PROGRAM
DAY 1 - Wednesday 5 November
9.30 - Symposium Opening: Bristol Hotel, Beirut
Representative of LBFNM
Director of CNRSL
Director General of Antiquities
Coffee Break Representative of LBFNM
Director of CNRSL
Director General of Antiquities
Chair person: Bertrand Lafont
Speakers:
- 10:00 - Tell Arqa-external relations in light of new discoveries:
Jean-Paul Thalmann - 10:30 - Byblos revisited:
Muntaha Saghieh-Beydoun - 11:00 – “Seals and jars: the evidence of the early interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean”:
Stefania Mazzoni - 11:30 - A 4th Millennium Tomb in Mechane: New Discoveries in Wadi Nahr Ibrahim:
Assaad Seif - 12:00- Byblos: Échanges “commerciaux” et “culturels” au IVème millénaire vus au travers du “prisme” funéraire du site de Byblos:
Gassia Artin - 12:30 - Chipped stone tools from the Bronze Age in Lebanon with special reference to Saida (College site):
Corine Yazbeck
- 15:00 - L’urbanisation de Byblos dans son contexte régional au Bronze Ancien:
Yasmine Makaroun - 15:30 - D'Ur à Byblos: ce que disent les textes des relations entre Levant et domaine syro-mésopotamien aux IIIe et IIe millénaires avant notre ère:
Bertrand Lafont - 17:00 - Tell Fadous-Kfarbida, Regional Connections in the Early Bronze Age:
Hermann Genz
- 17:00 - Temples and Queens at Ebla. Recent Discoveries in a Syrian Metropolis between Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Levant:
Paolo Matthiae - 19:00 - Modern Lebanon and the Mediterranean:
H. E. Mr. Tammam Salam, Minister of Culture
H. E. Mr. Tarek Mitri, Minister of Communication
Mr. Nadim Shehadi, Chatham House
Prof. Theodor Hanf, American University of Beirut
DAY 2 - Thursday 6 November
Chair person: Manfred Bietak
Speakers:
- 9:00 - Pots and People: Interconnections between Egypt and the Levant in the Second Millennium BC:
Irene Forstner-Müller, Karin Kopetzky - 9:30 - Ebla and the Royal tombs at Byblos:
Lorenzo Nigro - 10:00 - Palace architecture in Tell Burak: some evidence for Egyptian-Mesopotamian-Levantine interconnections:
Hélène Sader - 10:30 - Lebanon and the Minoans in the Middle Bronze Age with particular reference to the pottery:
Alexander Mac Gillivray
- 11:30- Open cults and temples in Palestine, Egypt and the Levant:
Frances Pinnock - 12:00 - Near Eastern influence on temples and cult in Tell-el-Dab’a:
Manfred Bietak - 12:30 - Second Millennium BC Levantine Ceremonial Feasts: Sidon as a Case Study:
Claude Doumet-Serhal - 13:00 - Religious Architecture: Middle Bronze Age Beirut 003 and Late Bronze Age Tell Kazel:
Leila Badre
Lunch
- 15:00 - La place de l’armement levantin en Méditerranée orientale : influences, dynamiques et échanges au cours du Bronze Ancien et Moyen (3300-1600 av. J.-C.):
Guillaume Gernez - 15:30 – The many ways between Late Bronze Age Levants and Aegeans:
Nicole Hirschfeld - 16.00 – Arqa during the Age of Internationalism: Connections with the West:
Hanan Charaf
- 17:00 – Imports - consumer goods, gifts or private property? The story behind the material evidence for external relations in Late Bronze Age Kumidi:
Marlies Heinz - 17:30 – The 'Phoenicians' of the LBA in Lebanon:
Amélie Beyhum - 18:00 – Vitreous materials from Bronze Age sites of Lebanon evidence of interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean :
Valérie Matoïan - 19:00 - Reception and visit to the Mouawad Museum
DAY 3- Friday 7 November
Chair person: John Curtis
Speakers:
- 8:30 - Cyprus and Lebanon, some reflections:
Vassos Karageorghis - 9:00 - The Levant and Egypt- From the Levantine point of view and from the Egyptian point of view:
Nicolas Grimal - 9:30 - The Aegean and the Levant in Early Iron Age: Recent developments:
Nota Kourou - 10:00 - Synoptical panorama of Ivory production in the Levant in the Late Bronze Age:
Annie Caubet - 10:30 - Remarques sur le vocabulaire cananéen de la région de Sidon et de Tyr à la fin de l’âge du Bronze:
Pierre Bordreuil
- 11:30 - Remarques sur le vocabulaire cananéen de la région de Sidon et de Tyr à la fin de l’âge du Bronze:
Pierre Bordreuil - 12:00 - Anchor Symbolism: Phoenician and Pharaonic:
Honor Frost - 12:30 - Tyre -Imported material / typology and results:
Maria Eugenia Aubet, Fransisco Nunez - 13:00 - Une approche des relations commerciales de Byblos à l’Age du Fer:
Grace Homsy-Gottwalles - 13:30 – Phéniciennes, chypriotes, rhodiennes...? Quelques réflexions sur les figurines de terre cuite de l'âge du Fer au Levant:
Elisabeth Fontan
- 15:00 - Phoenicians on the Balawat Gates:
John Curtis - 15:30 - Phoenician metal-work up to date:
Hartmut Matthaeus - 16:00 - The Phoenician Temple at Tell Kazel:
Eric Gubel - 16:30 - Recent discoveries of Phoenician inscriptions in Cyprus:
Christina Ioannou - 17:00 - Phoenicians between East and West:
Gerta Maaß-Lindermann
- 18:00 - Levantine Connections in the West in the Early Iron Age: Spheres and Nature of interractions:
Eleftheria Pappa - 18:30 - Levantine iconology: Was there a conscious figurative programme in the decoration of the “Phoenician” metal bowl?:
Francesca Onnis
DAY 4 - Saturday 8 November
- 9.00 - Visit to the exhibition Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages, Beirut National Museum.
- 11:30 - Visit to the Sidon excavations.
in collaboration with the Directorate General of Antiquities of Lebanon
- 1:00 - Lunch courtesy of by H. E. Mr. Raymond Audi in the Soap Museum, Sidon.
