The Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum documents the Classics and Archaeology Collection of the University of Melbourne, which is located at the Ian Potter Musuem of Art. The Virtual Museum is a collaborative project of the Centre for Classics & Archaeology, the Ian Potter Museum of Art and ArtsIT.
New Exhibition - Ceramic Art of Ancient Cyprus
Ian Potter Museum of Art, 21 April to 14 October 2012
The University of Melbourne has one of the most important collections of Cypriot antiquities in Australia. The collection is representative of the human history of this strategically important island and includes a wide range of Bronze and Iron Age artefacts that were brought to Australia by the late Professor JR Stewart from the 1930s until the early 1960s.
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and is renowned as the island of Aphrodite. The exhibition will feature significant ceramic assemblages recovered from Bronze Age tombs at Vounous from 1937 to 1938 and the Bronze Age cemeteries at Karmi in 1961.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jamieson, Classics curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and Dr Jennifer Webb and Professor David Frankel, both from the Archaeology Program, La Trobe University.