Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus
All Souls College, Oxford has announced the schedule of the Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2014: Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus by P. Steele. Further information is available at http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/userfiles/file/Lectures/Trinity/EP2014.pdf.
7 May: "The Advent of Literacy on Cyprus"
8 May: "Scripts and Languages at Early Iron Age Palaepaphos"
9 May: "'Understanding' Undeciphered Scripts and Unidentified Languages"
14 May: "Visible Language and Ancient Cypriot Identities"
15 May: "Cypriot Writing at Home and Abroad"
SOMA 2014
On 24-26 April 2014 the 18th Annual Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology: Management of Cultural Heritage in the Coastal Zone (SOMA 2014) will be held in Wrocław, Poland. Further information is available at http://www.arch.pan.wroc.pl/index.php?lang=pl&dzial=artykuly&k=&p=2013_09_30_18th_symposium_on_mediterranean_archaeology_soma_2014_wroclaw_poland or
http://www.genama.info/soma/2014/HOME.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. S. Hayter, "Reading Between the Fault Lines: Reassessing the MM IIIA Destruction Layers at Knossos"
B. Lis, "Mobility of Potters in the Aegean: Combining Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence"
A. Türker, "Suluca Karahöyük: a Commercial Context in Central Cappadocia in light of Three Depas Amphikypellon and a Foot Shaped Stamp Seal"
9ICAANE
On 9-13 June 2014 the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (9ICAANE) will be held at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Further information is available at http://9icaane.unibas.ch. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Ahrens and E. Kozal, "The Turkish-Swiss Excavations at Sirkeli Höyük (Eastern Cilicia) 2011-2013: Material Culture, Settlement Structure, Chronology and Interregional Connections"
E. Belcher and K. Croucher, "Exchanges of Identity in Prehistoric Anatolian Figurines"
B. Bellucci, "Travelling Monsters: The Representation of Fantastic Creatures in Late Bronze Age Glyptic"
S. Ben-Dor Evian, "Representations of 'Sea-Peoples' as Icons of Alterity: Creating a New Philistine Paradigm"
C. J. Bergoffen, "Prized Pots: Cypriot Painted Wheel-Made Kraters in MB-LB Cyprus and the Levant"
A. Donald, "Adaptation, Appropriation and Late Cypriot Glyptic Iconography"
A. Greener, "Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery in the Southern Levant: Intercultural Contact, Symbolism and Society"
S. Günel, "A New Center of Intercultural Relations in Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age: Çine-Tepecik"
C. Hart, "Ancient Flower Power? An Analysis of the Rosette Motif within the Iconographic Repertoire of the Near East, Egypt and the Aegean"
J. Jungfleisch, "'Aegean' Style Wall Paintings meet 'Egyptian' Palatial Architecture: Architectural Simulations from 'Palace G' in Tell el-Dab'a"
E. Pappalardo, "Traveling Images in 1st Millennium Mediterranean. Crete and the East"
C. Sauvage, "Late Bronze Age Regional Identities and Distribution of Motifs: Mycenaean Pictorial Ceramics in their Cypriot and Levantine Contexts"
N. D. Ünsal, "What can Mycenaean pottery of Çine Tepecik can tell us?"
S. Di Paolo, "King as Bearer of Animal Offerings: Sacrifice or Meat Consumption? Translation of an Ambiguous Representation from Babylonia across Syria to Cyprus"