Curatorial Perspective: The Dead Don't Bury Themselves

Venue: Classics and Archaeology Gallery, Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art

Presenters: Dr Andrew Jamieson

In this floor talk at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, curator Dr Andrew Jamieson will discuss The Dead Don’t Bury Themselves exhibition which features an important collection of Early Bronze Age vessels recovered by Professor Paul Lapp’s excavations at Bab edh-Dhra in the Dead Sea plain of southern Jordan, along with selected works from the Australian Institute of Archaeology.

In the presentation Andrew will examine the role of objects from burials and the mortuary traditions of the ancient Near East, and also discuss the distribution of the Bab edh-Dhra finds and the innovative solution proposed by Paul Lapp’s widow Nancy Lapp to the issues around the ‘Storage Wars’ and ‘curation crisis’ in archaeological collections management.

from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7608-curatorial-perspective-the-dead-don-t-bury-themselves