Ancient Armenia in Context (II BCE-III CE), 26 June – 28 June 2019, Münster

Venue: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, agora Tagungszentrum, Bismarckallee 11b, Tagungsraum 3

Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

13.00 Registration

13.45-14.15 Welcome and Introduction

State of the art and methodology

14.15-15.00 Giusto Traina (Paris), Ancient Armenia: evidence and models

15.00-15.45 Klaus Geus (Berlin), Armenia in Ptolemy’s Geography

15.45-16.15 coffee break

Armenia and Iran

16.15-17.00 Edward Dąbrowa (Kraków), Parthian-Armenian relations from second century BC to the end of first century CE

17.00 -17.45 Carlo Cereti (Roma), Armenia and Iran in the 3rd c. CE: new evidence from Paikuli

18.15-19.30 Keynote lecture: Touraj Daryaee (Irvine), Armenia and Iran: The Birth of Two Nations in Late Antiquity (venue: Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz 20-22, F4)

20.00 Dinner for speakers

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Armenia and Rome

9.15-10.00 Pierangelo Buongiorno (Lecce/Münster), The Roman Senate and Armenia

10.00-10.45 Anahide Kéfélian (Paris), Armenia and the Armenians in Roman coins

10.45-11.15 coffee break

11.15-12.00 Michael Speidel (Warsaw), Provincia Armenia in the light of the epigraphic evidence from Armenia

The borders of Armenia

12.00-12.45 Michał Marciak (Kraków) The Upper Tigris Region Between Rome, Iran and Armenia

12.45-13.45 lunch

14.00-14.45 Hamlet Petrosyan (Erevan), Politics, ideology and landscape: Early Christian Tigranakert in Artsakh

Armenia and the Caucasus

14.45-15.30 Timo Stickler (Jena), Armenia and Iberia

15.30-16.15 Murtazali Gadjiev (Makhachkala), Armenia and the Land of Maskutes (3-5 centuries AD): written sources and archaeological data

16.15-16.45 coffee break

16.45-17.30 Lara Fabian (Freiburg), The South Caucasus and the Steppe, 500 BCE-300 CE

17.30-18.15 General discussion

19.00 Dinner for speakers

Friday, 28 June 2019

Artaxata

9.15-10.00 Mkrtich Zardaryan (Erevan), Artashat-Artaxata: Armenian city on the crossing of trans-regional interactions

10.00-10.45 Achim Lichtenberger (Münster) and Mkrtich Zardaryan (Erevan), The Armenian-German Artaxata project

10.45-11.15 coffee break

11.15-12.00 Torben Schreiber (İstanbul), The archives of Artaxata. Archival practice in the capital of ancient Armenia

12.00-12.45 Achim Lichtenberger, Giusto Traina, General conclusions and Final discussion

13.00-14.00 lunch

Achim Lichtenberger, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director of the Archaeological Museum

Giusto Traina  is a prominent Italian ancient historian and Byzantinist. Since 2011 he has been professor of Roman history at the Paris-Sorbonne University, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2014. Formerly interested in ancient landscapes and techniques, he is currently involved in a long-term research about ancient Armenia.