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DESCRIPTION:Susanne Ebbinghaus will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentatio
 n on Monday\, February 22 at noon. Her talk is entitled “Drinking Horns: N
 ature and Myth.”Susanne Ebbinghaus is the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of 
 Ancient Art and Head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the
  Harvard Art Museums. Her research focuses on the art and archaeology of a
 ncient Greece and the Near East\, with special interest in the material cu
 lture of feasting and cross-cultural interaction between east and west. Sh
 e received her MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford\, where her d
 octoral dissertation traced the spread of a specific form of drinking vess
 el\, the rhyton with animal forepart\, in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. A
 t the Harvard Art Museums\, Ebbinghaus organized Gods in Color: Painted Sc
 ulpture of Classical Antiquity (2007) and worked on the installation of th
 e collections galleries for the museums’ 2014 reopening. She edited Superf
 icial? Approaches to Painted Sculpture\, a special issue of Source: Notes 
 in the History of Art (2011)\, and Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens (
 2014)\, a collection of essays on the scientific and art historical study 
 of ancient bronzes. She has taught courses in classics and the history of 
 art\, and is engaged in the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in Turkey
 . Currently\, Ebbinghaus is a Research Fellow at Bard Graduate Center wher
 e she is carrying out research for the exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels fr
 om the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods\, Heroes\, and Kings.In this talk
 \, Ebbinghaus will explore the use and mythology of drinking horns in the 
 ancient Mediterranean and Near East and in pre-modern Europe\, but also lo
 ok to East Asia\, Africa\, and the Americas for a broader perspective on d
 rinking from horns. In the animal world\, horns provide a defense against 
 predators and help the males of a species fight over territory and compete
  for and impress females. For the human hunter\, the horns of cattle\, goa
 ts\, and sheep present ready-made cups and natural tokens of power\, prowe
 ss\, and virility. Used for the consumption of alcoholic beverages\, the h
 orn links power and copious drinking\; the larger the horn\, the more impr
 essive the animal and the greater the hunter’s feat—and thirst. One could 
 say that by their very nature\, drinking horns invite notions of the primi
 tive and of prestige. Both their material and procurement hold significant
  potential for the spinning of tales about magical properties and heroic d
 eeds—the kind of tales that tend to be told over a drink. The inherent pre
 stige\, capacity to accrue stories\, and ability to shape and express soci
 al relations in the context of the feast led to a kind of gentrification o
 f the drinking horn in a number of ancient and modern societies. Decorated
  with precious materials and copied in other media\, horns could turn from
  cups into barely functional symbolic objects and\, in Renaissance Europe\
 , elaborately crafted collector’s items destined for the cabinet of curios
 ities.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Drinking Horns
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