LECTURE: New Light on the Burial of the Overseer of the Builders of Amun, Amenhotep
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Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6:30pm
Chapter: New York, NY
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Reeves, Sylvan C Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow, Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Location: Alston & Bird LLP, 90 Park Avenue, (between 39th and 40th Streets), 15th Floor Lecture Room (Note: Photo ID Required to enter BuildingFREE TO THE PUBLIC. R.S.V.P. REQUIRED: Please reply to info@arceny.com
A Wine and Cheese Reception to follow the Lecture
Description: An archaeological trail: what we know about a fragmentary coffin lid in the Myers Collection at Eton College; how this led to the attribution of two anonymous mummy masks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and what those masks are now able to tell us about the burial and its funerary papyrus.About the Speaker: Nicholas Reeves is Sylvan C Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow in the Department of Egyptian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was formerly GAD Tait Curator of Egyptian and Classical Art at The Myers Museum, Eton College.
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