Tuesday, May 7, 2024
09:15 Opening address and introduction by the organizers

Section I: Setting the Stage
09:30 Amotz Agnon (Jerusalem): Geology and Geography in the Hellenistic Southern Levant: The Case of the Beth Shean Valley
10.15 Ole Johansen (Freiburg): Moderate but Sustainable? Measuring the Impact of Ptolemaic Foundations on the Settlement Structure of the Southern Levant

11:00 Coffee break

Section II: Settlement Patterns and Religious Landscapes
11:30 Adam Pažout (Aarhus): Founding the City, Settling the Chora: Settlement Dynamics in the Territories of Hippos and Scythopolis as a Test Case
12:15 Emmanuel Nantet (Haifa): Harbours and Ships along the Southern Levantine Coast in the Hellenistic Period

13:00 Lunch

Section III: Urban Life and the Materiality of Belonging
14:30 Winfried Held (Marburg): City Planning in the Seleucid Foundations in the Levant
15:15 Brita Jansen (Amman): Seleucid Fortifications in the Southern Levant

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Arleta Kowalewska (Haifa): Bathing Culture in the Hellenistic Southern Levant
17:15 Ran Zadok (Tel Aviv): On the Ethno-linguistic Composition of the Indigenous Population of the Levant During the Hellenistic Period

18:00 Reception at the Archaeological Museum
19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Section IV: Necropoleis
09:15 Philip Ebeling (Münster): Necropoleis and Burial Customs in Seleucid Foundations in the Southern Levant
10:00 Zeev Weiss (Jerusalem): Jewish Necropoleis and Burial Customs in Seleucid and Hasmonean Palestine

10:45 Coffee break

Section V: Religion and Politics

11:00 Kyle Erickson (Swansea): Royal Cult and Religious Life in the Seleucid Levant: Additional Considerations regarding the Heliodorus Stele
11:45 Panagiotis P. Iossif (Athens/Nijmegen): The ‘Middle Ground’ of the Southern Levant in the Seleucid Period: Between a Closed and an Open Economy
12:30 Friederike Schöpf (Münster): The Archaeology of Jewish Presence and Hasmonaean Politics in the Hellenistic Southern Levant: The Case of Tall Zirā’a

13:15 Lunch

Section VI: Economic Strategies and the Economy of Belonging

14:30 Torben Schreiber (Münster): Sealing Practice in the Hellenistic Levant: Iconography as an Indicator of Cultural Exchange
15:15 Andrea Orendi (Tübingen): Archaeobotanical Remains in the Seleucid Foundations of the Southern Levant: Agricultural Strategies and Crop Diet
16:00 Miriam Pines (Tel Aviv): Faunal Remains in the Seleucid Foundations of the Southern Levant: Animal Husbandry and Meat Diet from the Seleucid-Founded Town of Nysa-Scythopolis (Tell Iẓṭabba) from a Comparative Perspective

16:45 Coffee break

Concluding Remarks & Discussion

17:00 Miguel John Versluys (Leiden): Concluding Remarks

19:30 Dinner