This international workshop aims at promoting archaeological and archaeometric approaches to Islamic-period sites, based especially on finds from recent excavations in Iran and the Caucasus.

It will take place at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon on 11 May 2023

It is organized by Mahdi KAZEMPOUR (Collegium of Lyon, "Archéologie et Archéométrie" laboratory) and Yona WAKSMAN ("Archéologie et Archéométrie" laboratory, Lyon), with the support of the Collegium de Lyon, the Faculty of sciences of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, the CNRS and the Archéologie et Archéométrie laboratory.

Information and registration: yona.waksman@mom.fr

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PROGRAM

8h30 Welcome of participants
9h00 Opening of the conference
Cécile BATIGNE, Director of the "Archéologie & Archéométrie" Laboratory UMR 5138, Lyon
Jean-Michel ROY, Director of the Collegium, Lyon University
9h30 Introduction
Mahdi KAZEMPOUR, Yona WAKSMAN, "Archéologie & Archéométrie" UMR 5138, Lyon
   
10h00 Mahdi KAZEMPOUR, "Archéologie & Archéométrie" UMR5138 Lyon, Collegium of Lyon
    Aghkand and Garrus ware from recent excavations and surveys in North-Western Iran
10h30 Rahim VELAYATI et al., Tehran University, Tehran (online)
     Sgraffito and champlevé from Ujan archaeological excavations, Iran

11h00 Coffee break

11h30  Shahryar SHOKRPOUR, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz (online)
     Typology of sgraffito and Garrus ware in North-Western Iran
12h00 Paul David WORDSWORTH, University College London, Oxford University
     Archaeological approaches to art historical problems: rethinking the date and production of so-called "Aghkand" and associated wares
12h30 Sandra AUBE LORAIN, CeRMI UMR8041, Villejuif
    Beyond sgraffito and champlevé: A glimpse to ceramic tile production in late medieval Tabriz

13h00 Lunch break

14h30 Aslan GASIMOV, Ministry of National Museum of History of Azerbaijan, Department of Archaeology, Baku
     Sgraffito technique in ceramics of the Middle Ages city of Barda
15h00 Habiba ALIYEVA, National History Museum of Azerbaijan, Baku (online)
    Sgraffito and writing: Inscriptions on ceramics of Azerbaijan
15h30 Mirjavid AGHALAROV, ANAS Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology İnstitute, Baku
     Seljuk period Azerbaijani fritwares: sgraffito method and its application

16h00 Coffee break

16h30 Guergana GUIONOVA, LA3M UMR7298, Aix-en-Provence
     Sgraffito and champlevé wares manufactured in a pottery workshop in Bamyan (Afghanistan)
17h00 Iryna TESLENKO, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, "Archéologie & Archéométrie" UMR5138, Lyon
     Manufacture of sgraffito ceramics in Medieval Crimea
17h30 Yona WAKSMAN, "Archéologie & Archéométrie" UMR5138, Lyon
     Investigations of sgraffito and champlevé in Lyon laboratory

18h00 Closing discussion