The Archive · The Founding Hall

The Founding Hall

Three hundred and nine years before the common era. A wine merchant’s stall in Pella. Four names the Archive will not give in full.

What the institution remembers of its own beginning is kept here. It is not much. It was not meant to survive.

The Mark — a black circle in heavy India ink on aged parchment

The Mark

Object 001 · paper and ink · recovered 1991

Further material is anticipated.
Provenance pending.

Further material is anticipated.
Provenance pending.