Martedì 17 dicembre, presso il Centro Congressi Le Benedettine, si terrà il workshop dal titolo "Religious Secularity at Byblos: a Laboratory Synthesising the Materiality of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Bronze Age".
L'evento si svolge nell'ambito dei "Seminari di Orientalistica" ed è organizzao dall'associazione "VOLO - Volando oltre l'orizzonte" con i contributi per le attività studentesche dell'Università.
Programma
9:00-9.15
Greetings and Opening
9:15-9:35
Michel de Vreeze (Durham University)
The Early Bronze Age roots of Byblos' religious economy. Byblos from a regional perspective
9:35-9:45
Question and discussion
9:45-10:05
Marta D’Andrea (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Religious Entanglements between Byblos and Western Palestine in the Early and Middle Bronze Age: Overlooked Proxies for Socio-Political Ties?
10:05-10:15
Question and discussion
10:15-10:35
Chiara Pappalardo, Roberta Sanna, Nicola Laneri (University of Catania)
Knowledge Graphs of Material Religion: Connecting the Data from Byblos
10:35-10:45
Question and discussion
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-11:35
Julien Chanteau (Musée du Louvre)
Byblos Sacred Space in the Middle Bronze Age
11:35-11:45
Question and discussion
11:45-12:05
Lorenzo Nigro (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Temples orientation at Byblos and cultural interaction
12:05-12:15
Question and discussion
12:15-12:35
Bianca Eugenia Berti (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
The Temple of Ba’alat at Byblos, a stratigraphic update
12:35-12:45
Question and discussion
12:40-14:40
Lunch Break
14:40-15:00
Alexander Ahrens (Orient Department, German Archaeological Institute)
Salad Bowl or Melting Pot? Egyptian Imports, Egyptianizing Objects, and the Merging of Material Culture and Cultural Traits at Middle Bronze Age Byblos
15:00-15:10
Question and discussion
15:10-15:30
Camilla Saler (University of Pisa)
Negotiating Identity Through Votive Offerings: Egyptian and Egyptianizing Objects in the Votive Deposits of Byblos and their Integration into Local Religious and Social Practices
15:30-15:40
Question and discussion
15:40-16:00
Amel Bouhafs (ENiM - ASM UMR 5140, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier)
“Bi-national deities" : Egyptian gods in Byblos ? Selection, Appropriation, Translation and Assimilation
16:00-16:10
Question and discussion
16:10-16:30
Gianluca Miniaci (University of Pisa)
Byblos: A Laboratory for Resheph and the Smiting God Iconography
16:30-16:40
Question and discussion
16:40-17:00
Concluding remarks and closing round table