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- Ninth Biennial Convention of the ASPS in Yerevan, Armenia (May 30-June 3, 2023)The Ninth Biennial Convention of the Association will take place in Yerevan, Armenia during the week of May 30-June 3, 2023. The convention will be co-hosted by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia .
- Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient IraqMarch 1, 2022 through September 5, 2022 Getty Villa Museum, Los Angeles Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq, through the museum’s masterworks on special loan from the British Museum, reveals how Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BCE decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both […]
- Falcons: The Art of the HuntMarch 1, 2022 through July 17, 2022 Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Swift, fierce, and loyal, falcons have been celebrated for millennia. In ancient Egypt, they were closely associated with Horus, the god of the heavens. By the early eighth century in Syria, falcons were being trained to become skillful hunters at the royal […]
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Past & Forthcoming Event
Bert Fragner Memorial Lecture
(1 December 2022)
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iran/events/current-events/bert-fragner-memorial-lecture
A full biography of Bert Fragner (1941-2021) and his publications: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iran/institute/staff/former-staff-members/bert-g-fragner
Zacherlfabrik (Photo © Y Kadoi)
Persian art 