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The Tell Halaf Adventure

2011-03-08 9 Dailymotion

Until August 14, 2011<br />Pergamon Museum Berlin<br /><br />»It would be truly wonderful if the smashed fragments from the stone images could somehow be gathered together, brought to the National Museums and reassembled at a later date. In the case of this collection, it would, however, be a tremendous task, since the sculptures have been shattered into countless, often minute fragments.«<br />MAX VON OPPENHEIM AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS TELL HALAF MUSEUM, 1944<br /><br />A hundred years after the start of excavations at Tell Halaf, in what is today north-east Syria, Max Freiherr von Oppenheim’s long-cherished wish has finally been realized: his monumental sculptures, originally believed to be irretrievably damaged, are now to go on display in the Pergamonmuseum.<br /><br />More: http://www.gerettete-goetter.de/index.php?node_id=1

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