Remembering the Bronze Age in the Iron Age

Memory, Material Culture, and the Past as Resource

in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean

International Conference
Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tbingen, Theologicum; Liebermeisterstrasse 12-14; D-72076 Tbingen

Program
Thursday, October 8th

11:00 Marlies Heinz (Freiburg)

and suddenly everything was different !?

Theologicum, Hrsaal

Kamid el-Loz / Lebanon from the Late Bronze Age

14:00 Cory Crawford (Tbingen / Athens, Ohio)

to the Iron Age

Welcome and Introduction

11:45 Sigrid Jalkotzy-Deger (Wien)

14:30 Philipp Stockhammer (Heidelberg)

Geometric Burials in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs at Elateia

Matters of Memory: Memorializing and Transforming the

12:30 Lunch

Palatial Period in Post-Palatial Tiryns

14:00 Jens Kamlah (Tbingen)

15:15 Mirko Novak (Bern)

Remembering Late Bronze Age Temple Architecture?

Only Images or Ideas? The Continuation of Bronze Age

Remarks on the Temple of Solomon according to 1 Kings 6

Iconographies in Neo-Hittite Art

and on the Development of Levantine Temple Districts

16:00 Coffee Break

during the Transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age
14:45 Nadav Na'aman (Tel Aviv)

16:30 Shlomit Bechar (Jerusalem)

Memories of Canaan in the Old Testament

Ruin Cult at Hazor: An Iron Age Complex of Standing Stones

15:30 Coffee Break

17:15 Amihai Mazar (Jerusalem)

From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Southern

16:00 Stuart Tyson Smith (Santa Barbara, California)

Mighty Bull Appearing in Napata: Commemoration and

Levant (with an Emphasis on the Beth Shean Valley)

Adaptation of the Bronze Age into the Material World of

the Kushite, 25th Dynasty of Egypt

Friday, October 9th

Saturday, October 10th

Theologicum, Hrsaal

Theologicum, Seminarraum 10
09:00 Erika Fischer (Mainz)

09:00 Hermann Genz (Beirut)

The Resurfacing of Early and Middle Bronze Age Pottery

How to Make Use of Earlier Traditions?

Traditions in the Iron Age of Central Anatolia:

Egyptian Faience Chalices Reconsidered

09:45 Aaron Schmitt (Mainz)

a Case Study from Boazky

09:45 Stefania Mazzoni (Firenze)

Remembering in Assyria. Thoughts on the Role of

Material Culture in Collective Assyrian Memories

Lingering Crafts: Regenerating Late Bronze Traditions

in the Iron Age
10:30 Coffee break

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Cory Crawford
Summary and Final Discussion
12:00 End of Conference

Please register for participation. Information and registration: evi.stanger@uni-tuebingen.de Tel. 07071/2972879
Cory Crawford: crawfoc1@ohio.edu
Biblisch-Archologisches Institut
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