PROGRAM

Funerary art in the Eastern Mediterranean (4th c. - 1st c. BCE):

old connections and new beginnings

The Necropolis as Memoryscape (Alexandria, Egypt; 15-24 September 2024)

Organized in partnership with the Archaeological Society of Alexandria

PROGRAM

MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Seminars

Mona Haggag (Alexandria), Two Third Century BCE Cemeteries, Two Phases of Funerary Art of Alexandria: Shatby and Mostapha Kamel

Nikolas Dimakis (Athens), The Hellenistic Necropolis

ASA Library

MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER | 18:30 p.m.

Inaugural lecture

Dimitris Plantzos (Athens), Alexandrian Memoryscapes

Mona Haggag (Alexandria), Response

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center

TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Site visit

Shatby Necropolis (Kyriakos Savvopoulos)

TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER | 18:30 p.m.

Lecture

Thomas Faucher (CEAlex), The Archaeology of Death in Alexandria. Past and Recent Works of the Centre d'Études Alexandrines

Nikolas Dimakis (Athens), Response

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center

WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Seminars

Nikolas Dimakis (Athens), Funerary performance in Hellenistic Alexandria

Lauriane Lequette (CEAlex), The Justinianic plague in the Late Roman Egypt: The burials of the “garage Lux”

ASA Library

WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER | 18:30 p.m.

Lecture

Tom Landvatter (Reed), Ritual and Imagined Landscapes at Ptolemaic Abydos

Nikolas Dimakis (Athens), Response

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center

THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Site visit

Kom El Shoqafa & Anfushi Necropoleis (Kyriakos Savvopoulos)

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Site visit

Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria (Dimitris Plantzos & Nikolas Dimakis)

SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Seminars

Dimitris Plantzos (Athens), Painted Stelai and their Owners

Tom Landvatter (Reed), Collective Burial in Hellenistic Alexandria and Cyprus

ASA Library

SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Seminars

Hussein Abd El-Aziz (Alexandria), Cremation: from Greece to Egypt

Fathia Gaber (Alexandria), Funerary Stelai

ASA Library

MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER | 09:30 a.m.

Junior participants colloquium

Mona Haggag (Alexandria), chair

ASA Library