Since 2008, classics majors and minors have had opportunities to pursue independent research related to the Ancient World Gallery. This work has involved inventorying the collection, classifying items, writing catalog entries, searching campus archives for object histories, and preparing thematic essays published here.
Students in the Fall 2021 Ancient World Gallery Seminar (Julia Berutti, Maky Espinoza, Hunter Hagan, William Hunt, Madison Phillips, Michelle Rutledge, Daniel Saravia Romero, Lindsey Stevens, and Paige Walworth) conducted more detailed investigations of the history and significance of the ancient items in the collection, to write new labels and the new catalog entries presented here. They also designed the new displays of ancient artifacts, replicas, and books for the new gallery space in the Humanities Building.
CLSC 398: Ancient World Gallery students working in the Archaeology Lab, October 2021
Independent Study Projects
Madison Phillips, ’23
Spring 2022
Project: Updating Ancient World Gallery catalog and creating a new website
Colby Ferguson, ’11
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
Project: Inventorying and cataloging Ushabti figures and ostrich eggs in antiquity
Amy Nicholas, ’11
Spring 2009
Project: Roman Lamps
Dayle Wood, ’11
Spring 2009
Project: Egyptian Coffin Fragments
Zack Orefice, ’09
Spring 2009
Project: Agean Bronze Age Pottery