Thursday, 29.11.2018
18:15–18:30 Welcoming address on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, Michael Quante (Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Knowledge Transfer at the WWU
Münster) and Klaus Zimmermann (Head of the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor)
18:30–19:30 Public Evening Lecture
Die Erforschung der antiken Kulturlandschaft Kommagene und der Beitrag der Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, Engelbert Winter (Münster)
Friday, 30.11.2018
Archaeology and History of Hellenistic Commagene – The Local Context
Historiography and History
09:00–09:30 Introduction, Miguel John Versluys (Leiden)
09:30–10:10 Hellenized Iranians, Stefan Hauser (Konstanz)
10:10–10:50 Before Antiochus: Commagene and the Royal and Religious Legacies of the Achaemenids and Perso-Macedonian Dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, Matthew P. Canepa (Minneapolis)
Epigraphy, Numismatics, Architecture and Archaeology
11:10–11:50 The Epigraphical Culture of Dynastic Commagene, Charles Crowther (Oxford)
11:50–12:30 Coinage in Hellenistic Commagene: What’s New?, Margherita Facella (Pisa)
12:30–13:10 Local Peculiarities of the Late-Hellenistic Architecture
of Commagene and Problems of their Dating, Werner Oenbrink (Cologne)
14:10–14:50 Transforming Objectsapes in Samosata – The Impact of the Palatial Complex, Lennart Kruijer (Leiden/Münster) and Stefan Riedel (Leiden/Münster)
Religion and Images
14:50–15:30 ΠΡΩΤΟΣ ΑΝΑΛΑΒΩΝ ΤΗΝ ΚΙΤΑΡΙΝ – Connectivity and Individuality in the Self-Portrayal of Antiochos I of Commagene, Bruno Jacobs (Basel)
15:30–16:10 Dynastic Religion in Commagene, Albert de Jong (Leiden)
16:30–17:10 The Apotheosis of Antiochos I: Orontid Kingship in its Hellenistic Context, Rolf Strootman (Utrecht)
Perception
17:10–17:50 A Place Between? Time, Echoes and Experience in Commagene, Anna Collar (Aarhus)
Commagene in its Regional Context – The Immediate Neighbour
17:50–18:30 The Armenian Connection from the Orontids to the Artaxiads, Giusto Traina (Paris)
Saturday, 01.12.2018
Commagene in its Global Context – Comparative Studies
Looking East – Central Eurasia and Parthia
09:00–09:40 ‘Syncretism’ in Religion and Art: Conceptualising Religious Practice in Hellenistic Central Asia, Rachel Mairs (Reading)
09:40–10:20 Beyond, yet In-between: The Caucasus,the Hellenistic World and Eurasian Networks, Lara Fabian (Freiburg)
10:40–11:20 Commagene and the Parthians, Rahim Shayegan (Los Angeles)
Looking South – Egypt and the Extended Levant
11:20–12:00 The Architecture of Tell adh-Dhahab West in the Hellenistic Period, Julia Hertzer (Berlin)
12:00–12:40 An Idumean, Jewish, Hellenistic King or a Roman Vassal? Herod’s Multiple Identities as Reflected in his Art and Architecture, Orit Peleg-Barkat (Jerusalem)
14:00–14:40 Nabatean “Identity” in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Stephan G. Schmid (Berlin)
14:40–15:20 Ptolemaic Alexandria as a New Reference: The Case of the Anfouchi Necropolis, Eleni Fragaki (Leiden/Alexandria)
Looking West – The Mediterranean
15:40–16:20 Delos Beyond East and West – Domestic Architecture and the Concept of Glocalization, Monika Trümper (Berlin)
16:20–17:00 Decoscapes in Hellenistic Italy, Annette Haug (Kiel)
17:00 Final discussion/Wrap up, Andreas Kropp (Nottingham)