THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION

The Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Collection was founded in the nineteenth century through the interest of the University’s first President, Daniel Coit Gilman. His vision of learning through research still guides the University. Ever since, the collection has directly supported the teaching of courses by providing antiquities as a primary resource for study and research.

As a result of the tradition President Gilman established, the University is endowed with a learning collection of international distinction. Its Greco-Roman and Near Eastern collections extend from pre-dynastic Egypt into the Byzantine and Islamic periods.

The collection is located in 129/131 Gilman Hall. It is administered by a Director and Faculty Advisory Board, a Curator, and Curatorial Assistants who are students in the Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies.

Director: Dr. Betsy Bryan, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Faculty Advisory Board: Dr. Alan Shapiro, Department of Classics; Dr. Michael Koortbojian, Department of the History of Art
Curator: Eunice Dauterman Maguire

The Collection is currently closed due to the upcoming Gilman Hall renovations.

An exhibtion of objects from the Collection, The Magic Object: Protection & Prosperity in Antiquity,
is on display at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
Click on the title to view the exhibit "virutally" in a PowerPoint presentation.

For more information, please call
410-516-7561 or 410-516-6717; or email emaguire@jhu.edu.

View the PowerPoint Presentation: Renovating the Archaeological Collection
View the PowerPoint Presentation: The Magic Object: Protection & Prosperity in Antiquity