Ventris-Schele Mycenaean-Mayan Exhibition OPEN MARCH 9-AUG 1 @ Benson Rare Books

[Carol F. Justus]

[ Moderator's note:
  I received the following at my personal e-mail address, but I think it's
  clearly intended for the IE list.  If not, I hope Carol Justus will forgive
  me!
  --rma ]

Dear Rich,

Just so I don't forget to forward this, I have done so in its entirety, but
probably only parts will be of interest to the IE List. In any case, here
is all the info!

Best,  Carol

>Delivered-To: cjustus at mail.utexas.edu
>Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 22:22:51 -0600
>From: tpalaima at mail.utexas.edu (Tom Palaima)

>It is a great pleasure to announce that the exhibition:

>Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael
>Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan
>Writing

>is now installed in the Benson Latin American Library Rare Books Collection
>in Sid Richardson Hall. The show will run March 9-August 1, and will
>overlap with the Maya Meetings which start tomorrow and the 11th
>International Mycenological Colloquium which will be held in the Thompson
>Conference Center May 7-13.

>The superb curatorial skills and tremendous hard work of Elizabeth Pope and
>Kent Reilly, most recently in the crucial stretch drive, have made for an
>exhibition that has accomplished what we three hoped for.  If you visit the
>show, you will be afforded an insider perspective on the collective
>intellectual and human process of decipherment that even most experts,
>including ourselves, have never had before.  The three Metropolitan Linear
>B tablet casts, made in 1913 from originals in the Ashmolean Museum,
>Oxford, and on loan to us, are beautifully displayed and linked to
>scholarly materials elsewhere in the show.  The same is true for Schele's
>Mayan inscriptions.

>Thanks once again to Chris Williams and Kevin Pluta for many long hours of
>work at computer scanning, image manipulation and text layout.  We want
>particularly to thank again Juliana Asreen, Martha Dillon and Tommy on the
>presses at UT printing for the exquisite design and excellent production
>quality of posters and catalogue.  Thanks also to the staff of the Benson
>and especially to Jane Garner for help throughout.

>Please visit our web site for further information. The show is also
>featured on the site for the UT General Libraries.

>http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/cipem/exhib

>and then click on AN EXHIBITION.

>There is also a link through:

>http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp.

>Please do pay the show a visit. You will do honor to a former great UT
>professor of Art and Art History, Linda Schele, and a UT adjunct professor
>of Classics and soon to be recipient of the gold medal for lifetime
>achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America, Emmett L.
>Bennett, Jr.

>Tom Palaima

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>Thomas G. Palaima
>Dickson Centennial Professor of Classics
>Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory
>WAG 123 (C3400)  University of Texas at Austin
>Austin, TX 78712-1181

>512 471-5742  fax 512 471-4111
>e-mail: tpalaima at mail.utexas.edu
>-OR-   pasptgp at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu

>PASP produces the revived
>*Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect* (now edited by
>Peter van Alfen).  VISIT:
>http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp

>TGP coedits *Minos*, the journal of early Greek and Aegean
>linguistics scripts, and  texts.

>Please send submissions, pertinent offprints and books for review
>to the above address.

>The 11th International Mycenological Colloquium sponsored
>by the Comiti International Permanent pour les Itudes
>Myciniennes (CIPEM: a UNESCO Committee) will meet in
>Austin, TX May 7-13, 2000.  For more information, VISIT:

>http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/cipem

>>From March 9-August 1 in the Benson Library Rare Book Collection,
>SRH 1.101 UT Austin PASP is sponsoring an exhibition entitled:

>"Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing"

>which focuses on the decipherment of Mycenaean (1400-1200
>B.C.E.) and Mayan (11 B.C.E.-1250 C.E.) writing.

>http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/cipem/exhib
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