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IPCAA (the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art
and Archaeology) offers a course of doctoral study in
the arts and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean
and Near Eastern worlds. Formally sponsored by the Departments
of Classical Studies and of The History of Art, and
located in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, IPCAA draws
on a distinguished range of faculty in several disciplines
and on the rich museum and library resources of the
University of Michigan. With its self-consciously interdisciplinary
character, IPCAA is today widely acknowledged as among
the very top programs in the country for the professional
training of graduate students in Classical Archaeology.
IPCAA’s
logo, a sea-monster with dolphins, is based on a fragment
of Roman wall painting, acquired from Puteoli in 1923
and now in the holdings of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
(KM 2802). The marine motif emphasizes IPCAA’s
Mediterranean focus, while the ‘hybrid’
quality of the sea-monster serves as a metaphor for
the interdisciplinary character of the Program.
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