We are most pleased to announce the programme of the methodological conference held as part of our project.
Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy
ERC-funded conference on the methodologies of workshop studies, Warsaw 30 November–1 December 2023
Arrival at Warsaw, 29 November
6:30pm: Workshop in practical stone cutting – demonstration by Thierry Grégor (Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale / Université de Poitiers / ERC GRAPH-EAST)
Faculty of History, Room B2
First day, 30 November, 8:00am – 17 papers
session I: 8:10–9:20
moderator: Paweł Nowakowski
Ann Brysbaert (Universiteit Leiden / Director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens / PI of ERC SETinSTONE) "Modelling Methodologies for SETinSTONE. The Aegean Late Bronze Age Taskscape of the Argive Plain, Greece (keynote)"
Maria Villano (Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale / Université de Poitiers / ERC GRAPH-EAST) "What can connoisseurship tell us about epigraphy?"
coffee 9:20–9:40
session II: 9:40–10:50
moderator: Lorena Pérez Yarza
Konstantina Aktypi (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού / Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Αχαΐας), Michalis Petropoulos (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού / Ομότιμος Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Αχαΐας και Αρκαδίας), Michalis Gkazis (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού / Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Αχαΐας) "‘Reading’ Stories of Material Culture in the Mosaic Floors of Roman Patra (Achaea, Greece)"
Panayiotis Panayides (Τμήμα Αρχαιοτήτων Κύπρου) "… and instructed Karterios’s capable hands to adorn this place with inscribed and multicoloured mosaic floors: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Mosaicists and Patrons in Late Antique Cyprus"
Agnieszka Lic (Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk) "Stucco Workshops in the Early Islamic Bilad al-Sham, Iraq and Iran"
coffee 10:50–11:10
session III: 11:10–12:20
moderator: Adam Łajtar
Sergio García-Dils de la Vega (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Salvador Ordóñez Agulla (Universidad de Sevilla) "Identifying Local Roman Workshops in Colonia Augusta Firma – Astigi (Écija, Seville, Spain). Epigraphy and Mosaics"
Thierry Grégor (Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale / Université de Poitiers / ERC GRAPH-EAST) "Les ateliers de taille de pierre et de gravure dans la Méditerranée orientale médiévale"
Szymon Popławski (Politechnika Wrocławska), Anna Urszula Kordas (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Maksym Mackiewicz (Fundacja Archeolodzy.org) "Tracing the Tool: Photogrammetry as a Method to Identify the Tool and Analyze the Sequence of Stone Processing"
lunch 12:20–14:00
session IV 14:00–15:10
moderator: Marina Bastero Acha
Hallie Meredith (Washington State University) "Hidden In Plain Sight: Producers And Makers’ Marks On Inscribed Third- To Sixth-Century CE Portable Objects"
Hugo Feliu Pérez (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica / Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Diana Gorostidi Pi (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica / Universitat Rovira i Virgili) "Identifying Workshops Through their Work. Tarraco and its Honorific Tripartite Pedestal"
Simona Perna (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica)
"The Art of Stone Working in the Graeco Roman Period: Identifying Workshops and Craftspeople Using Stone Vases as a Case Study"
coffee 15:10–15:30
session V 15:30–17:00 (four papers)
moderator: Martyna Świerk
Ida Toth (University of Oxford) "Epigraphic Encounters: Constantinopolitan Evidence"
Hale Güney (Uniwersytet Warszawski) "Identifying the Origin of Stele Production Workshop and its Operations in Local, Regional and Inter-Regional Level. The Case of Northwestern Galatia"
Benet Salway (University College London) "The Carving of Diocletian’s Prices Edict at Aphrodisias"
Basema Hamarneh (Universität Wien) "ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός: Stones and Craftspeople in South Levant between Byzantium and Islam"
coffee 17:00–17:20
session VI 17:20–18:30 [online]
moderator: Andrés Rea
Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa) "In the Name of the Father: Workshops, Artisan Families & Law in Late Antiquity"
Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati) "What We Know about Athenian Pottery Production, What We Don’t Know, and What We Wish We Knew"
Lorenzo Serino (alumnus of the Università di Bologna) "Studying Identities Through Epigraphic Data: The Study-case of Mercatores Italici in Delos"
dinner: 19:00–22:00
Second day, 1 December, 9:00am – 10 papers
session VII: 9:00–10:10
moderator: Konstantinos Balamoshev
Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidade de São Paulo) "The Missing Names: Scribes in Late Antique Societies"
Isabelle Marthot Santaniello (Universität Basel, PI SNSF Starting Grant project "EGRAPSA: Retracing the evolutions of handwritings in Graeco-Roman Egypt thanks to digital palaeography") "Computational Writer Identification and Style Comparison of Greek Papyri: A State of Current Research"
Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) "Individuals or Professionals? Palmyrene Palaeography in and outside Palmyra"
coffee 10:10–10:30
session VIII: 10:30–11:40 [online]
moderator: Julia Borczyńska
Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan University) "From Scribes to Stone Masters: On Extrapolating Approaches Between Disciplines"
Giulia Marsili (Università di Bologna) "Stonemasons’ workshops in action. Identity, mobility and networks in the late antique Mediterranean"
Iza Romanowska (AIAS – Aarhus Universitet / Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Barcelona) "Building artificial worlds or what can we learn about the past by using agent-based modelling"
coffee 11:40–12:00
session IX + closing remarks: 12:00–13:30
moderator: Lorena Pérez Yarza
Mariana Bodnaruk (Central European University/Université de Fribourg) "Stone men, labor, and the craftsmanship of memory: Exploring funeral epigraphy in the late Roman West through the study of sarcophagus workshops"
Matteo Pola (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") "Rewritten epigraphs, copies, reuse, additions: Case studies from the early Christian cemeteries of Rome"
Nerea Fernández Cadenas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) "Peasants’ numeracies: a cognitive study from signs I, V, and X"
Simon Barker (Universiteit Gent) "Networks of Re-use. Identifying stonecarvers, builders and middlemen in the Roman and late-antique recycling industry"
lunch from 13:30
from 15:00
Visit to the Faras Gallery and Ancient Art Gallery, National Museum, Warsaw