An Afternoon With Dr Paul Collins

Paul Collins is Keeper of Middle East at the British Museum. He was previously Professor of Ancient Middle East and Jaleh Hearn Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, and held a Hugh Price Fellowship at Jesus College.  His research interests include visual representation in Mesopotamia, its relationship to the written record, and the transmission and adoption of artistic forms across the Middle East.  He is currently Chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq.

His lectures will be on:

1. The Soldier and the Exorcist - the story of a cylinder seal.

2. Babylon - House of the Great Gods.

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