Workshop from October 18th – 20th, 2018 in the Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany
“THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT IDALION AND ITS TERRITORY”
SCOPE AND PROGRAM AS OF SEPTEMBER 21st, 2018
The question how to define the territory of the ancient city-states (city-kingdoms) of Iron Age Cyprus is a fascinating and difficult one. Recent research, including the use of “new” methods of landscape archaeology, but also reconsidering “old” evidence from a new perspective has given a fresh drive to tackle these questions.
Within the frame of a recently started research project, mainly focussing on the study and publication of Max Ohnefalsch-Richter´s activities in and around ancient Idalion, we would like to gather additional information as to the topography of the ancient city of Idalion and its hinterland. Research questions that could possibly be dealt with during the workshop include:
– new information on the location of settlements, necropoleis, sanctuaries etc. in the wider area of Idalion, their date, function etc.;
– continuity vs. discontinuity from the (later) Bronze to the Iron Age in the wider area of Idalion;
– the question of physical control of a territory and of pathways;
– reflections on the economic resources of ancient Idalion and how we can distinguish them from the resources of neighbouring polities;
– general reflections on the organisation and definition of the polity of ancient Idalion;
– historical and textual information on the topography and/or organisation of ancient Idalion;
– the possibility of defining regional specifiers in material culture of the later Bronze and the Iron Age;
– the question of defining the territory in respect to neighbouring territories (mainly, but not exclusively, of Kition and Tamassos);
– reflections on the general rural settlement pattern of ancient Idalion and how we can distinguish it from that of neighbouring polities
The workshop will allow for 30 minutes presentations, followed by a discussion of each paper (10 min.) and time for general discussion. The papers will be published in the series Studia Cyprologica Berolinensia. Contributions for both the workshop and the publication are required in English.
Conference venue
The workshop takes place at Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin
(see https://www.topoi.org/home/buildings/ for a map).
PROGRAM
(as of September 21st, 2018)
Thursday, October 18th
| 17:00 | Opening and welcome addresses |
| 17:30 | Oliver Nakoinz (Kiel): Iron Age territories and the concept of territoriality |
| 18:30 | Reception (Topoi-Building, Hannoversche Strasse 6, 10115 Berlin) |
Friday, October 19th
| 08:40 | Giorgos Georgiou (Nicosia): Communication networks in central Cyprus during the Cypro-Archaic period |
| 09:20 | Vasiliki Kassianidou (Nicosia): The topography of copper production in the Iron Age city kingdom of Idalion |
| 10:00 | Will M. Kennedy (Berlin) – Daniel Knitter (Kiel): Defining the rural environs of ancient Idalion: a fuzzy landscape archaeological approach for determining Idalion’s resource potential |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Christian Körner (Berne): The polity of Idalion: a constitutional government by king and polis? |
| 11:40 | Pamela Gaber (Williamsport): Idalion in its environment: settlement patterns in the Yialias river valley |
| 12:20 | Valery Woelfel (St. Paul): From survey chains to satellites: combining Idalion excavation maps from Ohnefalsch-Richter through the 21st century excavations |
| 13:00 – 14:20 | Lunch break |
| 14:20 | Stephan G. Schmid (Berlin): Max Ohnefalsch-Richter´s contribution to the topography of ancient Idalion |
| 15:00 | Sophie G. Horacek (Berlin): A sanctuary of a female deity excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter on the eastern acropolis of Idalion |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Coffee break |
| 16:10 | Angelika Walther (Berlin): The ‘Temple of Aphrodite’ – a temenos of a female deity near the Gialias river in Idalion |
| 16:50 | Caroline Huguenot (Berlin): The excavations of Max Ohnefalsch-Richter in the necropoleis of Idalion |
| 19:00 | Dinner for speakers |
Saturday, October 20th
| 09:00 | Matthias Recke (Francfort): Tamassos – the neighbour in the West |
| 09:40 | Patrizia Birchler Emery (Geneva) – Julien Beck (Geneva): Kataliondas Kourvellos, a rural sanctuary between city-kingdoms |
| 10:20 | Julien Beck (Geneva) – Patrizia Birchler Emery (Geneva) – Thea Christoforou (Nicosia): Organising the territory of a city-kingdom: the Kataliondas Kourvellos rural sanctuary in its local and regional context |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Final discussion |
Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
Sophie Horacek
Caroline Huguenot
Will Kennedy
Stephan G. Schmid
Angelika Walther
contact information: stephan.g.schmid@culture.hu-berlin.de
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