Academic program

4E. Southern Phoenicia Initiative II (Workshop)

Carlton

CHAIR: Ilan Sharon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Introduction (5 min.)
4:25
Golan Shalvi (University of Haifa), “The Tel Shiqmona Project: Salvaging a Phoenician Centre at the Margins of Phoenicia” (15 min.)
4:45
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Princeton Theological Seminary), Gunnar Lehmann (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), and David Schloen (University of Chicago), “New Excavations at Tell Keisan, 2016” (15 min.)
5:05
Ehud Arkin Shalev (University of Haifa), Ayelet Gilboa (University of Haifa), Ilan Sharon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Assaf Yasur-Landau (University of Haifa), “Iron Age Coastal Structures at Tel Dor: Results of the 2016 and 2017 Underwater Excavation Seasons” (15 min.)
5:25
Sveta Matskevich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Paula Waiman-Barak (University of Haifa), “Tell Sites Along Nahal Taninim as an Inland Extension of the Maritime Trade Network” (15 min.)
5:45
Bronwen Manning-Rozenblum (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Shifting Sands: Transitions within Late Iron Age Ceramic Assemblages along the Carmel Coast of Southern Phoenicia” (15 min.)
6:05
Barak Monnickendam-Givon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Engagement and Non-Engagement: The Study of Behavioral Changes in Southern Phoenicia” (15 min.)

4F. Archaeology of the Near East: Classical Periods I

Lewis

CHAIR: Michael S. Zimmerman (Bridgewater State University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20

Orit Peleg-Barkat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Continuity and Change in Rural Judaea in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: The Case of Horvat Midras” (20 min.)

4:45

Brian Coussens (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Bring Out Your Dead (to the Desert): The Herodium Mausoleum and the Funerary Landscape of the Judean Wilderness” (20 min.)

5:10

Anat Cohen-Weinberger (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Achim Lichtenberger (Ruhr Universität), “Late Roman Workshops of Beit Nattif Figurines: Petrography, Typology, and Style” (20 min.)

5:35
Shulamit Miller (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Living Large: The Houses and Daily Life of Late Antique Palestine’s Upper Ten” (20 min.)
6:00

Mitchel Allen (Scholarly Roadside Service; Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley) and William B. Trousdale (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution), “Cultural Complexity in Parthia Sistan, Afghanistan” (20 min.)

4G. Connectivities in The Near East: Social Impact of Shifting Networks II

Otis

Technological and economical approaches and tracing influences of material culture in this regard involving Egypt, the Levant, and reaching into Mesopotamia will be considered particularly with regard to connectivity.
CHAIR: Felix Höflmayer (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology [OREA], Austrian Academy of Sciences)
PRESENTERS:
4:20

Christian Knoblauch (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology [OREA], Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Connectivity in the Egyptian Nile Valley—A Technological (and Social) Approach to Understanding Supra-regional and Regional Processes (2200–1750 B.C.E.)” (20 min.)

4:45

Reinhard Jung (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology [OREA], Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Exchange of Goods—Exchange of Commodities? Greece and the Levant in the Second Millennium B.C.E.” (20 min.)

5:10

Teresa Bürge (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology [OREA], Austrian Academy of Sciences), “The Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Transition in Transjordan: Eastern Mediterranean Material Influences” (20 min.)

5:35

Joseph Lehner (University of Central Florida) “Finance, Production, and Connectivity in Hittite Central Anatolia: New Metallurgical Data from Hattusa” (20 min.)

4H. Border Dynamics in the Tenth Century B.C.E. Levant: A Junior Scholars' Panel
Stone



Theme: This panel addresses recent research by junior scholars into strategies of border administration and inter-cultural interaction in the tenth century B.C.E. Levant. Papers address key sites and new discoveries in ancient Israel, Judah, and the Transjordan.

CHAIRS: Geoffrey Ludvik (University of Wisconsin) and Lydia Buckner (Mississippi State University)

PRESENTERS:

4:20
Lydia Buckner (Mississippi State University), “Opening Remarks” (15 min.)

4:35
Zachary Thomas (Macquarie University) and Kyle Keimer (Macquarie University), “The Expansion of the United Monarchy and Its Strategies of Power and Control” (20 min.)

5:00
Abelardo Rivas (Andrews University), “Jalul as a Border City in Iron Age Transjordan?” (20 min.)
5:25

Chris McKinny (Texas A&M University Corpus Christi), “Pressing On: Identifying the ‘Other’ Gath and Its Implications for Understanding the Border between the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah” (20 min.)

5:50
Geoffrey Ludvik (University of Wisconsin) and Lydia Buckner (Mississippi State University), “Border Dynamics in the Tenth Century B.C.E.: A Response from the Tell el-Hesi Region” (20 min.)

6:15
Lydia Buckner (Mississippi State University), “Closing Remarks” (5 min.)

4I. New Light on Persian Period Judah
Webster
Theme: The 205 years between 539/538 and 333 B.C.E., the so-called “Persian period,” are a well-defined period from the historical point of view. For Judah, this is the beginning of the Second Temple Period. This session will explore some basic archaeological questions regarding the understanding of the material culture of this period.
CHAIR: Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20

Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), “Introduction to the Third Session and Summarizing the Three Years of Discussion the Persian Period” (20 min.)

4:45

Lester Grabbe (University of Hull), “The Governor of Yehud—Inside Out” (20 min.)

5:10

Aharon Tavger (Ariel University), “The Northern Boundary of the Province of Yehud: An Updated Archaeological View from the North” (20 min.)

5:35

Pirchia Eyall (Israel Antiquities Authority), “New Insights on the Southern Shephelah in the Persian Period” (20 min.)

6:00
Lucas Schulte (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “Judean Adaptations of Persian Propaganda: A Comparison of Isaiah 44–45 and Nehemiah 2 to Achaemenid-Period Inscriptions of Babylon and Egypt” (20 min.)

4J. New Discoveries at Beth She‘arim

Hancock

Theme: Beth She‘arim was an important Jewish town in the Galilee during the Roman period, the home of famous sages and a popular cemetery for Jews from Roman Palestine and the Diaspora. New discoveries and studies from recent years will be presented in tis session.
CHAIR: Adi Erlich (University of Haifa)
PRESENTERS:
4:20

Introduction (5 min.)

4:25

Rona-Shani Evyasaf (Technion–Israel Institute of Technology) and Adi Erlich (University of Haifa), “The Haifa University Excavations at Beth She‘arim: An Overview of the Results of the 2014–2017 Seasons on the Sheikh Abreik Hill” (15 min.)

4:45

Ran Kaftory (University of Haifa), “An Early Roman Period Structure and a Middle Roman Period Building on the Hilltop of Beth She‘arim” (15 min.)

5:05

Fanny Vitto (Israel Antiquities Authority), “A Gateway and an Industrial Area on the Eastern Edge of Beth She‘arim (Area X)” (15 min.)

5:25

Mechael Osband (University of Haifa; Ohalo College), “The Settlement of Beth She‘arim in Light of the Pottery: A Revised Chronological Perspective” (15 min.)

5:45

Tsvika Tsuk (Israel Nature and Parks Authority), Iosi Bordowicz (Israel Nature and Parks Authority), and Achia Kohn-Tavor (Independent Archaeologist), “Impressive Reservoir and Aqueduct in Beth She‘arim National Park, Israel” (15 min.)

6:05

Zeev Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Beth She‘arim and Beyond: Urban Necropoleis in Roman and Late Antique Galilee” (15 min.)

4K. Object, Text, and Image: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Seals, Sealing Practices, and Administration II

Griffin

Theme: Object, Text, and Image: Views from Individual Identities
CHAIRS: Sarah J. Scott (Wagner College) and Oya Topcuoglu (Northwestern University)
PRESENTERS:
4:20
Melinda Nelson-Hurst (Tulane University), “Spheres of Economic and Administrative Control: Textual, Visual, and Archaeological Evidence for Female and Male Sealers” (20 min)
4:45
Oya Topcuoglu (Northwestern University), “The Seals of Šamši-Adad: Ideology, Iconography, Identity” (20 min.)
5:10
Christina Chandler (Bryn Mawr College), Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University), Mark Garrison (Trinity University) and Erin Daly (University of Chicago), “The Chamberlain and the Queen: An Inscribed Seal and Administrative Networks at Persepolis” (20 min.)
5:35
Anne Goddeeris (Ghent University) and Katrien De Graef (Ghent University), “Dangerous Liaisons? Temple Personnel with Royal Seals in the Old Babylonian Period” (20 min.)
6:00
Katherine Burge (University of Pennsylvania), “The Internal Administration of the Eastern Lower Town Palace at Tell Leilan” (20 min.)

Friday, November 17
8:20–10:25am Session 5
5A. Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East

Harbor 1

CHAIRS: Emily Hammer (University of Pennsylvania) and Jesse Casana (Dartmouth College)
PRESENTERS:
8:20

Introduction (5 min.)

8:25

Emily Boak (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), and Kathryn Franklin (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), “Graveyard of Empires, Cradle of Commerce: Remotely-sensed Research of Early Modern Travel Infrastructure in Afghanistan” (15 min.)

8:45

Anthony Lauricella (University of Chicago), and Emily Hammer (University of Pennsylvania), “Mound Volume as a Proxy for Settlement Intensity in Southern Bactria” (15 min.)

9:05

Mehrnoush Soroush (Harvard University), “Water History and Urbanism on the Susiana Plain in the Age of Transition” (15 min.)

9:25

Georgia Andreou (Cornell University), “The River Valley as a Study Unit and Conceptual Boundary in Settlement Studies: The Case of South-Central Cyprus” (15 min.)

9:45

Evie Gassner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “‘Water, Water, Everywhere’—Water as a Landscape Element in Herod's Building Projects” (15 min.)

10:05

Norma Franklin (University of Haifa; W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research), “Revealing Greater Jezreel” (15 min.)

5B. Senses and Sensibility in the Near East I
Harbor 2
Theme: This year’s Senses and Sensibility session highlights aspects of intentionality in the exploration of senses and sense-making in the ancient Near East. Papers explore what forms of sensory experience are intentionally constructed in activities and encounters of past worlds, how we might access intentionality, and how best to understand such intentions with respect to particular social and cultural contexts. Also considered are unintentional sensory phenomena, the involuntary and at times overlooked sensory aspects that are equally formidable and impactful in a variety of encounters between agents and spaces.
CHAIR: Kiersten Neumann (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki) and Aleksi Sahala (University of Helsinki), “Am I Seeing Things? Language Technology Approach to ‘Seeing’ in Akkadian” (20 min.)
8:45
Dora Goldsmith (Egyptology Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin), “The Archaeology of Smell in Ancient Egypt—A Cultural Anthropological Study Based on Written Sources: An Olfactory Hierarchy Manifested in the Realm of Gods, Temples, Kings, Royals, and Ordinary People” (20 min.)
9:10
Paul Flesher (University of Wyoming), “Acoustic Typology of Ancient Synagogues in Greater Galilee” (20 min.)
9:35

Allison Thomason (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), “Getting Inside Teumann’s Head: Material Evidence for Sensing, Emotion, and Cognition in the Neo-Assyrian Period” (20 min.)

10:00

Irene J. Winter (Harvard University), “Mesopotamian Ritual as Gesamtkunstwerk” (20 min.)

5C. Cultural Heritage Management: Methods, Practices, and Case Studies I

Harbor 3

CHAIR: Glenn J. Corbett (American Center of Oriental Research)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Joseph Greene (Harvard University), “Cultural Resource Management in Jordan, 30 Years On” (20 min.)
8:45

Mohammed El-Khalili (Hashemite University and University of Petra), Nizar Al Adarbeh (University of Jordan/Hamdi Mango Center for Scientific Research), and Abeer Al Bawab (University of Jordan/Hamdi Mango Center for Scientific Research), “Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Roman Nymphaeum in Amman: ‘Nymphaeum Archaeological Park’” (20 min.)
9:10

Suzanne Richard (Gannon University), Marta D’Andrea (Sapienza University of Rome), Douglas R. Clark (La Sierra University), and Andrea Polcaro (University of Perugia), “Community Engagement to Protect Cultural Heritage in Jordan: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP)” (20 min.)

9:35

Jenna Morton (PAX Foundation), “Measuring Cultural Heritage Preservation through Community Engagement Related to the Umm al-Jimal Interpretive and Hospitality Center in Umm al-Jimal, Jordan” (20 min.)

10:00

Erin Linn-Tynen (Integrated Heritage Project), “Putting the ‘Sustainable’ in Sustainable Heritage Management: Case Studies from Jordan and Cambodia” (20 min.)

5E. Archaeology of Cyprus I

Carlton

Theme: This session focuses on current archaeological research in Cyprus from prehistory to the modern period. Presentations include reports on archaeological fieldwork and survey, artifactual studies, as well as more focused methodological or theoretical discussions.
CHAIRS: Nancy Serwint (Arizona State University) and Walter Crist (Arizona State University)
PRESENTERS:

8:20

Lindy Crewe (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute), “Excavating Souskiou-Laona Chalcolithic Cemetery” (20 min.)
8:45

Peter Fischer (University of Gothenburg) and Teresa Bürge (OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences), “Tombs and Offering Pits at the Late Bronze Age Metropolis of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: Results from the Excavations in 2016” (20 min.)

9:10

Paula Waiman-Barak (University of Haifa), Anna Georgiadou (University of Cyprus), and Ayelet Gilboa (University of Haifa), “Early Iron Age Cypro-Phoenician Interactions: Cypro-Geometric Ceramics from Tel Dor and Cyprus, a Study of Ceramic Petrography” (20 min.)

9:35

Giorgos Bourogiannis (Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities [Medelhavsmuseet], Stockholm), ”The Ayia Irini Project at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm: New Research on an Old Excavation” (20 min.)

10:00

Andrew McCarthy (University of Edinburgh), Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University), Tate Paulette (Brown University), Lisa Graham (University of Edinburgh), Christine Markussen (University of Vienna), “A Transriverine Hellenistic Settlement at Prastio-Mesorotsos, Cyprus” (20 min.)

5F. Archaeology of the Near East: Classical Periods II

Lewis

CHAIR: Michael S. Zimmerman (Bridgewater State University)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan), “Phoenician Funerary Mask Impressions from the Kedesh Archive” (20 min.)
8:45

John Harmon (Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary), “The Sanctuary of Mizpe Yammim: A Proposed Explanation for Its Unusual Location” (20 min.)

9:10

Marcela Zapata Meza (Universidad Anáhuac México Sur, Magdala Center Archaeological Project) and Jordan Ryan (Wheaton College, Magdala Center Archaeological Project), “Rethinking the Layout of the Magdala Synagogue” (20 min.)

9:35

Barak Monnickendam-Givon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Tel ‘Akko’s Periphery during the Classical Periods” (20 min.)

10:00

Alexandra Ratzlaff (Boston University), “Tel Achziv in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods” (20 min.)

5H. Death and Dying in the Ancient Near East

Stone

Theme: This session aims to challenge typical cultural-historical approaches to mortuary archaeology, focusing instead on the practices of death and dying, including change and continuity in mortuary objects and rituals, the use of burial spaces, and expressions of social memory, especially in periods that are under-represented in ancient Near Eastern study.
CHAIRS: Stephanie Selover (University of Washington) and Pınar Durgun (Brown University)
PRESENTERS:
8:20

Introduction (5 min.)

8:25

Maria Forza (Freie Universität Berlin), “Cremations Burials at Tell Halaf: a Theory of Reconstruction of a Post-Mortem Ritual” (15 min.)

8:45

David Ilan (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem) and Yorke Rowan (University of Chicago) “Reconstructing the Stages of Dying, Death, and Rebirth in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant” (15 min.)

9:05

Lanah Haddad (University of Frankfurt), “Burying Family Members of the Settlement Founder Generation during the Early Bronze Age in Northern Mesopotamia” (15 min.)

9:25

Tara Ingman (Koç University), “Changing Mortuary Practices at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, and the Use of GIS Modeling” (15 min.)

9:45

Petra Creamer (University of Pennsylvania), “Invoking Memory within the Neo-Assyrian Royal and Domestic Mortuary Cults: Combining Material, Spatial, and Textual Evidence” (15 min.)

10:05

Sophie Moore (Brown University), “Memory and Burial at Historic Çatalhöyük” (15 min.)

5I. Meeting the Expenses: Ancient Near Eastern Economies I

Webster

Theme: Measuring Value—Hoards and Systems of Weight. The economies of the ancient Near East, moving beyond the dichotomy between “ancient” and “modern” economy. In this year our theme includes measuring systems and ways of defining value, wealth deposits (hoards), and economic modes of exchange.
CHAIR: Raz Kletter (University of Helsinki)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Ianir Milevski (Israel Antiquities Authority), “Before Weighting: Prehistoric Economies of the Southern Levant” (20 min.)
8:45
Lorenz Rahmstorf (University of Göttingen), “Hoards with Weights in the Third Millennium B.C.E. between the Aegean and the Indus” (20 min.)
9:10

William Hafford (University of Pennsylvania), “Early Bronze Age Silver Hoards in the Diyala” (20 min.)

9:35

Judy Bjorkman (Independent Scholar), “Interpreting Ancient Hoards and Ritual Deposits” (20 min.)

10:00

Maribel Dorka Moreno (Heidelberg University), “Late Bronze Age Metal Hoards from Greece: Approaches to Identification and Interpretation” (20 min.)

5J. Baths and Bathing in the East

Hancock



Theme: This session brings together international and North American scholars to present and discuss recent research on baths and bathing in the Near East. Papers cover a wide geographic and temporal spread, and they include presentations on recent fieldwork, comparative analyses, architectural studies, and the social use of baths.
CHAIR: Craig A. Harvey (University of Michigan)
PRESENTERS:
8:20
Introduction (5 min.)
8:25

Eyal Regev (Bar-Ilan University), “Jewish Purity and Greco-Roman Pleasure: Hot Baths and the Ritual Baths from the Hasmoneans to Herod” (20 min.)

8:50

M. Barbara Reeves (Queen’s University), “Elevated Luxury: The Nabataean Villa Bathhouse at Wadi Ramm” (15 min.)

9:10

Sophie Tews (Independent Scholar) and Craig A. Harvey (University of Michigan), “The Newly Discovered Bath on the Petra North Ridge: An Initial Report” (15 min.)

9:30

Robert Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Awash in Change: Roman Military Bathhouses in the East from the First–Fourth Centuries” (15 min.)

9:50

Thibaud Fournet (French Institute for the Near East), “Zenobia’s Baths in Palmyra (Syria): an Assessment” (15 min.)

10:10
General Discussion (15 min.)

10:25–10:40am Coffee Break
Galleria
10:40am–12:45pm Session 6

6A. Archaeology of Lebanon I

Harbor 1

Theme: The focus of this session is on current archaeological fieldwork and researches in Lebanon.
CHAIR: Hanan Charaf (Lebanese University)
PRESENTERS:
10:40

Gassia Artin (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée), “Lebanon During the Chalcolithic Period” (20 min.)

11:05

Graham Philip (Durham University), Kamal Badreshany (Durham University), Melissa Kennedy (University of Sydney), and Hélène Sader (American University of Beirut), “Excavations at Koubba: Pathways to ‘Complexity’ in Northern Lebanon. A Regional Perspective” (20 min.)

11:30

Melissa Kennedy (University of Sydney) and Kamal Badreshany (Durham University), “Koubba, North Lebanon: The Ceramics and Their Regional Context” (20 min.)

11:55

Claude Doumet-Serhal (Director, Sidon Excavations), “Sidon in the Iron Age I: A Haven of Continuity” (20 min.)

12:20

Sarkis el-Khoury (General Directorate of Antiquities-DGA, Lebanon), “Overview of Recent Archaeological Activities in Lebanon” (20 min.)

6B. Senses and Sensibility in the Near East II

Harbor 2

Theme: This year’s Senses and Sensibility session highlights aspects of intentionality in the exploration of senses and sense-making in the ancient Near East. Papers explore what forms of sensory experience are intentionally constructed in activities and encounters of past worlds, how we might access intentionality, and how best to understand such intentions with respect to particular social and cultural contexts. Also considered are unintentional sensory phenomena, the involuntary and at times overlooked sensory aspects that are equally formidable and impactful in a variety of encounters between agents and spaces.
CHAIR: Kiersten Neumann (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
PRESENTERS:
10:40

Kiersten Neumann (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), “To Touch Upon: A Tactile Exploration of the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis” (20 min.)

11:05

Neville McFerrin (Sweet Briar College), “The Tangible Self: Materiality and Haptic Negotiations of Agency in, on, and at Persepolis” (20 min.)

11:30

Sarah J. Scott (Wagner College), “Skin on Skin: Exploring Surface Relationships between Seals and Impressions” (20 min.)

11:55
Laurel Hackley (Brown University), “‘You Go to a Place Difficult of Access:’ Multi-sensory Engagement with Ancient Amulets” (20 min.)
12:20
General Discussion (25 min.)

6C. Cultural Heritage Management: Methods, Practices, and Case Studies II

Harbor 3

CHAIR: Suzanne Davis (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan)
PRESENTERS:
10:40

Thomas Roby (The Getty Conservation Institute), Leslie Friedman (The Getty Conservation Institute), Livia Alberti (Independent Conservator), Ermanno Carbonara (Independent Conservator), Moheddine Chaouali (Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis), and Hamida Rhouma (Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis), “The Conservation Plan for Mosaics at Bulla Regia: A Component of the MOSAIKON Model Field Project” (20 min.)

11:05

Rachel Aronin (Harvard University), “‘To Make One Know the Place Beforehand’: Integrating Archival Data and 3D Visualization on the Digital Giza Website” (20 min.)

11:30

Boaz Gross (Tel Aviv University), “Why 1700 C.E.? The Possible Contribution of Archaeological Research into the Last 300 Years: The Case of Beit Nattif” (20 min.)

11:55

Leann Pace (Wake Forest University), “Teaching Cultural Heritage Management at a Divinity School: A Case Study in Answering the Call for Education outside of the Discipline” (20 min.)

12:20

Paul Christians (Stanford University), “Cultural Heritage, Distributive Politics, and Public-Private Cultural Development in Qatar” (20 min.)

6D. This session has been moved to Thursday, 4K.