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Hubbard Hall, Susan Dwight Bliss Room
Ars Antiqua: Treasures from the Ancient Mediterranean World at Bowdoin College highlights the surprising variety, quality, and depth of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's collection of ancient art and artifacts. The collection contains many fine examples of the accessories of ancient daily life, such as coins, burial goods, and household items, and also boasts outstanding masterpieces. A stunning fifth-century A.D. mummy mask from Ptolemaic Egypt, and the second-century A.D. portrait head of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius are only a few. Though these objects have long been on view in the Walker Gallery at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, housed anew in the intimate atmosphere of the Susan Dwight Bliss Room they provide a fresh look at important aspects of daily life in the ancient world and emphasize cross-cultural connections around the ancient Mediterranean.
