June 9-13, 2014

University of Basel
Switzerland

9. International Congress on the

Archaeology of the
Ancient Near East

Programme

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Organisers

9th ICAANE ICAANE

Basel Organising Committee International Scientific Committee

Prof. Dr. Antonio Loprieno Prof. Dr. Manfred Bietak

Rector of the University of Basel, Egyptology University of Vienna

Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kühne

Egyptology, University of Basel Free University of Berlin

Dr. Denis Genequand Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Margueron

Islamic Archaeology, University of Geneva École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

Prof. Dr. Bruno Jacobs Dr. Wendy Matthews

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Basel Reading University

Dr. Oskar Kaelin Prof. Dr. Paolo Matthiae

Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Basel University of Rome La Sapienza

Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Le Tensorer Prof. Dr. Diederik Meijer

Prehistorical Archaeology, University of Basel University of Leiden

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Mathys Prof. Dr. Ingolf Thuesen

Old Testament Studies and Semitic Languages University of Copenhagen
University of Basel
Prof. Dr. Alan Walmsley
Prof. Dr. Rolf A. Stucky University of Copenhagen
Classical Archaeology, University of Basel
Prof. Dr. Irene Winter
Harvard University

Further Support Islamic Archaeology

Dr. Ueli Brunner Dr. Alison Gascoigne
University of Zurich University of Southampton

M.A. Gino Caspari Dr. Cristina Tonghini

University of Hamburg Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia

Dr. Rita Gautschy Prof. Dr. Donald Whitcomb

University of Basel University of Chicago

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General Information

Everyone
Please, have your Congress ID with you while attending all ICAANE functions.
The Congress Office is located on the Ground Floor of the Kollegienhaus. It is open daily from 8.30
to 17.00. We are there for all your inquiries.
A Free WI-Fi internet service is available to all lCAANE participants within the premises of the Kolle-
gienhaus.
The Congress ID allows for a free visit to the Antikenmuseum Basel (St. Alban-Graben 5, CH-4010 Basel;
Tuesday, June 10 to Friday, June 13).

Speakers
The time limit of a single lecture is 20 min, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.
Have your own USB-Stick with a Power Point presentation or a PDF. On the computers in the lecture
halls the software installed will be Windows 7 64 bit, Office 2010 32 bit and Acrobat XI 32 bit.
There will be a manned computer in the Reception Area where you can check the functioning your
presentation beforehand all week. Please, do that well ahead of the time of your talk.

Posters
Posters will be displayed on the 1st floor of the Kollegienhaus. You may exhibit your poster after re-
gistration. The Poster Session is scheduled for Tuesday, June 10, 14.30 -16.15.

Bookstalls
Bookstalls for Publishers are located on the 1st floor of the Kollegienhaus.

Social Events (Admission by Congress ID. Drinks and snacks will be served)

Opening Reception by the Rectorate of University of Basel

Monday, June 9, 19.30 to 22.00. Kollegienhaus.

Reception by the Governments of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft
Thursday, June 12, 19.30 to 22.00. Antikenmuseum Basel.

Public Evenings (open to everybody, see separate flyers)

Zwischen Damaskus und Bagdad –

Archäologische Forschungen zu den Anfängen des Islam
Tuesday, June 10, 19.30 to 21.00.

Von den ersten Menschen zum Imperium – Basel forscht im Nahen Osten
Wednesday, June 11, 19.30 to 21.00.

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Timetable
Sunday
15-18 Registration (open whole week)
June 8

Monday 0900-1045 Opening

June 9 1115-1300 Section Introductions

S1 S2 S3 S4
Egypt & ANE – Travelling Images - ANE Traditions Reconstructing
1430-1615 Perceptions of Transfer and Trans- vs. Hellenization/ Ancient Eco-Sys-
Alterity formation of Visual Romanization tems
Ideas

1645-1830

Evening Reception Rectorate

Tuesday 0900-1045

June 10 1115-1300

1430-1615 Poster Session

WS3
1645-1830 Desert Kites

Evening Public Conference: Zwischen Damaskus und Bagdad – Archäologische Forschungen zu

den Anfängen des Islam

Wednesday 0900-1045

June 11 1115-1300
WS12 S4
1430-1615 Elite Residences Reconstructing An-
WS9 cient Eco-Systems
1645-1830 Archaeology of
the Negev & the
`Arabah
Evening Public Conference: Von den ersten Menschen zum Imperium – Basel forscht im Nahen
Osten

Thursday 0900-1045

June 12 S6 Reports
1115-1300
S6 Reports
1430-1615

1645-1830

Evening Reception by the Governments of the Cantons Basel-City & Basel-Country

Friday 0900-1045

June 13 1115-1300

1430-1615 S6 Reports

1645-1830 Closing Session

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S5 S6.1 Reports S6.2 Reports S7 WS2 WS1

Dealing with the Islamic Session Chronology of Construction of
Past: Finds, Boo- Transitional Neolithic Corpo-
ty, Gifts, Spoils, Periods rate Identities
Heirlooms
WS8
Tracing Comme-
moration

S5 Dealing with WS11 WS10

the Past Museums and Late Neolithic at
the Ancient Çatalhöyük
Middle East

WS7 WS5
Settlement Trajectories of
WS14 Landscape of Complexity
Irrigation and the Orontes
Water Works Valley

WS6 S7 WS4 WS13

Collections at Islamic Session Artifact of Bone Ethnoarchaeo-
Risk logy and Experi-
mental Studies

S6 Reports

S6 Reports

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Opening Plenary Session

0930-0945 Hans-Peter Mathys

University of Basel

0945-1000 tba
Vice-Rector of the University of Basel

1000-1015 Urs Wüthrich-Pelloli

Regierungspräsident of Basel-Landschaft

1015-1030 Paolo Matthiae

International Committee of the ICAANE

1030-1100 Coffee Break

Introductions to the Sections

1100-1115 Susanne Bickel

Egypt and Ancient Near East - Perceptions of Alterity

1115-1130 Oskar Kaelin

Travelling Images - Transfer and Transformation of Visual Ideas

1130-1145 Bruno Jacobs

Ancient Near Eastern Traditions vs. Hellenization/ Romanization

1145-1200 Jean-Marie Le Tensorer

Reconstructing Ancient Eco-Systems

1200-1215 Rolf A. Stucky

Dealing with the Past: Finds, Booty, Gifts, Spoils, Heirlooms

1215-1230 Denis Genequand

Islamic Session
1230-1430 Lunch Break

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Monday, June 9, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session
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S1 Egypt & ANE
Chair S usanne B ickel
1430- B ietak , M anfred
1455 Canaanites and Egyptians:
Ethnic Markers and Evidence
of Co-existence
1455- P edr a zzi , Tatiana
1520 Identity and Alterity in the
Early Iron Age Northern Le-
vantine Coast: a Hypothesis
of “Code-Sharing” in the
Material Culture
1520- Wasmuth , M el anie
1545 Egyptians in Iron Age Meso-
potamia: Reconstructing their
Socio-Cultural Settings
1545- V ermaak , Fanie
1615 The Ancient Persians in
Egypt – Focus on the Kharga
Oasis
1615- Coffee Break
1645
Chair Eva L ange
1645- B ader , B ettina
1710 Differences in Settlement
Structure and Burial Customs
as Perception of Alterity at
Tell el-Dab’a II
1710- L ehmann , M anuel a
1735 Ethnicity and Archaeological
Reality: Material Culture in
Tell el-Dab'a during the Late
Period
1735- M üller , M iriam
1800 Differences in Settlement
Structure and Burial Customs
as Perception of Alterity at
Tell el-Dab’a I
1800- R eali , C hiar a
1830 Sealings and Sealing Practice C roucher , K arina
at Avaris, Tell el-Dab’a
1930 Reception by the Rectorate of the University of Basel. Aula, Kollegienhaus.
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S2 Travelling I mages
E leonora Pappalardo
D onald , A lex ander
Adaptation, Appropri-
ation and Late Cypriot
Glyptic Iconography
S auvage , C aroline
Late Bronze Age regional
identities and distribution
of motifs: Mycenaean
Pictorial Ceramics in
their Cypriot and Levanti-
ne contexts
B ergoffen , C elia J.
Prized Pots: Cypriot
Painted Wheel Made
Kraters in MB-LB Cyprus
and the Levant
tba
K odas , E rgul
Le socle/cou des crânes
surmodelés : une nou-
velle approche sur leur
«phase d’utilisation»
M udd , D avid
The Symbolic World of
Wadi Faynan 16
V ered (R osenblum),
A riel
The Birth of a Myth?
Incised Motifs on Female
Figurines from Neolithic
and Chalcolithic Sou-
thern Levant
B elcher , E llen –
Exchanges of Identity
in Prehistoric Anatolian
Figurines
116
S3 ANE Traditions vs. H el-
lenization / Romanization
H ilary G opnik
M c R ae , I ona K at
Assessing Change and
Continuity. Achaemenid and
Post-Achaemenid Ceramic
Traditions in the Achaeme-
nid Heartland
M aresca , G iulio
Echoes of Regional
Traditions plus Western
Typological Influences:
Some Notes about the
Post-Achaemenian Pottery
Assemblage from the Italian
Excavations at Qal‛a-ye
Sam (Iran, Sistan)
H off, C orinna
Achaemenid and Greek
Influence in Lycia during the
6th to 4th Centuries BC
P oggio , A lessandro
The Hellenic Impact on the
Dynastic Figurative Langua-
ge in 4th-Century Lycia
Stephanie L angin -H ooper
D önmez , Ş evket
‘Persianisatıon’ at Oluz
Höyük, North-Central
Anatolia
H aider , M ay
Importation of Attic Pottery
to the Levantine Coast
during the Persian Period:
Case Study the College
Site Sidon
Fr angié -J oly, D ina
Beyrouth hellénistique
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S4 R econstructing A ncient
Eco -S ystems
Carmen del Cerro
B r aemer , Fr ank –
G eyer , B ernard
From Site Catchment Analysis
to Regional Settlement Pattern
Analysis: Building Regional Map
of Environmental Resources‘
Potential“
C asana , J esse
Landscape Phenology, Climate
Variability and Settlement Sus-
tainability in the Northern Fertile
Crescent: Insights from Regional-
Scale, Satellite Remote Sensing
M atthews , W endy
– M atthews , R oger (with
CZAP team colleagues)
Reconstructing Neolithic Eco-
Systems in the Central Zagros of
Iran and Iraq
R iehl , S imone – A souti , E leni
– S tarkovich , B ritt – Z eidi ,
M ohsen – C onard , N ichol as J.
Subsistence Change and Envi-
ronmental Patterns at Aceramic
Chogha Golan (Ilam Province/
Iran)
K atleen D eckers
E berle , J oachim – B achofer ,
Felix – H ochschild ,
Volker – M arker , M ichael
– U erpmann , H ans -P eter
Holocene Landscape Dynamics
and Geo-Archaeology in the
Central Region of the Emirate of
Sharjah (UAE)
A ltaweel , M ark – M arsh , A nke
– K adereit, A nnette – R ösch ,
M anfred – M ühl , S imone
Reconstructing the Paleoenviron-
ment in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraq
M ilevski , I anir – G andulla ,
B ernardo – J aruf, Pablo
Eco-Systems or “Socio-Systems”?
The Case of the Chalcolithic of the
Southern Levant
W hincop, M atthew
Reconstructing the Bronze and
Iron Age Ecosystems of Western
Inland Syria: Accounting for
Variability in Existing Population
and Sustainability Models.
117
S5 D ealing with the Past
Frances Pinnock
B aldi , J ohnny S amuele
The Many Lives of a Bowl.
Serially Produced Chalcolithic
Containers through Ancient
and Current Re-attributions of
Meaning
Vahdati N asab , H. – K a zz a zi ,
M andan – N ayebi , S amir a
Venus Figurines: Paleolithic
vs Neolithic. Metric Analysis of
Female Figurines from Europe
and the Middle East
R assmann , P hilipp M.
Repurposing and Re-depositing
Levantine Neolithic Ground
Stone Tools
Taha , B uchr a – S idér a , I sabelle
Caprine’s Tibias Cutting-edges
and the Associated Bone
Objects through Near-East,
Asia, Europe and Balkans:
Signs of Neolithic Dispersal and
Networks
WS Tracing C ommemoration
Sarah L ange & A aron S chmitt
G ebhard S elz
The State, the Family and the In-
dividual: Funerary Practices and
Commemoration Rites in the
Light of the late Early Dynastic
Mesopotamian sources
E dgar P eltenburg
Monuments and Materials: the
Development of Commemorative
Practices in North Syria in the
Early-Middle Bronze Ages
S ar ah L ange
kispum for Family Members
Only? How a “Family Cult” was
used to link one’s own History
with Historical Personages

Aula
S6.1 R eports
tba
G avagnin , K atia
The Land of Nineveh Re-
gional Project: Preliminary
Results on 3rd Millennium
B.C. Settlement Patterns in
the Northern Region of Iraqi
Kurdistan
K aercher , Kyr a
A Preliminary Assessment
of the Ceramic Sequence of
Northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan
K epinski , C hristine
– Tenu , A line
Kunara, a Bronze Age City on
the Upper Tanjaro (Iraq)
E idem , J esper
Back To Shemshara
Coffee Break
J esper E idem
O sborne , J ames – U r , J ason
Results of the Erbil Plain Ar-
chaeological Survey (EPAS),
Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Ş erifoğlu , Tevfik
E mre – G l atz , C l audia
– C asana , J esse
Between the Mesopotamian
Plains and the Zagros Moun-
tains: The Sirwan (Upper
Diyala) Regional Project
2012-2014
M erlino , M. – G iannessi , D.
Gird Bardastee: an Early Ni-
nevite V Site in Northern Iraq
D anti , M ichael D.
The Rowanduz Archaeolo-
gical Program 2013 (Iraqi
Kurdistan)
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S6.2 R eports
Wiesiek Więckowski
S apir -H en , L idar –
B en -Yosef, E rez
Social Status, Ethnicity and
Animal Economy at the Late
Bronze/Iron Age Copper
Smelting Sites at Timna,
Israel
C hamel , B. – R av y, E.
– C oqueugniot, E.
Task Related Wear,
Interproximal Grooves and
Non-masticatory Tooth Use in
the Pre-pottery Neolithic Po-
pulation of Dja‘de el-Mughara
(Syria, 9th Millennium BC)
S ataev, R.
Horse, Donkey, Onager in
the Life of Ancient People of
Gonur-Depe (Bronze Age,
Turkmenistan)
S ataeva , L.
Wood Using at the Bron-
ze Age Site Gonur-Depe
(Ancient Margiana, South
Turkmenistan)
L. Sataeva
E lias , N ada –H our ani ,
Yasha – B adawi , A li –
A rbogast, R ose -M arie
–C astex , D ominique
Burial or not? The Case of
Men/Cattle Deposit in the Ne-
cropolis of Jal al-Bahr in Tyre.
Reflection on the Phoenician
Funeral Symbolic
D ighton , A nne
Human Interaction with the
Olive Tree in the Neolithic-
Iron Age Jordan Valley:
New Research from Pella in
Jordan
K imiaie , M asi
Crop Choice in Neolithic-
Aeneolithic Southwestern
Turkmenistan: Archaeobotani-
cal Investigations in Monjukli
Tepe
Monday, June 9, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session
001
S7 I slamic S ession
Cristina Tonghini
S tuder , J acqueline
The Importance of Archaeo-
logical Context in Understan-
ding Human Diet: Animal
Bone Accumulations from
Early Islamic Qasr al-Hayr
al-Sharqi, Syria.
H arrison , M atthew
The Houses of Fusṭāṭ: Bey-
ond Importation and Influence
L ester , Ayal a
Roman and Byzantine Influ-
ence on the Consolidation of
Fatimid Jewelry
S t. L aurent, B eatrice
– A w wad , I sam
Archaeology & Preservation
of Early Islamic Jerusalem:
Revealing the 7th Century
Mosque on the Haram al-
Sharif
A lastair N orthedge
A vni , G ideon
Continuity, Innovation and
Decline of Agricultural Fields
in Early Islamic Palestine
G or z alcz any, A mir
Early Islamic Industry, Ecolo-
gy and Urbanism: The Case
of Ramla
W hitcomb , D onald
The Mosques of Mafjar: A
Sequence and some implica-
tions for understanding Qasr
Hisham
114 119 H all
WS The C hronology of Tran - WS The C onstruction of N eo -
sitional P eriods lithic C orporate I dentities
E lisabetta B oaretto M arion B enz – H. G. K. Chair
– Felix H öflmayer G ebel – Trevor Watkins
1430-
1455
M ichael W. D ee N igel G oring -M orris &
Relative and Radiocarbon- A nna B elfer -C ohen
based Chronologies for Egypt Moving Around’ and the Evo-
during the First and Second lution of Corporate Identities
Millennia BCE
1455-
1520
R ita G autschy L isbeth B redholt
Astronomical Data and their C hristensen
Potential for Chronological Things Animate and Inanima-
Purposes te: Objectification of Things
as Part of Corporate Identity?
Tobias R ichter 1520-
Felix H öflmayer The Corporate Group Re- 1545
Middle Bronze Age Chrono- considered: Counter-power,
logy, Egypt and Tell el-Dab’a: Cooperation and Agency in
Where it fits and where it Epipalaeolithic Societies in
doesn’t Southwest Asia
1545-
1615
1615-
1645
E lisabetta B oaretto M arion B enz – H. G. K. Chair
– Felix H öflmayer G ebel – Trevor Watkins
1645-
1710
K urt W. A lt &
B ietak , M anfred M arion B enz
tba Teeth Story Writing: Basta
and the Difficult Path to
Farming Communities
E lisabetta B oaretto E leni A souti 1710-
Radiocarbon Chronology of The Role of Climate Instability 1735
the Early Bronze Age in the and Resource Predictability
South Levant: Improving Time in the Formation of Neolithic
Resolution and Synchroni- Corporate Identities in Sou-
zation thwest Asia
Pascal B utterlin A my B ogaard 1735-
Between the East and the Neolithic ‘Cooperatives’? An 1800
West, Chronological Issues at Archaeobotanical Approach
Mari (2900-1760 BCE) to Neolithic Corporate
Identities
1800-
1830
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Morning/Midday Session

H all 115 120 116 118 117

S1 Egypt & ANE S2 Travelling I mages S3 ANE Traditions vs. S4 R econstructing A ncient WS Tracing C ommemoration
H ellenization / Romanization Eco -S ystems

Chair M anfred B ietak David I lan Ş evket D önmez J ulien Charbonnier Sarah L ange & A aron S chmitt

0900- B ecker , J ohannes
0925 Large-Scale Landscape Pain-
tings of Tell el-Dab’a/Egypt
0925- J ungfleisch , J ohannes
0950 ‘Aegean’ Style wall Paintings
meet ‘Egyptian’ Palatial
Architecture: Architectural
Simulations from ‘Palace G’
in Tell el-Dab’a
Atakuman , C igdem
Stamp Imagery and Social
Transformation during the
Later Neolithic of the Near
East
D enham , S imon
The Social Importance of
Late Neolithic Stamp Seal
Imagery
Yedidağ , Turgay Yaşar
Hellenistic Moldmade Bowls
from Phrygia Epiktetos: New
Evidence from Dorylaion
U ygun , Ç ilem
Roman Pottery from Üçtepe
Excavation in South-East
Anatolia
E rtsen , M aurits –
W ilkinson , Tony
Understanding Long-Term
Trends in Ancient Water
Systems
P ustovotoy tov,
K. – R iehl , S.
The Early Bronze Age/Middle
Bronze Age Transition and
the Aquifer Geography in the
Near East
P eter P fälzner
Keeping Remembrance
through Objects - Old Objects
in Later Grave Contexts
A aron S chmitt
Thoughts about the Relation
between Material Culture
and Memory in Ancient
Mesopotamia

0950- Truex , L ise
1015 Returning the Egyptian Gaze:
Earning Status and Enacting
Syro-Palestinian Identity
R eichel , C lemens
Far-Reaching Consequences:
the Impact of Transferring
Symbols and Visual Narrati-
ves through Seal Impressions
in Late Chalcolithic Northern
Syria
Palermo , R occo
Local Traditions and Regional
Influences: Hellenistic Meso-
potamia in Context. The Data
from the first two Seasons of
the Land of Nineveh Regional
Project
del C erro , C armen
Irrigation Canals and Cul-
tures in the Oases of Oman
Peninsula in the Iron Age.
Questions, Systems and
Environmental Adaptations
E lisa R ossberger
Things to Remember: Storage
und Function of Dedicated
Objects in Old Babylonian
Temples

1015- A bu -L aban , A iysha H auser , S tefan R.

1045 Representing the Divine in
Dilmun Iconography – bet-
ween Image and Concept
Similitude and Syncatabasis.
Remarks concerning the
Relation between Styles and
Religious Practice in Mesopo-
tamian Representational Arts

1045-
1115 Coffee Break
Chair A lexander A hrens D.J.W. M eijer Carrie E. D uncan N imrod M arom Sarah L ange & A aron S chmitt

1115- K ennedy, M elissa B attini , L aur a
1140 Egypt and the Southern Syro-Mesopotamian Tra-
Levant during the EB IV velling Images from Seals
Examples
1140- G ol ani , A mir C atanz ariti , A ntonietta
1205 Circular Structures of the Traveling Images from
Late Early Bronze I in the Southern Lebanon and
Southern Levant and Predy- Southwestern Syria: A Study
nastic Egypt on the Perception and Use of
Extrinsic Motifs
1205- Pappal ardo , E leonor a
1230 Traveling Images in 1st Mill-
ennium Mediterranean. Crete
and the East.
1230- L orenzon , M arta
1300 The Iconography of Mudbrick
Production throughout the
Mediterranean
L angin -H ooper , S tephanie
Both Hellenized AND
Native: Common Ground and
Mutual Acceptability in the
Cross-Cultural Figurines of
Hellenistic Babylonia
R ist vet, L auren
Between Theater and Ritual:
Public Events as a Middle
Ground in Seleucid Babylonia
Tar afdari , A li M ohammad
The Position of Greek Poleis
in Government System of the
Arsacid Empire
Z olfaghari , S ar a
The Figure of Parthian
Women on Archaeological
Remains
D evillers , A nne
New Approaches in Paleao-
fauna Reconstruction
D aniel Fisher
The Misplaced Altar and
the Forbidden Serpent: The
Problem of Material Culture in
Biblical Israel
A rwa , K harobi – Patrice ,
C ourtaud – H enri , D uday
Bones can talk: An Archeo-
Anthropological analysis of
D avide N adali
Mozan Graves in Units A16
Defragmenting Memories:
and A15 (Northeastern Syria
The (ab)used Power of
– Middle Bronze Age)
Remembering in the Ancient
Near East
S choch , C hiar a
Early Wool in the Ancient
Near East
N orman Yoffee
Final Discussion
G reenfield , Tina –
R osenzweig , M elissa
Assyrian Provincial Life: Fau-
nal and Botanical Remains
from Domestic Contexts at
Ziyaret Tepe, Southeastern
Turkey

1300-
1430 Lunch Break

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Aula
S6.1 R eports
tba
S kuldbøl , Tim B.B. –
C ol antoni , C arlo
First Results of the Rania Plain
Survey Salvage Operations in
the Dokan Dam Inundation Zone
Sternitzke, Katja
Babylon in the Old Babylonian
and Kassite Periods – New
Insights from Old Material
D’A gostino , Fr anco
– R omano , L icia
Excavations at Abu Tbeirah,
Southern Iraq (2012-2013)
Z imansk y, Paul
Tell Sakariya and GA.EŠ: Investi-
gation of a Rural 2nd Millennium
BC Site in Southern Iraq
Coffee Break
Paul Z imansky
H elgestad , B irger E kornåsvåg
The Ur Project
B enati , G iacomo –
L ecompte , C amille
New Light on the Archaic Texts
from SIS 5-4 at Ur: A Contextual
and Archival Reconstruction
R ey, S. – L ecompte , C.
– C olonna d ’I stria L.
Tello (Ancient Girsu) and its
Countryside: Topographic Layout
and Regional Setting of an Early
Dynastic Sumerian City
Lunch Break
102
S6.2 R eports
N icholas C onard
R ichter , Tobias
The Late Epipalaeolithic
in Jordan’s Black Desert:
Recent Fieldwork at
Shubayqa 1
N aderi , R ahmat –
H eydari -G ur an , S aman
The Paleolithic Archeology
of Kurdistan
L avi , R on – B ar zil ai ,
O mry – H ershkovitz ,
I sr ael – M arder ,
O fer – G oder , M ae
– H er zlinger , G adi
Manot Cave
M archand , Florine
L‘industrie lithique de Tell
`Arqa (Plaine du Akkar,
Liban Nord)
Tobias R ichter
C onard , N ichol as
– Z eidi , M ohsen
The Record of Clay
Objects from the Aceramic
Neolithic Site of Chogha
Golan, Ilam Province, Iran
A reshian , G regory E.
Geographic Diversity
and the Growth of Social
Complexity in the Late
Neolithic and Chalcolithic:
New Perspectives from
the Central Near Eastern
Highlands
D ar abi , H ojjat
An Updated Chronology
for the Neolithic Western
Iran
G uliyev, Farhad –
N ishiaki , Yoshihiro
Archaeological
Investigations at the
Neolithic Settlement
of Goytepe Located in
the Middle Kura River,
Azerbaijan, 2012-2013.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Morning/Midday Session
001
S7 I slamic S ession
M artina M üller -Wiener
C y tryn -S ilverman , K atia
Tiberias’ congregational
mosque: some conclusions
R attenborg , R. –
B røndgaard J ensen , M. –
Thing , E. – M c P hillips , S.
Urban Spaces of Early
Islamic Jarash: Recent
excavations of the Danish-
Jordanian Islamic Jarash
Project, Jarash, Jordan
G erber , Yvonne
The South Jordan paradox
and the Early Islamic
ceramic
P olitis , K onstantinos D.
The Origins of the Sugar
Cane Industry in the Eas-
tern Mediterranean
tba
A rce , I gnacio
Qasr Harrane. Domed thro-
ne halls and ribbed vaults
R occabella , G iulia
Considerations on the Pavi-
lion in Bilād al-Shām
R ousset, M arie -O dile
Discovering the fatimid
mosque of Tyre (Lebanon)
114 119 H all
WS The C hronology of Transitional WS The C onstruction
Periods of N eolithic C orporate
I dentities
E lisabetta B oaretto – M arion B enz – H. G. K. Chair
Felix H öflmayer G ebel – Trevor Watkins
C onstanz a C oppini 0900-
Evidences for the MBA-LBA Transi- 0925
tional Period in Northern Mesopo-
tamia: Stratigraphic Sequences and G ary R ollefson
Ceramic Assemblages “I am we”: the Display of
Socioeconomic Politics
E leonor a C arminati of Neolithic Commodi-
Towards the Periodization of the 0925-
fication
Early Kurgan Cultures of Southern 0950
Caucasus: State of the Question and
Preliminary Results
H assan Fa zeli N ashli
C hrista S ütterlin
The Relative and Absolute
Cultural Memory:
Chronology of the Iranian Central
Symbols and Rituals for
Plateau during the Third and Second
Millennium BC the Purpose of Making
0950-
and Sustaining Group
S. K hasswneh , A. M urr ay & D. 1015
Identity
B onatz
Investigating OSL Dating Technique
for Young Archaeological Heated
Materials Using Potshards
from the Tell Tabqat Fahl Theya M olleson
(Pella) in the Jordan Valley Physical Signs of 1015-
Corporate Identity 1045
H arvey W eiss (Respondent)
1045-
1115
Chair
1115-
1140
114
1100-1400
1140-
1205
The State of the H eritage of S yria
in the Times of C ivil War .
A n informative meeting
Organised by the Swiss Society for
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
(see separate programme).
1205-
1230
1230-
1300
1300-
1430
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

1430-
1615 Poster Session

1615-
1645 Coffee Break

H all 115 120 116 118 117

S1 Egypt & ANE S2 Travelling I mages S3 ANE Traditions vs. H el- WS D esert K ites S5 D ealing with the Past
lenization / Romanization

Chair C olleen M anassa Javier Á lvarez-M on Stefan H auser U eli B runner tba

1645- M ielke , D irk Paul W inkelmann , S ylvia C oqueugniot, G aëlle S omma , L orenzo
1710 Egyptian Paradigms about Transfer and Transforma- Ancient Near-Eastern Tra- Glass Small Finds from Nimrud,
the Hittites – Past and tion of a Religious Symbol ditions and Greco-Roman Inside and Outside their Contexts
Present System from Southeast Iran Culture in the Agora of
D avid K ennedy – R ebecca
to Bronze Age Margiana Europos-Dura (Syria)
B anks – M atthew D alton
Kites in Saudi Arabia

1710- B en -D or E vian , S hirly O rnan , Tall ay de J ong , L idewijde S purrier , Tr acy L.

1735 Representations of "Sea-
Peoples" as Icons of Alterity:
Creating a New Philistine
Paradigm
1735- A hrens , A lex ander
1800 “Coherence and Divergence”
– Egyptian Iconography in the
Glyptic Material found in the
Northern Levant during the
Early 2nd Millennium BCE
1800-
1830
Reshef and his Enemies on
a newly-found Canaanite
Cylinder Seal
Z olotnikova , O lga
A Storm-God with a Battle
Axe on Neo-Hittite Reliefs:
Change of Weapon – Chan-
ges in the Concept?
B aştürk , M ahmut B ilge
Warriors and Gods on the
Highlands: Urartian Visual
Perception of the Mesopo-
tamian Divinities
Empires and Palmyra: a Wael A bu -A zizeh Disregarded Royalty: A Study of
View from the Tombs – M. Tar awneh the Bronze Coffins outside Tomb
Out of the Harra: Desert III at Nimrud
Kites in South-Eastern
Jordan. New Results from
Fischer -G enz , B ettina the South-Eastern Badia
Becoming Roman without Archaeological Project
being Hellenized? A Case-
Study of Different Narratives
of Near Eastern Culture in P er S toremyr
the Northern Beqaa (Syria/ The Distribution of Ancient
Lebanon) Game Traps in Upper Egypt
and Lower Nubia
C harloux , G uillaume et al .
New Evidence of the
Nabataean Presence in
the Jawf Region at the
Dawn of Romanization:
a Triclinium at Dûmat al-
Jandal (North Saudi Arabia)

1930 Public Conference: Zwischen Damaskus und Bagdad – Archäologische Forschungen zu den Anfängen des Islam
Aula, Kollegienhaus.
12

Coffee Break
Aula
S6.1 R eports
Peter Pfälzner
Z eynivand , M ohsen –
N iknami , K amal-A ldin
– M a z aheri , K hodak ar am
Chalcolithic Period Settlement
Patterns of the Seymarreh
Valley, Central Zagros, Iran
H ariryan , H. – H esari ,
M. – M otarjem , A.
Settlements Dispersal of
Chalcolithic Period to end of
Bronze Age in Gavroud River
Basin in Sonqor
N orouzi , A li A sghar –
H eydari , M ohsen
Saki Abad: A Nomadic Camp
Site in Southern Zagros
A z adi , A hmad
Archaeological Survey of the
Kohgiluye Area; A Preliminary
Report of two Seasons
Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session
1430-
Poster Session 1615
1615-
1645
102 001 114 119 H all
S6.2 R eports S7 I slamic S ession WS M useums and the WS L ate N eolithic at
A ncient M iddle E ast Çatalhöyük
tba Ayala L ester G eoff E mberling – A rkadiusz M arciniak Chair
L ucas Petit – L ech Czerniak
Aya z , G ul an E ger , A lex ander A sa 1645-
The Early Iron Age Jewelries of the (Re)Mapping Medieval Antioch: 1710
Karagündüz Cemetery from Eas- Life After the Islamic Conquests
tern Anatolia, and their relationship J ack G reen A rk adiusz M arciniak
to Southern Caucasia “We’re not an art – L ech C zerniak
museum:” Presenting Çatalhöyük East at the
archaeological narratives End of the 7th Millen-
at the Oriental Institute nium. The Demise of
B en -Yosef, E rez R ubini , C l audio 1710-
Museum Neolithic Mega-City
Back to Solomon’s Era: Results of Antakya urban fabric. A living 1735
the First Phase of the Central Tim- transformation process
na Valley Project (CTV 2013-2014)
H aim G itler G ary R ollefson
The Art of Displaying Late 8th and 7th
Fr anke , K ristina A. Turchetto , J acopo Small Objects Millennium Turmoil in 1735-
Metal and Elites in Upper Mesopo- Among ‘Underground Grana- Neolithic Jordan 1800
tamia - Uniqueness or Uniformity? ries’, Fortresses and ‘Built’
Churches. Territorial Markers
for the Reconstruction of the
Road Network of Post-classical J oan A ruz – N igel G oring -M orris
Cappadocia (Turkey) Yelena R akic – A nna B elfer -C ohen
H useynli , N amiq Exhibiting Interaction: The Relationship Bet-
H ansen , S. – B oroffk a , Displaying the arts of ween the Aceramic and 1800-
N. – Thomalsk y, J. Medieval Shamkir Town on the 1830
Great Silk Way (on the Basis of the ANE in their broader Ceramic Neolithic in the
Ancient Mining and Metallurgy of context Southern Levant
Afghanistan 2007-2012 Excavation)
13
Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Morning/Midday Session

H all 115 120 116 118 117

S1 Egypt & ANE S2 Travelling I mages S3 ANE Traditions vs. H ellenization / WS D esert K ites S5 D ealing with the Past
Romanization

Chair M elanie Wasmuth M ahmut B ilge Baştürk Gaëlle C oqueugniot U eli B runner Lynn D odd
0900- Tucci , G iulia H effron , Yamur K abs , Thomas V erhulst, A strid
0925 Egyptian Royal Statues and Anatolian Lead Figurines: Nabatäische Politik im Spiegel One Seal, Two Souls. A
Stelae from Late Bronze Palesti- Imagery in Literal and römischer Klientelpolitik R émy C r assard Study on the Phenomenon
nian Public Buildings Figurative Melting Pots The Globalkites Project: of the Reuse of an Old Ba-
Multi-proxy Studies of bylonian Relative’s Seal
the Desert Kite Pheno-
menon
0925- N aeh , L iat B ellucci , B enedetta P etrovszk y, K arin Z aina , Federico
0950 Thrones and Equids: A Typology Travelling Monsters: The The Tomb Complexes of Petra: Deep down in the Earth. The
of Levantine Royal Imagery Representation of Fan- Cross-cultural Encounters, Inno- 3rd Millennium BC Levels at
during the Bronze Age tastic Creatures in Late vative Developments and Ancient O livier B arge Tell Ingharra/Kish Revisited
Bronze Age Glyptic Concepts First Results of the
Globalkites Project:
Research in Armenia,
0950- C hanteau , J ulien B ecerr a , A na G erber , Yvonne – C asero C hamorro ,
Kazakhstan and Jordan
1015 The Chapels of the « L shaped » The Buried Griffins of D ur and , C aroline M aria D olores
Temple at Byblos Persepolis: Eagle-Headed At Crossroads — and in the Cross- Sealing the Present with the
Griffins and the Elite in fire? Work-in-progress Studies on Past: The Babylonian Influ-
D ani N adel – G uy B ar -
Elam and Persia Pottery and other Small Finds from ence on the Construction of
O z – D an M alkinson
a Hellenistic/Nabataean Trade the Neoassyrian Empire
– A mnon N achmias
Centre in Northwest Arabia
– A nna K hechoyan
– B oris G asperian
1015- M assafr a , A ngel a K uehn , S ar a D arby, R obert Yashmi , R amin
New Insights into Desert
1045 The Egyptian Presence in Sou- Vestiges of the Ourobóros Local Influence and Adaptation in The Weird Sisters: South-
Kites in Armenia (the
thern Palestine at the Dawn of in the Medieval Islamic the Late Roman Military Bathhou- East of Iranian Plateau vs.
Fringes of the Ararat
the Late Bronze Age as reflected Visual Tradition ses of Arabia/Palaestina Surrounding Regions. The
Depression)
by Pottery Imports Process of Internal Cultural
Development of Civilization
Centers during the Fourth
and the Third Millennia BC

1045-
1115 Coffee Break
Chair tba S ylvia Winkelmann Rocco Palermo U eli B runner tba

1115- L ange , E va C outur aud , B arbar a R embart, L. – P eloschek , L. P innock , Fr ances

1140 Phoenician Gods and Crafts in
the Nile Delta: A Glimpse into
the Micro-Stratigraphy of Elite
Society at Bubastis in the 1st
Millennium BC
1140- N ilsson , M aria
1205 Early Caesars in Gebel el Silsila:
Quarry Activity under Divine
Protection
Image and Ideology
during the ED III and the
Akkadian Periods: the
Example of the Figurative
Inlaid Panels of Mari
L inke , J ulia
The Kings of Urartu in the
Visual World
The Influence of the Hellenistic Dealing with the Past at
World on the Local Ceramic Produc- Ebla. Ancestors‘ Cults and
tion in Syene/Upper Egypt Foreign Relations
M ohammed M ar aqten
Hunting in Ancient
Arabia in the Light of
Rock Art and Epigraphic
G opnik , H il ary S quitieri , A ndrea
Material
Mixing and Matching: Hybridity at Inherited, Reused and Loo-
Oğlanqala, Azerbaijan ted Stone Vessels: Some
Cases from the Iron Age
Levant and Assyria

1205- M anassa , C olleen
1230 Another Enigmatic Eastern
Desert Locale: A Late Roman/
Byzantine Site near Debabiya,
Egypt
Á lvarez -M on , J avier
From Kul-e Farah to
Persepolis: the Elamite
Heritage of Persian Sculp-
tural Arts
A lison B etts
L e B ihan , A mélie Beyond the Walls: B inder , A nne -B irte
Les pratiques religieuses en Syrie Social, Economic and Documentation, Publication
romaine: entre traditions locales et Strategic Aspects of and Reception by and of
influences gréco-romaine Kite Use Anton Moortgat

1230- M üller , M aya
1300 Decorated Tunics from Late
Antique Antinoe reflecting the
Egyptian Perception of Near and
Middle Eastern Exotic Peoples
A scalone , E nrico
New Archaeological Finds
from Ziwiye. The Glyptic
Art of North-West Iran
during the First Millennium
BC
U eli B runner
D uncan , C arrie E. The South Arabian
Remembered for Giving: Jewish Form and its Implication
Benefaction in the Roman World for the Interpretation of
Desert Kites

1300-
1430 Lunch Break

14
 Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Morning/Midday Session

Aula 102 001 114 119 H all

S6.1 R eports S6.2 R eports S7 I slamic S ession WS M useums and the WS L ate N eolithic at
A ncient M iddle E ast Çatalhöyük

H amid Fahimi R ita D olce M arie -O dile Rousset G eoff E mberling A rkadiusz M arciniak Chair
– L ucas Petit – L ech Czerniak

Yousefi , R. – G olche , M. P hilip, G r aham K ozbe , G ulriz – A lp, 0900-

Tepe Gabri: A Pre-Pottery Death and Burial in the Ancient M esut – E rdoğan , N ihat B eatrice A ndré -S alvini Patrycja Filipowicz 0925
Neolithic Village from the 8th Near East: the “Big Picture” The Excavatıons in the Cıtadel of Permanent and Tem- The Lake District
Millennium B.C. in Eastern Iran Cızre Castle (Bırca Belek) porary Exhibition in a Groups as Descen-
so-called ‘Universal dents of Çatalhöyük
Museum’: The Louvre East
Tsuneki , A kir a B r adbury, J ennie M üller -W iener , M artina 0925-
Tappeh Sang-i Chaxmaq and the “Missing Persons”: body parts, Regionalism and Interaction: 0950
Neolithization of Northeastern Iran personhood and ownership in the ceramic traditions as indicator
Levantine Bronze Age of sociopolitical and economic I an K uijt –
transformations in early Islamic A rk adiusz M arciniak
H olly P ittman – A Tale of Two Cities:
Syria and Iraq R ichard Z ettler Revisiting Popula-
New Galleries at the tion Estimates for
A bol ahr ar , A lirez a – Z are , R eifarth , N. – P ümpin , C h . – B r adost y, Z idan R asheed Penn Museum: Chal- 0950-
Çatalhöyük East and
M osa – E br ahimi , S aeed D outrelepont, H. – V rydaghs , L. The Qaysaria (Suq, Market) of lenges and Opportu- 1015
Neolithic Communities
Archaeological Micro-Structures Erbil in the Othmania period nities
The Study of the Oldest Pottery in Different Light: Reconstructing
belong to Neolithic Period, Based Funeral Activities in the Royal
on Archaeological Survey on P eter F. B iehl et al .
Tomb of Qatna, Syria
Banooj Tepes in Darab, Fars, Iran The Transition
C lemens R eichel Between the East
Conflicted Conscience and West Mounds at
M arghussian , A.K.– S hafiq , R ul a S chiettecatte , J érémie – — on Balancing Clippol Çatalhöyük around 1015-
C oningham , R.A.E. An Overview of Jericho Graves M outon , M ichel – S iméon , uratorial, Design, and 6000 cal BC: a View 1045
Investigation of Neolithic Pottery and Skeletons P ierre A l-Yamāma . Marketing Demands for from the West
from Sialk in the Central Plateau of Excavation of an Islamic city in a Blockbuster Exhibit
Iran, Utilising Chemical and XRD Central Arabia.
Analysis

1045-
Coffee Break 1115
tba J ennie B radbury K atia C ytryn -S ilverman G eoff E mberling A rkadiusz M arciniak Chair
– L ucas Petit – L ech Czerniak

A bedi , A kbar – A hmadi , R asul – D olce , R ita G enequand , D enis – 1115-

K arimifar , A z am – A bbasi , M ahdi Headless Mortals and Gods. N orthedge . A l astair 1140
– M ottaghiz adeh , Farna z – A bedi , Some Remarks on Decapitation in Medieval urban development bet-
H ossein – A llahyari , H asan the Ancient Near East ween Khurasan and Khwarezm:
P edro A z ar a , A lbert E leni A souti
An Updated Chronology for the the case of Misriyan/Dehistan
I mperial , M arc Discussant
Chalcolithic Period of the Lake Ur- (Turkmenistan)
M arin , E ric R usiñol ,
mia Basin, NW Iran: New Evidence
& J oan B orrell
from Dava Göz
Ancient „Art“ in the
White Cube?, or How
K a zempour , M ehdi – N iknami , K anjou , Youssef A z ad , A rezou Contemporary Art 1140-
K amal A ldin – A bedi , Mortuary practice in Tell Qaramel The Landscape of Early Islamic Creates Ancient „Art“. 1205
A kbar – R ez alou , R ez a North Syria from early bronze age Balkh
New Kurgan Burials at Zardkha- and Neolithic period
neh, and Reassessment Chronolo-
gy of Late Prehistory of NW Iran I rving Finkel
How to Make People
R ez ayi , M ohammad R attenborg , R une S iméon , P ierre Stop and Look 1205-
H ossein – B asafa , H assan Land of Behemoths: Altering New Data on Islamic Material 1230
– D ehghani , Z einab Concepts of Political Power and Culture from the Central-Asian
The Effect of Hydrology and Territoriality in the Middle Bronze margins : Dehistan and Balkh
Geographical Environment on De- Age Fertile Crescent ceramic studies
velopment Process of Prehistoric L eil a B adre
Settlements in Kazeroun Plain, Museum Exhibits and
Iran Education: The AUB
Museum as a Case
Fahimi , H amid H eidemann , S tefan – 1230-
Study
Sialk 7; A Suggestion for the La- N aue , M atthias 1300
test Period in Sialk South Mound, Balkh. Lessons on Urban Growth
Based on the New Excavations at from the Coin Finds
Tepe Sialk (2001-05)

1300-
Lunch Break 1430

15
Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

H all 115 120 116 118 117

S1 Egypt & ANE S2 Travelling I mages WS Elite R esidences S4 R econstructing A ncient S5 D ealing with the Past
Eco -S ystems

Chair tba tba S. G. S chmid – Z. T. Fiema A nne D eviller Federico B uccellatti

– P. B iewnkowski – B. Kolb

1430- Forza , M aria
1455 Could the Crematory Ritual
be Explained as a Marker
of Alterity with Respect to
the Central Power and of
Self-Identity? Considerations
on Crematory Burials in the
Upper Tigris Valley during the
Iron Ages I and II.
M atthiae , Paolo
Power and Prestige:
Egyptian Images for Old
Syrian Gods and Kingship
S tephan G. S chmid
– Z bigniew T. Fiema
– P iotr B iewnkowski
– B ernhard K olb
Power Landscape and
Luxury Architecture - the
IUBP and NEPP Residen-
ces in Petra
R össner , C orinna –
D eckers , K. – R iehl , S.
The Origin of Agriculture in the
Northern Fertile Crescent –
Possible Food Plants at Körtik
Tepe, SE-Anatolia
A babneh , A.
Interpretive Media, Problems
and Challenges at the Museum
of Dar As Saraya in Jordan

1455- H errmann , Virginia R. W ygnask a , Z uz anna S tork , L eigh C incotti , S ilvana

1520 "I Counted Them With the
People of the Land of Assy-
ria": Making Imperial Subjects
at Assyrian Provincial Sam'al
(Zincirli, Turkey)
A Bun and a Headband–
the Shifting Motive of the
Royal Headdress
P oly timi A goridou
New Insights into the
Interior Decoration of a
Bath Complex on Umm
al-BIyara, Petra
On Pins and Needles, the „Karnac est en paix“: analyse et
Relationship between Pins étude des pièces provenant du
and Textiles in the Carchemish temple de Karnak et appartenant
Region during the EB I-II au Musée egyptien de Turin

1520- B urnett, J oel , S. D eckers , K atleen & D i Paolo , S ilvana

1545 Egyptianizing Elements in R iehl , S imone The ‘Modern Life’ of Ancient
Ammonite Stone Statuary M arco D ehner Olive at Zeraqon (Jordan) and Near Eastern Antiquities: Poly-
What these Stones can Tell its Importance in the 3rd millen- valent Objects for the Construc-
Us: a GIS-based Compara- nium BC Levant tion of Cultural Meanings
tive Study of Architectural
Members from the NEPP
1545- Fridman , J ulia Fantone , Federica
Area in Petra, Jordan
1615 Concentric Circles Incised From Fodder to Staple Food:
on Judahite Storage Jars; Rethinking the Role of Barley at
Origin and Meaning LBA Tell Sabi Abyad
1615-
1645 Coffee Break
WS A rchaeology of the
N egev and the ‘A rabah

Chair G unnar L ehmann Clemens R eichel S. G. S chmid – Z. T. Fiema H ans G eorg G ebel A sher O vadiah
– P. B iewnkowski – B. Kolb

1645- Wagner -D ur and , Yousefi Z oshk , R ouholl ah – K zzo , A hmed Fatima

1710 E lisabeth
Visual Narration in Assyria
versus Static “Art” in
Babylonia – Making a
Yotam A sscher
Difference in the First
The Early Iron Age
Millennium B.C.
Chronology of the Negev
in the Light of Radiocarbon
1710- W icke , D irk
Dates
1735 Assyrian or Assyrianising?
Reflections of Assyrian
imperial art in southern
Anatolia
Tali E rickson -G ini
The 2013 Excavation in ´En
Hazeva - Strata 8 and 7b
1735- M onamy, E lisabeth
1800 Images. Mouvements
imagés. Les orthostates
araméens
B ernhard K olb
The Mansion of az-Zantur
IV in Petra: Parallels and
Differences with Presumed
Residences of the Naba-
taean Kings
L aur a W eis
From Absolute Necessity
to Luxury Display: the
Nabataeans and Hydro-
technology
F oruz an , Frida – M iri , J avad The Ancient Past in the East,
Pastoral Nomad Bureaucrats from the East: an Oriental
and Managers: Research on the Perspective
Proto Elamite Period in Central
Iranian Plateau
Taghavi , A bed – Far zin , S aman D odd , Lynn
Environmental Geography Seeing, Selling, Saving Jerusa-
Impacts on the Distribution lem: Diffusing Heritage-based
Patterns of Archaeological Sites Conflict
in Makran in Southern Iran
(Case Study: The Cairn Burial's
of Parthian Era)
Yousefi Z oshk , R ouholl ah S aca , I man
– B aghiz adeh , S aeed Against All Odds: Community
A GIS-Based Analysis of Settle- Archaeology Efforts in Palestine
ment Pattern of Dargaz Plain in
Northeastern Iran

1800- D a R iva , R ocio E smaeili J elodar ,

1830 Recycling Images: Royal M ohammad E smaeil –
Representations in First Yadegarnia , M asoomeh
Millennium BCE Meso- A Comparative Study of the
potamia Ancient Nomadic Camp Sites
and their Modern Counterparts
in Bakhtiari Highlands, Iran

1930 Public Conference: Von den ersten Menschen zum Imperium – Basel forscht im Nahen Osten
Aula, Kollegienhaus.
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Aula 102 001 114 119 H all

S6.1 R eports S6.2 R eports S7 I slamic S ession WS The S ettlement L ands - WS Trajectories of C omple-
cape of the O rontes Valley xity in U pper M esopotamia

R.A.E. C oningham N icolò M archetti D onald Whitcomb Stephen B ourke – M arco I amoni – Salam Chair
M elissa K ennedy A l Q untar

C occa , E nzo – Fr anzese , Fr ancesco Faust, A vr aham –
– G enito , B runo – M aresca , K atz , H ayah
G iulio – G enito , A ndrea The Birth, Life and Death
A WebGIS about the Italian Archaeolo- of an Iron Age House at Tel
gical Activities in Sistan, Iran (60s-70s Eton, Israel
of the XXth century): ArchaeoPro.
Di.Mu.S.
B asafa , H assan – R ez ayi , M ohammad B r aun , E liot
H ossein – R ahmati , M ahdiye Early Bronze I Domestic
New Evidences on Bronze Age Cultu- Architecture in the Southern
res in Neyshabur Plain (Northeast Iran) Levant-- Definitions,
Sources, Inspirations and
Functions
K avosh , H oseinali – S almanz ade , J avad M argueron , J ean -C l aude
The Preliminary Report of the 5th Les grandes étapes de la
Season of Excavation at Tappeh Ta- création d‘une architecture
lebkhan (Talebkhan Mound) in Zabol, urbaine (IVe-IIIe millé-
Sistan and Balouchestan Province naires)
N ia , A bbas R ez aei H assas , N ajmeh –
The IWAN in Ancient Iranian Imperial R a z avi , L eil a
Tradition Tāq-Strukturen im Iran von
der Elamite Periode (1250
B.C.) bis zur Qajar Dynastie
(1925)
B essard , Fanny G r aham P hilip
Patterns of Urbanism in The Settlement Landscape
Early Islamic Iran and of the Orontes River Valley
Central Asia I during the 4th Millennium
BC: Perspectives from Tell
Nebi Mend and the Homs
Region
K ennedy, H ugh
Patterns of Urbanism in
Early Islamic Iran and
Central Asia II A gnese Vacca
The Orontes Valley and the
Sequences of Tell Mardikh/
Ebla and Tell Tuqan in the
Early 3rd Millennium BC: A
D reiser , A nja R.
Comparative Framework
Islamic Ceramics from
Central and Eastern
Oman
Lynn W elton
R ashid , N argis Northern Levantine Spheres
Sgraffito Pottery from of Interaction: The Role
first conquered city of of the Amuq in the Early
Debal (Banbhore), in Bronze Age
south Asia-Pakistan
S tuart C ampbell 1430-
Persistent Cosmologies in 1455
Mesopotamia; What Hap-
pens to the Neolithic World?
M arcella Fr angipane
Halaf and Ubaid: Two 1455-
Opposite Models of Society. 1520
What was the Basis of their
Hybridisation in Upper
Mesopotamia?
S al am A l K untar 1520-
Economic Opportunities and 1545
Interregional Networks in
Upper Mesopotamia in the
Late Chalcolithic
1545-
M arco R ama zzotti 1615
Back to the Future. The Ana-
lytical Archaeology of the
Mesopotamian Urbanism.

1615-
Coffee Break 1645
WS I rrigation and
Water Works

H assan Basafa tba S eyed A bazar S hobairi Stephen B ourke – M arco I amoni – Salam Chair
M elissa K ennedy A l Q untar

E sk andari , N asir – A bedi , A kbar G ünel , S evinç 1645-

– S almanz adeh , J avad – S hafie , A New Center of Intercul- 1710
M ozhgan – J avadi , M ehri – Yousefi , tural Relations in Western T.J. W ilkinson & M arta D’A ndrea D an L awrence &
M osayeb A hmad – Tayari , Z ahr a – Anatolia during the Late D an L awrence A Matter of Style: Ceramic A ndrea R icci
E sk andari , Yaser – H abibi , H ossein Bronze Age: Çine-Tepecik Water Use at the Fron- Evidence of Contacts The Roots of Complexity?
The Development of Pastoralism in tier: The Role of Water between the Orontes Valley Landscapes and Settlement
the Highlands of Halil Rud Basin, Sou- Systems in the Border- from the Halaf to the Late
and the Southern Levant
theast Iran: Archaeological Evidence land of the Sasanian Chalcolithic in the Northern
during the Mid-Late 3rd
and an Ethnoarchaeological Study Empire Fertile Crescent
Millennium BC

H ashemi , Z ahr a D öpper , S tephanie M aurits E rtsen & 1710-

Evolution culturelle dans la région de The LBA Pottery of Area Tijs D e S chacht L isa C ooper 1735
Gilan pendant l’âge du fer. A travers BU in the Royal Palace of Wealth is Water” Mo- Orontes-Euphrates Syn- M arco I amoni
l’étude des cultes funéraires à la Qatna, Syria. deling Water Control in chronisms and Spheres of The Dynamics of Complexity
lumière des fouilles récentes Achaemenid Iran Interaction and Exchange in and Settlement Pattern: the
the Early Bronze Age Eastern Upper Tigris Region
between the 6th and 4th
H emati A z andaryani , Ü nsal , N ur D eniz 1735-
Millennium BC
E smail – K haksar , A li What can Mycenaean 1800
Arzanfoud: A Troglodytic Underground pottery of Çine Tepecik can
Architecture Complex in Hamadan tell us? K ourosh M ohammadkhani
Management of Water in Fr ances P innock
Western Iran
the Achaemenid city of Ebla in the IIIrd Millennium S imone M ühl
Dahaneh-e Gholaman, BC: Architecture and Urban Where People Meet - The
A l aei M oghadam , J avad – B anijamali , G reener , A aron Planning Eastern Tigris Region from 1800-
Sistan-Iran
S ey yedeh L eil a – R oustaei , M ohamad Late Bronze Age Imported the 6th to the 4th Millennium 1830
S adegh – Far ahz ad , B ehroz Pottery in the Southern Le- BC
Establishment Periods in City of Mahal- vant: Intercultural Contact,
lat from Early Times to Present (A Symbolism and Society
Summary of Results of Archaeological
Studies on City of Mahallat)

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Thursday, June 12, 2014, Morning/Midday Session

H all 115 120 116 118 117

WS A rchaeology of the S2 Travelling I mages WS Elite R esidences S4 R econstructing A ncient Eco - S5 D ealing with the Past
N egev and the ‘A rabah S ystems

Chair G unnar L ehmann E nrico A scalone S. G. S chmid – Z. T. Fiema Yousefi Z oshk Piotr B ieliński
– P. B iewnkowski – B. Kolb

0900- M akinson , M artin R oustaei , K ourosh H ageneuer , S ebastian

0925 Self-portrayal and the Image Ancient Nomadic Occupations The Influence of Early Archaeo-
C haim B en D avid of the "Other": Ethnicity, Thomas K abs of the Bakhtiari Highlands, Sou- logical Reconstructions to Near
The Iron Age Road Costume and Outside Same Status – Different thwestern Iran Eastern Archaeology
Network in the Negev Influences in the Depiction status? The Relations
and Wadi Arabah and of Aramaeans and Hittites in of the Herodian and
the Connections to the North Syrian and Assyrian art Nabataean Dynasties
Arabian Trade Routes of the First Millennium BCE with Rome and Eventual
Influences on the Building
0925- D arby, E rin of their Residences H ammer , E mily P rosser , M iller
0950 Reaction, Reliance, Highland Fortress-Polities and Re-imagining Imaging for
Thomas E. L ev y Resistance?: Judean Pillar their Settlement Systems in the Archaeological and Philological
Iron Age Copper Figurines in the Neo-Assyrian S tefan R iedel South Caucasus Projects
Production and Society Levant The basileia at Alexandria
in Faynan, Jordan -
An in Egypt: the Mother of
Overview Based on Prototypes?
0950- M änt yl ä , L auri M arkofsk y, S teve B uccell ati , Federico
New Field Data
1015 „Modeled after a Palace of the Fan's End: An Investigation of Architecture to Stratigraphy,
Land of Hatti“: hilani Suites in Micro-Scale Socio-Ecological De- Spaces to Volumes, Line-of-Sight
the Neo-Assyrian Empire velopment in the 'Oasis' Regions to Perception: The Use of 3D
of Central Asia Models as Vehicles for Archaeo-
E rez B en -J osef S tephan G. S chmid
logical Research
Iron Age Copper Smel- Intercultural Contacts
ting Technologies in the in the Wider Mediterra-
1015- Arabah Valley and the W icks , Yasmina nean Area as Reflected M ashkour , M. – L huillier , C ellerino , A. – B ucci , I.
1045 Question of Their Origin The Journey of a Visual Idea: in Nabataean Luxury J. – G ritsina , M. – B endezu - – F oietta , E. – G iusto , F. –
Bronze “Bathtub” Coffins in Architecture S armiento , M ustafakulov, M ortarini , M. – Q uirico , E.
Elite Neo-Assyrian, Neo- S – K hasanov, M. et al . A Decorated Gold Jug from
Babylonian and Neo-Elamite Subsistence and Exploitation Nimrud Tomb III
Funerary Contexts of Environment Resources in
the Bronze Age Iron Age Site of
Uzbekistan
1045-
1115 Coffee Break

Chair G unnar L ehmann Rocio Da R iva R eza M ehrafarin S ultan M uhesen Piotr B ieliński

1115- K elley, K athryn K ızıl arsl anoğlu , A sena C oqueugniot, E ric O vadiah , A sher
1140 Traveling Signs: Women and Elaiussa Sebaste: An Dja’de el Mughara (Syria): a Vil- Mt. Carmel, Pythagoras and
Children in the Early Writing Ancient City of Harbor and lage from the 9th Millennium cal. Elijah‘s Cave. Context and
E li C ohen -S asson of Mesopotamia and Proto- Trade on Southern Coasts BCE in the Euphrates Valley Meaning
Qurayya Ware (Midi- Elamite Iran of Asia Minor
anite Pottery) in the
Southern Levant

1140- H art, C heryl D arles , C hristian H elms , Tobias B. H. A lkhalid , M ohammed

1205 An Analysis of the Iconogra- Un sanctuaire chrétien Lithic Economies of the Western Archaeology Between Literature
M ario M artin phic Rosette Motif as a Means en Arabie : la question de Jezirah during the 3rd Millennium and Discovery
Iron IIA Pottery from the of Non-Verbal Communica- l'église d'Abraha (550 ap. BCE
Negev Highlands and its tion: A Case Study J.-C.) à Sanaa-Yémen
Link to the Wadi Arabah
Copper Districts

1205- I l an , D avid Far amar zi , K hashayar A lbuk aai , D iaa H ossaini , A bbas
1230 D vory N amdar The Iconographic Represen- – A kbari , M ahsa Collectif, familial : reconstitution A Descriptive Survey Regarding
Analytical Evidence for tation of the Crescent in the Sassanian Royal Army de l’organisation sociale dans Archaeology Efforts in Qajar Era
Spice Trade between Southern Levant against Counterpart World le village néolithique à partir
South Asia and the Powers des structures de combustion.
Levant in the Early Iron L’exemple de Jerf el Ahmar et de
Age Halula (moyen Euphrate - Syrie)

1230- Völling , E lisabeth Taghavi , A bed – deG ruchy, M ichelle

1300 Transfer and Transformation
of a Notation System from
Mesopotamia to Bronze Age
Anatolia
M ehr afarin , R ez a
Jundi Shapur: The Urbani-
zation Heritage of Roman
in Iran under the Sasanian
Empire
Don't Get Stuck in the Mud
and Other Lessons from Route
Analysis

1300-
1430 Lunch Break

18

Aula
S6.1 R eports
O livier Rouault
Pater akis , A lice B occia
– O mur a , S achihiro
Gold Cloisonné from the Assy-
rian Colony Period in Central
Anatolia
D üring , B leda S.
Reconstructing Repertoires
of Rule: The Middle Assyrian
Empire in the West
C oşkun , N ilgün
Middle and Neo-Assyrian Pe-
riods at the Harran Plain in the
Southeastern Anatolia: In the
Light of Survey
S ollee , A lex ander
Taking a New Look at Neo-
Assyrian City Gates
Coffee Break
B leda S. D üring
M or andi B onacossi , D aniele
The Land of Nineveh Regional
Project. The Formation of the
Assyrian Empire in the Land
behind Nineveh between Middle
Bronze and Iron Ages
R ouault, O livier – M asetti -
R ouault, M aria G r a zia
French excavations in Qasr
Shemamok, Iraqi Kurdistan
(2013 and 2014 campaigns): the
Assyrian Town, and Beyond
P oli , Paol a
Seals and Sealings from Tell
Masaikh-Kar-Assurnasirpal,
New Results
C ooper , L isa
Neo-Assyrian Period
Remains at Bestansur, Iraq
Lunch Break
102
S6.2 R eports
J ean -Claude M argueron
S chloen , D avid
Recent Excavations at
Zincirli Höyük, Ancient Samal,
in Turkey
H arrison , Timothy P.
The Neo-Hittite Royal Citadel
at Tayinat (Ancient Kunulua)
M a zzoni , S tefania –
D’A gostino , A nacleto
– O rsi , Valentina
Researches at Uşaklı Höyük
(Central Turkey).
M archetti , N icolò
Karkemish: Results of 2012
and 2013 Turco-Italian Excava-
tion Campaigns
Timothy P. H arrison
Özfırat, Aynur
New Urartian Fortresses in
the Mt. Ağrı and its Vicinity
(Eastern Anatolia)
Z amua , D lshad A. M arf
Back to the Land of Ardini/
Musasir – New Archaeological
Evidence on Fieldwork 2005-
2012
E rdem , Aylin Ü.
Ethnoarchaeology at Ayanis in
Eastern Turkey
H ipp, K r z ysztof
Shamshi-Adad V’s Cam-
paigns into the Zagroeskands
Revisited
Thursday, June 12, 2014, Morning/Midday Session
001 114 119 H all
WS I rrigation and Water Works WS The S ettlement WS Trajectories of
L andscape of the O rontes C omplexity in U pper
Valley M esopotamia
S eyed A bazar S hobairi Stephen B ourke – M arco I amoni – Chair
M elissa K ennedy Salam A l Q untar
0900-
0925
S eyed A ba z ar S hobairi M elissa K ennedy O livier N ieuwenhuyse
A Comparative Study of Urban Militarisation and the Hosting, Eating and Drin-
Water Management in Achaeme- Changing Socio-political king across Boundaries
nid Persia and Classical Greece: landscape of the EBA and
Persepolis and Olynthos (6th MBA
0925-
- 4th c. BC)
0950
L ouise R ayne C orrine C astel & J ill A. W eber
Water and Territorial Empires G eorges M ouamar Animals and Complexity:
Mid/late 3rd Mill. Inland Mapping Urbanized Niche 0950-
West Syria viewed from Construction through Sex 1015
the Arid Margins and Size
M ehrnoush S oroush S tephen J. B ourke D aniel a A rroyo -
Mapping Long-term Irrigation The Land Behind Qadesh: B arr antes 1015-
Strategies on the Miān-āb Plain The Orontes Valley and Feasting and Mass 1045
of Khuzistan the Wider World in the Production in Early Urban
Middle Bronze Age Societies: Tell Majnuna,
Tell Brak, Syria
K arin B artl
The Bronze Age Occupati-
on of the Hama Region
1045-
1115
S eyed A bazar S hobairi Chair
1115-
1140
S hahrokh R a zmjou
Revisiting Achaemenid Rock-cut
Wells: Cistern or Ancient Riddle
A ntigoni Z ournatzi 1140-
Water works at the ‘palace’ of 1205
Vouni (Cyprus)
A fshin Ya zdani
A Report on the Discovery and
Excavation of the Four Achae- 1205-
menid Water Wells at the Foot 1230
of Persepolis Terrace Platform
Persepolis World Heritage Site
1230-
1300
1300-
1430
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Thursday, June 12, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

H all 115 120 116 118 117

S6 R eports S2 Travelling I mages S3 ANE Traditions vs. H elle- S4 R econstructing A ncient WS C ollections at R isk
nization / Romanization Eco -S ystems

Chair A nn E. K illebrew Paolo M atthiae Christian Darles E ric C oqueniot A ndrew Jamieson
1430- M ilevski , I anir M organ , K athryn S abri , H ossein M as , J uliette
1455 – G etzov, N imrod – Fabian , L ar a Ideology, Coinage and Isla- Production, Private Economy
Ein Zippori, an Early Bronze The Assyrians Abroad: mic Identity and State Entanglement in
Age Town in the Lower Space Syntax Analysis and Early Northern Mesopotamia M ichael T. Fisher
Galilee Administrative Architecture at & G il J. S tein
Zincirli, Turkey Aks of War: A Digital Museum
Inventory for a War-Torn
Afghanistan
1455- S treit, K atharina M eijer , D.J.W. C r abtree , Pam J. – M ühl , S imone
1520 The Ein el-Jarba Excavation Mesopotamian Temple C ampana , D ougl as V. Water for Assyria – the Evolu-
Project: A Settlement in the Roofing and Realism and Animal Bone Remains from tion of Irrigation Landscape in
Jezreel Valley from the 6th Naturalism in Art the site of Kinik Hoyuk, North-eastern Mesopotamia Youssef K anjou
and 4th Millennia BC and its Southern Cappadocia, Protection Strategies and the
Transregional Interaction Turkey: Animal husbandry National Museum of Aleppo in
and hunting practices during Times of Conflict
the Iron Age, Hellenistic, and
Medieval periods C heikhmous A li &
P hilippe Q uenet
1520- Fabian , P eter – G ilead , I saac K ertai , D avid G rossman , K athryn – S tone , E liz abeth C. Syrian Museums at Risk:
1545 The Chalcolithic Site of Tel Identifying Assyrian Palatial M onahan , B elinda Social Differentiation in An Overview. Issues and
Sheva - the 2009 Season Architecture in the Southern What the Empire Eats: Animal Southern Mesopotamia: Solutions
Levant Economies at Hellenistic Changing Patterns of Housing
Hacinebi Tepe and Beyond from the Fourth to the First
Millennium B.C. H amed S alem
Palestinian Archaeological
1545- E rlich , A di Collections and Lessons of
1615 Late Hellenistic Figurines Conflicted Situations
from Tel Anafa, Israel

1615-
1645 Coffee Break
Chair Uzi Dahari D irk Wicke M arina Puturidze Wendy M atthews A ndrew Jamieson

1645- Wachtel , I do Tourovets , A. D anielyan , A ni L ippolis , C arlo

1710 ‘Jethro Cairn’ - An Early
Bronze Age Site in the Upper
Galilee, Israel: Function and
Significance
1710- G reenfield , H askel J. – S hai ,
1735 I tzhaq – M aeir , A ren M.
Understanding Early Bronze
Urban Patterns from the
Perspective of an EB III
Commoner Neighbourhood:
the Excavations at Tell es-
Safi, Israel
Unreliability or Stereotype
in the Representation of the
People of the Zagros in the
Assyrian Reliefs
D e B acker , Fabrice
La construction d’un char
de guerre néo-assyrien:
quelques idées visuelles
L’art rupestre d’Oughtassar,
Arménie : approche méthodo-
logique et analytique
M arro , C. – B akhshaliyev, B.
– B erthon , R. – D essène , F.
The Earliest Kuro-Araxes
Pottery Known to Date: New
Discoveries from Ovçular
Tepesi (Nakhchivan, Azer-
baijan).
– M essina , Vito
Mega Sites Impact on Central
Mesopotamia. The Case-
Study of the Al-Mada'in Area
I şikli , M ehmet
Re-thinking the Socio-Eco-
nomic Structure of Kura-
Araxian Societies in Eastern
Anatolia
Fadi B eyano , A ssaad
S eif & Tim W illiams
Beirut: The Challenge of
Curating Large and Complex
Urban Datasets
D ianne Fitzpatrick
Quantifying the Problems
and Counting the Costs of
Near Eastern Archaeological
Collections Management:
Five Case-Studies

1735- G anor , S a’ar M icale , M aria G abriell a Varoutsikos , B. – Palmisano , A lessio –

1800 Seven Years of Excavation in
Khirbet Qeiyafa. A Fortified
Judean City of the Tenth
Century BCE
Women of Clay: Localization
and Circulation of the Female
Image in the Persian Acha-
emenid Near East as seen
from Tell Mardikh
M gel adze A. - G abunia ,M.
– A gapishvili , T. –
C hataigner , C.
Bavra-Ablari: a Chalcolithic
Rock Shelter in the South
Caucasus.
A ltaweel , M ark
Understanding Past Human
Settlement Hierarchy in Cen-
tral Anatolia during the Old
Assyrian Colony Period
N icole R eifarth &
E lisabeth Völling
Textiles as Culture Heritage
in Fieldwork, Repositories
and Collections

1800- K illebrew, A nn E. Festuccia , S ilvia

1830 Tel Akko Total Archaeology Sport Representation:
Project: The 2012 and 2013 Transfer Images of Agonistic
Seasons Contests

1930 Reception: Governments of the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft

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 Thursday, June 12, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

Aula 102 001 114 119 H all

S6.1 R eports S6.2 R eports S7 I slamic S ession WS A rtifacts M ade O ut WS Ethnoarchaeology &
of B one E xperimental Studies

M aamoun A bdulkarim S ébastien G ondet A rezou A zad Canan Çakırlar & Ruth S hahack-G ross Chair
H ermann G enz

H ole , Fr ank B aseri , Z ohreh A lishahi , H amzeh – 1430-

Historical Processes During the
Late Ubaid in the Khabur Basin,
Syria: Intrusion, Attenuation,
Divergence, Demise
Trade and the develop- S hahivand , M ohammad 1455
ment of writing (According The Significance of Socio-political C anan Ç akırlar
to the National Museum of Evolutions in Western Regions of Iran Ivory, elephant bones, and R uth S hahack -G ross
Iran Counters: Plain and During Early Islamic Era. According to the relationship between Introduction: Method
Complex Tokens) Scripts and Archaeological Studies; the two in Syria and and Theory in Actualistic
Case Study of Mèhrjan-kàzàgh State beyond Studies

Vacca , A gnese
New Data on the EB III Pottery
Materials from Old and Recent
Excavations at Tell Mardikh/Ebla
and Tell Tuqan, Syria
B unnens , G uy
A Third Millennium Temple at
Tell Ahmar (Syria)
B accarin , C ristina
Consumption in a Temple? An
Interpretation of the Ceramic
Repertoire of the Early Bronze
Age Temple at Tell Ahmar
(North Syria)
E lisabetta B oaretto ,
K hademi B ami , M ahyar S hobairi , S eyed A ba z ar M intz , E., S hahack - 1455-
– K omijani , S afur a New Evidences of early Islamic and A lice C hoyke G ross , R. & 1520
The Cultural Interaction late Sassanid Period in Marvdasht Tiny Windows on G ur -A rieh , S.
of Cairn Burials in the Plain Household Affairs: a glim- High Resolution Radio-
Southeastern Iran pse into Late Chalcolithic carbon Dating in Archa-
Bone-working traditions at eological Research: the
R afiei A l avi , B abak C hoobak , H amideh Horum Höyök in Southeas- Lesson from a Modern 1520-
Beziehungen zwischen Alamut Dome Chamber "Molasara" tern Anatolia Ethnographic Context 1545
Khuzestan, dem Zagros
und dem Norden Irans
in der mittelelamischen A liei , M eissam R oz alia C hristidou & G eorgia Tsartsidou 1545-
Epoche am Beispiel der A comparison between sepulch- M ihriban Ö zbaşar an Phytolith Assemblages 1615
Metallartefakte aus Haft ral buildings of Lavāssānāt and Early Neolithic bone arti- from two Ethnographic
Tappeh RūdbārGhasrān region and the tombs facts from Aşıklı Höyük, Contexts of Greece:
of Māzandarān area on the decorative Central Anatolia Implications in the
and architectural styles Interpretation of the
Archaeological Record

1615-
Coffee Break 1645
Stefania M azzoni tba tba C. Çakırlar & H. G enz Ruth S hahack-G ross Chair

C luz an , S ophie G ondet, S ébastien – L or z adeh , Z ahr a 1645-

Un site du Bronze ancient en
Damascène, Syrie
M ohammadkhani , K ourosh Landscape Archaeology of Tus in the 1710
Results from 2012-2013 Islamic Period: Interactions between
Large Scale Surveys at Rural and Urban Settlements H ermann G enz E mma J enkins ,
Persepolis (Central Fars, The Early Bronze Age K halil J amjoum &
Iran). New Insights on the Bone Object Asssemblage S ameeh A l N uimat
Achaemenid City Organi- from Tell Fadous-Kfarabi- Phytoliths as Indicators
sation Scheme da, Lebanon of Past Water Availability

M uller , B éatrice Z ehbari , Z ohreh – E smaeili J elodar , M ohammad 1710-

Panneaux d'incrustations de
Mari, Ville II: Implications des
materiaux et des techniques
B locher , Felix
Excavations at Tall Munbāqa
(Syria) – City Development
between Middle and Late
Bronze Age
M ehr afarin , R ez a E smaeil – M ortez aei , M ohammad
– M oosavi H aji , New Findings from the First Phase of
S ey yed R asool Salvage Excavations at Rayy: Results
The New Studies of of Extensive Excavations at the Base
Potteries in Dahan-E of Rashkan Fortress in 2012 (Western
Gholaman, Sistan, Iran Section)
M ak vandi , L eil a R a zee , S oroush – R avari , A mir
Royal Road in Achaeme- H ashamdar – B emi , M ahyar K hademi
nid Heartland: Persepolis Qal.è Dokhtàr and Qal.è Ardèšïr
Fortification Texts and of Kerman as a Fortress Complex.
Archaeological Data A Study Based on Archaeological
Evidences and Historical Texts“
1735
H askel J. G reenfield
& A nnie B rown , I tzhaq
S hai & A ren M. M aeir
Understanding Early Bron- M aria B ofill
ze urban patterns from the What and How to Grind?
perspective of an EB III An Ethnoarchaeologi-
commoner neighbourhood: cal and Experimental
the excavations at Tell Approach for the Study 1735-
es-Safi, Israel. Bone tool of Grinding Technologies 1800
frequencies and the nature in the Neolithic of the
of bone tool assemblages Near East
in an early urban assemb-
lage: Tell es-Safi, Israel

K ühne , H artmut
Reflecting 35 Years of Interdisci-
plinary Research at Tall Sheikh
Hamad / Dur-Katlimmmahtu
/ Magdalu / Magdala, Syria
(1975-2010).
M ohammadkhani , K ourosh Fall ah , M eysam – Taghavi , A bed L uca P eyronel S hir a G ur -A rieh 1800-
Dahaneh-e Gholaman: New Islamic Potteries discovered Bone manufacture at Ebla A Geo-Ethnoarchaeolo- 1830
One Achaemenid City in From Masjed-e Jome Amol (Friday (Syria) during the Early gical and Experimental
Eastern of Empire “Magne- Mosque) and Middle Bronze Age (c. Study of Cooking Instal-
tic Survey in Dahaneh-e 2400-1600 BC) lations, their Taphonomy
Gholaman, Sistan-Iran” and Preservation

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Friday, June 13, 2014, Morning/Midday Session
H all 115
S6 R eports
Chair M onther Jamhawi
0900- Fujii , S umio
0925 Mosaic Representations of
Feline Animals: New Finding
at ‘Awja 1, a Late Neolithic
Open Sanctuary in Southern
Jordan
0925- M üller -N euhof, B ernd
0950 Jawa’s Hinterland: Mining,
Farming and Settling in the
Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age
Northern Badia of Jordan
0950- P olcaro , A ndrea – M uniz ,
1015 J uan – A lvarez , Valentin
The New Spanish-Italian
Expedition to the EB I site of
Jebel al-Mutawwaq, Middle
Wadi az- Zarqa, Jordan:
Preliminary Results of the
2012-2013 Campaigns
1015- R ichard , S uz anne
1045 Recent Excavations at
Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan:
The EB III Settlement and
Fortifications
1045-
1115 Coffee Break
Chair S umio Fujii
1115- D’A ndrea , M arta
1140 Pottery Production at Khirbat
Iskandar, Jordan. Preliminary
Results of the Technological
Study of EB IV Pottery from
the Site
1140- B ourke , S tephen J.
1205 The 2013 Field Season at
Pella in Jordan: Major New
Civic Structures of the Bronze
and Iron Ages
1205- W eigl , M ichael –
1230 B artsch , M arkus
The Development of Specia-
lized Industries at Khirbat
al-Mudayna ath-Thamad,
Central Jordan
1230- B oyer , D on
1300 Aqueducts and Birkets: New
Evidence of the Water Ma-
nagement System Servicing
Gerasa (Jarash), Jordan
1300- Lunch Break
1430
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120 116
S2 Travelling I mages S6 R eports
M aria Gabriella M icale J eyhun E minli
W ilkinson , Toby C. P uturidze , M arina
Clay, Skin and Cloth: a The Development and Continuity
Diachronic Study of Anci- of Mid IV – Late III Millenniums
ent Near Eastern Modes BC Ceramic Assemblage: View
of Body Metaphor and the from Eastern Georgia
Transfer of Pottery-Borne
Image
R obert, B eatrice M akhar adze , Z ur ab
& D aver at, L oïc Early Bronze Age Ananauri #3
Modeling Images by Great Kurgan: New Discovery
Shaping Ceramics from eastern Georgia
Fr agnoli , Pamel a – M ahfroozi , A li –
M allegni , C hiar a P iller , C hristian
Society and Visual Image Preliminary Report on the Joint
Transmission. The Painted Iranian-German Archaeological
Pottery during the Early Survey and Excavation Project
Bronze Age at Arslantepe in the High Mountain Valleys of
and in the Malatya-Elazi Eastern Mazandaran, Iran
Area.
K adowaki , S eiji – N ishiaki ,
Yoshihiro , G uliyev, Farhad
Tracing the Origins of Early
Agricultural Settlements in the
Southern Caucasus: New Evi-
dence from Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe
(Azerbaijan) in the 2012 and 2013
Seasons
N adezhda D ubova
K unze , R ené
Interdisciplinary Studies on the
Small Finds from the Settlements
of Udabno I-III (Eastern Georgia)
E minli , J eyhun – I skenderov, E mil
Archaeological Investigations
at Piboz Tapa Necropolis. Lerik,
Southern Azerbaijan (Preliminary
Report 2012-2013)
C órdoba , J. M. – M amedov, M.
The Iron Age at Dehistan. Turk-
men and Spanish Archaeological
Investigations in Geoktchik Depe
and Izzat Kuli (Balkan Province,
Republic of Turkmenistan)
Wagner , M arcin
Topaz Gala Depe. Excavations
on Site Dated to Early Iron Age
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S4 R econstructing A ncient
Eco -S ystems
M atthew Whincop
D avidovich , U ri – M arom ,
N imrod – P or at, R oi –
B oaretto , E lisabetta
Yoram Cave (Masada):
Human-Environment Interac-
tion in the Late Chalcolithic
Judean Desert, Israelbewl
C harbonnier , J ulien
– P urdue , L ouise
Masāfī: Origin and Evolution
of an Oasis in Eastern Arabia
from the IInd Millennium B.C.
to the Present Day: Interdis-
ciplinary Approach
G ebel , H ans G eorg
– W ellbrock , K ai –
G rottker , M atthias –
Z ielhofer , C hristoph
Mid-Holocene Land-Use in
NW Arabia
M atthew Whincop
S taiger , A nnabelle
Toponyme als Marker von
Öko- und Wirtschaftssys-
temen
L aleh , H aeedeh
Nishapur’s Historical Urban
Landscape
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WS C ollections at R isk
A ndrew Jamieson
A ntonio S agona , C l audia
S agona & A leks M ichalewicz
‘Legacy Data’ and the site
of Samtavro: Revisiting
Archaeological Collections
and Archives of the Georgian
National Museum
A nna S tevens
From Dig House to Digital
Humanities: Managing the
Archaeological Collection of
Amarna
S ilvia P erini
Syrian Cultural Heritage in
Danger: A Database for the
National Museum of Aleppo
A ndrew J amieson
New Uses for Old Collections:
Community and Curriculum
Engagement Using Near
Eastern Archaeological
Collections
tba
L oreto , R omolo –
C harloux , G uill aume
The Saudi-Italian-French Ar-
chaeological project at Dûmat
al-Jandal (ancient Adumma-
tu): Results from 2009-2013
Seasons
H ausleiter , A rnulf
Oasis Settlement in Nor-
thwest Arabia in the Context
of Environmental Conditions
B ieliński , P iotr
Kuwaiti-Polish Excavations of
Bahra 1 Site on As-Subbiya
Desert
 Friday, June 13, 2014, Morning/Midday Session

Aula 102 001 114 119 H all

S6.1 R eports S6.2 R eports S7 I slamic S ession WS A rtifacts WS Ethnoarchaeology &

M ade O ut of B one E xperimental Studies

H artmut Kühne tba tba Canan Çakırlar Ruth S hahack-G ross Chair
& H ermann G enz

G l a zer , E va K atarina
Sedentary and Nomadic Popula-
tion during Bronze Age Southern
Levant: An Example of Cultural
Contacts
P izzimenti , S ar a
A Reassessment of the Iron Age
I-III Pottery in Northern Levant.
The Contribution of the Iron Age
Levels of Tell Mardikh-Ebla
Coffee Break
K arim , M ohmmad A. – A bdul-
K arim , N awz ad A. – Talib ,
S aman R. – M ajeed , S arwat H.
The Parthian Vault-tomb in
Sarqala in Iraqi Kurdistan (Pre-
liminary report on the Results of
the Archaeological Excavation)
A l aei M oghadam , J avad
Results Obtained from First Part
of Archaeological Activities in
Kolak Castle Tepe of Sistan
M essina , Vito – M ehr
K ian , J afar
The Religious Complex at
Shami. Preliminary Report of
the Research Conducted by the
Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition
in Khuzestan at Kal-e Chendar
A ghal ary, B ayr am –
A bdoll ahz adeh , Ayl ar
Cultural Characteristics of Nor-
thwestern of Iran in the Parthian
Period (Based on the Results of
the 2nd Season of Excavations
at Köhne Pāsgāh Tepesi)
B anijamali , S ey yedeh L eil a – A l aei
M oghadam , J avad – M ousavi H aji ,
S ey yd R asoul – A farin , R ez a M ehr
The Results of the Latest Studies
Conducted on Palace of Kuh-e
Khajeh, Qaleh Kaferun, in Sistan
M ousavi H aji , S ey yed R asool
– S hir a zi , R uhullah – Z our ,
M aryam – Far zin , S aman
Survey of The Pottery Samples
Collected from the Islamic Ages in
Nikshahr and Chabahar (South-
East of Iran)
S hojaei , S eyed M ostafa
– M oosa z adeh , B ehrooz
– M oosa z adeh , R ez a
Iranian Architecture is the Re-
flection of Mysterious Patterns &
Façade
Tabatabaei , N egin
A Historic-Comparative Study on
four Safavid Inscriptions of the Old
Gama Mosque of Isfahan
S ar ah E lliott, R obin 0900-
B endrey & J ade W hitl am 0925
Ethnoarchaeological
A riel S hatil Research on Modern Animal
Bone Carving Husbandry in Iraqi Kurdistan.
in Early Islamic Linking the Macroscopic with
Jerusalem the Microscopic: Integrating
Animal, Plant and Environ-
mental Data
0925-
0950
H adia Faisal , R amon B uxó
& M iquel M olist M ontaña
Agricultural Methods in Sou-
thern Syria: an Ethnoarcha-
eological Study in the Sweida
Region (2011-2012) and its
Contributions to Understan- 0950-
ding Agricultural Practices 1015
in the Neolithic Site of Tell
Halula (Syria)
D avid Friesem
Ethnoarchaeology of Mud
Structures Across the Near
East: Taphonomy, Preser- 1015-
vation and Site Formation 1045
Processes
1045-
1115

S6 R eports

Toby C. Wilkinson Vito M essina tba Chair

K oizumi , Tatsundo
Preliminary Results of the 2010-
2012 Excavations on Salat Tepe
in the Upper Tigris: the Ubaid
and Late Chalcolithic Periods
B ulu , M üge
An Intact Palace Kitchen
Context from Middle Bronze Age
Alalakh: Its Organization and
Function
D aghmehchi , M aria – S hir z ade ,
G hol am – S har ahi , I smail
Settlement Patterns of Parthian
Sites in Komijan Plain, Central
Iran
S amadi , O mid – G hasemi ,
M ohsen – R iahiyan , R ez a
Survey of Parthian Settlements
Pattern in Kahnouj Plain, Ker-
man Province, Iran
G anji , S hadi – D aneshi , A li 1115-
114
Probable Evidences of Nomadism 1140
in the Mountainous Region of Jiroft:
An Archaeological Survey in Iran, 1115-1615
2009
A n ARCANE reloaded?
H amz avi , S aman – B orujeni , Possibilities on an I ron Age 1140-
R asoul S eyedin – Z eidi , M ohsen C ooperation 1205
Discovery of a Long Term Oc-
cupation in the Saimarreh River (see separate programme)
Valley, Western Iran (Report on the
Archaeological Survey)

B aştürk , E lif G hasemi , M ohsen – H aghighat, M orta z aei , M ohammad 1205-

A Mitannian Fortress on the
Northern Border of Mesopo-
tamia: Siirt – Türbe Höyük
A li – A refi , Z ahr a
A New-Discovered Altar in the
North of Iran Central Plateau
– S adr aei , A li 1230
New Findings from the Second
Phase of Salvage Excavations of
Rayy Fortifications in 2012 (Eas-
tern Section)

A hrens , A lex ander A liz adeh , Fatemeh – 1230-

– K oz al , E kin
The Turkish-Swiss Excava-
tions at Sirkeli Höyük (Eastern
Cilicia) 2011-2013: Material
Culture, Settlement Structure,
Chronology and Interregional
Connections
A farin , R ez a M ehr – 1300
S hir a zi , R ouholl ah
Study of the Pottery Samples of
the Parthian Period in Baluches-
tan (Classification, typology and
typology comparison)

Lunch Break 1300-

1430

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Friday, June 13, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

H all 116 118 117

S6 R eports S6 R eports S6 R eports

Chair tba Stephen J. B ourke J érémie S chiettecatte

1430- S arianidi , Victor – D ubova , N adezhda K ennedy, W ill M. S chmidt, C onr ad

1455 Types of Graves at Gonur Depe Bronze Age Site in Untersuchungen zum Defensiv- und Kommunikati- Mobile Pastoralists as Global Players in the 3rd Mil-
Turkmenistan onssystem im Umland von Petra, Jordanien lennium BC: Excavations at Bat, Sultanate of Oman

1455- S adoz aï , C hamsia – G andreau , D avid P etit, L ucas M ar aqten , M ohammed

1520 Conservation des Vestiges Archéologiques en Tell Damiyah. A Small Settlement Mound in the Writing History of pre-Islamic South Arabia from
Terre. L'exemple de l'Asie Centrale Jordan Valley with a Remarkable International Role inscriptions: Epigraphic Discoveries at the Awām
Temple/Mahram Bilqīs, Yemen

1520- R aiano , Fabiana B oertien , J eannette D egli E sposti , M ichele

1545 Pottery from the Joint Uzbek-Italian Archaeological Recent Discoveries at Tell Abu Sarbut in the Eas- Excavations at the Early Bronze Age site “ST1”
Activities at Koj Tepa (Samarkand Area - Uzbeki- tern Jordan Valley near Bisyah (Sultanate of Oman): Notes on the
stan) Architecture and Material Culture.

1545- C aspari , G ino K afafi , Z eidan M uhesen , S ultan – N aimi , Faisal

1615 Automatic Detection of Iron Age Grave Mounds in Chalcolithic Ritual Aspects from the Jordan Valley: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Qatar
the Altai Mountains Examples from Abu Hamid

1615-
1645

1645-
1800

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 Friday, June 13, 2014, Afternoon/Evening Session

Aula 102 H all

S6.1 R eports S6.2 R eports

Felix B locher Javad A laei M oghadam Chair

Yener , K. A slıhan – A k ar , M ur at H assanpur , Ata – H ashemi , Z ahr a 114 1430-

A Decade of Excavations at Tell Atchana/Anci- Décors architecturales de palais sassanide de 1455
ent Alalakh Ghaleh-Guri à Luristan
1115-1615

M ac G innis , J ohn G ar avand , M ortez a – Z eynivand , M ohsen A n ARCANE reloaded? 1455-

Excavations in the Lower Town of Ziyaret Tepe Locating Sasanian City of Seimarreh, according Possibilities on an I ron Age 1520
to Historical Scripts and Archaeological C ooperation
Evidences
(see separate programme)

Yağcı , R emzi R ez aei , Z. – R ajaee , M. 1520-

Rhodian Soli: Geometric, Orientalizing and Archaeological Survey of Khonj, Fars, Iran. 1545
Archaic Periods at Soli

K hosr avi , S hokouh – A libaigi , 1545-

S ajjad – R ashno , A sghar 1615
A Sassanian Fire Temple Found from Plangerd,
Kermanshah (Western Iran)

1615-
Coffee Break 1645

Closing Session

Aula 1645-
1800

Manfred Bietak
International Committee of the ICAANE
The 10th ICAANE 2016

Miroslav Novak
Text and Image. The 61th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
June 22-26, 2015, Geneva and Bern.

Antonio Loprieno
Rector of the University of Basel

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Public Evenings
Aula, Kollegienhaus

Tuesday, June 10, 19.30

Zwischen Damaskus und Bagdad –

Archäologische Forschungen zu den
Anfängen des Islam

Denis Genequand (University of Geneva)

Les « châteaux du désert » des Omeyyades: vie de
cour, itinérance du pouvoir, diplomatie tribale et
économie

Hugh Kennedy (University of London)

Baghdad and the Economy of Abbasid Iraq : an
Expansion Toward a Globalized System

Chair: Hans-Peter Mathys

Wednesday, June 11, 19.30

Von den ersten Menschen zum Imperium –

Basel forscht im Nahen Osten

Jean-Marie Le Tensorer
Vom Schädel des Homo erectus bis zum Riesen-
Kamel: 30 Jahre Basler Forschungen in der
Syrischen Wüste

Susanne Bickel
Neue Forschungen im Tal der Könige

Bruno Jacobs
Das Bisotun-Monument Dareios’ I.

Chair: Oskar Kaelin

For more information see separate flyer.

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Lecture Halls, Reception

001

Stairs

Garden
Aula

Stairs

Reception Area Stairs

Main Entrance
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Lecture Halls, Posters, Book Stalls

102
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103

104

105
Book Stalls

106

107

Stairs

Posters Stairs

114 115 116 117 118 119 120

Lounges

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Acknowledgment

The Basel Organisation Committee of the 9. ICAANE wishes to express their thanks to all the people and
institutions that made this event possible.

Our thanks for their generous contributions go to

The Isaac Dreyfus-Bernheim Stiftung and Bank Dreyfus.

The Max-Geldner-Stiftung, Basel.
The Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft.
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

as well as to

The Government of Basel-Stadt and the Government of Basel-Landschaft.

The Rectorate of the University of Basel.
The Faculty of Theology of the University of Basel (especially Sabine Müller-Schneider).
The Fonds für Förderung der Studien auf dem Gebiet der ägyptologischen, orientalischen
und klassischen Altertumskunde.

For their invaluable support we wish to thank

Basel Tourismus (especially Alain Burger and Samuel Schibler). Genossenschaft Migros Basel (especially
Lars Bomberg). Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (especially its Director Andrea Bignasca, as
well as Ilona Hellstern and Gordana Uzur).

A special thank goes to all the (voluntary) helpers, students, the event-management–team of the
Kollegienhaus, and the URZ Basel, who supported this event with their time and commitment.

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Max Geldner Stiftung, Basel

Isaac Dreyfus-Bernheim
Stiftung

Fonds für Förderung der

Studien auf dem G ebiet der ägyptologischen,
orientalischen und klassischen A ltertumskunde

http://9icaane.unibas.ch/
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