12/27/2023 0 Comments Shapr3d student![]() ![]() He’s playing kottabos, a common game at ancient Greek symposia, or drinking parties. Perhaps the best-known item in Bryn Mawr’s collection of Greek pottery, this plate, which gives the Bryn Mawr Painter his name, features a bearded man, his arm extended as he tips his kylix-a large, shallow drinking vessel-forward. One such object was item P.95, a red-figure clay plate from ca. But in truth, we ran into exactly the opposite problem-there were far more objects we wanted to include than we possibly could. When my fellow committee members and I began browsing the Tri-Co Special Collections databases for Freeze!: Material Cultures of Movement, the exhibition accompanying Bryn Mawr College’s 13th Biennial Graduate Group Symposium, we worried it would be difficult to find objects that reflected the symposium’s theme, kinesis. I never knew how many things don’t get included in an exhibition until I started planning one. By Mallory Fitzpatrick, PhD student in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies ![]()
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