• 8 mai 2024 Izmir - Pithoi in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. e-conference on the studies of pithos as a storage and burial vessel in the ancient Classical and Byzantine world * Ergün Laflı (Izmir, Turkey

  • Ergün Laflı (Izmir, Turkey) : Introduction. Opening lecture

  • Dimitri Van Limbergen (Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy) and Paulina Komar (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland) : From Neolithic to modern: pithoi winemaking through the centuries.

  • Alexandre Solcà (Lausanne, Switzerland and Moscow, Russia) : Ancient Anatolian and Minoan philological observations on pithoi: storage goods on Linear A tablets

  • Lucile Chabrier (Université Rennes 2, France and Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada) : The spatial organisation of pithoi in the storerooms of the Amathus’ palace during the Classical period (will not be recorded).

  • Thomas Iossifidis (Athens, Greece) : “Cistern boats”: the maritime transfer of liquid products in pithoi of the dolia type.

  • Bianca-Elena Grigoraș (Institutul Național al Patrimoniului, Bucharest, Romania) : Small pithoi for domestic storage at Pompeiopolis (northern Turkey).

  • Mariela Inkova and Panayot Antonov (both from the National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria) : Stamps with “prophylactic” symbolism on a pithos from the Bukelon fortress near Hadrianopolis (modern Edirne).

  • Alexander Alexiev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) : A study on medieval storage vessels from the territories north and south of the Haemus Mountains (Bulgaria): data, chronology and problems.

  • Itamar Taxel (Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem) : Fatimid- and early Crusader-period pithoi in Palestine: new insights on their typo-chronology, production technique and provenance.

  • Ergün Laflı (Izmir, Turkey) and Maurizio Buora (La Società Friulana di Archeologia, Udine, Italy) :

  • A Bronze Age pithos from the Peninsula of Halicarnassus (western Turkey).

  • Byzantine and Late Medieval pithoi from Halicarnassus (western Turkey).

  • Pithoi from the Izmir collections.

  • Roman pithoi from Cilicia (southern Turkey).

  • Byzantine pithoi from Bergama (ancient Pergamum, western Turkey).

  • Byzantine pithoi from the Upper Cayster Valley (western Turkey).

  • A Byzantine pithos found in the Black Sea near Trabzon (north-eastern Turkey)