October 4–7, 2017 Conference tury en C th 8 The “8th century“ Key Note Speakers & Round Table Discussants has been historically and archaeologically Stefan Esders (Berlin) considered a sort of watershed between Sauro Gelichi (Venice) Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The e Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg) defi nition of the transformations in this Richard Hodges (Rome) h period is a crucial issue, especially as regards continuity and change of the economic Andreas Kaplony (Munich)

T structures in the Late Antique Mediterranean Cécile Morrisson (Paris/Dumbarton Oaks) world. This international interdisciplinary Bernhard Palme (Vienna) conference shall bring together scholars Paul Reynolds (Barcelona) from several disciplines, including Late Antique, Islamic, Byzantine and Medieval Joanita A.C. Vroom (Leiden) History, Archaeology, Archaeometry, Chris Wickham (Oxford) Numismatics, Philology, and Papyrology, to assess the 8th century qua threshold from diff erent perspectives, in order to re-evaluate the problematic of this transition in terms of continuity/ disruption by combining archaeological data and textual – literary as well as documentary – sources.

Patterns of Transition www.topoi.org/event/42829/ in Economy and Trade Throughout the Late Antique, Early Medieval and Islamicate Mediterranean Tuesday, 3 October Thursday, 5 October Freie Universität Berlin, ‘Holzlaube’, Fabeckstr. 23–25, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and 14195 Berlin • Lecture Room -1.2009 Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin • Einstein-Saal

from 18:00 19:00–21:00 14:00–14:30 16:00–16:30 09:00–09.45 11:30–12:00 Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher Nikolas Bakirtzis (Nicosia) & Martin Grötschel (President Ada Lasheras González & Franc- Registration Welcome by the organizers & of the Berlin-Brandenburg esc Rodríguez Martorell (Tarra- Warming-up reception (Athens): In search of social and Luca Zavagno (Ankara): When economic activities in the Cycla- the cities do not go missing. Academy of Sciences and gona): The city of Tarragona by des islands in the 8th century Urbanism in Cyprus between Humanities): Welcome address the 8th century: new elements Late Antiquity and the early of discussion 14:30–15:00 KEYNOTE Middle Ages Isabella Baldini (Bologna): Joanita A. C. Vroom (Leiden): 12:00–13:00 Gortyn of Crete in the 8th 16:30–17:00 A gentle transition? Pottery, POSTER SESSION I Wednesday, 4 October trade and exchange in the century: the role of the church Gregor Kalas (Knoxville, Tennes- Veronica Casali (San Marino): 8th century Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel, Am Kupfergraben, in the transition see): Reusing ancient buildings Silvia Donadei, Giulia Marsili as charity centers in 8th-century 10117 Berlin • Gobelinsaal 15:00–15:30 09:45–10:30 & Lucia Orlandi (Bologna): The Rome KEYNOTE 8th century at Gortyn: pottery Sabine Ladstätter (Vienna): production and context analysis Out of the dark – Ephesus in 17:00–17:30 Paul Reynolds (Barcelona): 09:30–10.00 11:15–12:00 the 8th century Eileen Rubery (Cambridge): Pottery and Mediterranean Veronica Casali (San Marino) & Cäcilia Fluck (Bode-Museum, KEYNOTE The medical cult of SS. Abba- economic exchange networks Debora Pellacchia (Bologna): Curator of the Museum of Sauro Gelichi (Venice): Coff ee break (30’) cyrus and John in Rome: under the Arabs in the 8th The 8th century at Gortyn: Byzantine Art): Welcome The 8th century in Northern how 7th-century military and century: Contrasting the Levant, glass and mosaic production Michael Meyer (Topoi, Spokes- Italy: a time of stagnation? spiritual disputes aff ected the North Africa and Spain Horacio Gonzalez (Vienna): man): Welcome address An archaeological perspective development of medical care in Byzantine amphorae in Ephe- Silvia Polla (Berlin): 8th-century Rome and beyond Coff ee break (30’) sos, 7th-9th centuries. New Introduction to the conference 12:00–12:30 17:30–18:00 evidences for a better under- “The 8th Century” Salvatore Cosentino (Bologna): 11:00–11:30 Amelia Brown (St. Lucia): standing of the Middle Byzan- Muslim presence and economic Philipp von Rummel (Berlin): tine commerce 10:00–10:45 St. Nicholas sails from East transformations on 7th- and The 8th century in Africa/Ifr qiya: KEYNOTE to West in the 8th century ī 8th-century Aegean islands: is Archaeological perspectives Lunch break (90’) Richard Hodges (Rome): there an insular model of the Break (60’) An Ice Age settled upon the ‘dark centuries’? Roman Empire: confronting and 12:30–13:00 interpreting the archaeology of a great episode in European Natalia Poulou (Thessaloniki): Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel, Am Kupfergraben, history Sailing in the dark: trade net- works and commercial inter- Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin • Einstein-Saal 10117 Berlin • Gobelinsaal Coff ee break (30’) action between Crete and the 14:30–15:00 15:00–15:30 19:00–20:00 EVENING LECTURE I neighboring islands during the Giuseppe Cacciaguerra Enrico Cirelli (Munich): period of transition Stefan Esders (Berlin): Mediterranean politics and (Catania): Cities and markets Economy and trade at Ravenna connectivity in the late 7th century in transformation in the early during the 8th century Lunch buff et (60’) medieval Mediterranean: ceramics and trade in Syracuse Coff ee break (30’) in the 8th century 16:00–16:30 16:30–17:00 12:00–13:00 Clare Bycroft (Oxford): Saturday, 7 October Michelle Beghelli (Mayence): Joan Pinar Gil (Turin): Changing POSTER SESSION II Quantifying the genetic impact Stone and the Church in the habits and changing scenarios: Gabriele Castiglia (Bologna): of the Muslim conquest of Freie Universität Berlin, ‘Holzlaube’, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 8th century. The economics visual appearance and pur- Urban and rural ecclesiastical Iberia (711 CE) 14195 Berlin • Room -1.2009 of sculpted products and its chasing power as mirrored by frameworks in northern Tuscany Dorothée Sack & Martin transformation between Late the 8th-century Mediterranean in the 8th century Gussone (Berlin): Resafa-Rusa- 09:00–09.45 12:00–12:30 Antiquity and the Early jewellery deposits KEYNOTE Maria Paola Bulla (Naples): fat Hisham in the 8th century. Stefanie Schmidt (Basel): Middle Ages 17:00–17:30 The Islamic pottery issues in Settlement pattern of a Caliphal Andreas Kaplony (Munich): Trade and Economic life in residence Imperial and regional Arabic as Late Antique and Early Muslim Katharina Meinecke (Vienna): Tunisia: The transition (7th– mirrored in Arabic papyri from Aswan Illustrating an empire: Conti- 8th centuries) Lunch break (90’) 8th-century Egypt nuity and change in Umayyad 12:30–13:00 visual culture 09:45 - 10:15 Lajos Berkes (Berlin): Economic Jennifer Cromwell (Copenhagen): contacts between Syria and 18:00–20:00 Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel, Am Kupfergraben, Administering Egypt: The role Egypt in the Early Islamic period OFFER 10117 Berlin • Gobelinsaal of Coptic within a wider imperial Lunch buff et (60’) Guided tour of the Late Antiquity / Byzantine Collection of the context 14:30–15:00 16:30–17:00 Bode-Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art (Cäcilia Fluck, 10:15–10:45 Mark Jackson (Newcastle): Gergely Szenthe (Budapest): Katharina Meinecke, Stefan Weber) Frederic Krueger (Berlin): Coptic 14:00–14:30 Transforming cultural practices The Carpathian Basin during papyri illuminating the economy in 8th century domestic con- the “Transition Period”: how the Dario Internullo (Naples): texts at Kilise Tepe (Turkey) Avars integrated into the chang- of 8th-century Egypt Papyrus, parchment and the ing world between Late Antiquity beginning of the written memory 15:00–15:30 and Early Middle Ages Coff ee break (45’) of Western Europe Friday, 6 October Yana Tchekhanovets & Doron Ben-Ami (Jerusalem): An open 17:00–17:30 14:30–15:00 11:30–12:00 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and market of Abbasid period ex- Morten Søvsø (Ribe): Pia Carolla (Rome): The power Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin • Einstein-Saal posed in recent excavations in 8th-century emporia, sceatta Sophie Kovarik (Oxford): Conti- of a context – Literary distortion Jerusalem and Danish kingship nuity and change in the notarial of economic issues practice of Middle Egypt after 15:30–16:00 17:30–18:00 the Arab conquest 09:00–09.45 11:00–11:30 Coff ee break (30’) KEYNOTE Martina Müller-Wiener (Berlin): Søren Sindbaek (Aarhus): Alexander Asa Eger (North Northern Bilād al-shām in the Northern Emporia and the Cécile Morrisson (Paris / Dum- Carolina): Building up the 8th century: Changing patterns 8th-century world. A view from 15:30–17:00 barton Oaks): Fire under the frontier: Micro-regional and of regional orientation – the new excavations in Ribe CONCLUDING ROUND TABLE ashes: Byzantine resilience in divergent settlement patterns ceramic evidence Bernhard Palme (Vienna), the long 8th century across the 8th century on the Break (60’) Chairman 09:45–10:30 Umayyad and Abbāsid thughūr Coff ee break (30’)

KEYNOTE 11:30–12:00 Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg): Federico Montinaro (Tübingen): Transforming spatial economic Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Après-conference reception and dinner buff et Further thoughts on the relations in the 8th century – kommerkiaroi, trade and the Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin • Einstein-Saal the largest empire of the Late “Dark Centuries” of Byzantium Antiquity 19:00–20:00 EVENING LECTURE II

Coff ee beak (30’) Chris Wickham (Oxford): Looking back at the 8th century from the 11th Images Venues Coins: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke, Reinhard Saczewski, Dirk Sonnenwald © Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. ikmk.smb.museum Freie Universität Berlin, ‘Holzlaube’ Late Roman Amphora: University of Southampton (2014) Roman Amphorae: a digital resource [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1028192 Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin ∙ Lecture Room -1.2009 Detail of the Mshatta facade: Johannes Kramer, © Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Papyrus: P. Berlin P. 7886, Greek tax receipt from Egypt (Heracleopolites), 722 CE, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin ∙ Einstein-Saal http://berlpap.smb.museum/02309/, © Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel Am Kupfergraben, 10117 Berlin ∙ Gobelinsaal

Scientifi c Board Organizer Registration Michael Borgolte (Medieval studies, Stefan Esders ∙ [email protected] The event is open to the public, with advance Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Silvia Polla ∙ [email protected] registration requested: [email protected] Karsten Dahmen (Numismatics, Bode-Museum, Tonio Sebastian Richter ∙ [email protected] Münzkabinett) Cäcilia Fluck (Bode-Museum, Late Antique and Conference secretary Sponsors & Supporters Byzantine collection) Frederic Krueger • [email protected] Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Beatrice Gründler (Arabic language and literature, and Humanities Freie Universität Berlin) Bode-Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Michael Meyer (Prehistoric archaeology, spokesman of the Excellence Cluster Topoi) De Gruyter Publishers Susanne Muth (Classical archaeology, Excellence Cluster Topoi Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Freie Universität Berlin Johannes Niehoff -Panagiotidis (Byzantine Studies, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Freie Universität Berlin) Philipp von Rummel (General Secretary of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin) Dorothée Sack (Architectural history, Technische Universität Berlin) Monika Trümper (Classical archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin) Matthias Wemhoff (Medieval archaeology, Director of the State Museum for Prehistory) Nikolaus Wolf (Economic history, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (Architectural history, German Archaeological Institute)