Dr. Kiersten Neumann
@knpazuzu.bsky.social
Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...
Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
May 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...
Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor
January 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor
The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki
December 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki
So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6
December 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6
December 12, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Wonderfully its story also extends into the gallery’s other display’s, encouraging visitors to find connections throughout. #syrianheritage #iraqiheritage #livinglandscapes #buildingblocks #sensoryexperience #memories #connections #communities #hope #contemporaryartinarchaeologicalmuseums
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Wonderfully its story also extends into the gallery’s other display’s, encouraging visitors to find connections throughout. #syrianheritage #iraqiheritage #livinglandscapes #buildingblocks #sensoryexperience #memories #connections #communities #hope #contemporaryartinarchaeologicalmuseums
Here, Mohamad uses replicas of artifacts from the collection as building blocks in the creation of a sensorially rich, deeply profound, incredibly detailed, and ever surprising living neighborhood reminiscent of urban spaces of Syria and Iraq. The longer you look, the more you see. 2/
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Here, Mohamad uses replicas of artifacts from the collection as building blocks in the creation of a sensorially rich, deeply profound, incredibly detailed, and ever surprising living neighborhood reminiscent of urban spaces of Syria and Iraq. The longer you look, the more you see. 2/
It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/
December 8, 2024 at 10:50 PM
It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/
#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar
December 1, 2024 at 10:05 PM
#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar
“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia
#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
November 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...
A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾
One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D
#asor24 #boston
#asor24 #boston
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 PM
One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D
#asor24 #boston
#asor24 #boston
Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.
If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
November 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤
#sensorystudies #neareast
Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284
As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium…
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
November 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium…
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula
Thanks to the Smart Museum for the invitation to participate in their 50th Anniversary Exhibition with a small bit of label text 🙏 Equally thankful to connect with these pieces in their collection by the forever fabulous #MichaelRakowitz from his series “The invisible enemy should not exist” 🖤
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Thanks to the Smart Museum for the invitation to participate in their 50th Anniversary Exhibition with a small bit of label text 🙏 Equally thankful to connect with these pieces in their collection by the forever fabulous #MichaelRakowitz from his series “The invisible enemy should not exist” 🖤
Join this Wednesday at 5:30pm EST, “(Un)Broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” hosted virtually by ISAW. Register online to receive the link: isaw.nyu.edu/events/exhib....
January 20, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Join this Wednesday at 5:30pm EST, “(Un)Broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” hosted virtually by ISAW. Register online to receive the link: isaw.nyu.edu/events/exhib....
Open-access PDF now available for download: "'I Burn as Incense for You': Censers in Assyria and Beyond," in "Holy Smoke," edited by Beate Fricke.
www.academia.edu/111948197/
www.academia.edu/111948197/
December 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM
Open-access PDF now available for download: "'I Burn as Incense for You': Censers in Assyria and Beyond," in "Holy Smoke," edited by Beate Fricke.
www.academia.edu/111948197/
www.academia.edu/111948197/
The case is flanking the entrance to the ANE galleries, currently undergoing renovation.
December 9, 2023 at 4:40 PM
The case is flanking the entrance to the ANE galleries, currently undergoing renovation.
“Recent Repatriation to the Republic of Yemen,” a new display @metmuseum of the stone sculptures, whose ownership has been restored to Yemen. At Yemen’s request, they remain at the museum on loan & are displayed as part of their repatriated heritage, www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/a...
December 9, 2023 at 4:40 PM
“Recent Repatriation to the Republic of Yemen,” a new display @metmuseum of the stone sculptures, whose ownership has been restored to Yemen. At Yemen’s request, they remain at the museum on loan & are displayed as part of their repatriated heritage, www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/a...