The World of Phrygian Gordion
A conference accompanying the new exhibit at the Penn Museum, “The Golden Age of King Midas”
April 1-2, 2016
Sponsored by the Penn’s Center for Ancient Studies, the University Research Foundation, the Office of the Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, the Penn Museum, the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, and the departments of Anthropology, Classical Studies, History of Art, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Friday, April 1, Widener Auditorium, Penn Museum
5-6PM: Viewing of the exhibit “The Golden Age of King Midas”
6-6:10PM: C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum Welcome and Introduction
6:15-7:15PM: Nicolo Marchetti, University of Bologna, Director of Excavations at Carchemish "Carchemish during the Bronze and Iron Ages: New results by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition"
Saturday, April 2, Widener Auditorium, Penn Museum
8:30: Coffee
9:00 Session Chair: Lauren Ristvet, University of Pennsylvania
9-9:30: Timothy Harrison, University of Toronto, Director of Excavations at Tel Tayinat “The ‘Kingdom of Idols’: Neo-Hittites in the Land of Palistin/Patin at Tayinat on the Orontes”
9:30-10: Paul Zimansky, SUNY Stony Brook, formerly co-director of the Outer Town Project at Ayanis "An Uncertain Frontier: Urartu's Engagement with Central Anatolia"
10-10:30: Scott Branting, University of Central Florida, Director of Excavations at Kerkenes “Kerkenes and Gordion: Competition or Cooperation?”
Coffee Break: 10:30-10:50
Session Chair: G. Kenneth Sams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10:55-11:25 Nick Cahill, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Director of Excavations, Sardis “King Midas and the Lydians?”
11:25-11:55 Kaan Iren, Muğla University, Director of Excavations at Daskyleion “New Investigations at the Multicultural Center of Daskyleion”
Lunch: 12-1:30
Session Chair: Mary Voigt, College of William and Mary
1:30-2: Lorenzo d’Alfonso, NYU, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and director of excavations, Kinik Höyük “Gordion, Phrygia, and their ties to Post-Hittite Central Anatolia”
2-2:30: Elizabeth Simpson, Bard Graduate Center, and Director, Gordion Furniture Project "Woodworking at Gordion in Its Near Eastern Context"
Coffee Break: 2:30-2:50
Session Chair: Peter Magee, Bryn Mawr College
2:55-3:25: Elspeth Dusinberre, University of Colorado, Boulder “Elite Cremation Burials at Achaemenid Persian Gordion”
3:25-3:55: Susanne Berndt-Ersöz, Stockholm University “The Painted House at Gordion: Aspects of Architecture and Iconography”
4-4:30: Lynn Roller, University of California, Davis Concluding Comments and Discussion