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Karanis Collaboratory

Sharon Herbert Named Distinguished University Professor

Kelsey Museum Closed until June 3, 2016

Conservation Challenges at El-Kurru, Sudan

Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero

Jackier Prize Winners Announced

Students of Ross School of Business Visit the Kelsey Museum

2016-2017 Jackier Prize Competition

Don't miss Failure:Lab!

Holiday Open House at the Kelsey

Holiday Sales at the Gift Shop

Kelsey Object Featured in Engineering Video

Extended Holiday Hours

The "Leisure and Luxury" Website Goes Live

A New Display Prepared by Students on View through March 2017

Visit our New Exhibition! "The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance" Open until April 30

The Catalogue "Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii" Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

In the Field: Dr. Richard Redding, Associate Research Scientist at the Kelsey Museum, Returns from Egypt

"The Countryside of Aphrodisias" - a New Publication by Christopher Ratté and Angela Commito

Welcome Emily Pierattini, our new Assistant Exhibition Designer!

Bicentennial Exhibition Countdown

Peter Knoop Delivers a Talk on Best Practices for Mobile GIS and Information Technology in the Field

Congratulations, Jackier Prize Winners!

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Receives Highest National Recognition

Visit Our New Exhibition: Cosmogonic Tattoos

Kelsey Museum Returns Artifact to Egyptian Museum in Berlin

Conservation Workshop for Graduate Students

News from the Field

Kelsey Museum Galleries Open During Art Fair

Transmissions Across the Gap: Cosmogonic Tattoos with Artist Jim Cogswell

2017-2018 Jackier Prize Competition Is Open

Kelsey Museum Welcomes New IPCAA Students

New Publications

Aphrodisias Named World Heritage Site

Holiday Open House at the Kelsey

Holiday Sale at the Kelsey Museum Gift Shop

Museum Closed this Saturday, January 20

Nic Terrenato Speaks about Gabii Project

Recently Published: Fall 2017 Newsletter

Hidden in Plain Sight: Kelsey Museum, Featured in a Podcast on WEMU 89.1

New Publication: Final Volume of Tel Anafa

Just Released: Online Exhibition "Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt"

Jay Crisostomo Featured in "The University Record"

Leslie Schramer, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Editor

Jackier Prize Awards Ceremony

Last Month to See "Cosmogonic Tattoos"

Coming Soon: "Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern"

Bryn Mawr Classical Review on Lisa Nevett's Recent Book

The "Cosmogonic Tattoos" Catalogue Receives Silver Award in Printing Competition

Just Published: Spring 2018 Newsletter

Recently Published: Conservation of Ancient Graffiti at El Kurru

Kelsey in Focus: A New Program

Special Exhibition: Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern

Family Programs at the Kelsey Museum: New Adventures in the Fall

LSA IT Honored for Special Achievement in GIS

Tour of Newberry Hall and the Tiffany Window

The Kelsey Museum Welcomes New Curator Nicola Barham

Julia Falkovitch-Khain Presents Her Work for the Kelsey in a Poster Session

Sharon Herbert's Distinguished University Professor Lecture Now Available Online

Kelsey in Focus — See It Before It's Gone!

New Special Exhibition Opening Soon

New Banner on the Upjohn Wing

Richard Redding Delivers Keynote Speech at Cairo Conference

Kelsey Bioarchaeology Lab Renovation Complete

Special Exhibition: Ancient Color

Richard Redding to Appear on TV

Kelsey Museum Touted as a Must-See in Ann Arbor

Indie-Dance Pop Band "The Kelseys" Cites Kelsey Museum as Inspiration

Congratulations, Jackier Prize Winners!

Tour of Newberry Hall and the Tiffany Window

Trotter Multicultural Center Now Open

Kelsey Listed Among Top Three Historical Museums at U-M

"Ancient Color" Exhibition Extended

Dye Workshop To Be Offered Again

Richard Redding on CNN's "Inside Africa"

Kelsey Museum Participates in "Summer Reading Kickoff Party"

Kelsey Staff Wins "Spirit Award" at Spring Fling

A Look Ahead: Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile

U-M Students Investigate Ancient Climate Change at Karanis

Short Write-Up About the Kelsey in the Toronto Sun

Review of "Ancient Color" in A2 Observer

The Kelsey Keeps It Cool at the Townie Street Party

Art Fair Sale at the Kelsey Gift Shop

New Midday Tour Program at the Kelsey Museum

Now Open: "Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile"

The Kelsey Welcomes New Assistant Exhibition Designer Eric Campbell

Recent "Graffiti as Devotion" News Coverage

Now Open: "Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile"

New Kelsey Publication Available for Purchase and Download

Video of "Graffiti as Devotion" Opening Lecture Now Online

"Graffiti as Devotion" Featured in Museum Magazine's "First Look"

Major Show on Villas near Pompeii Opens in February

User Survey to Inform the Redesign of the Kelsey Museum’s Website

Grant to Encourage Use of Kelsey Objects in Undergraduate Teaching

National Geographic Takes Drone Video of Geoff Emberling's El Kurru Excavations

Show Featuring Wendy Artin's Watercolors of Ancient Sculpture Opens June 5

Detroit News Has High Praise for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Hatcher Library Exhibition on Francis Kelsey’s 1919-1920 Expedition to Armenia

Museum Offers Valentine's Day Celebration

Kelsey Focus Group for First-Year Honors

U-M Museum of Art to Exhibit Kelsey Islamic Artifacts

"Discovery! Excavating the Ancient World" Opens August 23

Kelsey Publishes Book on Djehutymose Coffin

"Red Rock & Rust Belt" Showing June 30 to July 21

Website for "A Man of Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey" Goes Live

Spring Kelsey Museum Newsletter Announces New Director

Research Scientist Richard Redding Reveals How Pyramid Workers Fed

Kelsey Contemporaries Opens March 15

Geoff Emberling blogs from Sudan

Kelsey Publishes New Volume on Fieldwork at Tel Anafa

New Book on Excavations at Aphrodisias, Turkey

Fall 2012 Kelsey Museum Newsletter available on line

"Conserving Antiquity" Exhibition to Open November 2

Show on Francis Kelsey Opens June 8

"Hours of Infinity Part II: Twelve Hours of Infinity: Amduat" Opens March 9

Kelsey Publishes Book on Cities of Asia Minor in Late Antiqutiy

Undergraduate Archaeology Conference March 9-10, 2012

Part II of “Karanis Revealed” Opens January 27

John G. Pedley Publishes Book on Francis Kelsey

"Dominated and Demeaned" Opens October 21

"Karanis Revealed" Opens September 16

Kelsey Publishes Book on Pisidian Antioch

Former Kelsey Conservation Intern Blogging from Cyprus

Antioch Show to Feature 3-D Movie of Virtual Reconstruction

Exhibition of Byzantine Photographs Opens

Upjohn Wing Opens November 1

U-M Conservators Join Archaeological Dig in Israel

Museum to Conserve Watercolors

Lectures 2016–2017

Lectures 2017-2018

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Exhibition-related

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Film Screening: Last Days of Pompeii

Conference on Ancient Roman Leisure and Luxury

Keynote Lecture for Conference on Ancient Roman Leisure and Luxury

Archaeological Institute of America Samuel H. Kress Lecture | The Political Role of Comrade Associations in Archaic Rome and Etruria

Drop-In Tour with Dr. Lynley McAlpine

The Story of a City over 8,000 Years: Pushing the Frontiers of Non-Invasive Survey

FAST Lecture: Coring Early Rome: Subsurface Survey in the Forum Boarium, 2013-2015

Drop-In Tour with Curator Elaine Gazda

Exhibition Opening Lecture: Studying the Villas of Oplontis: Archives, Excavation, 3D Modeling, and an Exhibition

Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: “Paleoindian Bifaces and Mobility: Questioning Assumptions”

From Seleucia to Delos by Way of Uruk and Kedesh: A Panel Discussion on Hellenistic Archives

Michigan Archaeological Society Lecture: Weaning age in late Pleistocene woolly mammoths supports hunting-induced extinction

FAST Lecture: “Water in Late Antique Ephesus” / “Object-based Learning with the Kelsey Experience and TLTC”

FAST Lecture: The So-Called "Little Baths" of Elaiussa Sebaste (Cilicia, Turkey)

Kelsey Museum Closed

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Holiday Drop-in Tour

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

FAST Lecture: "Eruption of Memory: Commemoration as Politics in the Empire of Kush"

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Saturday Sampler

FAST Lecture: "Intertextuality and Roman Visual Culture. A New Approach to Roman Ideal Sculpture”

Saturday Sampler

Film Screening: "Al Momia or The Night of Counting Years"

Saturday Sampler

A Workshop on Wendy Artin's Engagement with the Classical Past

Saturday Sampler

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

FAST Lecture: "Bioarchaeological Approaches to Copper Age Complexity" (Thu, 15 Oct 2015)

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

AIA Lecture: "Rethinking the Mycenean World"

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Ekphrasis: Poets Read Heaney's Poems

Saturday Sampler

Exhibition Opening Event: A Conversation with Artist Wendy Artin

Exhibition Opening: "Rocks, Paper, Memory, Phase II"

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field"

Curator-led Tour of "Passionate Curiosities"

Saturday Sampler

Exhibition Opening Lecture: “People, Things, Entangled Lives. Collecting in Egypt & the Holy Land"

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

"Passionate Curiosities" Exhibition Opens

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

30-minute Gallery Tour for Art Fair

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Painting with Water

Saturday Sampler

Curator-led Tour of "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures"

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

A Conversation with Artist Wendy Artin

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Painting with Water

Sketching in the Galleries

Exhibition Opening: "Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Saturday Sampler

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "The Heavenly Archer: Graeco-Iranian Iconography in Hellenistic Bactria"

Mummy Movie Night

FAST Lecture: "The Sangro Valley Project: New Excavations at Aquachiara"

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

Family Day: Dogs and Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt

AIA Lecture: "The Politics of Public Display: Archaeology, Museums and Artifacts from the Holy Land"

"Jackal Songs": A Musical Performance

Lecture: "A New Look at the City of Armazi: Patterns of Roman Urbanization in Ancient Georgia?"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "Glass for the People! Craft Production, Elite Consumption, and Technological Innovation in the Hellenistic Period"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "The New Excavations at Gabii: At the Roots of Central Italian Urbanism"

Exhibition Opening: "Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "Cultural Choices and Exchange Networks: Cereals in Iron Age and Archaic Italy"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: Ancient Faces

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: The Art of the Kelsey Museum

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: Ancient Coins and Commerce

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour: "From the Blog: The Curators' Favorite Objects"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

Calligraphy Workshop

Ancient animals–themed Drop-in Tour

Roman food–themed Drop-in Tour

FAST Lecture: "Cultural Entanglements and Identities on Kos during the Late Bronze Age: The Results of SELAP's 2009-2014 Study Seasons and Their Implications"

Lecture: "Islamic Textiles as Political Tools: Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Power, and Authority through Textile Displays and Gift-giving"

Curator-led Drop-in Tour

FAST Lecture: "Of Marble and Mud: The Sant'Omobono Project, 2009-2014"

Homecoming Weekend Extended Hours

Kelsey Movie Night

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

AIA Lecture: "Unexpected Choices: Greek Myth in Italic Imagery in the 4th Century BCE""

FAST Lecture: "New Multi-disciplinary Investigations at an Ancient Greek City: the Olynthos Project 2014"

Exhibition Opening: "Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan"

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field"

Parents' Weekend Extended Hours

Docent-led Drop-in Gallery Tour

New Docent Class

Rosalia Festival

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Ancient/Modern Gallery Conversation

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

Art Fair Drop-in Tour

DATE CHANGE for Exhibition Opening Lecture: "Ancient, Modern, or Somewhere in Between?"

A Taste of the Mediterranean

Docent Open House

Lecture: "Reviving Karanis in 3D"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Recent Excavations at the Latin City of Gabii"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Family Day: Life in Miniature

FAST Lecture: "When Kings Ruled Lydia: From the Late Bronze Age Citadels to the Rise of Sardis"

FAST Lecture: "Disentangling Contacts between Greece and Italy at the End of the Bronze Age"

AIA Lecture: "From Palace to Polis on Crete"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: From Miniature to Metropolis"

Lecture: "The Power of the Miniature: Small Things with Big Consequences"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Conservation Brown Bag: "When Fungus Attacks (Cultural Heritage)"

U-Monument 2014: Translating the Facade of Angell Hall

Exhibition Opening Lecture: “Miniatures in Life: The Role of Tiny Objects in Everyday Worlds"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

FAST Lecture: "El Kurru, Home of the 'Black Pharaohs': Challenges of Settlement Archaeology in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan"

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

FAST Lecture: "Lapis Gabinus”

AIA Lecture: "New Excavations at the Ancient City of Petra, Jordan"

FAST Lecture: "Resurrecting Refuse at Pompeii"

Lecture: "Royal Women in an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom: A Kelsey Perspective"

Publication Party for Book on the Djehutymose Coffin

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

Lecture: "Fascination with the Tiny: Figurines and Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia"

FAST Lecture: "IPCAA in the Field: 2013 Summer Projects"

Panel Discussion: "Discovery! Conservation and Science in Action at Abydos, Egypt"

Exhibition Opening Lecture: "Reptilian Mysteries in the Mediterranean: The Archaeology of Biodiversity"

Meeting: Michigan Archaeological Society

Opening Reception for "Red Rock &Rust Belt" Exhibition

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "Archaeology in Afghanistan: New Perspectives, New Challenges"

Michigan Archaeological Society meeting

Ethics Bowl: Problems Facing Greek Heritage Today

FAST Lecture: "Exchange and Urbanization in Early Rome: Perspectives from S. Omobono"

Lecture: "Results of the 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais), North Jordan"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Exhibition Opening: "Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler"

FAST Lecture: "Household Archaeology in Greece: Past, Present, and Future"

Lecture: "Roman Athens: The Transformation into an Imperial City"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

FAST Lecture: "The Capitoline on Coins: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Roman Temple"

Lecture: "Recent Conservation Projects at the Detroit Institute of Arts"

Publication Party

FAST Lecture: "Traces of Roman Foodways: Methods, Processes, Results"

Lecture "Conservation at The Henry Ford: Large History Museums and Their Challenges"

Conserving Ancient Abydos: Discovery, Recovery, and Responsibility

FAST Lecture: "Urbanization in Anatolia: 450 BCE - 50 CE"

Associates' discount days at the Kelsey Museum Shop

Discount Days at the Kelsey Shop

FAST Lecture: "Negotiating the Pharaonic Past: New Research on Ptolemaic Abydos"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "The City Wall of Aphrodisias: Before, during, and after Construction"

Associates Behind-the-Scenes Tour

Associates Bus Trip to Detroit Institute of Arts

Exhibition Opening: "Conserving Antiquity"

Lecture: “Conserving Ancient Abydos: Discovery, Recovery, and Responsibility”

Exhibition Preview

Publication party: Marjorie M. Fisher's Ancient Nubia

Lecture: "The Beast in Us All: Animals and Identity in Greek and Roman Antiquity"

Hands-on Activity: Archaeology of the Ancient World

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Rackham Centennial Lecture: "On the Menu at the Graveside: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Funerary Offerings in the Cemeteries of Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia)"

FAST Lecture: "Statuary and State: Iron Age Conundrums from Tell Tayinat, Turkey"

FAST Lecture: "New Approaches to Urbanism at Leptiminus, a Roman Port Town in North Africa"

Lecture: "Napoleon in Egypt: The Beginning of Egyptology"

Michigan Archaeology Society Meeting

Lecture: "Between Ephemeral and Permanent: Architectural Forms and Their Environments"

Lecture: "Francis Kelsey: Honorary Papyrologist"

Lecture: "Moving Pictures from Karanis"

Exhibition Opening: A Man of Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey

Family Day: Monsters and Myth

Theory in Greek Archaeology Conference

Lecture: "The Romance of Archaeology--NOT!: The University of Pennsylvania Museum's Theban Tomb Project"

Lecture: "A Secret in the Life of Bees: Cross craft interactions, chaînes operatoires, and the unexpected outcomes of an interdisciplinary project about food storage in prehistoric northern Greece."

Performance: "An Hour of Infinity" with artist John Kannenberg

Lecture: "Death, Mythology, and Ideology in the Arena: Sculpture from the Amphitheater at Capua"

Lecture: "Roman Transformations to the Isthmian Games and the Creation of New Corinthian Identities"

Lecture: "Patronage and Memorials. Expectations of Permanence and Architectural Benefactions in the Roman Period"

Family Day: Life in Ancient Egypt

Lecture: "Qazion: A Late Second-Early Third Century CE Cultic Structure in the Upper Galilee"

Opening Reception: Karanis Revealed Part II

Lecture: "The Pharaoh's Owls: Coin Use in Egypt before the Ptolemies"

Michigan Archaeological Society Meeting

Lecture: "The Middle Strouma Valley Archaeological Survey: Settlement Patterns in the Eastern Balkan Peninsula in Late Prehistory"

Current Field Projects

El-Kurru, Sudan

Olynthos, Greece

Sant’Omobono, Italy*

Tel Kedesh, Israel*

Vani, Republic of Georgia*

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Francis W. Kelsey

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2015–2016 Jackier Prize Winners

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Object 5: Glass Lamp

Object 1: Double-headed Figurine

Object 2: Silver Coin

Object 3: Short Spouted Vessel

Object 4: Zebu Weight

Object 6: Greco-Roman Egyptian Amulet

Object 7: Cuneiform Tablet

Object 8: Terracotta Lamp

Object 9: Long Spouted Vessel

Object 10: Carnelian Seal

2016–2017 Jackier Prize Winners

2017–2018 Jackier Prize Competition

Object 1: Egyptian Sculpture

Object 2: Roman Period Lamp

Object 3: Islamic Period Water Filter

Object 4: Greek Kotyle

Object 5: Red Slip Spouted Pot

Object 6: Ossuary

Object 7: Incantation Bowl

Object 8: Bull Figurine

Object 9: Bronze Axe

Object 10: Roman Amphora

2017–2018 Jackier Prize Winners

2017–2018 Jackier Prize Display Case

2018–2019 Jackier Prize Competition

2018–2019 Jackier Prize Winners

2018–2019 Jackier Prize Display Case

2019–2020 Jackier Prize Competition

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A New Course Display Case: Women of Etruria

Less Than Perfect

Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii

Karanis Revealed: The Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt

Passionate Curiosities: Collecting in Egypt & the Near East, 1880s–1950s

Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures

Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt

Ancient/Modern: The Design of Everyday Things

Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan

Life in Miniature: Identity and Display at Ancient Seleucia-on-the-Tigris

Discovery! Excavating the Ancient World

Red Rock & Rust Belt: A Tale of Two Cities

Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler

Conserving Antiquity

A Man of Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey

Hours of Infinity

Dominated and Demeaned: Representations of the Other

Envisioning Antioch: A Roman Colony in Asia Minor

Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium

Mary Upjohn Meader: Pioneering Adventures over Africa

Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch

Cavafy's World: Ancient Passions

Villa of the Mysteries

The Fabric of Everyday Life: Textiles from Karanis, Egypt

Surrounded by the View: Panoramic Photographs from the Kelsey Museum Archives

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Past Exhibitions, 1976–1980

Past Exhibitions, 1981–1990

Past Exhibitions, 1991–2000

Past Exhibitions, 2001–2010

Past Exhibitions, 2011–2015

Cosmogonic Tattoos by Jim Cogswell

Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817–2017

Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern

Urban Biographies: Interview with Lead Curator, Professor Christopher Ratté

Ancient Color: Interview with co-curators Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts

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