Austin Kramer Photography

One of the more complex lighting problems I've had to deal with, made more complex by wanting to get the horns to stand out, but at the same time shoot from an angle that showed the arrangement of the other vessels on the ring.

This kernos ring (A18835, on display) comes from the site of Megiddo and dates to the Iron I period (1200-975 BC). This was probably a libation vessel that would have been used during religious ceremonies. The vessel has a hollow ring with attachments that are a gazelle head, amphorae, pomegranates, doves and a cup. The wine or water would have been poured through the attachments and circulated through the vessel. The doves appear to be drinking from the cup.

Learn more about ancient drinking practices by taking the Onsite course, Drinking in Antiquity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Classical World, which starts April 27! https://bit.ly/2Ht8xd1

This Neo-Assyrian gypsum relief fragment (A11258, on display), shows a group of men towing a boat laden with logs or wooden planks. It comes from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad and may depict Neo-Assyrian soldiers. It has been suggested that it depicts the one of Sargon's campaigns against the king of Babylon, Marduk-apla-iddina II.
Learn more about Neo-Assyrian reliefs by attending tomorrow's OI Lunchtime Gallery Talk, "Deconstructing Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs" at 12:15 pm!

This is a funerary stela of the Nubian Prince and general Pekartror (E6408, on display) which dates to Dynasty 25, when the Nubians ruled Egypt. This stela was excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund at the site of Abydos. He came from Nubia to Abydos when he was twenty years old in order to bury his mother. He wears a distinctive Kush*te cloak on the stela and is referred to on the stela by both his Nubian name and his Egyptian name showing how the two cultures came together.

Learn more about Egypt and Nubia by attending the Members' Lecture "Entangled Lives: Intercultural Interactions in the Nubian Borderlands" which takes place tonight at 7pm in Social Science Research Room 122!