The Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies (Octopus) is hosting two workshops on March 21, the traditional UK Punic Network annual graduate work-in-progress seminar, and then a workshop organised with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean (ISMA, CNR, Rome) on the occasion of the publication of a new collection of essays on ‘The Tophet in the Phoenician Mediterranean’, edited by Paolo Xella, all to be followed by a launch party for the book: full timetable below.

All are very welcome to any or all of these events, but it would be extremely helpful from the point of view of catering if those planning to attend the Graduate Workshop who have not yet declared themselves could let us know by 12pm on March 7 (this Friday): [log in to unmask].

Best wishes, 

Jo Quinn and Jon Prag

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.