Where We're Heading
The Getty Villa in Malibu, CA will mount an extraordinary exhibit of artifacts from Herculaneum's Villa dei Papiri, not to be missed!
26 June thru 28 October 2019
The American Friends of Herculaneum are coordinating a day of lectures, "Reading the Herculaneum Papyri: past, present, and future"
Saturday 19 October 2019. Plan to come!
AFoH will enjoy special tours and a reception.
The Getty show will feature the bronze Drunken Satyr from the Villa dei Papiri, which is being conserved in the Getty labs in preparation for the June opening. The Iris blog has an article by AFoH Board member Ken Lapatin.
Read & watch it here.
Call for Papers: The paper panel at the 2020 Society for Classical Studies (Washington DC) sponsored by the AFoH is called "The Villa of the Papiri at Herculaneum: Pieces of the Puzzle". Abstracts are due by 1 March 2019.
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