SEA OF IMITATIONS conference 22-23 October 2024
We would like to invite you to the conference ‘SEA OF IMITATIONS – Containers, contents & economic behaviours’, co-organised by our department and also Stanford University and Complutense University of Madrid, which will take place on 22-23 October at WH UW.
Tuesday, 22nd October 2024
- 9:30 – 9:45 Introduction (Horacio González Cesteros, Justin Leidwanger, Paulina Komar)
- 9:45 – 10:15 Another Sea of Imitations: Medicine Bottles of the Hellenistic World (John Lund)
- 10:15 – 10:45 Tracking imitations, inspirations and visual identifiers in amphorae of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Dorota Dzierzbicka)
- 10:45 – 11:15 Imitation as an Adaptive Strategy: Production and Use of Amphorae in Chhim and Porphyreon/Jiyeh in the Economic Context of Phoenicia (Urszula Wicenciak-Núñez)
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
- 11:45 – 12:15 Cilician Imitations of Hellenistic Amphoras (Nicholas K. Rauh)
- 12:15 – 12:45 Imitations or regionalization? The controversial reality of pottery production in the Imperial and Late Antique province of Asia (Horacio González Cesteros & Dimitra Voutyrea)
- 12:45 – 13:15 The imitation of African amphorae in the Carthaginensis (Spain): reflecting on an unknown commercial phenomenon in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Alejandro Quevedo)
13.15 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:00 Imitation as Innovation: The Diffusion of the Dressel 2-4 Amphora Type in Italy and Beyond (Jennifer L. Muslin)
- 15:00 – 15.30 The phenomenon of Dressel 8 similes amphorae in the Northern Adriatic territories: new perspectives on a trade in fish products in the 1st century AD (Andrea Cipolato)
- 15:30 – 16:00 From Lyon to the North: amphora imitation in Gaul, Germany and Britain (Patrick Monsieur)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30 – 17:00 Trend, opportunity or advantage? Considerations on the imitation of Greek and Carthaginian pottery by the Punic communities in the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age and Early Roman times (Antonio M. Sáez Romero, Francisco J. Blanco & Álvaro Miranda)
- 17:00 – 17:30 Working together or just copying? Dynamics of influence and imitations in the Roman Iberian Peninsula (Horacio González Cesteros, Piero Berni Millet & Rui Roberto de Almeida)
- 17:30 – 18:00 From packaging trade to product trade: the example of the Roman camps of León,Spain (Ángel Morillo Cerdán & Rui Morais)
19:30 Dinner
Wednesday, 23rd October 2024
- 9:30 – 10:00 A few words about Geto-Dacian imitations of Rhodian amphorae. Two finds from Tanais (Marcin Matera)
- 10:00 – 10:30 Propagation of Similar Amphorae Types on the Black Sea Littoral and Beyond (Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 – 11:30 Gaulish-ish wine in Mediterranean markets (Justin Leidwanger)
11:30 – 12:00 Containers and Contents: Exploring the Parallels between Imitations of Amphora Forms & Transported Products (Paulina Komar) - 12:00 – 12:30 Structural modeling of Transport Amphorae – Understanding Function and Assessing Design (Anno Hein)
- 12:30-13:00 The Roman way: Pottery as a medium of Italian culture (Edyta Marzec & Małgorzata Kajzer)
- 13:00 – 14:00 Closing discussion
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Guided tour at the National Museum in Warsaw
Horacio González Cesteros, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Paulina Komar, University of Warsaw
Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University