Talks will be given by POMEDOR members Smadar Gabrieli and Edna Stern:

Session CYPRUS AND THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM IN THE 13TH CENTURY
Edna J. Stern (Israel Antiquities Authority), "A New Perspective on Lusignan Paphos and Its Harbor: Using the Ceramic Record"

Session DIGGING FOR NUNS: THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE CISTERCIAN NUNNERY OF ST THEODORE, NICOSIA
Smadar Gabrieli (University of Sydney / University of Western Australia), "At Home with the Nuns: The Ceramics Assemblages of St Theodore, Nicosia"

This meeting is focusing on storage and preservation of food products.

It is co-organized by PRALIM, a joint research theme of the "Maison de l'Orient" in Lyon dealing with diet in the Mediterranean across the ages, and with the GDR BioArchéoDat.

Program of the meeting

"Jars and large containers between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era" will be the first international topical congress of the AIECM3.

The program and the abstracts of the communications.

 

An international symposium where Ilias Anagnostakis presented the following topic: "Wild and domestic honey in middle Byzantine Hagiography: issues relating to its production, collection, and consumption".

A new series of lectures, coordinated by Evangelia Balta, will take place from October 2014 to May 2015 at the Sismanoglio Megaro in Istanbul.

All lectures will be uploaded to the Bodossaki Foundation’s digital platform
BLOD (Bodossaki Lectures on Demand) (www.blod.gr).

Program of the lectures

 

organized by Roos van Osten, and by Joanita Vroom and Yona Waksman of the POMEDOR network, at the next EAA meeting will take place on Saturday September 13th afternoon.

Session (T04S011) in the theme T04 "Environment and Subsistence: Geosphere, Ecosphere and Human Interactions"

A lecture by A. Dalby followed by a Byzantine dinner at the Getty villa.

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La confrontation des sources littéraires et des données archéologiques s'avère importante pour essayer de comprendre tout à la fois la mise en place des interdits alimentaires particuliers à une religion, les limites de la mise en pratique des interdits alimentaires et leur évolution dans le temps. Les interdits alimentaires et les restrictions sur la commensalité permettent à différents groupes religieux d’établir une frontière entre « eux » et « nous ». Il existe donc un corpus de textes normatifs appartenant aux droits religieux et civils interdisant la consommation d’aliments particuliers.

The Levantine Ceramic Project (www.levantineceramics.org) and POMEDOR will host a workshop in Lyon devoted to issues of ceramic database linkages and interoperability, and to the development of search and statistical tools to enhance database functionality. Program 9h-9h30: Interconnecting ceramics databases: introduction and scope – Y. Waksman (CNRS, Lyon) 9h30-10h: The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (UK): Implementation and Development as an Online Resource – R. Tomber (British Museum, London) 10h-10h20: coffee break 10h20-10h40: The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) – A. Berlin (Boston University) 10h40-11h: Collaborative programming via an application programming interface (API) – R. Alwani (savique.com, Cambridge MA)

The 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) will take place in Basel (Switzerland) from June 9-13, 2014.
The following papers will be presented in the Islamic session by members of the POMEDOR network:

C. Bouchaud, P.-M. Blanc: Plant heritage and agricultural systems in Near East during Islamic period

A. Eger : (Re)Mapping Medieval Antioch: Life After the Islamic Conquests

M.-O. Rousset : Discovering the Fatimid mosque of Tyre (Lebanon)