ARCE-PA Lecture May 8- "New Work at Malqata, the Palace-City of Amenhotep III"
Lisa Swart
Dear friends of ARCE-PA,
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt proudly presents:
“New Work at Malqata, the Palace-City of Amenhotep III”
DR. DIANA CRAIG PATCH, Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art
Saturday, May
8th, 3:30 PM
Classroom 2, Penn Museum
"In February of this year, a team
from Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Michael C. Carlos Museum returned to
conduct a second season of field work at Amenhotep III’s city at the site of
Malqata. The site includes the harbor, several palaces, villages, platforms,
a temple, a road, and an unfinished causeway. In the 2008 season, the
team surveyed the entire site extending some 7 km. along the low desert south
of Ramesses III temple of Medinet Habu. The survey work allowed the
architectural plans of the structures at Malqata, which were drawn by the
Metropolitan Museum when they worked at the site a one hundred years ago, to be
tied into to recent satellite photos. This season we returned to work in two of
the structures at Malqata: the North Village and the Amun temple. This season’s
work brought to light new material and documented information that previously
was only recorded in a preliminarily way.”
Dr. Diana Craig Patch is the Associate Curator of
Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She received her
Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania and has been excavating in Egypt since
1972.
$5 general admission, $3 Penn Museum members/students, FREE to ARCE-PA members.
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Lisa Swart, PhD
Vice President, Pennsylvania Chapter
American Research Center in Egypt
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 746-2071
www.arce-pa.org
v...@arce-pa.org
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