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For these reasons, the Penn Museum has asserted that the bull head of the lyre is a representation of Utu/Shamash. [3] The head was made of a single piece of gold plating over a wooden core (now disintegrated) with gold plated ears and horns attached with small pegs. [4] The beard is made of carved lapis lazuli tesserae on a silver backing.
5th-4th century BC Etruscan gold necklace, display at the Penn Museum, 2005.. The Penn Museum is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania.It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [1]
University Museum: 8 Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day 1895-1899 1912 addition by Wilson Eyre 1929 addition by 1971 wing by Mitchell/Giurgola [14] 2020 renovation by 3260 South Street (SE corner 33rd & South Streets) The Museum commission was shared by three architectural firms. PA-1646: Veterinary School and Hospital [15] 1 ...
The post Penn Museum caused a rift after it reburied the bones of 19 Black Philadelphians appeared first on TheGrio. Some community members wanted a say in the process For decades, the University ...
The remains of the Black Philadelphians were part of the Morton Cranial Collection at the Penn Museum. Beginning in the 1830s, physician and professor Samuel George Morton collected about 900 ...
Patrick McGovern, scientific director of Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the Penn Museum, examines a sample of the "King Midas" beverage residue under a microscope. The sample was recovered from a drinking-vessel found in the Midas Tumulus at the site of Gordion in Turkey, dated c. 740–700 BC. Replicas of two ancient drinking bowls ...
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street between St. James Place and Locust Street in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a special collections library and museum founded in 1814. The Athenaeum's purpose, according to its organizational principles, is to collect materials "connected with the history and ...
Janet Monge is an American physical anthropologist who was the keeper and curator of the physical anthropology section at the Penn Museum, the associate director and Manager of the Penn Museum Casting Program, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] Philadelphia Magazine named Monge "Best Museum Curator" in 2014. [1]