MORNING SESSION
9:00 Welcome (Mona Haggag)
9:30 D. Grimanelis (Athens): Burial practices and society on Paros.
10:00 M. Rapanakis (Rethymnon): Memento mortuorum; Identifying Cretan Monumental Tombs in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods.
10:30 T. Kakamanoudis (Thessaloniki): Constructing Memory at the Necropolis of Aigai.
11:00 BREAK
11:30 A. Leventis (Athens): Alexandrian Cemeteries through the Pottery Finds.
12:00 V. Lambrinos (Athens): A Gaul in Alexandria.
12:30 L. Betrancourt (Athens & Brussels): The Expression of Greek-Alexandrian Social Identity in the Funerary Art of the Eastern and Western Necropoleis and its Socio-historical Implications.
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:30 M. Allah Hassan, D. Atta, and B. Khalil Mahmoud Ali Khalil (Alexandria): The Project of Restoration, Preservation, and Development of the Hellenistic Cemetery of Shatby (2020 – 2023); A Team’s Mission.
15:30 T. Taleb, (Minya): Church of the Virgin at St. Abahor’s Monastery Revisited; A Restructured and Reused Hellenistic Tomb.
16:00 M. Ashour (Alexandria): Depiction of Lion on Hellenistic Coinage; Funerary Symbolism.
16:30 BREAK
17:00 N. Sami Abd El Fattah (Alexandria): The Power of Water: A Reinterpretation of Water's Significance in Alexandrian-Cypriot Funerary Spaces.
17:30 A. Bassioni (Alexandria): The Ancient Egyptian Checkerboard Pattern Motifs in Hellenistic Funerary Practices.
18:00 A. Perysinaki (Athens): Coins for the dead; The Case of Argos Orestikon in Northwestern Greece.
18:30 A. Veličković Kastratović (Belgrade): Exploring Burial Practices as Evidence of Ancient Hellenistic Influences in Coastal Montenegro.
19:00 N. Aslan (Hacettepe): Aftermath of Mortality; Hellenistic Funeral Representations and the Psychopathology of Death in Southern Anatolia.
Support for this Program is provided by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative.