Cornell’s Coin Collection comprises almost 1800 gold, silver and bronze coins from ancient Greece and Rome, and ca. 300 coins from the Byzantine Empire, with some additions from Lydia, Persia, the Sassanid Empire, China and modern Europe. The completion of the database is in progress.Investigators:Annetta AlexandridisProject Website:http://antiquities.library.cornell.edu/coins
Cornell University once owned a collection of plaster casts of sculptures, gemstones and inscriptions from different cultures and periods such as the ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome (the majority), the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the 19th century. In addition, architectural models and details of architectural sculpture from the above-mentioned periods formed part of the collection together with more abstract drawing models for art students. This collection must have comprised about 800 pieces (excluding the ca.
Classics faculty have sponsored the digitization of many teaching collections: casts, gems, squeezes, coins. Some faculty also engage in Digital Humanities. Through these many projects Classics students can get an introduction to some of the tools of the digital humanist.Discover more about our digital projects using the links on the right.
Surface survey began in 1988 and excavations followed at Halai (1990-1992, 1996). In 2004 Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP) also collaborated with the Greek Archaeological Service and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in excavations at the Bronze Age islet of Mitrou. Investigations at Halai’s acropolis have been divided between the Neolithic village and the fortified city center of Greco-Roman times that lies above it. Field-schools and other training are an important part of the work. Preliminary reports, Ph.D. dissertations, M.A.
The Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis originated in 1958 under the direction of George M. A. Hanfmann, Harvard University, and Henry Detweiler, Cornell University, succeeded by Crawford Greenewalt Jr., University of California, Berkeley, and currently Nicholas D. Cahill, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) is a collaborative American-Armenian research initiative that has been conducting archaeological investigations in the environs of Mt. Aragats, in central Armenia, since 1998. As a co-director of this project, my research to date has centered on the mid-first millennium BC settlement at Tsaghkahovit. Our excavations have explored everyday material and spatial practices in this semi-subterranean mountain town of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC).
The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, a collaborative research venture between Cornell University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Toronto, takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the relationships between architecture, social interaction and social change in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. It uses geophysical survey, pedestrian survey and archaeological excavation, combined with digital recording and 3D modeling, in an effort to shed light on the urbanscapes of this transformative period.
Faculty and emeritus faculty in the Cornell Classics Department currently direct or are active members of five major archaeological projects covering Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Turkey. These projects can provide Cornell students with the opportunity to participate in archaeological fieldwork and research. The projects variously focus on periods from prehistory through the Roman and later periods and can expose students both to cutting-edge archaeological research and the chance for a unique immersive cultural experience.
Athena Kirk's new book, “Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres,” argues that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text, examining the ways in which lists can “stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and approximate the infinite.”
Classics, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program, Medieval Studies Program, Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program, Society for the Humanities
Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics, says that a glance at ancient Rome may help in trying to understand Putin and the subject of war crimes.
Cornell Classics graduate students Hana Aghababian and Sarah Epplin both welcomed babies recently: Lily, born in late December, and Simon, born in early February.
