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Panhel Recruitment Workshop
Sorority women must attend a recruitment workshop in order to become well versed in recruitment guidelines. 80% attendance for all sorority chapters is expected.
Queen Pu-Abi of Ur: A Love Story – ASSI Lecture
The Dr. George G. Hackman Memorial Lecture by Dr. Paul Zimmerman
In January 1928 Leonard Woolley, excavating at the site of Ur in Iraq, announced one of the most spectacular archaeological finds of all time: the tomb of Queen Pu-Abi. Dressed in gold and carnelian and accompanied to her grave by a retinue of attendants, the burial was an elaborate and expensive affair, and its discovery made international headlines. But Woolley wrote, too, of a touchingly human side to this Mesopotamian Queen: her tomb was carefully arranged next to that of her husband. Though the king’s identity was never determined, Woolley was sure that the two tombs showed a devotion that transcended their mortal lives. Recent studies led by archaeologists at the University of Pennsylvania Museum permit us to re-examine the materials from the Royal Cemetery of Ur and propose answers to the questions that Woolley posed. Who was Pu-Abi? How did her attendants die? Who was her king?