[Uwhistory] Lecture: Hercules in Central Asia (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:32:29 -0800 (PST)
From: joel walker <galatia02 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Lecture: Hercules in Central Asia

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On Tuesday, February 12, Kazim Abdullaev of the Institute of Archaeology 
in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) will speak on:

"The Imagery and Cult of Hercules in Central Asia”

Location: Mary Gates Hall, room 241.
Time: 3:30-5 PM

About the speaker: Dr. Abdullaev is a distinguished scholar of the 
archaeology and material culture of Central Asia.  He has excavated at 
Dura Europos in Syria, at Merv in Turkmenistan, and at ancient Samarkand 
and numerous other sites in southern Uzbekistan.  During his current 
tenure as a Fulbright scholar in Seattle and Princeton, he hopes to 
complete a two-volume book on the seals of pre-Islamic Central Asia.






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