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Assyrians. Among the treasures in this collection are the
Vulture Stela of King Eahnatum; the Stela of Naram-Sin,
King of Akkad; several statues of Gudea of Lagash; the wall
paintings from Mari; the famous Stela of Hammurabi
containing his law code; and reliefs from the palace of Susa
built for Darius the Great. After a break for independent
lunch in one of the museum cafes, we will complete our visit
to the Near Eastern collection with time remaining to visit
with some of the major works of art in the painting galleries.
The remainder of the day will be at leisure. B
Thursday, May 12: BERLIN - Hotel Palace
We will transfer back to the Charles de Gaulle Airport for our
flight to Berlin where we will be met buy our German Tour
Manager and transferred to the centrally located, Palace
Hotel. The afternoon will be spent visiting the
Charlottenburg Palace Museums. Touring begins in the
Aegyptisches Museum, which houses one of the most
important collections of Ancient Egypt, including the famous
limestone bust of Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tiy and
“The Berlin Green Head” (300 BC), as well as the temple
gate of Kalabsha (20 BC), built by the Roman Emperor
Augustus, and the great Column Hall from the pyramid
temple of King Sahure. We then cross the street to the
Sammlung Berggruen to view Germany's largest collection
of Picassos as well as other 20th-century artists. We will
break for lunch in one of the restaurants within
Charlottenburg Palace complex. BLD
Friday, May 13: BERLIN - Hotel Palace
The morning will be spent in East Berlin visiting the
Pergamon Museum, which displays antiquities from both the
ancient orient and the Greek and Roman worlds. Among the
architectural masterpieces reconstructed here in their original
sizes are the famous Hellenistic altar from Pergamon, the
fabulous Ishtar Gate from Babylon, and the Market Gate from
the Greek city of Miletus on the Turkish coast. After a late
lunch at the XII Apostel, a popular Italian restaurant near the
museum, we will explore the historic city during a one hour
boat tour on the Spree, the river that helped build Berlin. BL
Saturday, May 14: BERLIN - Hotel Palace
This morning we return to east Berlin to visit the Altes
Museum which houses the collection formerly on display in
the Charlottenburg and part of the material from the
Pergamon Museum, including the so-called Berlin Amphora
from Vulci, Greek sculpture, Sythian treasures from
Vettersfelde and treasures from Thyreatis in the Pelepponese,
as well as a collection known as the Hildesheim Silver from
the first century BC. The remainder of the day will be at
leisure. B
Sunday, May 15: BERLIN - Hotel Palace
Our first stop this morning will be the new Jewish Museum
designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind in the
shape of a broken Star of David. The zinc-paneled building
creates a close relationship between the museum’s themes
and its architecture. We then continue to the Dahlem
Museum complex which houses ethnographic and
archaeological artifacts from Southeast Asia, the Americas,
China, India as well as bronzes from Benin and many other
interesting exhibitions. After visiting some of the highlights
of this huge complex together, we will have time to explore
on our own. The remainder of the day will be at leisure to
visit some of the many museums and monuments open
today. This evening we will have our farewell dinner at one of
the city’s fine restaurants. BD
Monday, May 16: BERLIN/CHICAGO
We will transfer to the airport for our flights to Chicago via
Munich.
Archaeological Tours will be happy to assist tour members in
purchasing tickets to cultural performances (opera, theatre,
philharmonic, etc.) available in Paris and Berlin in May.
TOUR COST: $5930
(includes group airfare from Chicago)
Single Supplement: $1155
Land Arrangements Only: $4910
(without airfare from Chicago)
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Friday, May 6: CHICAGO/PARIS
Depart for Paris, via Frankfurt, on Lufthansa Airlines.
Saturday, May 7: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel
We will be met upon arrival at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle
Airport by our tour manager who will accompany our
transfer to the four-star KK Cayre Hotel on the Left Bank.
This afternoon we will walk to the Musée du Louvre for the
first of three visits we will make to this spectacular museum.
The focus of this afternoon’s touring will be the Greek and
Roman collections which include the famous Winged Victory
of Samothrace; the personification of the Tiber River; the
Venus de Milo; the Borghese Hermaphrodite; part of the
sculptural decoration of the Parthenon; the Hera of Samos;
an array of Roman portraits and much more. After an
introductory lecture by Professors Peter Dorman and
Christopher Woods, we will walk to Les Ministeres, a 1900
bistro, for dinner. D
Sunday, May 8: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel
This morning a short drive brings us to St-Germain-en-Laye
where our local guide will introduce us to the art and
artifacts of prehistoric man at the Musée des Antiquités
Nationales. After lunch at Cazaudehore et la Forestière,
we will return to Paris with time for independent touring in
the late afternoon. BL
Monday, May 9: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel
Our second visit to the Musée du Louvre will focus on the
Egyptian collection. Among its treasures are objects from the
First Dynasty royal tombs at Abydos, including the stela of
King Djer; slab stelae from the Giza mastabas near the Great
Pyramid; the Louvre seated scribe; statuary and relief from
the Old and Middle Kingdoms; the gold bowl of general
Djehuty; sculpture and minor arts from the Amarna period,
including the Akhenaton colossus from Karnak; funerary
papyri and luxurious cosmetic implements from the New
Kingdom; stelae of the Apis bulls from Memphis; and the
zodiacal ceiling from the temple of Dendera. This evening’s
will be at Procope, one of the oldest restaurant in Paris.BD
Tuesday, May 10: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel
This morning our guide will take us on a walking tour in the
Marais Quarter, which stretches between the Quartier du
Temple and the Seine. We will examine the pre-Revolution
residential architecture including the oldest square in Paris,
Place des Vosges and the private town-houses of the
nobility. We will stop to visit the Musée Carnavalet’s
collection illustrating the history of Paris. We will then visit
Place de la Concorde to view the obelisk inscribed to
Ramses II, which originally stood in front of the first pylon at
the Luxor Temple. The morning ends at the Cathédrale
Notre-Dame where we will see traces of the city's original
ramparts and visit the archaeological crypt. The afternoon
will be at leisure. B
Wednesday, May 11: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel
Our last visit to the Musée du Louvre will take us through
the Near Eastern collection. Five Mesopotamian galleries
focus on the Sumerians, Akkadian empire and the Neo-
Dear Members and Friends of the Oriental Institute:
We are pleased to offer a very special tour to the famed
collections of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern art in
Paris and Berlin. Because the collections are so rich and
diverse, we have invited two Oriental Institute faculty
members-Egyptologist Peter Dorman and Assyriologist
Christopher Woods-to accompany this program.
The Oriental Institute has long-standing academic ties with
the Louvre and with Berlin's Egyptian and Near Eastern
Museums. You will find that this program will enrich your
understanding of our own collections because Paris and
Berlin have material that is so closely related to ours. In
Paris, we will see reliefs from Khorsabad excavated by the
French in the 19th century and, of course, the cast of our
own winged bull that now dominates the Louvre's
Khorsabad Court. We will also study the incredible array of
architectural fragments from Susa that are contemporary
with our own material from Persepolis. Our sections of
glazed brick from Babylon come alive in Berlin as you see
the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate. Berlin's very strong
holdings of Hittite and Neo-Hittite artifacts are a perfect
complement to our Syrian-Anatolian gallery that opens in
early 2005. The extraordinary holdings from the Amarna
Period in Berlin-including the bust of Nefertiti-recall the
historical setting of our colossal statue of Tutankhamun.
This promises to be an extraordinary trip, with in-depth
visits to the finest collections of ancient art with expert
cultural and historical background provided by Oriental
Institute faculty. Space is limited. I urge you to sign up
today!
Sincerely,
Gil J. Stein
Director
Peter Dorman is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the
Oriental Institute, and Chairman of the Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University
of Chicago. From 1978-88, he served as a Curator in the
Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum
in New York. For the next nine years he served as Field
Director of the Epigraphic Survey in Luxor. Presently, he
teaches Egyptian language and history at the Oriental
Institute, where his research interests include the Theban
region and tomb documentation, as well as the relation of
Egyptian material culture to text and representation.
Christopher E. Woods is currently Assistant Professor of
Sumerology at the Oriental Institute, the University of
Chicago. He received his B.S. from Yale University and his
Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University and has just
completed a three-year fellowship in the Harvard Society of
fellows. His research interests include Sumerian grammar
and writing, and early Mesopotamian religion and history.
He is currently preparing the final volume of the long-term
OI project, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, as well as a
book on the Sumerian prefix system.
THE TOUR RATE INCLUDES:
* Transatlantic group flights from Chicago on Lufthansa
Airlines including flight from Paris to Berlin. Surface travel
by motor coach as detailed in the itinerary.
* Accommodations in four-star hotels based on two persons
sharing a twin-bedded rooms with private bath as listed or
similar.
* Meals as listed in the detailed itinerary, table d’hôte.
B - Breakfast L - Lunch D - Dinner.
* Baggage handling for one suitcase and one carry-on bag per
person.
* All gratuities to tour escorts, guides, drivers and porters.
* A $400 contribution to The Oriental Institute.
Not included in the tour cost: Passport fees, excess baggage
charges, transfers to and from airports for tour participants
arriving or departing on flights other than the group flights,
insurance, beverages and items not on the menus.
TARIFFS: Based on foreign exchange rates in effect June 2004
and a minimum of 20 participants. Airfare is based on a group
fare and includes all internal flights. All rates subject to change.
DEPOSITS & PAYMENTS: A $600 deposit is required to book.
Final payment is due sixteen weeks before departure.
CANCELLATIONS: In the event of cancellation, refund in full
less a $200 handling fee will be made until sixteen weeks before
departure. From sixteen to twelve weeks before departure, the
penalty is $1,850. From twelve weeks until six weeks before
departure, the penalty is $2,600 and from six weeks until
departure, the penalty is $3,300 plus any penalties levied by
hotels and operators. These penalties could reach 100%. There
will be no refund for cancellations on the day of departure or
thereafter. In addition, if cancellation is made within 60 days of
departure, the airlines require a penalty. Cancellation of program
by The Oriental Institute/Archaeological Tours: full refund.
NOTE: Neither The Oriental Institute nor Archaeological Tours
accepts liability for any airline penalties incurred by the purchase
of nonrefundable airline tickets.
INSURANCE: Insurance is available to cover these penalties. By
purchasing trip cancellation insurance within 10 days of your
initial deposit, Travelers Insurance Company will waive the
usual exclusion for preexisting medical conditions.
A note about single rooms: For those traveling alone but who prefer to
share with another, we will endeavor to work out congenial rooming
arrangements. If impossible, or if a single room must be assigned due to
the roommate’s canceling or incompatibility, or for any other reason,
even if at the last moment or while on tour, the single supplement or
prorate thereof must be collected.
RESPONSIBILITY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOURS, a division of
LINDSTONE TRAVEL, INC., and THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE in
accepting bookings for the tour, clearly stipulates that it is not liable for
the faults or defaults of other companies and persons that may be used
in the carrying out of the tour services; also for accidents, baggage
losses, delays, strikes, political unrest, riots and acts of God and war. In
the event it becomes necessary or advisable for the comfort or well-being
of the passengers, or for any reason whatsoever, to alter the itinerary or
arrangements, such alterations may be made without penalty to the
operator. Additional expenses, if any, shall be borne by the passengers.
The right is also reserved to withdraw this tour; also to decline to accept
or retain any persons as members of the tour. IATA carriers concerned
are not to be held responsible for acts, omissions or events during the
time passengers are not on board. The passage contract in use by the
companies concerned shall constitute the sole contract between the
company and purchaser of these tours and/or passengers.
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Museums of Paris & BerlinMay 5 - 16, 2005
Museums of Paris & BerlinMay 6 - 16, 2005