galilee in several of the histories from the the Jewish victory (1 Macc. 11.63, 73) . of Israel. I am codirecting the expedition period of Graeco-Roman occupation According to the historian Josephus, along with Andrea Berlin, a graduate of (3rd century BCE-3rd century CE). We Kedesh was again a Tyrian outpost and the University of Michigan Interdepart­ learn from Zenon, a 3rd-century BCE stronghold in the first centuries BCE mental Program in Classical and CE (War II.459; Ant. Art and Archaeology and XIII.154); and it served as an currently an assistant profes­ encampment for the Roman sor at the University of general Titus at the beginning Minnesota. This project marks of the First Jewish Revolt (War a renewal of Kelsey-sponsored IV.104). explorations of the Graeco­ The Kelsey team is focusing Roman Galilee, which began our efforts on the Hellenistic with Leroy Waterman's work at and Roman-period remains of Sepphoris (1931) and contin­ Tel Kedesh proper. Our ued with my own excavations immedia te goals are to clarify at Tel Anafa (1978-86). the date and character of the Kedesh is the largest tel site site's Hellenistic and Roman in Upper Galilee, occupying occupation. In particular, we 20-25 acres. It is located on hope to identify the site's the land of Kibbutz Malkia population(s) and to explore some 450 m above sea level in their ties and interactions wi th the Anti-Lebanon mountain the Phoenicians, Jews, Greeks, range. Situated in one of the and Romans living through­ richest agricultural zones of out this area. The identifica­ modern Israel, the area of tion of Kedesh as a Phoenician Kedesh and the Upper Galilee outpost in the later Hellenistic has been home since antiquity and early Roman periods to a tapestry of different naturally suggests the identity cultural and ethnic groups of at least some of the site's from the Israelite tribe of residents. The early Hellenis­ Naphthali to Phoenicians tic occupants, however, from the nearby city of Tyre. remain unidentified, as does In more recent times it was the site's precise character at the site of a Palestinian that time. Since Kedesh and its farming village until 1948. people probably passed in and Today it lies among the out of Tyrian control from the thriving apple orchards of Persian period onward, and Kibbutz Malkia and provides were at least briefly under the pasturage for the kibbutz's rule of the Hasmoneans and University of Michigan undergraduate Mandy Leins is positioning the later perhaps Herod the Great, herd of cattle. Many succes­ electronic range pole near the remains of the Roman temple at Kedesh. sive layers of occupation can we are especially interested in be seen in a road cut through the social and economic the north end of the tel, and a Roman traveling merchant from Egypt, whose effects of such changes in political temple, preserved to architrave height, account of his travels is preserved on control. stands on a low hill to the east of the scraps of papyri in the Michigan library, Tel Kedesh and its environs are rich mound. that Kedesh was a flourishing farming in remains from the Early Bronze Age The ancient site is mentioned a village in his time, providing him with through to modern times and have clear number of times in the Bible, most food supplies and the luxury of a bath potential to elucidate the questions outlined importantly as one of the "cities of (P. Zen. 59004). From the book of above as well as many other issues. A refuge" for those guilty of unintentional Maccabees we hear that a battle site of this size and importance demands continued 2 SPRING 1998

Notes from the Director The Kelsey helped sponsor fieldwork on three continents this year, with excavations at Paestum in Italy and Kedesh This past year the Kelsey staff and Associates have been in Israel and a study season at Leptiminus in Tunisia. Last busy and productive on many fronts, bringing previously summer's work at Paestum was planned as a final season, planned projects to fruition and working on upcoming but the extraordinary finds-including the foundations of a projects. As a new director I have spent much of my time monumental 6th-century BCE building, votive objects, "getting educated" about the myriad activities going on silver coins, and potsherds inscribed in the Achaean behind the Museum's deceptively calm facade. In this first alphabet-will send the jointly sponsored Michigan­ newsletter I will touch on a few of the year's highlights from Bowdoin team back into the field again this summer to the Museum's exhibits and fieldwork programs. explore further this tantalizing site. During its summer Our exhibits program got off to a spectacular start this study season the Leptiminus Archaeological Project September with the opening of the Sepphoris show, curated analyzed artifacts collected during five seasons of excava­ by Elaine Gazda and Elise Friedland. This loan exhibition, tion and field survey, including more than 90,000 pieces of organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, centered diagnostic pottery. Finally, our work at Kedesh (about on recent excavations at this important Roman-era site in which I have more to say on pp. 1-3) is preliminary and northern Israel by teams from North Carolina, Florida, and exploratory but shows promise of many productive seasons Israel. Gazda and Friedland designed a special display on in the future. the Kelsey's 1931 expedition to Sepphoris and produced a Back at home the Kelsey basement was the site of major booklet of essays on that expedition, The Scientific Test of the demolition and remodeling to convert it into a laboratory for Spade. The exhibit, jointly displayed at the Kelsey and the the study and publication of the Museum's fieldwork and Museum of Art and sponsored by numerous generous excavated objects. The laboratory is to be named after Henry benefactors, brought in a record number of visitors this fall. and Helga Hosmer, who plan a bequest in support of field­ It was accompanied by several special programs, the most work undertaken by Kelsey affiliates and the Interdepart­ dramatic of which was Joyce Klein's Zippori Live!, a reenact­ mental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (lPCAA). ment of daily life in ancient Sepphoris (see photo on p. 4). Construction is complete and, thanks to generous support In February the redesigned Egypt and the Ancient Near from the College of LS&A, we are now installing extensive East Gallery was opened to the public with a lecture entitled computer equipment, which will make this a state of the art "Worlds without End: The Quick and the Dead in Ancient facility for the publication of archaeological materials. The Egypt" by Professor Lorelei H. Corcoran of the University of laboratory will be featured in the behind-the-scenes tour of Memphis. The new installation, curated by Janet Richards, the Kelsey at the Spring Associates' Event on May 1. puts on view objects never before displayed and features a These, then, are a few of the Museum staff and Associ­ reconstruction of a Karanis household courtyard of the 1st- ates' accomplishments over the past year. In future newslet­ 3rd centuries CE (see article on pp. 6-7). Complementing the ters I hope to highlight other activities-the ongoing Near Eastern Ga!lery is Lauren Talalay's reinstallation of our computerization of the registry and our growing presence collection of David Roberts's lithographs of Egypt. In on the World Wide Web, our continuing conservation addition, Thelma Thomas has put some of our most beauti­ concerns, our outreach and development efforts, and our fully inscribed early Islamic textiles in the turret gallery and publications. As to my own education as a museum is opening a larger textile show, Reconstructing Personal Style director, I can only say it, too, will be an ongoing process. in Late Antiquity, on April 17 (see p. 5). Terry Wilfong is After ten years as a curator at the Kelsey I thought I knew planning an exhibit of the musical instruments from Karanis the Museum pretty well, but after just ten months in the for next winter, and Lauren Talalay and I are putting Director's office I know I can never learn enough. together a photographic survey of the Museum's many Sharon Herbert fieldwork projects undertaken since Sepphoris. Director extensive pre-excavation and explora­ Surprisingly for a site of its importance, at the western edge of the lower tel and tion and testing to insure, insofar as no accurate topographical map had ever another in the center south. We exca­ possible, that major field seasons when been made of Tel Kedesh, and this was vated these probes for nine days, then they are undertaken will yield maxi­ one of the major goals of our 1997 processed the finds for four days. Both mum information with minimal destruc­ season. Using the Kelsey'S Sokkia probes revealed stone walls and floors tion. To these ends we have begun our electronic surveying station, we were at depths varying from .5 to 1.3 m below work at Kedesh with two short explor­ able, under Geoff Compton's guidance, modern surface. The pottery associated atory seasons. The first of these took to establish a grid system and complete with the floors dates to the mid-second place in May /June 1997 and the second a topographical map of the lower tel in century BCE. No architecture later than over spring break this March. a little under two weeks. Hellenistic was present in either probe Our 1997 team consisted of seven Meanwhile other members of the trench. In fact, much of the lower tel members-Andrea Berlin and I, as well team cleared the six-foot thistles off appears to have been unoccupied and as five graduate students, three from the selected grids and collected all objects undisturbed from the Hellenistic period University of Michigan (Geoff Comp­ visible on the surface of these areas. onward. The material from the southern ton, Carla Goodnoh, and Chris Munro) Based on field analysis of the materials probe was particularly interesting, with and two from the University of Minne­ collected and on topographical consid­ intact pots, loom weights, and other sota (Jarrett Lobell and Jacob Dorer). erations, we placed a small probe trench domestic artifacts left on the Hellenistic SPRING 1998 3

tel and surround­ afternoon classes on March 12. ing valley. The preliminary results of the The LS&A magnetometry have revealed the Undergraduate outlines of several large building Research complexes and what looks like a fairly Opportunity regular north-south village grid plan. Program (UROP) An impressive structure is showing up funded three in the southeast quadrant of the tel, students to take adjacent to the well-preserved remains part in the project. in our 1997 southern probe. Luckily Geoff What is the next step for the Tel Compton was on Kedesh project? Using the results of the his way back 1997 and 1998 work, we can demon­ from fieldwork in strate the presence of significant and Egypt at that accessible Hellenistic remains. With the time, and we magnetometric plans we can choose our were able to future excavation areas strategically­ divert him to selecting sectors on the basis of building An assemblage of Hellenistic pottery from the southern probe trench at Kedesh. Israel to reestab­ type and size (public versus private; lish the grid plan elite versus poor; industrial versus floor. It appears as if this part of the site and continue the topographic survey. domestic, etc.) and block out reasonable may have been hastily abandoned On the first day of spring break David sectors to study and publish in three­ around the time of the battle between Stone, a recent IPCAA graduate, and I, year increments. With this information Jonathan and Demetrias (145 BCE). along with three LS&A archaeology we will spend the summer working on One of the great advances of the last undergraduates-Adam Hyatt, Mandy long-term research design and grant twenty years in archaeology has been Leins, and Will Pestle-headed off to proposals that will fund large-scale the development of an array of remote Israel to rendezvous with Geoff and excavations at Kedesh starting in the sensing techniques that, in certain Lew. We arrived at the site early on summer of 1999. If we are successful in circumstances, allow us to "see below March 3 and had reestablished the grid raising the funds, I hope to be reporting the surface" before excavating. Certain plan by March 5, when Lew Somers to you the results of excavations at this techniques work better than others at a arrived. We then began the magneto­ important site for many years to come. given site, depending on the nature of metric survey and continued the Sharon Herbert the remains and the geology of the area, topographic and a third goal of our 1997 season was mapping, with to assess the geological profile of the the undergradu­ site in order to determine what kind of ate members of remote sensing techniques, if any, the team rotating would be useful. Midway through the between the two season we brought in geoarchaeologist jobs. We were Arlene Miller Rosen (another Michigan able to gather the graduate) from Beer Sheva University to magnetometric act as a consultant on the geology of the data on seven to tel and its amenability to various remote nine 20 x 20 m sensing technologies. In Rosen's grid squares each judgment, the nature and depth of the day. In the deposits make the site an excellent evenings, back at candidate for magnetometry, a tech­ our rooms in the nique that works by discriminating guest house in the between the differing levels of magne­ nearby Moshav of tism given off by stone walls and their Ramot N aftali, we surrounding soil. started to process Acting on this assessment, we the results and contacted Dr. Lew Somers of Geoscan produced rough Research, one of the foremost practitio­ maps. We ners of archaeological remote sensing. completed the After studying our plans and photo­ survey by the graphs, Somers estimated that he could morning of March conduct a magnetometric survey of the 11 and that lower tel in five to eight days with the afternoon headed help of two students. He was available off to the Tel Aviv to work over our spring break in March, airport to catch a and we decided to combine that work flight back to Ann IPCAA student Geoff Compton tying the Roman temple into the topographic with topographic mapping of the upper Arbor in time for plan of Tel Kedesh. 4 SPRING 1998

In Memoriam: Vivette Bursley On Monday, couple would have celebrated their 50th work with, Vivette was also a March 23, wedding anniversary this year. gracious hostess and one of the most Vivette Vivette and Gil had a rich and generous people I have ever known. Bursley, a eventful life together, living in Greece, My fondest memories of Vivette dedicated Palestine, and former French and are her interactions with children, friend of the Belgian colonies in Africa during the whether on tours, at our Art Fair Kelsey, died at 1950s. Their home in Ann Arbor is filled booth, or at our Top of the Park her winter with the remembrances and acquisitions hieroglyphic workshops. She home on of their travels together. positively glowed! Children, includ­ Sanibel Island, Vivette taught French at Angell ing my own, never failed to respond Florida. Born Elementary School in Ann Arbor. Her to her sweet enthusiasm and her soft, Vicdan Mumtaz in Istanbul, Turkey, love of children, travel, and the civiliza­ lilting French-accented tones. Vivette attended French convent schools tions of the Mediterranean world led In the words of her husband, Gil, and later the Sorbonne, earning a her to the Kelsey Museum, where she Vivette loved young people and was master's degree in political science. She and Gil became members of the Associ­ interested in the direction they took. came from a prominent Turkish family. ates in 1985 and served on the Board Thus, Gil has established two Both of Vivette's grandfathers were from 1990 to 1995. memorial funds in her name. One is high-ranking officials in the Ottoman In 1988 Vivette joined the original to benefit a young people's play­ Empire: one was secretary to Sultan group of Kelsey docents and was house on Sanibel Island, where Abdul Hamid, the other governor of instrumental in creating two of our Vivette was a founding member of Istanbul. Her father was a composer and traveling educational suitcases on Greek the Island Theater Wing. The other is writer. mythology and on Greek art and the Vivette Bursley Kelsey Museum Vivette met her husband Gilbert, a archaeology. I recall hours spent with Outreach Fund. Friends of Vivette former Michigan State senator and Vivette, poring over slides, maps, and and the Kelsey Museum may former president of Cleary College, books on Greek art. She created a contribute to this fund in her name. while he was a military attache to the marvelous game on Greek mythology Chere Vivette, we will miss you. American Consulate in Istanbul. The for the kits. Eager and intelligent to Becky Loomis

Outreach News of an illustrated self-guided gallery tour writings by children who visited the that helped children explore Roman­ exhibition. This past year has been a busy and period Sepphoris and learn about the Finally, we are extremely grateful to productive time for our docents and science of archaeology. The wonderful the University for underwriting Zippori volunteers, who spent most of the fall new traveling kits-"Sepphoris of the Live!, a series of living history enact- focusing on Sepphoris-related activities. Galilee: Jews, Nearly 1,400 school children toured Romans, and Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Christians in the Culture under the expert instruction of Ancient World" Kelsey and Museum of Art docents. and "Multicultur­ Docents and volunteers from both alism in the Holy museums also helped at one of the Land: Sepphoris, highlights of the term, a Sepphoris City of Peace"­ Family Day, generously funded by the were conceived University of Michigan Office of the and designed by Vice President for University Relations. Becky Loomis and The Sepphoris Family Day drew a funded by the record number of participants: approxi­ Chrysler Corpora­ mately 1,000 children and parents spent tion Fund. ~ach kit the afternoon going on scavenger hunts is stocked with in the galleries, creating clay lamps, books, artifact coins, and mosaics, watching demon­ reprod uctions, strations of textile production, and audiovisual aids, talking with a soldier from the Roman and hands-on imperial army. materials. Funding Other outreach projects targeted for from Chrysler also children included A Child's Walk through allowed us to Sepphoris and the production of two prod uce a special traveling educational kits. The child's booklet, Going to walk, created and designed by Bobbie Galilee, a charming Levine, Carolyn Lichter, Prudence compilation of Joyce Klein is interviewed for Michigan Radio during a performance of Rosenthal, and Elise Weisbach, consisted drawings and Zippori Live! SPRING 1998 5

Two New Exhibitions High ight Kelsey's Late Antique and Medieval Textiles This spring the Kelsey status were keenly sought after and began to dedicate its widely imitated. turret gallery to Reconstructing Personal Style in Late displaying objects from Antiquity, also curated by Thelma K. its collections on the Thomas, opened on April 17. This medieval Middle East. exhibition presents textiles from the 4th The inaugural exhibi­ to the 7th centuries CE in order to tion in this charming explore the potential of late antique small space is Early fashion to express social identity, Islamic Inscribed Textiles, individual personality, and taste. These curated by Thelma K. artifacts began to enter museums and Thomas. The three cloth private collections in the early 20th fragments currently on century and have since influenced not view come from the only artists like Matisse but also such Museum's extraordi­ designers as Mario Fortuny and Gianni nary series of Islamic Versace. textile documents Among other considerations. the dating from the 10th to exhibition emphasizes the process of the 13th centuries CEo textile design in late antiquity. Texts The Kelsey collection from the period describe how a buyer includes examples in a might present a picture to a weaver to variety of materials, serve as a basis for cloth design. weaves, embroideries, Moreover, it seems from the recent and ornamental discovery of incomplete patterns for The Kelsey turret gallery, newly dedicated to the medieval Middle East, schemes, all most these textiles that weavers also had currently features samples of early Islamic inscribed textiles. frequently used as pattern collections available for their clothing. customers. The exhibition demonstrates The often exquisitely how late antique artisans generated crafted inscriptions on designs from these minimal patterns. It ments staged in the galleries during these textiles incorporate a wealth of also shows how increased knowledge November and December. Written information. The earliest and most about these textiles allows us to correct and directed by Joyce Klein, Zippori prestigious of them, called tiraz, name the errors made in early 20th-century Live! transported visitors back to 3rd­ the official factories in which they were recontructions and pastiches of them. century Sepphoris, where they met and made, the caliph for whom they were Electronic versions of both Early discussed life with a Roman couple, a made, and the recipient for whom they Islamic Inscribed Textiles and Reconstruct­ peddler of dubious character, and were intended, as well as offering ing Personal Style in Late Antiquity will Jewish scholars, all played by specially quotations from the Koran. These soon be available through the Kelsey trained University of Michigan students. extremely important documents of high homepage on the World Wide Web. Now that the Sepphoris exhibition and all its exciting activities are behind us, we are turning to other projects. The docents have just finished offering a series of presenta­ tions to schoolchildren who visit the campus through the King-Chavez­ Parks program, which is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and targets underserved school districts in Michigan. In addition, undergradu­ ates Marisa Horowitz and Jason Sprague completed their first presen­ tation on Egypt and archaeology to children at Mott Children's Hospital. It was a great success, and we hope to continue the program in the future. As always, we are exceptionally grateful to our indefatigable docents and volunteers. Their tireless efforts have made this an inspiring year for This fragment of a neckband from Reconstructing Personal Style in Late Antiquity represents male and all of us. female devotees of Di~mysus (a pagan god associated with wine), mostly nude and dancing in abandon. Lauren Talalay Such images frequently adorn garments found in tombs. (, SPRING 1998

IIExcavating" the Kelsey Collections: The Egypt and the Ancient Near East Gallery "Egypt and the Ancient Near East," which opened February 20 at the Kelsey Museum, is the permanent installation of the Museum's archaeological collec­ tions from Egypt to Iran, ranging in date from 3500 BCE to the sixth century CEo Our guest lecturer for the opening of the exhibition was Lorelei H. Corcoran of the University of Memphis. An expert on Egyptian religion of the late antique period, Professor Corcoran delivered a fascinating lecture entitled . ~ "Worlds without End: The Quick and the Dead in Ancient Egypt," which was ~ followed by a reception and preview of ~ the exhibition at the Kelsey. ;il' Along with some old favorites, the I exhibition emphasizes material exca­ ~ vated during the course of University of Michigan-conducted or -sponsored ...... __ ...... --i~ expeditions to key sites of the ancient Overoiew of the new Egypt and the Ancient Near East permanent installation. The funerary bust of a world: the Hellenistic and Parthian lady from Palmyra, Syria (200-225 CE, KM 80.1 .1) is vis"ible to the left of the exhibition title panel. capital of Seleucia on the Tigris (mod­ em Tell Umar), the long-lived sacred vessels, children's toys, storage boxes, and post-classical periods (3rd century city of Nippur in southern Mesopo­ and personal toilette items. BCE-15th century CE). The character of tamia, and the Ptolemaic-Roman site of In the courtyard as in the house, the these objects from sites in northeast Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Fayum of kinds of objects displayed highlight Africa and the ancient Near East reflects Egypt. The Kelsey's extensive archaeo­ another emphasis of the exhibition: that the cosmopolitanism and complex logical and photographic records of of long-term continuity, change, and cultural interconnections of the time. work at Karanis have enabled the cross-cultural currents in the ancient The funerary bust of a lady from reconstruction for this exhibition of a world. Continuity with the present is Palmyra, Syria (200-225 CE) incorpo­ typical early Roman-period (Excavation evident in the multifunctionality of rates a melange of Roman and indig­ Level "C," 1st-3rd centuries CE) house courtyards as hubs of household activity: enous Near Eastern styles and ideolo­ and courtyard context. Within the dim in modern as in ancient times, these are gies, while the grave stele of Heraklea house interior are displayed artifacts places for small animal shelters, the and Ares from Terenouthis, Egypt (late excavated from that period and the later preparation of food, and the storage of 3rd-early 4th centuries CE) combines Roman period (3rd-5th centuries CE) in household grain, goods, and tools, both aspects of longstanding Egyptian mortu­ similar houses throughout Karanis domestic and agricultural. The form of ary practice and belief-documented town: a statue in a domestic shrine the grain sieve on display, dating to elsewhere in the exhibition in Middle niche; an assemblage of objects found in Roman-period Karanis (1st-5th centu­ (2040-1650 BCE) and New Kingdom situ in a cupboard niche, including glass ries CE), can be seen in any modern (1570-1030 BCE) artifacts-with typical vessels, baskets, weaving tools, and agricultural village or, indeed, in the Ptolemaic-Roman elements and style. A other household implements; pottery operations of modem archaeological bronze figurine of the god Zeus-Sarapis excavations; a similar set of mortar and in the Egyptian temple cult display pestle for the grinding of grain might similarly illustrates the religious syncre­ also be found in village houses of the tism of Ptolemaic- and Roman-period 20th century-not infrequently these are Egypt, where thousand-year-old rituals ancient implements recycled to present were performed before newly cosmo­ use. Even present-day economic politan deities in the ageless struggle to preoccupations are echoed in the past, maintain ma'at (order and harmony) as seen in the fragment of a tax roll and against the forces of isfet (chaos). cancelled contract from Roman-period Visitors to the 19th Dynasty (1293-1185 Karanis (courtesy of the University of BCE) temples at Abydos in southern Michigan Library and thanks to Egypt would be startled to recognize Traianos Gagos, Archivist and Assistant the same bronze censer proffered to Professor of Classical Studies). numerous gods by countless representa­ This grain sieve from Karanis (1st-Sth centuries The bulk of the Kelsey's archaeologi­ tions of King Seti I in the example CE; KM 3414) resembles those still in use today. cal collections date to the late classical displayed in this case, which was found SPRING 1998 7 by University of Michigan excavators in junior meditating a career in Egyptian the North Temple at Karanis and dates archaeology, played a diverse and to a period more than a thousand years wholly invaluable role in the installa­ later than its Abydos predecessors. tion process, including development of The Kelsey's ancient Near Eastern the coffin graphic panel and his heroic and Egyptian collections are not limited effort, along with Kelsey Preparator to the classical or post-classical world, ~ Dana Buck, in the construction of the however, and research on one earlier ~ house and courtyard contexts. Finally, corpus of Near Eastern materials for this o Ellen Morris, a Ph.D. candidate in installation proved to be a stimulating -~ Egyptology at the University of Penn- :i exercise in collaboration with colleagues ~ sylvania, brought a fresh perspective to in Near Eastern Studies and the ! the "Defying Death" component of the Museum of Anthropology. In familiariz­ p.; exhibition, developed the field photo- B ing myself with the range of our Near f graph book of the University of Michi- Eastern collections, I was at first pleas­ gan excavations at Karanis, and antly surprised to learn that they included Assemblage of objects from Level IV of the Inanna researched the Seleucia field reports and a small selection of artifacts from the Temple at Nippur. photo archives (with the assistance of important and long-lived ceremonial Robin Meador-Woodruff, Associate city of Nippur in Mesopotamia (modern and Anthropology, but they also Curator of Slides and Photographs), Iraq); even more exciting was the represent a corpus of largely unpub­ resulting in a second field photograph realization that these artifacts were lished data. Preliminary research on this book for Seleucia as well as explanatory excavated materials on permanent loan corpus has highlighted the existence of panel copy for groups of artifacts in the from the American Schools of Oriental such nuggets in the Kelsey collections, Seleucia case and for Seleucia site itself. Research, so their precise archaeological the value and stimulation of collabora­ The participation of these students in context could be reconstructed. tive effort in "excavating" these the Egypt and the Ancient Near East Through conversations with art corpora, and the ever-expanding installation has not only helped them to historian/Kelsey curator Margaret Root research and teaching potential of the strengthen skills in research and (Department of the History of Art) and Kelsey's collections. museum practice but has also contrib­ historian/ archaeologist Norman Yoffee The Museum's unique facility for uted greatly to the success of the (Department of Near Eastern Studies) research and teaching was also salient exhibition and to the spirit of collegial­ and afternoons spent working through in another aspect of the Egypt and the ity in the Kelsey community. My debt to drawers of artifacts with archaeologist Ancient Near East exhibition. Graduate that wider community is too long to Henry Wright (Museum of Anthropol­ and undergraduate students have elaborate in detail here, but I must ogy) and philologist/historian Piotr participated in all stages of the research particularly thank Geoffrey Brown, Michalowski (Department of Near and installation process, gaining Dana Buck, Robin Meador-Woodruff, Eastern Studies), it gradually emerged invaluable experience in museum Todd Gerring, and Helen Baker and that our Nippur artifacts included a practices. Christina McIntosh, currently generally extend my heartfelt gratitude significant assemblage excavated from an intern at the National Memorial to Kelsey curators, research scientists, the temple of Inanna, the same building Holocaust Museum, spent her senior staff, and IPCAA students. that has provided the longest continu­ year deeply involved in all facets of Janet Richards ous archaeological sequence to date for research and any temple in Mesopotamia. More planning for specifically, this assemblage dates to the exhibi­ Level IV of the temple-a phase of tion, rebuilding by King Shulgi during the assisting powerful3rd Dynasty of Ur (2150-2000 with object BCE)-and provides a small but informa­ choice and tive cross-section of the kinds of objects case layout, characteristic of the Inanna temple, as brainstorm­ well as sealing inscriptions from the ing for the activities of the dominant priestly family Karanis of Ur-Nammu, who oversaw that temple contexts, for several generations. Fleshing out the contributing picture are another group of objects to panel from sounding trenches dug by excava­ copy, and tors near the temple; these include other writing a categories of sacred artifacts and Karanis examples spanning thousands of years gallery of the material culture of both earlier guide (to be and later periods at the site. available Not only do these materials constitute this sum­ a valuable teaching tool for classes in mer). Jason Taken during the University of Michigan excavations of Seleucia on the Tigris, this History of Art, Near Eastern Studies, Sprague, a view of Block B was one of the first applications of aerial photography to archaeology. R SPRING 199R

The Associates of the Kelsey Museum, 1997-98 Benefactor DuallFamily Individual Mrs. Alice Berle Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Essel Bailey Fred Albertson Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Meader George Beals Elizabeth A. Benn Julie Bedore Rebecca Boylan and Thomas Sid lick John and Leora Bowden Kristin Briegel Patron Glenora and Deming Brown Ms. Anita Burck Dr. and Mrs. Ethan Braunstein Gil and Vivette Bursley Ms. Jean W. Campbell Barbara and Charles Krause Guy and Phyllis Coykendall Ms. Carol Carzon Julie A. Sandler Christine Crockett Margaret Coudron Mr. Richard M. Cundiff Dr. Clifford Craig Mr. David C. Darr Jean A. Diekoff Sponsor Dr. and Mrs. Stefan Fajans William P. Edmunds Mrs. Lolagene Coombs Alice Fishman and Michael DiPietro Prof. Richard Edwards Mrs. Ernest J. Gazda John and Esther Floyd Steven A. Ferris Dr. Gregory 1. Henry Don andAnn Fowler Carol Finerman Earl Jacobs Prof. and Mrs. Bernard Galler Patricia 1. Frye Mr. Jack A. Josephson Priscilla Gallinger Robert and Pearson Macek Janice R. Geddes Mrs. Agnes Miner Esther M. Goudsmit Mr. and Mrs. Cruse W. Moss Frances Holter Mr. and Mrs. David G. Richardson The Kelsey Museum Associates John Jascob Mrs. Richard Schneider sponsor the Museum's outreach Prof. Meredith Klaus Mrs. Barbara Stieler Thompson and development activities and Prof. and Mrs. Glenn Knudsvig Dr. and Mrs. John T. Tielking provide program support. The ,Prof. Ann Koloski-Ostrow public is encouraged to join the Mary 1. Krasny Associates and participate in Judith 1. McIntosh Contributor Museum activities. For more in­ Jonathan F. Orser Ms. Helen Adams-Murray formation call (313) 763-3559 or Mr. and Mrs. David Osler Dr. and Mrs. Robert Aldrich 647-0441. Shirley Polakowski Herb and Carol Amster Profs. Andrew and Nancy Ramage Jan Carroll and Alex Azary Amy Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. John Beatty Ms. Marilyn Scott Prof. Lawrence Berlin Robert Gardner Grace Shackman Rebecca and Harold Bonnell Cozette Grabb Jerry and Dottie Sims David G. Cameron Ms. Lois Groesbeck Janet Smith Mr. and Mrs. William D. Coates Susan and Hayden Harris Dr. Denny Stavros Mr. and Mrs. Peter Darrow Prof. and Mrs. Joseph Hawkins Dr. E. Marianne Stem Jane and Peter DeChants Donald Hitt M. Chris Triola Tom and Jean Dickinson Prof. and Mrs. Gerald P. Hodge Ms. Ann van Rosevelt Dr. and Mrs. Duderstadt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laity Ms. Janet Vavra Prof. Ilene Forsyth John K. Lawrence Mrs. Esther Warzynski Mr. and Mrs. John R. Griffith Barbara and James Leonard Frank B. Womer Dr. James Harris Dr. Leonard Lerner Dr. and Mrs. Henry Hosmer Barbara and Myron Levine Mr. and Mrs. Keith Jensen Sally Lunn Student Dr. Vilma Lavetti Kohn Geraldine and Sheldon Markel Amy E. Bennett M. H. and Jan Barney Newman Chandler and Mary Matthews Monica Kuhn Dr. and Mrs. Robert Oneal John and Carolyn McKeon Josephine Shaya Dr. and Mrs. M. Joseph Pearson Dr. James A. McLean Margo Stavros John and Mary Pedley George E. Mendenhall Dean Stevens Prof. and Mrs. Leland Quackenbush Carmen and Jack Miller Amnon and Prudence Rosenthal Dr. and Mrs. George Morley Jane and Tom Schwenk DanielJ. Murray Mummy Club Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Scioly Prof. and Mrs. Clifton C. Olds Stephen Kelsey Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Slote Stephen and Kay Oldstrom David and Ann Staiger Stan and Dorothy Rehak Mr. and Mrs. Helmut Stem Mr. and Mrs. StephenJ. Rogers Matching Companies Edward Surovell and Natalie Lacy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenfeld Libbey-Owens Ford Charles Witke and Aileen Gatten Dr. and Mrs. Courtland Schmidt Ford Motor Company Ann Joan Yagle Lois and William Solomon SPRING 1998 9

The Elaine K. Gazda Exhib· tions Fund The Elaine K. Gazda Exhibitions Fund Contributors to the Gazda Fund James H. McIntosh was established in the spring of 1997 as Anonymous Judith McIntosh a tribute to Professor Gazda's excep­ Helen Adams-Murray MargaretB.McKinley tiona I leadership as Director of the Fred and Karla Albertson James A. McLean Kelsey Museum from 1986 to 1997. Bob and Katie Aldrich George E. Mendenhall Among her achievements as director Jan Carroll Azary Helen L. Metzner were a major renovation of the Museum Helen A. Baker and Joseph Logelin Mrs. Agnes Miner building, a dynamic program of Elizabeth A. Benn Jackie Monk exhibitions, a vigorous outreach Michelle M. Biggs The Mosaic Foundation program, and two new part-time Tina and Ward Bissell (of R. & P. Heydon) curatorial appointments. Susan and Ethan Braunstein Ginny and Cruse Moss Because the vitality of our exhibitions Jean W. Campbell Rosemary O'Brien program has always been close to her Charles and Marian Cares Zibby and Bob Oneal heart, the funds contributed in Professor Carol Carzon David and Connie Osler Gazda's name have been designated as John F. Cherry Carol and Wade Peacock support for exhibitions. And in recogni­ Margaret Coudron Zoe and Joe Pearson tion of her concern for the pedagogical Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cundiff John and Mary Pedley aspects of museum practice, the funds John and Teresa D'Arms Andrew and Nancy Ramage will be earmarked particularly for those David C. Darr exhibitions that involve students in the Susan and Peter Darrow various aspects of researching, prepar­ Tom and Jean Dickinson ing, and mounting objects for display. Richard Edwards Currently, the funds are being used to Stefan and Ruth Fajans Gazda funds earmarked help defray the cost of building three Alice Fishman and Michael DiPietro for exhibitions that involve new display cases dedicated exclusively Don and Ann Fowler to exhibitions mounted by students Elise A. Friedland students in researching, enrolled in Kelsey-related classes. Patricia L. Frye preparing, and mounting Traianos Gagos Bernard and Enid Galler objects for display. Priscilla Gallinger Ernest J. Gazda, Jr. Associates Board Helen S. Gazda Todd E. Gerring M. and M. Reade Susan Darrow, President Mariana Giovino Stan and Dorothy Rehak Christine Crockett, Vice President Naomi Gottlieb and Theodore Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Rogers Pearson Macek, Secretary Esther M. Goudsmit Larry and Margaret Root Sharon Herbert, ex officio Cozette Grabb Amy Rosenberg Lauren Talalay, ex officio Eugene and Emily Grant Prue and Ami Rosenthal John Brent Melanie D. Grunow Prof. and Mrs. Charles H. Sawyer Carol Carzon Richard Hamilton Dr. and Mrs. Courtland Schmidt Jane DeChants Dr. James E. Harris Madeleine T. Schneider Christine Crockett Susan K. Harris Jane and Tom Schwenk Susan Darrow Sharon Herbert Marilyn K. Scott Thomas Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Todd W. Herrick Elizabeth Sears Alice Fishman Lynn L. Hobbs Josephine Shaya Linda Herrick Claire and Gerald P. Hodge Walter and Nesta Spink Prof. Meredith Klaus Keith and Kay Jensen David and Ann Staiger Michele Kotowicz Natalie Boymel Kampen E. Marianne Stern Prof. Charles R. Krahmalkov Stuart A. Kirsch and Janet E. Richards Edward D. Surovell Mary Krasny Edward and Mary Krasny Mrs. Waldo E. Sweet Becky Loomis Barbara A. Krause Lauren E. Talalay Robert and Pearson Macek Katherine Kurtz Prof. and Mrs. Homer A. Thompson Judy McIntosh Mark Lawall and Lea Stirling Ann Van Rosevelt Agnes Miner Myron and Bobbie Levine Christine Verzar Joseph Pearson Molly McGlannan Lindner Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Warzynski Shirley Polakowski Margaret A. Lourie Terry Wilfong Ann van Rosevelt Robert and Pearson Macek Charles Witke & Aileen Gatten Jane Schwenk Prof. Frederick R. Matson Anne J. Yagle Anne Yagle Mary and Chandler Matthews Suzanne M. Zellers Sue Zellers Ernest and Adele McCarus Rebecca Zurier and Tom Willette 10 SPRING 199R

Staff Update Richards took up a new half-time position for All? (Re}constructing Identity in the in Egyptology in the Department of Ancient World." In March she delivered Curator of Conservation Geoff Brown Near Eastern Studies and, with Terry a paper in Cyprus at a conference on has spent much of his recent time Wilfong, will develop an Egyptian "Engendering Aphrodite; Women and examining, treating, and mounting studies focus within that department's Society in Ancient Cyprus." This textiles for Thelma Thomas's two shows Biblical Studies and Ancient Civiliza­ summer she will work on prehistoric (see p. 5). He also plans to revive an tions major. Also with Terry Wilfong, material from Greece. object-by-object survey of the textile she collaborated on a five-university After a year of sabbatical leave, Post­ collection, which was begun before the Mellon Grant proposal to develop a classical Curator Thelma Thomas is Museum was renovated. The survey program for teaching hieroglyphs on serving as president of the Byzantine will provide information for structuring the World Wide Web. In March she Studies Conference (a national scholarly an eventual collections-wide conserva­ gave a seminar at Oxford University organization) and as acting director of tion project and will be the basis for a entitled "Conceptual Landscapes in the IPCAA during winter term 1998. She is sizeable grant proposal. Egyptian Nile Valley" (to be published also organizing a new course on During fall term 1997 Hellenistic and by Blackwell's in Ideational Landscapes: "Archaeological Museum Practices" for Roman Curator Elaine Gazda cocurated Constructed and Conceptualized). At the fall term 1998. Her other current Kelsey Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Kelsey she developed and installed the projects focus on the textile collections. Culture with Elise Friedland as well as Egypt and the Ancient Near East perma­ Two workshops she attended helped installing Etruscan objects from the nent exhibition (see pp. 6-7). She her conceptualize a new gallery devoted Kelsey collection in the turret gallery. authored a chapter of Egyptology and to objects from the medieval Middle During winter term 1998 she is in Italy Anthropology (Sheffield Press, 1998): East: "Exhibiting Islamic Art," spon­ directing the University's Florence " Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Practice sored by the North American Historians Program. She is also preparing for her and the Study of Social Differentiation." of Islamic Art at the Royal Ontario winter 2001 exhibition, which will This summer she will work on a hand­ Museum in Toronto, and "Integrating feature Maria Barossa's watercolors of book of the Kelsey's Egyptian collec­ Islam into the Liberal Arts Curricula" at the Villa of the Mysteries procured by tions and act as consultant on the the University of Washington. The first Professor Francis Kelsey in the 1920s. Brooklyn Museum's reinstallation of installation in the new gallery, which IPCAA student Melanie Grunow' their pre-New Kingdom collections. opened March 20, is a small show of won the Archaeological Institute of Margaret Root, on leave from her inscribed Islamic textiles from the 10th America's (AlA) Woodruff Traveling curatorship at the Kelsey to chair the to the 13th centuries CE. Another Fellowship ($5000), which she will use Department of the History of Art, is exhibition, Reconstructing Personal Style to conduct dissertation research in Italy. w0rking to develop a new BAIMA in Late Antiquity, opened April 17 (see p. Librarian Molly Lindner organized Program in History of Art and the 5). During the summer she will continue and chaired a session at the December Allied Professions (working title). Her research on medieval Middle Eastern American Philological Association (AP A) I external activities this year include textiles at the Metropolitan Museum of AlA meetings in Chicago entitled delivering a seminar on the Persepolis Art in New York and the Textile "Proximity to Power: The Vestal Virgins Fortification tablets (sealed administra­ Museum in Washington, DC. in Imperial Rome." Her paper for that tive documents of the Persian empire) at Curator of Graeco-Roman Egypt colloquium was entitled "Vestal and the University of Toronto as well as the Terry Wilfong began the first year of Imperial Portraits and Inscriptions from Graham Lecture in History of Art; a his joint appointment as Assistant the Atrium Vestae: The Antonine and paper in Lyon, France, at a symposium Professor in the Department of Near Severan Material." She continues to honoring historian Pierre Briant; and a Eastern Studies. He has continued teach as an adjunct lecturer in art history paper at the December AlA meetings on working on various publication projects, at the Center for Creative Studies in interpretations of Persepolis. The first including editing volume 34 of Bulletin Detroit and at the University of Michi­ fascicule of her catalogue of seal of the American Society of Papyrologists and gan, Dearborn. The Center for Creative impressions on the Persepolis Fortifica­ preparing volume 35 (which contains a Studies awarded her a Tannahill Faculty tion tablets (coauthored with Mark collection of papers edited by Thelma Development Grant for travel to Rome Garrison, IPCAA Ph.D. 1988) is in Thomas). In the fall, he gave a public this May to prepare her AlA paper for production with Oriental Institute lecture at the Detroit Institute of Art in publication. She will conclude her Publications. In addition, Professor Root connection with their Splendors of Egypt tenure as Kelsey Librarian on July 1, continued her project to publish the exhibition, and he delivered a paper at 1998. We will miss her capable adminis­ Museum's Adams (ex-Herzfeld) collec­ the Annual Meeting of the AP AI AlA in tration of our library collections and tion of prehistoric stamp seals by offering Chicago. In the spring, he cotaught a wish her well in future endeavors. a museum research seminar at the Kelsey "master class" in Coptic papyrology at Robin Meador-Woodruff, Coordinator in fall term 1997. A summary of the work the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript of Collections and Curator of Slides and produced in that seminar will appear as a Library, Yale University. This summer Photographs, is collaborating with the jointly written article in the Bulletin of the he will continue working on the Terenou­ School of Information on a number of Museums of Art and Archaeology. this publication, as well as his exhibition computing projects. In May she will speak In October Curator of Educational Music in Roman Egypt: Musical Instru­ at the American Association of Museums Outreach Lauren Talalay was the ments from University of Michigan meeting. keynote speaker at a Bryn Mawr College Excavations, which is scheduled to open Curator of Dynastic Egypt Janet conference called "All for One or One in early 1999. SPRING 1998 . . 11

Welcome to New Staff Mem' r The Kelsey Museum Archaeology (IPCAA) and the Kelsey of Archaeology Museum. Her job entails maintaining student records, reconciling accounts, Director and serving as liaison with relevant Sharon Herbert departments for IPCAA, as well as providing computer support for both Associate Director IPCAA and the Kelsey. Lauren Talalay Donna has an undergraduate degree in graphic design from the University of Curators Massachusetts and a masters degree in Geoffrey Brown, Conservation arts management from Carnegie Mellon Elaine Gazda (on leave), University. Before coming to work at Hellenistic and Roman the Museum, she served as Education Robin Meador-Woodruff, Director for the Ann Arbor Art Center, Slides and Photographs where she recruited artists to teach Janet Richards (on leave), classes in media ranging from painting Dynastic Egypt to jewelry making to sculpture, as well Margaret Cool Root (on leave), as coordinating all the Center's other Greece and Near East On March 16 Donna Herron took up her outreach activities. Lauren Talalay, Educational Outreach new position as Student Services Members of the Kelsey staff welcome Thelma Thomas, Post-classical Assistant serving both the Interdepart­ Donna and look forward to working Terry Wilfong, Graeco-Roman Egypt mental Program in Classical Art and with her. Research Scientists Susan Alcock Kelsey Tour of Middle East Seeking Partici ants John Cherry Traianos Gagos A Kelsey-sponsored tour,"Wonders of Galilee includes such landmarks as Sharon Herbert the Middle East: Israel and Jordan," is Hazor, an impressive Bronze Age site; Ann Taylor-van Rosevelt scheduled to depart from Detroit on ancient Sepphoris, renowned for its E. Marianne Stem October 18, 1998, and return October 28. exquisite mosaics, including the "Mona This extraordinary behind-the-scenes Lisa of the Galilee"; and Belvoir, a Editor archaeological tour of northern Israel remarkably preserved hilltop Crusader Margaret Lourie and Jordan will be led by Professor fortress. The trip continues to Banias, Exhibits Preparator Sharon Herbert, Director of the Kelsey the Hellenistic sanctuary of Pan; Gamla, Dana Buck Museum, who has more than 25 years' the most important site of the Jewish experience doing fieldwork in the Resistance after Masada; and Hammat Program Assistant region. The tour follows the history of Gader, whose baths attest to the Todd Gerring this area from the Bronze Age to the opulence of the Roman empire. present. Members of the group have a Jordan offers the traveler an equally Office unique opportunity to talk with rich and vital experience. Tour members Helen Baker, Administrative Associate excavators and researchers currently visit Petra, the breathtaking Nabataean Donna Herron, Student Services Assistant working at each site. city carved out of the rose-red rock, and Jackie Monk, Office Assistant The journey begins in hilly Jerusalem, Gerash, an expansive city with both Michelle Biggs, Gifts Manager the heart of the Holy Land, where tour Hellenistic and Roman remains. The members visit excavations of the Old trip ends at Amman, where the group Museum Hours City, the Temple Mount, the spectacular will have a rare chance not only to view Tuesday-Friday 9:00-4:00 Israel Museum, and the stained-glass recently discovered papyri from Petra Saturday-Sunday 1:00-4:00 windows by Marc Chagall at Hadassah but to talk with the premier authority Admission is free Hospital. Making their way up the coast currently deciphering these documents. and open to the public. to the important Hellenistic ports of Cost of the tour is $4,053 per person, Caesarea, Tel Dor, and Akko, they will double occupancy, plus a tax-deductible enter the Galilee, birthplace of Rabbinic fee of $200 payable to the Kelsey World Wide Web Address Judaism and home of Jesus. Dotting the Museum. The land-only price is $2,417, http://www.umich.edu/ -kelseydb/ area around the tranquil Sea of Gali­ and there is a supplement for single lee-actually a lake formed by the occupancy of $356. For further informa­ University of Michigan Regents headwaters of the Jordan River-are tion or to reserve a place in the tour Laurence B. Deitch Rebecca McGowan some of the most beautiful and impor­ group, contact: Zoe Pearson, Conlin Daniel D. Horning Andrea Fischer Newman Olivia P. Maynard Philip H. Power tant archaeological sites in the country. Travel, P. O. Box 1207, Ann Arbor, MI Shirley M. McFee S. Martin Taylor Stretching from the Jezreel Valley in the 48106-1207; phone: 734-677-0900 or 800- Lee C. Bollinger, ex-officio south to Metulla in the north, the 426-6546; fax 734-677-0901. 12 SPRING l'NS

Current Exhibitions • Reconstructing Personal Style in Late Antiquity

• Early Islamic Inscribed Textiles

• Egypt and the Ancient Near East (new permanent installation)

• A Victorian's Passion: David Roberts 1796-1864

Associates Spring Event

• Friday, May 1 5:30: Behind-the-scenes Museum tour 6:30: Business meeting, followed by champagne reception This archive photo of Seleucia on the Tigris under excavation by a University of Michigan team in 1929 can be found in the new Egypt and the Ancient Near East installation (see article on pp. 6-7).

THE BULK RATE KELSEY U.S. POSTAGE MUSEUM PAID of ANN ARBOR, MI ARCHAEOLOGY PERMIT NO. 144

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