Conference "Near Eastern Capital Cities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium B.C. Archaeological and Textual Evidence" - Torino, May 14-15th, 2010

Organized by:
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche, Archeologiche e Storico-Territoriali
Biblioteca di Lettere e Filosofia
Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia


PROGRAM
Friday May 14th, 2010

9.00 a.m.
S. de Martino (Torino) "Introduction"

9.15 a.m.
Q. Rashed (Baghdad) "The Archaeological Heritage of Iraq"
A. Idan (Baghdad) "The Iraq Museum of Baghdad"

10.00 a.m.
Babylon
C. Lippolis (Torino), P. Baggio (Padova), B. Monopoli (Padova) "Babylon's Urban Layout
and Territory from Above"
O. Pedersén (Uppsala) "Work on a Preliminary Digital Reconstruction of Babylon Using
Archaeological and Textual Evidence"

11.00 a.m.
Coffee break

11.30 a.m.
G. Bergamini (Torino) "Babylon in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Period"
M.G. Biga (Roma) "Babylon and Beyond Babylon in the 1st Half of the 2nd Millennium BC"
S. Graziani (Napoli) "Babylon caput mundi"
A. Peruzzetto (Paris), J. Allen (Cairo), G. Haney (San Francisco), G. Palumbo (Amman)
"The Future of Babylon Project: Site Mapping and Management Planning at Babylon"

1.30 p.m.
Lunch

3.00 p.m.
Visit of the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs of the Archaeological Museum of Torino

5.00 p.m.
Assur
A. Hausleiter (Berlin) "Assur from the 2nd to the 1stMillennium BC - Archaeological Challenges"
E. Cancik-Kirschbaum (Berlin) "Assur: The Making of a Hegemonial Center in the Late 2nd
Millennium BC"
Hattusa
A. Schachner (Istanbul) "From an Anatolian Principality to an International Empire"
G. Wilhelm (Würzburg) "Combining Textual and Archaeological Evidence of Urban
Structures. The Case Hattusa"

8.30 p.m.
Dinner


Saturday May 15th, 2010

9.00 a.m.
Neo-Assyrian Capitals
J. Reade (London) "The Evolution of Assyrian Imperial Architecture: Practical and Ideological
Considerations"
P. Fiorina (Torino) "The Survey at Nimrud: Evidence on Topography and Chronology"
G. Lanfranchi (Padova) "A New Palace for My Royalty! The Wandering Capital of the Neo-
Assyrian Empire"

10.30 a.m.
Coffee break

11.00 a.m.
Neo-Assyrian Models in the Peripheral Areas
S. Mazzoni (Firenze) "The Architecture of the Luwian and Aramaean Citadels and the Assyrian
Provincial Centres: Models in Contact"
Seleucia
V. Messina (Torino) "Seleucia on the Tigris. The Babylonian polis of Antiochos I"
F. Joannes (Paris) "Une ou plusieurs capitales? Le poids des particularismes régionaux en
Babylonie achéménide et hellénistique"

1.00 p.m.
Lunch