Fitton Center personnel heard Tuck speak about the collection in the past and said, “He has to be part of the series,” Fritsch said.
“He’ll be talking about the artwork and the artists and how they came to create that (artwork),” she said.
Tuck, who could not be reached for comment, probably will not have any actual pieces with him but will present a PowerPoint presentation, she said.
The collection features several pieces that hail from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Highlights include portraits, tomb monuments, cult statues and religious dedications from over 2,000 years of art.
Tuck’s presentation examines figures that were portrayed in the sculptures.
“This is sort of a survey of two things. One is dead people. But most importantly, I want to focus on the pieces that have companions in other places,” Tuck said in a prepared statement.
For example, one urn in Hamilton’s collection has an identical piece in the famous Louvre museum in Paris, Tuck noted.
Tuck is the president of the Vergilian Society and associate professor of Classics at Miami University in Oxford.
Last April, he and some of his students opened an ancient Egyptian mummy coffin, hoping to find hieroglyphics on the inside that would offer more insight about Ankh-Take-lot, a priest and blood relative of a pharaoh. However, no markings were found inside.
The lecture will be in the Carruthers Signature Ballroom, which will open at 11:30 a.m. with a buffet lunch and musical entertainment by Treva Boardman. The cost is $15 for members and $17 for nonmembers. For tickets, call (513) 863-8873, ext. 110.
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