What: Helena Wylde Swiny, Curator of the Cypriot and Cesnola Collections of the Semitic Museum at Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled, Ready for a Journey: Outfitting an Ancient Merchant Ship. The lecture will discuss the shipwreck finds of the Kyrenia Ship, the well-known merchantman of the Hellenistic world that sank off the north coast of Cyprus ca. 300 B.C., and re-examine a list of items of what a Mediterranean-going merchant ship might include based on documents from a papyrus written in Greek and found in Egypt. This event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by American Institute of Archeology and Trinity College Classics Department.
When: Monday, September 14, 2009 ~ 8:00 p.m.
Where: McCook Auditorium on the campus on Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106
Background:
Dr. Helena Wylde Swiny is a Research Associate with the Semitic Museum, Harvard University, where she is Curator of the Cypriot and Cesnola Collections.
Swiny has been Assistant Director for the Sotira-Kaminoudhia Excavations in Cyprus (publication in progress), and is currently a member and author of the Kyrenia Ship Publication Team. She holds her degree from the Institute of Archaeology, London University.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Martha Risser at 860-297-2386, or by email at Martha.Risser@trincoll.edu.
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