Coming in Fall 2022

of Horus, Bastet, Thoth, and the Apis-bull as well as a falcon casket pictured below. Rune Nyord, assistant professor of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology, examined and translated the Late Period and Ptolemaic bronze inscriptions on the intact bases; we have a better idea of the function of the bronzes in the divine cult.

Giving Tuesday Supports Senusret

Thanks to a generous donor and a challenge grant, the Carlos Museum raised a total of $12,376 on Giving Tuesday. This money will support Carlos Museum curators, conservators, and Emory faculty and students who are researching and conserving many objects from a recent gift from the Georges Ricard Foundation.

Prominent Egyptologist’s Lecture Leads the Way for the Senusret Exhibition

On December 7th, Assistant Keeper of Egyptian Art at The British Museum Dr. John H. Taylor, gave a virtual lecture, The Threshold of Eternity: The Judgment of the Dead as represented on ancient Egyptian Coffins. Dr. Taylor is one of the world’s foremost scholars on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins and funerary beliefs. His lecture traced the evolution of the Judgment of the Dead and the various ways in which it was portrayed on highly decorated coffins and other items destined for the tomb. Z

coMing in fall 2022 Making an Impression

left Intaglio Gem Depicting a Satyr Hunting Game Birds. Chrome chalcedony. Roman, 1st Century CE. Gift of the Estate of Michael J. Shubin.

In august 2022, the Carlos Museum will open the special exhibition, Making an Impression: the Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones. Drawing on the museum’s collection of Greek and Roman gems, the majority of which have never been displayed publicly, this is the first exhibition of Greek and Roman gems in the southeastern United States.

Carved from semi-precious stones with miniature images of various subjects, including gods, emperors, animals, and characters from myth, engraved gems in the Greek and Roman worlds were worn as jewelry, usually in rings, and used as seal stones, amulets, and personal ornaments. They were admired (and problematized) as luxury artworks, treasured as antiques and heirlooms, and worn as statements of status, wealth, sophistication, and learning. The stones themselves were also believed to have magical and medicinal properties.

Exploring the material, production, and function of these small but significant ancient artworks, the exhibition considers how engraved gems constructed, protected, and promoted the identity of their wearer and draws attention to the people who interacted with them—from the enslaved miners who quarried the stones, to the engravers who carved them, to the individual patrons who desired, collected, and wore them, to the viewers impressed by their luster. The exhibition will also incorporate important new research carried out by Carlos conservators in collaboration with Caltech and the Field Museum in Chicago on the geographical sources of ancient gemstones. Z