Nimrud, from Mound to Museum: Making Knowledge from Archaeological Objects
A study day held on Saturday 27 April 2013 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which was co-sponsored by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI).
The ziggurat TT of Nimrud in spring 2001. Photo: Eleanor Robson (2001). View large image.
How do archaeological artefacts find their way into gallery cases and museum websites? How do objects found in the ground get transformed into specimens for scientific and historical study? This study day brought together a range of academic experts who have been involved in this process, to give their personal stories of making knowledge from objects excavated from the ancient city of Nimrud, capital of the Assyrian empire in the early first millennium BC.
You can read an archive of live-tweets from the event at Storify.
Programme of talks
- Dr Joan Oates, FBA (University of Cambridge)
- Excavating at the site of Nimrud in the 1950s
- Professor Julian Reade (University of Copenhagen)
- "Discovering and rediscovering the North-West Palace, Nimrud"
- Denise Ling and Kathleen Swales (The British Museum)
- "Conservation of cuneiform tablets at the British Museum"
- Dr Paul Collins (The Ashmolean Museum)
- "Displaying Nimrud to the public"
- Dr Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (SOAS)
- "Displaying and redisplaying Nimrud at the Iraq Museum"
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