OCTOPUS Workshops in
Phoenician and Punic Studies
21 March 2014
Faculty of Classics, Oxford University
66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
10.00-3.30 UK Punic Network Graduate Workshop V
10.30-11.45 Session I
Sienna Kang (Stanford)
Patterns of State Formation in the Early Iron Age Levant
Carlos Cabrera Tejedor (Oxford)
Marrazon I: an Iron Age shipwreck from Spain
11.45-12.00 Coffee
12.00-1.00 Short Research Presentations
Colin Ash (Calgary): Hannibal's impact on Italy
Jane Ainsworth (Leicester): Herakles in the Roman Empire
Karl Cachia (Malta): Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Early Days of Western Expansion
Andrea Perugini (Gent): The Pottery from Uzita
Laurens Jansen (Bristol): Phoenician colonization of the Central Western Mediterranean
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Session II
Gabriella Sciortino (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Phoenicians and Greeks in Archaic Sicily
Johannes Gilhaus (Bochum)
The Necropolis of Monte Luna in the region of Trexenta (Sardinia)
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00-6.00 Rome-Oxford Workshop:
The Tophet and Infant Sacrifice in the Phoenician Mediterranean
The publication of a new collection of essays on the tophet offers an opportunity to move beyond the old question of whether the Carthaginians sacrificed their children to new ideas, problems, debates and discussion. The discussion will include interventions from: Paolo Xella (ISMA, Rome), Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), Brien Garnand (Harvard/Gent), Scott Scullion (Oxford), Valentina Melchiorri (Tübingen), Jo Quinn (Oxford), Adriano Orsingher (Rome/Oxford) and Wilfred Watson (Durham).
6.00-7.00 Launch Party for The Tophet in the Phoenician Mediterranean: All Welcome!
All talks will take place in the Lecture Theatre, all refreshments will be served in the Common Room. Sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies, with the generous support of Baron Lorne Thyssen.