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Pottery, peoples and places: the late Hellenistic period, c. 200-50 BC between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
International conference at Sandbjerg Manor house 27-29 November 2008
In recent decades there has been considerable debate as to the extent of cultural globalization (whether as Hellenisation or Romanisation). However, the late Hellenistic world of antiquity is probably one of the best candidates of a pre-modern, self-conscious, globalized world, if one such ever existed. This world had moved beyond the narrow world of the Greek polis. Peoples and goods travelled across vast geographical expanses and connected India to the east and Spain to the west, Scythia to the north and Africa to the South. Resulting cross-cultural connections prompted negotiation of identity and power. It was during this same century that the Hellenistic kingdoms one by one succumbed to the emerging power of Rome. We can observe that between the outbreak of the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC) and the sack of Corinth and Carthage in 146 BC, Rome altered the political and cultural landscape of the Mediterranean and far beyond. In the Black Sea region, new tribes challenged the old colonial powers of the Mediterranean: the Scythians of Skiluros’ clan, the Sarmatians and the Getes. But which impact did major and minor political events have on the archaeological record?
With this background in mind, we have proposed a conference to address the following issues:
- bring up to date the discussions of various late Hellenistic fine ware, plain ware and commercial transport vessel productions in the Black Sea and Aegean regions
- reconsider the major chronological fixed points in late Hellenistic ceramics
- explore questions of the extent of economic and social integration in trade, eating and drinking practices, burial practices, artistic choices, etc. between the Pontic region, the Aegean basin and the Mediterranean as informed by ceramic studies
The conference will take place at Sandbjerg Manor House, Denmark, 27-29 November 2008. The organisers are Pia Guldager Bilde, Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies and Mark Lawall, Associate Professor at the Department of Classics, University of Manitoba.
Final program
Thursday 27 November 2008
Ceramics, Globalization, and Ancient History | |
14:00-14:10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks: Pia Guldager Bilde and Mark Lawall |
14:10 | Jean-Paul Morel, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I |
14:50 | John Lund, National Museum, Copenhagen |
15:30 | Sergei KOVALENKO, Department of Coins & Medals Department Pushkin Museum of fine Arts, Moskva |
Contributing to Chronologies 1 | |
16:30 | Guy D.R. Sanders, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens Events not processes: Reassessing the lower fills of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth |
17:10 | Sarah James, Department of Classics, University of Texas, Austin Bridging the Gap: Reconsidering local Corinthian pottery production after 146 BC. |
Friday 28 November 2008
Contributing to Chronologies 2 | |
8:30 | Andrea Berlin, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota Dining In State: The Tablewares from the Hellenistic Administrative Building at Kedesh (Israel) |
9:10 | Susan Rotroff, Department of Classics, Washington University Sulla and the Pirates: early 1st-century contexts in Athens and on Delos |
9:50 | Nathan Badoud, French School at Athens La périodisation et ses limites. A propos des timbres amphoriques de la citerne d’Olbia |
2nd century BC pottery on the west Pontic coast | |
10:45 | Pierre Dupont, CNRS, Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, Université Lumière Lyon 2, and Vasilika Lungu, Institute of South-Eastern Studies, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest Imports and local imitations of Hellenistic pottery and amphoras in Romania: preliminary lab results |
11:25 | Anelia Bozkova, Archaeological Institute, Sofia La céramique West Slope de l'Âge Héllénistique avancée à Mésambrie Pontique |
Mouldmade Bowl Production | |
13:30 | Christine ROGL, Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Wien |
14:10 | Aneta Petrova |
14:50 | Pia Guldager Bilde, DNRFCBSS |
Early Sigillata production | |
15:50 | Krzysztof Domzalski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa Antioch region and Pergamon: two ways towards the emergence of terra sigillata |
16:30 | Octavian BOUNEGRU, University of Iassy Céramique sigillée pergamenienne dans le Pont Gauche. Un approche chronologique et archéometrique |
2nd century BC Asia Minor 1 | |
17:30 | Sabine Ladstätter, Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Wien Late Hellenistic pottery of Ephesus. Developments and tendencies. |
18:10 | Nina Fenn |
Saturday 29 November 2008
2nd century BC Pontos | |
8:30 | Denis Zhuravlev, Department of Archaeology, the State Historical Museum, Moskva Local ceramic production in the Bosporan kingdom (2nd and 1st centuries BC)
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9:10 | Yuriy Zaytsev, Institute of Archaeology, NASU, Simferopol The ceramic complex of the Scythian fortress Ak-Kaja 4th to 1st century BC |
9:50 | Georgy Lomtadze, Department of Archaeology, the State Historical Museum, Moskva Ceramic complex of the second - first centuries BC at Bosporus |
10:45 | Natalia ZhuraVleva, Department of Archaeology, the State Historical Museum, Moskva |
11:25 | Latife SummereR, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München Neglected Ceramics: An Overview on the Hellenistic Pottery of Amisus |
13:30 | Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba and DNRFCBSS, Pia Guldager Bilde, DNRFCBSS, Søren HANDBERG, DNRFCBSS, Jakob MUNK HØJTE, DNRFCBSS, Vladimir STOLBA, DNRFCBSS, Nina Alexandra LEIPUNSKAYA, Institute of Archaeology, NASU, Kiev The Lower City of Olbia: occupation and abandonment in the 2nd century BC |
14:10 | Valentina Krapivina, Institute of Archaeology, NASU, Kiev |
2nd century BC Asia Minor 2 | |
15:10 | Patricia Kögler Tableware from Knidos: The local production during the 2nd and 1st century B.C |
15:50-17:00 |
Gérald Finkielsztejn, Israeli Antiquities Authority Concluding Comments GENERAL DISCUSSION |