The Classics and Archaeology Collection forms part of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne and is one of the University’s 31 cultural collections.
Objects are on display in the Classics and Archaeology Gallery located on Level 1 of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Swanston Street, Carlton.
For further information about the Classics and Archaeology Collection contact the Spencer-Pappas Trust Lecturer and Curator, Andrew Jamieson, on telephone (03) 8344 3403 or email asj@ unimelb.edu.au.
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.