MONDAY 24.06.2019

14:00-18:00 Registration

Conference Opening (Hörsaal 1a)

Opening Remarks by the Organizing Committee

18:00-19:00 Welcome addresses Prof. Dr. Susanne Gödde, Dean's office of the Department of History and Cultural Studies Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz, Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology Prof. Dr. Jörg Klinger, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies Key Note Session 1 Dr. Augusta McMahon 19:00-19:45 Tamed Violence: Inscribing Weapons in . Chair: Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz Key Note Session 2 Prof. Dr. Caroline Waerzeggers 19:45-20:30 Ancient Person Data in the Digital Age. Chair: Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz

20:30-23:00 Opening Reception TUESDAY 25.06.2019

Seminarzentrum Room L 115 Seminarzentrum Room L 116 Seminarzentrum Room L 113

Chair Augusta McMahon Caroline Waerzeggers

Eloisa Casadei Ilya Khait and Émilie Pagé-Perron Counting, Cooking, and Praying: Southern Mesopotamian The MTAAC Project: Computational Analysis for Sumerian. 09:00-09:30 Temples during the Early Dynastic Period.

Fleur van der Sande Birgül Ögüt The Effects of War on Mesopotamian Water Management. The Untapped Potential of Phytolith Research in 09:30-10:00 Session 2 Session 1 Archaeology.

Albert Planelles Susanna Cereda Filling the Gap through Prosopography: Establishing the From Sediments to Lived Experience: a Case Study from 10:00-10:30 Findspot of Unprovenanced Texts from Nuzi. the 4th Millennium BC Buildings of Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey).

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Chair Joost Hazenbos Christoph Purschwitz

Michele Cammarosano Michael Lewis Hittite Visible Religion. Towards an Interdisciplinary Study Social Transformations and Modes of Ceramic Production 11:00-11:30 of the Visual and Material Culture in the Religious during the 4th-Early 3rd Millennium BCE in the Bazyan Traditions of Ancient Anatolia. Basin: The Late Chalcolithic Ceramics from Kani Shaie, Iraqi-Kurdistan. Juan Álvarez García Ghias Klesly The “Maison d’Urtenu”: a Functional Study of an Ugaritic Old Agriculture in North Mesopotamia through 11:30-12:00 House from its Archives and Material Remains. Archaeobotanical Remains and Historical Sources. Session 1 Giampiero Tursi Session 2 Sahar al Khasawneh Protecting the “Residencies”: Doorjambs, Lintels and Recent Developments in Luminescence Dating for Rock- 12:00-12:30 Hieroglyphic Inscriptions between the Southern Levant and Surface Exposure and its Application in Jordan. .

Michal Marciak Christina Stantis Idumeans and Jewish Identity. A Multi-Isotope Approach to Identifying Migration in the 12:30-13:00 Second Intermediate Period. 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

Key Note Session 3 (Hörsaal 1a) Prof. Dr. Marian Feldman 14:30-15:15 The Hidden Life of Meaning in Ancient Near Eastern Art. Chair: Nathalie Kallas Key Note Session 4 (Hörsaal 1a) PD Dr. Arnulf Hausleiter 15:15-16:00 Cultural landscapes, boundaries and interaction in the : Northwest Arabia and its neighbours. Chair: Costanza Coppini 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Chair Enrico Foietta Birgül Ögüt Arnulf Hausleiter

Joshua Scott Simon Thuault Emmanuel Baudouin Ideology and Ancient Objects: Roman and Judean Undergoing Changes in Egyptology: Interdisciplinarity as Between Spread and Local Legacy: The Development of 16:30-17:00 Temples in Roman Imperial Discourse. an Improvement. the “Complex” Architecture in the Syro-Mesopotamian Basin from the End of the 7th to the End of the 5th Millennium BC. Zohreh Zehbari Hassan El-Hajj Christine Kainert Egyptian Craftsmen in Achaemenid Royal Culture. Microwave Remote Sensing Data for the Preservation of From Coast to Coast – Prehistoric Interaction between 17:00-17:30 Session 2 Session 1 Archaeological Sites. Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula: the Pottery from Dosariyah, Saudi Arabia.

Alexander Nagel Felix Wolter Session 4 Narges Bayani Achaemenid Persian Material Culture in Berlin: An On the Use of Detailed 3D-imagery for On-site Assessment Soft Stone Industries of : a Divided 17:30-18:00 Introduction and Recent Investigations. of Architecture - A Case Study from Gird-i Frontier. Shamlu.

Sergios Menelaou Mobility and Ceramic Interaction in the Mid- and Late Third 18:00-18:30 Millennium BC: the View from Southwest Anatolia and the East Aegean. WEDNESDAY 26.06.2019

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Chair Marian Feldman Sahar al Khasawneh Sebastian Fischer

Adeline Reynaud Carolin Dittrich and Eva Götting Elena Martínez-Rodríguez An Insight into the Variety of Interactions between Texts ,Green frog in the water’ Anatolian Kinship Word-Pairs and their Mesopotamian 09:00-09:30 and Diagrams in Old-Babylonian Mathematics. A herpetological approach on the magico-religious use of Connection. the frog in Mesopotamia.

Elisa Roßberger Negar Abdali Federico Longo Clay Images in Social Practice. Terracotta Chariots and Comparison between the Technology of Manufacturing of Dealing with the Plague. Arzawa and Kizzuwatna Ritual 09:30-10:00 Thrones in Judicial Contexts of the Old Babylonian Period. the Achaemenid Glazes Based on the Petrochemical Practices in Comparison. Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Approach on Two Glazed Samples from and Persepolis. Rana Zaher Claudia Colini Valentina Oselini Deconstructing the Syro-Anatolian Portal Lion: A Stylistic Ink Recipes from the Islamic Era: Texts, Manuscripts, Ink Do I know you? Points of Contact between Northern and 10:00-10:30 Analysis of the Monumental Lion Sculptures of Iron Age Reproductions and Scientific Analyses. Central Mesopotamian Ceramic Traditions in the 2nd Hatti. Millennium BC.

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Chair Marta Pallavidini Sahar Khasawneh

Johannes Bach Kyra Kaercher Similes as a Means of Constructing Identity in Middle The Development of Stonepaste Technology as a Result of 11:00-11:30 Assyrian Royal Narrative Texts. the Islamic Patronage System. Session 2

Session 3 Ludovico Portuese “Live and Let Live Images”: Metaphor and Interpictoriality 11:30-12:00 in Neo-Assyrian Art.

12:00-12:15 move to lecture hall (Hörsaal 1a)

Key Note Session 5 (Hörsaal 1a) Prof. Dr. Marcella Frangipane 12:15-13:00 Cultures “in Transition”. Interpreting Time, Persistence and Changes in the Archaeological Record. Chair: Federico Manuelli 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

Chair Hartmut Kühne Marcella Frangipane Rafal Koliński Margaux Spruyt Julia Schönicke Jean-Jacques Herr When Horses and Onagers Collide: the Anecdotal Image as The Instability of Abandonment at the Neolithic Settlement The Settlement Pattern in the Middle Euphrate and the Pottery 14:30-15:00 an Aesthetic of Violence. Göbekli Tepe. from Masaikh: Study Case for Connectivity and Interaction in Mesopotamia during the Neo-Assyrian Period.

Alexander Johannes Edmonds Matteo Merlino Mari Yamasaki Reading between the Lines. Error and Intention in the The End of the Chalcolithic Period in the Rania Plain and From Athirat to Posidaeia. Sea goddesses as a Paradigm 15:00-15:30 Inscribing of a Neo-Assyrian Rock Relief. the Transition between 4th and 3rd Millennium BC between for Cultural Hybridization. Session 5 the Zagros Foothills and Mesopotamia. Session 3 Kate Justement Sara Quaggio Session 4 Anne-Laure Lardière A Picture of Neo-Assyrian Kingship through the Image of a The Jemdet Nasr Period in Central Mesopotamia: Review Arameans or : Why Choose? How Fortifications 15:30-16:00 King: Adad-nirari III, His Magnates, and Their Royal Stelae. of Archaeological Evidence in a Regional Perspective. Could Help Us Solve the Question.

Beate Pongratz-Leisten Marco De Pietri The Message is in the Allocation: The Evocative and The Identity and Role of Messengers and Envoys Within the 16:00-16:30 Referential Nature of Writing on the Object. Egypto-Hittite Relationships: an Insight on the Textual and Archaeological Documentation.

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

Chair Ludovico Portuese Federico Manuelli Barbara Bolognani Olivia Ramble Katja Sternitzke Christian Langer Sasanian Epigraphic Texts in their Context. The City of Babylon in the “Dark Age”: the Transition from Deportation Policies in Egypt’s Late Bronze Age Empire. 17:00-17:30 Old Babylonian to Kassite Period from an Archaeological Point of View.

Delphine Poinsot Session 5 Natalia Lodeiro Pichel Carlos Fernández Rodríguez Animality as a Form of Communication: Iconographical Tarhuntassa: Rise and Fall of the New Capital for the Hittite Oman Peninsula and Indus Valley: A First Approach to 17:30-18:00 Analysis of Animals’ Representations in Sasanian Seals Empire. Material and Cultural Exchanges in the Iron Age (ca. 1300- Session 3 (224 - 651). 300 BC).

May-Sarah Zeßin Session 4 Serena Autiero Marks on Glazed Bricks in the Ancient Near East - Visual Transcultural Terracotta Figurines - Visual Culture in the 18:00-18:30 Representations of Construction Processes. Western Indian Ocean.

Sevil Conka Deconstructing Female-Figured Supportive Columns: Re- 18:30-19:00 considering Vitruvius’ Caryatids “as Agalmata of the Chthonic Goddesses”. THURSDAY 27.06.2019

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Chair Jörg Klinger Costanza Coppini Valentina Tumolo

Ana Arroyo Jesse Millek Dan Socaciu Hittite Rock Reliefs with More than One Inscription. Dual Narratives: Collapse and Transition at the End of the Connectivity and Interaction within Ancient States: the 09:00-09:30 Late Bronze Age in the Levant and Cyprus. Case of .

Marta Pallavidini Mariacarmela Montesanto Sławomir Poloczek and Kacper Ziemba Up and Down, Close and Distant, Before and Behind: the Lost in Transition: Change and Continuity in the Amuq Possible Areas of Cultural Transfer between the Aegean 09:30-10:00 Session 4 Session 3 Conceptualization of the Dynamics of Power in The Hittite Session 5 Valley (14th/9th centuries BC). World and the Levant in the Persian Period - Preliminary Texts. Remarks.

Metoda Peršin Joanna Szymczak, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak and Javad Zachary Margulies Potmarks on the Lebanese Coast: A medium of Hosseinzadeh The Mighty Fallen: Lament over the Fallen Warrior in Homer 10:00-10:30 Communication in the Bronze Age. Social changes in Iranian Central Plateau during the Bronze and the Hebrew . and Iron Age: New insight from Estark.

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Chair Alexander Ahrens Sanna Aro Arnulf Hausleiter

Agnese Vacca, Valentina Tumolo, Georges Mouammar Lauri Mäntylä Ana Díaz Blanco and Eva Montes Moya and Stephen Lumsden The Hilani as an Innovation of the Early Iron Age. “The Fragrance of The Gods”: Aromatic Substances and 11:00-11:30 Form and Content. Sealed-Impressed Cooking Vessels at Elephantine. Contacts between Egypt and the East. Hama, Syria (2500-2000 BC). Session 5 Chiara Reali Stefanos Karampekos Session 4 Silvia Lischi Beyond Magic and Administration. The Role of Scarabs in A Possible Neo-Babylonian House-Type for the New The Site of Inqitat: a Long-Life Local Settlement on the 11:30-12:00 Egypt and the Levant During the Middle Bronze Age. Seleucid Foundations? Dhofari Coast.

Session 3 Benedetta Bellucci Apotropaic representations on Late Bronze Age seals. 12:00-12:30

Barbara Bolognani Mirroring Phoenicians. The Role of Coroplastic Art in 12:30-13:00 Representing the Phoenician Society During the Iron Age and Persian Period. 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

Key Note Session 6 (Hörsaal 1a) Dr. Manuel Molina 14:30-15:15 The Landscape of the Sumerian Province of : Archaeology and Philology. Chair: Christian W. Hess 15:15-15:30 move to Seminarzentrum

Chair Sanna Aro Manuel Molina Rocco Palermo Sepideh Khaksar Angela Greco Johannes Köhler Understanding Elamite Music and Musicians Phenomena Some Considerations on the Administration of and Scholarly neglect or nothing to be seen? The Seleucid 15:30-16:00 by Their Visual Representation. Fowl in III Umma. period beyond the . Session 3 Session 6 Iria Souto Castro Felix Levenson and Mónica Pacheco Silva Session 4 Miguel Pachón Personal Religion in the Ramesside Period Through the Mountains for the Gods Mimicking Landscape with The Seleucid Gulf. Greek Control over the . 16:00-16:30 Study of Visual and Textual Communication: the Deir El- Architecture. Mesoamerican Pyramids and Mesopotamian Medina Votive Stelae. Ziqqurats - a Cross-cultural Examination.

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-17:30 Poster Session

Chair Susan Pollock Cinzia Pappi Christian W. Hess

Johannes Jungfleisch Francesca Simi Francesca Mazzilli Chiseled with the Paintbrush. Re-Constructing Local Changing Patterns of Land Exploitation and Settlement Regional Religious Connectivity in the Hauran. 17:30-18:00 Perceptions of the Painted Aegean-Style Architectural Dynamics in : the Navkur Plain through Simulations in the Thutmoside Palace District of Ancient the Bronze and Iron Age. Avaris/Tell el-Dab´a.

Maria Silvana Catania Roberto Arciero Session 4 Alessia Zubani Texts, scenes and rituals to preserve the memory of the The Water and the Sand. The Karakum Desert and the Role Muslim Polities, Iranian Kingship. The “Book of Portraits of 18:00-18:30 deceased in private tombs at the end of the XVIIIth Dynasty of the Paleochannels System of the Murghab Inner Delta the Kings” as a Case Study for the Translation of the Session 6 Session 3 in Thebes. (Turkmenistan) During the Bronze Age. Sasanian Tradition of Sovereignty in the Islamicate World.

Kornelia Kasperkiewicz Andrea Titolo Interior Design in the Past – the interpretative and social Archaeological Landscape of the Lower Syrian Euphrates 18:30-19:00 meaning of surface decorations in bathing structures in Valley: an Integrated Approach Towards the Greco-Roman Marina el-Alamein (Egypt). Reconstruction of the Settlement Patterns during the Iron Age. FRIDAY 28.06.2019

Key Note Session 7 (Hörsaal 1a) Dr. Alessandra Peruzzetto 09:00-09:45 World Monuments Fund and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage to Empower Communities and Improve Human Well-being. Chair: Rocco Palermo Key Note Session 8 (Hörsaal 1a) Prof. Dr. Eivind Heldaas Seland 09:45-10:30 Making New Sense of Ancient Economies. Markets, Networks, and Social Orders in the Pre-Islamic Near East. Chair: Rocco Palermo

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Seminarzentrum Room L 115 Seminarzentrum Room L 116 Seminarzentrum Room L 113

Chair Nathalie Kallas Francesca Simi Alessandra Peruzzetto

Federica Pancin Maria Tamburrini Michael-Oleg Mindiak The Transmission of Priestly Science in Ancient Egyptian Beyond Dimorphic Chiefdom. An Alternative View of the European Responses to Ancient Persian Material Cultures 11:00-11:30 Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period: The Case Study of Site Distribution during Early Iron Age in the Southern around 1900. the Sacred Trees. Levant.

Katharina Zartner Session 6 Enrico Foietta Cinzia Pappi What Makes a Hero? Reassessing the Concepts of Nudity The Transformation of the Urban Landscape at Hatra Come, Tell Me Where You Live! Perceptions of Local 11:30-12:00 Session 3 and Heroism in Ancient Near Eastern Art. (5th/4th century BC – 3rd century AD). Session 7 Antiquity and Cultural Awareness in the Region of Koi Sanjaq ().

Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli Lamia Sassine Deconstructing Masculinities: the Male Body in Sasanian Codifying Culture: The making of Phoenician Style. 12:00-12:30 Material Culture.

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break Chair Eivind Heldaas Seland Agnese Vacca Reinhard Bernbeck

Takehiro Miki Francesca Giusto Isilay Gürsu Deciphering Skills of the Prehistoric Painting Technique: The Religious Landscape of Shami (Kal-e Chendar, Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey Project. 14:-00-14:30 Case Study from the Painted Pottery of the 5th Millennium Khuzestan, Iran). BCE from Tall-e Bakun A (Fars province, Iran).

Benjamin Irvine Session 6 Sarvenaz Parsa Dinc Sarac A Holistic Approach to Formulating an Economic Model of Landscapes Setting of Persian Chahar Taqs. Downwind: Heritage Studies in Turkey. 14:30-15:00 Staple Finance in the Early-Mid. Bronze Age of the Greater Near East. Session 8 Session 7 Ahmed Fatima Kzzo and Ali Jabbour Aleksander Engeskaug Aleppo and Beyond before the War. 15:00-15:30 New Research on the Economy of Sasanian Iran: Land and A Project to Archive Inscriptions dated to the Ottoman Profit in the Literature. Period in the Aleppo Region.

Yazdan Safaee Leonie Davidson An Institutional Analysis of a Particular Female Working Heritage Post Conflict: a Critical Analysis of Cultural 15:30-16:00 Group in the Persepolis Economy. Representation and Digital Reproduction.

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Chair Eivind Heldaas Seland Zoltán Csabai The Neo-Babylonian ḫubuttu, ḫubuttūtu, and ḫubuttātu 16:30-17:00 Loans.

Hassan El-Hajj Shops in Roman Berytus: New Data from Old Excavations. 17:00-17:30 Session 8

Naseem Raad Exploring Market Economies in the : The 17:30-18:00 Case Study of Berytus.

18:30-19:00 Closing Session by the Organizing Committee (Hörsaal 1a)

19:00-23:00 Final reception