Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique Oecumene Transformation and Disappearance

Saturday, 1st June 2019 ABSTRACT

Session 7: Germaniae Funerary practices and epitaphs are a central research 9:00–10:00 eld of Classical Studies. Especially in times of social, political and religious change, evidence from the tombs Changing Burial Rites - Changing Identities? Late and their surroundings is a key factor in our Antique Burial Practices on the Rhine Frontier understanding of continuity and transformation Roland Prien, Heidelberg processes on multiple cultural levels. Late Antiquity was Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique oecumene Transformation and Disappearance. Inscriptions in the doubtlessly one of such transitional phases. However, Funerary Culture of Germania Superior in Late Antiquity research on burial practices and tomb inscriptions of this Contextualizing Epigraphic and Archeological Evidence period is still very uneven. Although hundreds of Jonas Osnabrügge, Heidelberg of Mortuary Practices necropoleis, coemeterial churches and individual tombs are known across the Late Antique World, a holistic 30th May – 1st June 2019 10:00–10:30 Co ee Break documentation including epigraphic, iconographic, spatial and social analysis, as well as anthropological Session 8: Galliae 10:30–11:30 examination and natural scientic data, is mostly lacking. Through this conference we would like to undertake a Inscriptions funéraires en contextes : de la nécropole à la start to ll some lacunae on Late Antique funerary tombe. Quelques exemples de l'Aquitaine tardo-antique research. First, we will try to link as many disciplines as Morgane Uberti, Madrid possible in order to draw a more complete picture of Levis aesto terra - Christliche Bestattungskultur im sepulchral habits of Late Antiquity as it hitherto has been spätantiken Trier done. Secondly, we intend to give – for the rst time – a Mediterranean-wide overview on Late Antique funerary Hiltrud Merten, Trier landscapes, not only examining global trends, but also local and regional habits. Thirdly, we want to illustrate the Session 9: Hispaniae 11:30–12:30 potential of new contextual approaches; questions on the materiality and design of epitaphs and tombs, their Framing the Funeral World in Late Antique Hispania. visibility, perception and accessibility will be central Permanence and changes in funeral rites and practices guidelines of our conference. Jorge López Quiroga, Madrid

Bestattung und Kommemoration im frühchristlichen VENUE Hispanien. Inschriftliche, ikonographische und materielle Aspekte Heuscheuer Achim Arbeiter, Göttingen Große Mantelgasse 4 69117 Heidelberg Conclusions 12:30–13:00 Kate Cooper, London / Philipp von Rummel, Berlin SFB 933 „MATERIAL TEXT CULTURES“

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SFB 933, Subproject A01, UP2 www.materiale-textkulturen.de E-Mail: sfb933.hypotheses.org Stefan Ardeleanu ([email protected]) @sfb933 Jon C. Cubas Díaz ([email protected]) PROGRAMME Friday, 31st May 2019

Late Roman, Early Christian and Early Medieval Graves at Thursday, May 30th 2019 Session 3: Near East 9:00–10:30 Salona Emilio Marin, Zagreb 15:00–16:00 Appropriation, Invention, and Continuity: an Overview of Welcome Burial Practices from Roman to Late Roman Syria 16:00–16:30 Lidewijde De Jong, Groningen Stephan Westphalen and Christian Witschel, Heidelberg Se ssion 6: Italy and Rome Introduction Funerary Costums in Sacred Spaces. The Archaeological 16:30–18:30 Stefan Ardeleanu and Jon C. Cubas Díaz, Heidelberg Evidence in the Provinces of Palaestina and Arabia Spazi, monumenti, epigraphic habit: considerazioni sulle Davide Bianchi, Vienna Session 1: North Africa necropoli tardoantiche della parte orientale della Venetia et Histria 16:00–18:00 Christian Burials and Cemeteries in Proto-Byzantine Provincia Arabia (4th-7th cent. AD) Fulvia Mainardis, Triest Identity, Community and the Funerary Landscape at Pierre-Louis Gatier, Lyon Bulla Regia in Late Antiquity The Roman Catacombs: Reections on Ownership, Spacial Use, and the Typology of Tombs. The Cases of Moheddine Chaouali, Tunis / Corisande Fenwick, London 10:30–11:00 Co ee Break Domitilla, Randanini and Marcellino e Pietro Materializing Death in Late Antique North Africa: Session 4: Asia Minor Norbert Zimmermann, Rome Microregional Epitaphic Habits and Funerary Rituals 11:00–13:00 Paesaggi epigraci nelle necropoli della Roma tardoantica: Contextualized Funerary Monuments as Textual Monuments. A Peculiar alcuni casi esemplari per una epigraa archeologica Stefan Ardeleanu, Heidelberg Mortuary Practice in Imperial Asia Minor re-considered Antonio Felle, Bari Evelien Roels, Heidelberg From Jorf Torba to Foum Larjam: Late Antique Painted Papal Epitaphs and Burial Places in Medieval Rome – Tombs of the North-Western Sahara Burials on the Move. The Mortuary Landscape of Ephesos St. Peter’s and St. John Lateran as Funerary Landscapes

David Mattingly, Leicester / Youssef Bokbot, Rabat in Late Antiquity Wolf Zöller, Heidelberg Martin Steskal, Vienna 18:00–18:30 Co ee Br eak 18:30 Reception Depicting the Self - Fullling Common Expectations. The Session 2: Egypt Individual and the Collective in the Funerary Landscapes of 18:30–19:30 Rough Cilicia Hierarchien und soziale Phänomene in der Nekropole Jon C. Cubas Díaz, Heidelberg des Paulosklosters in Theben-West/Oberägypten Christianity and Funerary Traditions in Asia Minor Ina Eichner, Vienna Sylvain Destephen, Paris Protection for Eternity – Graves in Late Antique and 13:00–14:30 Lunch Break Byzantine Egypt Laura Willer, Heidelberg Session 5: Southeastern Europe 14:30–16:00 19:30 Reception Late Antique Burials in Corinth Jeremy Ott, Berkeley Late Antique Rich Burials in the Balkan Provinces (in the Diocese of Thrace, and the Northern Provinces of Eastern Illyricum) Julia Valeva, Soa