Newsletter 22 Fall 2018

Cover Photo: Beaker Commemorating the Isthmian Games (detail). Roman, 1–100 CE. Findspot: Berthouville, France. Silver and gold. H. 12.6 cm; Diam. 10.3 cm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: inv. 56.10. Inscription: MERCVRIO Q DOMITIVS TVTVS VSLM (To Mercury, Quintus Domitius Tutus fulfi lled his vow willingly as merited) Image: Tahnee Cracchiola © Getty-BnF ISAW Newsletter 22, Fall 2018, included the following contributions:

• From the Director
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director and Professor of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity
  
  
• Exhibitions: Devotion and Decadence
   
• The Muslim Discovery of India
  Robert Hoyland, Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History
  
  
• Living at the Lake’s Edge: Excavations at the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Qarah el-Hamra in the Fayum, Egypt
  Emily Cole, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016-18, and Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Grain Storage and the Economy of Post-Hittite Polities
  Lorenzo Castellano, PhD Candidate
  
  
• ISAW Students Receive GSAS Awards
  Marc LeBlanc, Associate Director for Academic Affairs
  
  
• Incoming Graduate Students
   
• Visiting Research Scholars, 2018-19
   
• Visiting Research Scholars Alumni News
   
• Urbanism and the History of Architectural Restlessness
  The Twelfth Annual Leon Levy Lecture supported by the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
  Monica L. Smith, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies , Department of Anthropology & Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
  
  
• Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean
  Conference organized by Sebastian Heath (ISAW), David Ratzan (ISAW), Tom Elliott (ISAW), and Patrick J. Burns (ISAW)
  
  
• The Archaeology of Neighborhood Life: Concepts, Communities, and Change
  Conference organized by J. Andrew Dufton (ISAW) and Katherine Harrington (Florida State University)

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