THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

Invites you to a public lecture

The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire
DR. JOHN E. CURTIS, OBE, FBA
Keeper of Special Middle East Projects
The British Museum

Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
5:30-6:30 p.m.

No RSVP is required.
Inquiries: Susanna Lee 212.570.3907

Please use the ground-level entrance at Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street
for this event.

This program is presented with the exhibition
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: Charting a New Empire
June 20 – August 4, 2013
Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Gallery 404

This exhibition was organized by the British Museum in partnership
with the Iran Heritage Foundation and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity
from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The exhibition’s presentation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is
made possible with the support of the Ansary Foundation, Akbar A.
Lari, Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York, Nowruz
Commission and Omid and Kimya Kamshad. Additional support provided by
the NoRuz at the Met Fund.