7# `````nX B"x *`labls2.doc ROMAN AND BYZANTINE MINTS 1. Rome 2. Naples 3. Catania 4. Syriacus 5. Carthage 6. Arelate 7. Lugdunum 8. Amiens 9. Londinium (London) 10. Treveri (Trier) 11. Mediolanum 12. Ticinum 13. Aquileia 14. Ravenna 15. Siscia 17. Sirmium 18. Thessalonica 19. Heraclea 20. Constantinople 21. Cyzicus 22. Nicomedia 23. Nicea 24. Cherson 25. Trebizond 26. Isaura 27. Antioch 28. Cyprus 29. Alexandria IMPRESSIONS OF PAINTED RELIEF CARVINGS: CROSSES Latex squeeze Original wooden beams in the church of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai Sixth century VIEW OF CHURCH PAVEMENT: NAVE From scaffolding set up between the roof beams of the church Photography by Fred Anderegg PLAN OF CHURCH Surveyed and drawn by Prof. George Forsyth PILGRIM'S FLASK: SAINT MENAS Clay Fifth to sixth century Menapolis, Egypt KM 88209 In the mid 1960s, monumental early Byzantine structures were found at the seaport site of Apollonia in Libya. In the early 1970s, a joint project with Dumbarton Oaks (the Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies) surveyed and excavated the late Roman-Byzantine-Islamic site at Dibsi-Faraj in Syria. The late 1970s saw a renewed interest in Carthage, resulting in the publication of several major late Roman and early Byzantine Carthaginian monuments, an international campaign to preserve the site, and continued exploration of the site. Current work at Lepti Minus in Tunisia continues to uncover early Byzantine monuments. University of Michigan personnel have installed some of these at a new archaeological museum in the modern town of Lamta. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a project combining excavation at the Upper Egyptian site of Coptos -- an important Hellenistic and Roman entropot -- and survey of the roads leading from Coptos to the Red Sea found evidence of later Roman and Byzantine occupations. These artifacts, principally textiles, pottery and glass, are now stored with the Egyptian Antiquities Organization; their testimony to continued use of Red Sea trade networks merits further study. Karanis forms the foundation of the Kelsey Museum's collections. The 44,0000 artifacts from Karanis (not counting the papyri in the Papyrology Room) comprise approximately fifty percent of the Museum's holdings. Karanis first came to the attention of Prof. Kelsey due to the explorations of two of the first papyrologists, B.P Grenfell and A.S. Hunt at the end of the ninteenth century. Its unique combination of well-preserved papyri, artifacts and architectural remains compelled him to undertake over a decade of excavation. The Karanis expedition was recorded on films, in still photography, and with unusually full attention to stratigraphy. Preliminary publications of the site drew upon this wealth of information to select portions of the topography and of categories of objects (architecture, textiles, glass, papyri, etc.) Several generations later a renewed interest in the Kelsey Museum collections spawned additional publications and exhibitions. Current research on the site, conducted by scholars from numerous institutions in the United States, Europe and Egypt has prompted the organization of these projects under the aegis of the Kelsey Museum's Karanis Planning Survey which seeks to identify areas of interest and potential contributing scholars for a more comprehensive series of publications. K pottery 3431 = "clay" instead of "terracotta" Coin Constantine--del. Germany Coin Nic. II, repl. coin w/nomisma 68.120--date? REST ROOM REST ROOM y|@d and excavated the late Roman-Byzantine-Islamic site at Dibsi-Faraj in Syria. The late 1970s saw a renewed interest in Carthage, resulting in the publication of several major late Roman and early Byzantine Carthaginian monuments, an international campaign to p,4R  @!!   ,-5?JVbmy )5CMYgr~#1234Rw ):CDEFGIJKLMNOP        ! ! ! Y  DEGwxy! ! ! ! H F    !" 8:h:?HH(FG(HH(d'@=/@H -:LaserWriter Courier! Avant Garde EE