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Lecture and Cocktails
June 7, 2018, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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A City Built for a God: Archaeology at Antinoupolis
The Roman emperor Hadrian’s trip down the Nile in 130 CE is infamous, not least because his companion–the Greek youth, Antinous–supposedly fell from their boat and drowned. Because of Egyptian beliefs, Antinous was deified after death, and Hadrian founded a city for the cult of the new god at Antinoupolis (city of Antinous). An overview of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Italian Archaeological Mission of the University of Florence’s ongoing archaeological fieldwork at the site will be given. One of the Mission’s main goals is to make a complete archaeological and architectural picture of the Hadrianic city. New finds from February 2017 and 2018 investigations of the city’s sacred landscape will be highlighted.
Erin Peters, PhD, Assistant Curator of Science and Research, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh