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The Nicholson Middle East Collection

11.06.25

Aired on Wednesday 11th June 2025 · 35:01

The Nicholson Collection of Antiquities

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In this episode we talk to Deputy Director of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Dr Paul Donnelly: Archeologist and honorary associate of the Department of Archaeology and founding member and vice president of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation. He is also a governor of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, both at the University of Sydney. “The collection is representative of the great urban centres that flourished along the Levantine coast, across Mesopotamia and along the Indus Valley. Artefacts acquired from key excavations of the 20th century form the core of this collection and additional ceramic sherds offer insight into the development of ancient Anatolia. Overall, the collection spans from the pre-Neolithic period through the significant developments of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages up until the Roman era”.

Chocolate-on-white jar, Middle/Late Bronze Age, Pella, Jordan (Tomb 62)
Ivory plaque, 730-720 BC. Excavated from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud,

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