RED SEA CONFERENCE – Preliminary program
June 5th
9h. Inscription
9.45-10h. Institutional welcome
SESSION 1
10-10.45h. Keynote lecture: S.E. Sidebotham “Celebrating 30 years of fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt”.
10.45-11.10h. R. Ast. “Versifying Tyrants amid Diverse Ethnic Populations. Transitioning to Blemmye Berenike in the Third and Early Fourth Centuries”.
11.10-11.40h. Coffee break
11.40 – 12.05h. I. Zych, M. Gwiazda, M. Woźniak. “Community identities seen from the graves in Roman and post-Roman Berenike on the Red Sea (1st century BCE–6th century CE)”.
12.05-12.30h. M. Bajtler, J.K. Rądkowska. “Let me follow your path…paths? – cardo and decumanus in 4th-6th century Berenike”.
12.30-12.55h. S. Popławski. “Temple of Isis in Berenike, the building workshop”.
12.55- 13.20h. M.A. Emam, A. Manzo. “Revisiting Mersa/Wadi Gawasis; The Shrine of Ankhw”.
13.20-15.30h. Lunch (only speakers)
SESSION 2
15.30-15.55h. R.C.A. Geerts, N. Bartos. “Berenike within East Africa: Early Ceramic Connections across the Eastern Desert and Upper Nile”.
15.55-16.20h. J.M. Oleksiak. “The Cooking Network – Unmasking economy of Eastern Desert”.
16.20-16.45h. S. Marion de Procé, C. Durand, R. Perrogon. “Local and global networks evidenced by the pottery assemblages from Farasan archipelago (1500 BCE – 10th cent. CE)”.
16.45-17.15h. Coffee break
17.15-17.40h. Z. Barahona Mendieta. “Production and trade: new data on Upper Egyptian pottery production and distribution in the Egyptian eastern desert and the Red Sea.”
17.40-18.05h. L. Packard-Grams. “Local Cinnamon Consumption in 1st c. BCE Arsinoite Nome: new papyrological evidence of trade from the Red Sea to the Fayyum”.
19.30h. Welcome cocktail at the Museu Egipci of Barcelona (only speakers)
June 6th
SESSION 3
9-9.25h. J. Oller Guzmán. “From global to local? The evolution of the emerald mining in the Smaragdos according to the evidence coming from Wadi Sikait”.
9.25-9.50h. S. García-Dils de la Vega. “Emeralds for the Empire. Evidence of Early Roman beryl mining in Wadi Sikait (Wadi el Gemal, Eastern Desert, Egypt)”.
9.50-10.15h. A. Mahmoud Ahmed. “The Archaeology Project in Sukari Gold mines 2022- 2023 (the story of Gold City Revival)”.
10.15-10.40h. A. Habibi, J. Marchand, M. Crépy. “Gold exploitation in the Early Islamic period: Collating archaeological data and written sources to track the chaîne opératoire and the routes of gold in Egypt”.
10.40.-11.10h. A.A. Al-Zahrani. “Asham Mining settlement and it’s ports along the southwestern coast of the Red Sea”.
11.10-11.40h. Coffee break
11.40-12.05h. Poster session
H. Ebeid Badry Mousa. “The first Ptolemies and the in the Red Sea area. Origins of Ptolemaic activity in East Africa in the light of numismatic finds at the sites of Egypt’s Eastern Desert”.
A. Bosch. “Pattanam, breaking ground on classical gem industries in India”.
M. Cobb. “The Blemmyes, revenue collection and the octava: some speculative reflections”.
A. De la Torre García. “Zooarchaeology in the horn: first approach to the medieval city of Fardowsa”.
D. Eguiluz, A. Molina, B. Burgaya, E. Martín. “Preserving the local, to become global:
six years of conservation interventions in Wadi Sikait”.
N. Hamed. “The Red Sea communities: potentials of connecting the past to the future in Egypt”.
M. Jornet. “The Piper Nigrum Route: the voyage of the Black Pepper through the ports of the Red Sea and the Egyptian Eastern Desert. A preliminary analysis”.
P. Osypiński. “The early Roman rubbish dumps (?) and animal cemetery in Berenike”.
L. Regincós. “Gods and goddesses in the Smaragdos mines”.
B. Rodríguez. “The Necropolis 277 Halfa Degheim of A Group (Lower Nubia). Distribution and value of the work of men and women from the point of view of funerary archaeology”.
SESSION 4
12.05-12.30h. P. Schneider. “Local communities in the Indian Ocean area, between dependence and agency”.
12.30-12.55h. A. González-Ruibal. “Sasanian and early Islamic trade in the Horn of Africa. A review of new evidence”.
12.55-13.20h. M. Köster. “Local Communities of Pre-Aksumite Yeha, Ethiopia: Pottery Discoveries”.
13.20-15.30 h. Lunch (only speakers)
15.30-15.55h. I. Gerlach. “Cultural Interaction in the Ethiopian-Eritrean Highlands during the Early 1st Millennium BC: Exploring the Influence on the Local Population”.
15.55-16.20h. S. Japp. “Foreign Impact on the Material Culture of Local Communities in South Arabia and the Northern Horn of Africa in the early 1st Millennium CE – Detectable, Extensive, or Nonexistent?”.
16.20-16.45h. C. Mancarella. “Importance of cattle in Ethio-Sabaean cult and ritual: What is Sabaean and what is local?”.
16.45-17.05h. Coffee break
17.05-17.30h. H.T. Ziegler. “Hunting alongside Trogodytes. Critically reexamining sources for Ptolemaic elephant hunting”.
17.30-17.55h. A. Guimerà, P. De Soto. “Local Portrayals of Shenoute. A systematic GIS-based analysis of settlement developments in the landscape of Red Sea Monasteries.”.
Free evening
June 7th
SESSION 5
9-9.25h. J. De Torres Rodríguez. “Tracking states: the archaeology of Ifat and Barr Saʿd al-Dīn medieval sultanates in the eastern Horn of Africa”.
9.25-9.50h. J. Rouco Collazo. “Medieval urbanism in the Horn of Africa. An archaeological approach through three case studies”.
9.50-10.15h. C. Córnax Gómez. “The story the dead tell about the living: An archaeological study about the medieval funerary practices of the Horn of Africa”.
10.15-10.40h. A Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, J. Miran. “Exploring Slavery in the Red Sea Region at a Transition Age. From an Open Sea to the Ottoman Kizildeniz”
10.40.-11.10h. Coffee break
11.10-11.40h. D.A. Agius. “Dhows that crossed the Red Sea The towns of El Quseir, El Wejh and Yanbu al-Bahr”.
11.40-12.05h. S. Taha. “Vibrant religious traditions: the Red Sea region, Eastern Sudan”.
12.05-12.30h. R. Tokunaga. “People of the hinterland of al-Ḥawrāʾ to the early Islamic period in light of the epigraphic evidence”.
SESSION 6
12.30-12.55h. C. Zazzaro, J. Jansen van Rensburg, D. Carris. “The first underwater archaeological survey in the Red Sea area of NEOM, Saudi Arabia”.
12.55-13.20h. Marek Wozniak, S.E. Sidebotham. “Water supply and management during the Ptolemaic-era on the Red Sea shore: Berenike in the third and second centuries BC”.
13.20-15.30 h. Lunch (only speakers)
15.30-15.55h. M. Osypińska. “Non-humans in Berenike society. Archaeozoological data for a discourse on ancient identity and value”.
15.55-16.20h. A. Adam. “Six thousand years of occupation: results from the University of Khartoum Red Sea Project”.
16.20-16.45h. I. Lüllau Holthe, A. Mandon. “A social archaeology of abandonment: the case studies of AlUla and Luxor”.
16.45-17.30h. Final remarks and closure of the conference
20h. Closing diner