By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of 1964, and his w……Continue Reading Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive
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A “first-rate beer” voucher, 2,000 years overdue
In special collections, visitors often ask us, “What’s your most expensive item?” Or sometimes: “What’s the oldest thing you have?” In late November, we acquired
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