5:45 - 6:15pm
Symposium

The Eastern Desert in Late Antiquity

Jean-Luc Fournet
Egypt's Eastern Desert during the Greco-Roman period : archaeological findings
5:45 - 6:15pm
    Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Luc Fournet

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    Welcoming participants
    Jean-Pierre Brun

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

    Coptos, gateway to the Eastern desert
    Laure Pantalacci

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    The Lagid takeover of the Eastern Desert : new archaeological data
    Bérangère Redon

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:00am

    Ptolemaic gold : mining in the Eastern Desert
    Thomas Faucher

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    From Roman praesidia to Ptolemaic stathmoi
    Hélène Cuvigny

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    Chronology of the forts on the Myos Hormos and Berenice routes
    Jean-Pierre Brun

    Symposium
    1:30 - 2:00pm

    The architecture of praesidia in Egypt's Eastern Desert
    Michel Reddé

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    An imperial enterprise in the Red Sea mountains : the Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyri…
    Valerie Maxfield

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    subtitling careers
    Adam Bülow-Jacobsen

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    Mons Porphyrites and Myos Hormos : some topographical and logistical problems
    Wilfried Van Rengen

    Symposium
    3:45 - 4:15pm

    The Italian archaeological mission in the eastern desert : initial results from the Wad…
    Irene Bragantini

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

    Animal exploitation on the praesidia of the Myos Hormos and Berenice routes : food, tra…
    Martine Leguilloux

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm

    Supplying Roman settlements in Egypt's Eastern Desert : botanical evidence
    Marijke Van der Veen

    Symposium
    5:15 - 5:45pm

    Fuel and wood supply in the Eastern Desert
    Charlène Bouchaud

    Symposium
    5:45 - 6:15pm

    Textile discoveries at Mons Claudianus, Abu Sha'ar and other Roman sites in the Eastern Desert…
    Lise Bender

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

    Precious rags - What textiles from Egypt's Eastern desert dumps tell us
    Dominique Cardon

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    The Contrasts of Berenice's Textiles
    John Peter et Felicity Wild

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    Ptolemaic ceramics from the Eastern Desert : a glimpse of Bir Samut
    Jennifer Foster-Gates

    Symposium
    10:45 - 11:15am

    Le Wadi Hammamat et ses mobiliers céramiques (Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1987-1988).…
    Pascale Ballet

    Symposium
    11:15 - 11:45am

    The supply of ceramics from the Eastern Desert : evidence from quarries, ports and road…
    Roberta Tomber

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:15pm

    The port of Myos Hormos and its role in Indo-Roman trade
    Lucy Blue

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    Brief overview of fieldwork at Bérénice, 1994-2015
    Steven Sidebotham

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    Death in Berenice : evidence from excavations on funerary practices in this Ptolemaic a…
    Iwona Zych

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    The great temple of Berenice
    Martin Hense

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:00pm

    Berenice in the light of inscriptions, ostraca and papyrus
    Rodney Ast

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

    Byzantine gold mines in the Eastern Desert
    Carol Meyer

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm

    New documentary and literary releases on Clysma
    Jean Gascou

    Symposium
    5:15 - 5:45pm

    The Eastern Desert in Late Antiquity
    Jean-Luc Fournet

    Symposium
    5:45 - 6:15pm

    See also

    Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean
    Egypt's Eastern Desert during the Greco-Roman period : archaeological findings