Tagung: Funerary Assemblages and Ritual Performance in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond (22.-23.02.)
4th Annual Meeting of the Necropolis Research Network
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
News vom 30.01.2019
Please register for attendance until February 1, 2019 with Ute Kelp or Jenny Schlehofer.
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and coffee/tea
9:00 - 9:20 Johanna Fabricius / Lidewijde de Jong Welcome by the Organisers
9:20 - 9:50 Esmeralda Lundius, The Offering Table: The Relationship Between the Material and Immaterial in Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice
9:50-10:20 Katja Lembke, Celebrating with the Dead in Upper Egypt. An lnterdisciplinary Research Project in the Graeco-Roman
10:20-10:40 Coffee/tea break
10:40-11:10 Bilge Hürmüzlü, Burial Customs and Rituals of lonia from the Geometric to the Hellenistic Period
11:10-11:40 Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom, Nabataean Mortuary Practices and Grave Goods
11:40-12:10 Dvir Raviv / Boaz Zissu, Monumental Tombs in Roman Palestine: The Case of Judean Countryside
12:10-13:10 Lunch break
13:10-13:40 Ádám Bollók / Ayelet Dayan, "...may enjoy eternal light and peace…" Pottery Lamps and Candlesticks in Funerary Liturgies of the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean
13:40-14:10 Mordechai Aviam, Two Regional Funerary Phenomena from Late Roman-Byzantine Galilee
14:10-14:30 Coffee/tea break
14:30-15:00 Nesrine Aad, Quarries and Tombs in Baalbek, Lebanon
15:00-15:30 Esmeralda Agolli, Actions Embodied in Materiality: An Ethno-Archaeological Approach to Mortuary Rituals and Cemeteries in Rural Albania
15:30-18:30 Excursion
1} Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung
Guided tour by the curator PD Dr. Agnes Schwarzmaier2} Cemetery: Modem cemeteries in Berlin-Schöneberg
Guided tour by the funeral director Dr.-lng. Fabian Lenzen
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, 23 February 20198:30 - 9:00 Coffee/tea
9:00 - 9:30 Maximilian Rönnberg, Rethinking >Formal Burial< in Early Iran Age Attica: The Significance of Space
9:30-10:00 Eirini Dimitriadou / Eleni Salavoura, Burials in Tumuli in Classical Eastern Attica: The Case of a New Cemetery near the Athens Airport in the Mesogeia Plain
10:00-10:30 Jenny Schlehofer, Did the Mourners Sit on the Graves and Feast? A Special Custom in the Necropolis at Halieis Necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel
10:30-10:50 Coffee/tea break
10:50-11:20 Sofia Voutsaki, Bioarchaeology, Classical Archaeology and the Study of Provenance and Mobility: Uneasy Bedfellows?
11:20-11:50 Paula Kalkman, Death in Transition: An Osteo-Archaeological Study of Changes in Burial Treatment and lts Social lmplications in West Anatolia in the Roman and Early Byzantine Period ( 1st – 7th Century AD)
11:50-12:20 Ricardo Fernandes / Alessia Nava / Christian Hamann / Thomas Larsen / Patrick Roberts / Yiming Wang / Alfredo Coppa / Luca Bondioli, lsotopic Evidence for Human Diet, Nutrition, Mobility, and Occupation Chronology from the Necropolis of Centocelle (Rome)
12:20-13:20 Lunch break
13:20-13:50 Chryssa Vergidou, Diet, Differentiation and Globalization in the Roman Province of Macedonia: A Bioarchaeological Approach
13:50-14:20 Marlis Arnhold, Cremation in Macedon / Northern Greece and Beyond
14:20-14:50 Athanasia Kyriakou, Funerary Landscape, Commemoration and ldentity Negotiation Strategies in the 4th C. BC at Aegae (Vergina)
14:50-15:10 Coffee/ tea break
15:10-15:40 Ute Kelp / Nicole Reifarth / Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen / Andrea Pirson / Julian Wiethold / Stephane Verger, Funerary Assemblages in Pergamon. Commemorating the Dead in the Hellenistic Tumuli 2 and 3
15:40-16:10 Kerstin Höghammar, Migrants in the Hellenistic World - Foreigners Buried on Kos
16:10-16:40 Timothy Pönitz, The Via Dei Greci Necropolis
16:40-17:30 Final discussion