«ConText. Greek, Coptic and Arabic Sources from Aswan, Elephantine, Dayr Anba Hadra and Qasr Ibrim»

Thursday, 13. December – Saturday, 15. December 2018

Thursday, 13. December – Location: Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminar Room S01

16:15 Registration
16:45 Welcome and Introduction

Panel I: Archaeological Context

17:00 Felix Arnold on Elephantine
17:30 Gertrud van Loon on Dayr Anba Hadra

18:00 Coffee Break

18:15 Wolfgang Müller on Aswan
18:45 Pamela Rose on Qasr Ibrim

19:30 Apéro (Foyer Rosshof)

Friday, 14. December – Location: Rosshof, Petersgraben 51, Meeting Room 306

Panel II: Texts

Elephantine (Panel lead by Serena Causo)

9:00 Ruth Duttenhöfer, „Greek Ostraka from Elephantine“.
9:30 Matthias Müller, „Coptic Ostraca from the Excavations in the Chnum-temple area at Elephantine “.
10:00 Andrea Hasznos, „Coptic Texts from Elephantine and Syene collected in the ERC `Elephantine` Project“.
10:30 Ahmed Kamal „Elephantine, Aswan, and the relations with Nubia in the Arabic documents“.

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Jitse Dijkstra, “Greek Graffiti from the Khnum Temple Forecourt“.

Aswan (Panel lead by Vera Elizabeth Allen)

12:00 Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Greek ostraca from Aswan. The military documents in context”
12:30 Stefanie Schmidt „Arabic inscriptions from Aswan“.

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Amalia Zomeño and Naïm Vanthieghem „Arabic documents from Aswan“.

Dayr Anba Hadra (Panel lead by Lukas Bohnenkämper)

15:15 Lena Krastel „The Coptic epigraphic evidence of Deir Anba Hadra”.

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Ralph Bodenstein, „Arabic inscriptions from Dayr Anba Hadra“.

Qasr Ibrim und Nubia (Panel lead by Lukas Bohnenkämper)

16:45 Joost Hagen, „From Tantani to Timotheos: Egypt and Nubia in Coptic letters and documents from Qasr Ibrim, 5th – 14th century A.D. “.

17:15 Information on Workshop Session on following day (Panel III)

20:00 Dinner

 

Saturday, 15. December – Location: Rosshofgasse (Schnitz)

Panel III: Texts and Contexts (Workshop Session)

active participation unfortunately restricted to text editors

 

Group Work I: 9:00–11:00

Roman-Byzantine I (II–VI) on Assuan, Elephantine and Qasr Ibrim (seminar room 181) (lead by Stefanie Schmidt and Claudia Gamma).

Byzantine-Islamic I (VI–X) on Assuan, Elephantine, Qasr Ibrim and Dayr Anba Hadra (seminar room 184) (lead by Matthias Müller and Eugenio Garosi).

11:00 Coffee Break

Group Work II: 11:30–13:00

Roman-Byzantine II (II–VI) zu Assuan, Elephantine und Qasr Ibrim (seminar room 181) (lead by Stefanie Schmidt and Claudia Gamma).

Byzantine-Islamic II (VI–X) on Assuan, Elephantine, Qasr Ibrim and Dayr Anba Hadra (seminar room 184) (lead by Matthias Müller and Eugenio Garosi).

13:00 Lunch

Final discussion and outlook: 14:00–15:30