4.2.2016
14:30 - 15:00: Registration
15:00 - 15:15: Greetings and Introduction
Michael Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)
15:15 - 15:45: The Color of Ornaments in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant: Their Symbolic Meaning and Economic Value
Daniella Bar-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)
15:45 - 16:05: Colours in Early Balkan Metallurgy
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)
16:05 - 16:35
On the Importance of Different Coat Colours in Regard to Ancient Near Eastern Cattle: Economic Texts versus Religio-cultural Texts of the 3rd and 2nd mill. BC
Rosel Pientka-Hinz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
16:35 - 17:00: Move to HU (Oranienburger Tor to Universitätsstr.)
HU Main Building, Veranstaltungsraum 2095A
17:00 - 18:30: Die Farben aus der Sicht der Alten Ägypter und die Erklärung dieser Sicht aus der Sicht der Farbforscher
Wolfgang Schenkel (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
18:30 - 19:30: Discussion
19:30 - 20:00: Reception, Foyer in front of Raum 2070A
5.2.2016
09:30 - 10:05: Manufacturing Vitreous Colors: Frit, Faience and Glass Production in the Second Millennium BC Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Turkey)
Gonca Dardeniz (Koç Üniversitesi)
10:05 - 10:35: Stones from the Mountain, Stones from the Kiln: Color in the Glass Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)
10:35 - 11:05: Colored Fragments from a Dark Age
Cinzia Pappi (Universität Innsbruck)
11:05 - 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45: Discussion
12:45 - 14:00: Lunch
14:10 - 14:40: Lapis lazuli, Amethyst and Other Precious Materials in the Neolithic and Bronze Age with Special Reference to the Aegean
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)
14:40 - 15:10: Multicoloured Textiles in Babylonia During the First Millennium BC
Louise Quillien (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
15:10 - 15:25: Coffee Break
15:25 - 16:30: Discussion
6.2.2016
09:30 - 10:00: Ground Iron Oxide Rock Pigments in the Ancient Near East
Martine Melein (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
10:00 - 10:30: Pigments and Painting Techniques in the Book of the Dead of Amenemhet
Robert Fuchs (Technische Hochschule Köln)
10:30 - 11:00: Die Farben Altägyptens - Überlieferung, Vorkommen und Anwendung in Zeit und Raum anhand von ca. 1,380 Proben in 145 Monumenten
Ingrid Blom-Böer (Technische Hochschule Köln)
11:00 - 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45: Discussion
12:45 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:30: The Language of Colour and Material: Were Architectural Façades in the Aegean Bronze Age Brightly Painted?
Fritz Blakolmer (Universität Wien)
14:30 - 15:00: The Terminology of Painting Materials in Greek and Roman Texts. A report of the Research Group ‘Ancient Pigments’
Doris Oltrogge (Technische Hochschule Köln)
15:00 - 15:30: From Homer to Ovid: How Precious Dyes Become Precious Words
Lydia Pelletier-Michaud (Université Laval)
15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30: Discussion
19:00 - 20:30: Dinner
7.2.2016
09:30 - 10:00: Closing Note
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)
10:00 - 12:30: Roundtable Discussion