The Mosaic of the Wrestlers from Thapsus
Monday, 22 Feb. 2010, 7 pm
Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado.
Sponsored by the AIA
Free and open to the public.
The country of Tunisia lays claim to the largest number of Roman mosaics in the world. Four and a half centuries of Roman rule and its influence produced a wealth of these intricate works of art, which are still being discovered. In his lecture, Dr. Nezib ben Lazreg, of the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia, will discuss a mosaic depicting Roman wrestlers, found in the ancient city of Thapsus, 200 km southeast of Carthage. Dr. ben Lazreg took part in excavations in Thapsus from 1997 to 2001, and the wrestlers are part of a series of mosaic portraits of athletes uncovered at the site.
Dr. Nejib ben Lazreg is a researcher with the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia, and also the Curator of the Salakta Archaeological Museum, the Lamta Museum, and the Roman sites in the Sahel region of Tunisia (Lepti Minus, Thapsus, and Sullecthum). He holds his degrees from the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Tunis (M.A., Ph.D.) and has trained in mosaics conservation with ICCROM. His area of specialization is the mosaics of Roman Tunisia, and he has conducted surveys of the Roman and late Roman pottery kilns in central Tunisia, of Tunisia’s changing coast line through history, and of archaeological maps of Moknine and La Chebba in Tunisia. He has conducted excavations throughout Tunisia, including at Carthage, the Punic necropolis of Erg el Ghazouani, the Punic fort of Ras Drak in El Haouaria, and most recently at Salacta (Sullecthum), Lamta, and Thapsus
Dr. ben Lazreg will be giving a Kress Lecture, courtesy of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, which strives to support the work of scholars in the fields of ancient art.
Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado.
Sponsored by the AIA
Free and open to the public.
The country of Tunisia lays claim to the largest number of Roman mosaics in the world. Four and a half centuries of Roman rule and its influence produced a wealth of these intricate works of art, which are still being discovered. In his lecture, Dr. Nezib ben Lazreg, of the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia, will discuss a mosaic depicting Roman wrestlers, found in the ancient city of Thapsus, 200 km southeast of Carthage. Dr. ben Lazreg took part in excavations in Thapsus from 1997 to 2001, and the wrestlers are part of a series of mosaic portraits of athletes uncovered at the site.
Dr. Nejib ben Lazreg is a researcher with the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia, and also the Curator of the Salakta Archaeological Museum, the Lamta Museum, and the Roman sites in the Sahel region of Tunisia (Lepti Minus, Thapsus, and Sullecthum). He holds his degrees from the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Tunis (M.A., Ph.D.) and has trained in mosaics conservation with ICCROM. His area of specialization is the mosaics of Roman Tunisia, and he has conducted surveys of the Roman and late Roman pottery kilns in central Tunisia, of Tunisia’s changing coast line through history, and of archaeological maps of Moknine and La Chebba in Tunisia. He has conducted excavations throughout Tunisia, including at Carthage, the Punic necropolis of Erg el Ghazouani, the Punic fort of Ras Drak in El Haouaria, and most recently at Salacta (Sullecthum), Lamta, and Thapsus
Dr. ben Lazreg will be giving a Kress Lecture, courtesy of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, which strives to support the work of scholars in the fields of ancient art.
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