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Anatolia Research Interest Group

What Friday Seminar
When May 29, 2009
from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Where Cotsen Seminar Room (Fowler A222)
Contact Name Mac Marston
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From the Land of the Golden Fleece:

Excavations at Pichvnari, a Greek-Colchian Settlement on the Black Sea Coast of Georgia

Michael Vickers, Professor of Archaeology at Oxford University and Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum

The lecture is co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA. For more information on the project, please click here.


The Anatolia Research Interest Group has been hosting lectures by local and visiting scholars throughout the 2008-2009 school year. These lectures are open to the Cotsen Institute community, although directed towards other members of the interest group. This is the last lecture of the school year. Please join us!

 

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