Workshop: “Viticulture and Wine in Hittite Anatolia and Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Philological, Archaeological and Comparative Perspectives”.
Organizer: Carlo Corti (mailto:carlo.corti@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Sponsor: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik, Universität Würzburg.
Place: Universität Würzburg, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik, Residenzplatz 2, Tor A, 97070 Würzburg.
Date: 16-18 February 2017
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Workshop programme:
Thursday 16-02-2017
Session 1: Ancient Near East (Chair: Daniel Schwemer)
14.30-15.00 Welcome and general remarks. Daniel Schwemer (Würzburg)
15.00-15.30 Introduction to the workshop. Carlo Corti (Würzburg)
15.30-16.30 Near Eastern viticulture in a historical perspective. Lucio Milano (Venice)
17.00-18.00 Archaeobotany of the grape I: Lines of evidence and the origins of winemaking.
Naomi F. Miller (Philadelphia)/Chantel White (Philadelphia)
18.00-19.00 The impact of wine production in the social transformation of northern Mesopotamian societies during the mid-to-late third millennium BCE. Nicola Laneri (Catania)
Friday 17-02-2017
Session 2: Ancient Near East: Case study (Chair: Lucio Milano)
09.30-10.30 Archaeology of the oenology: drinking wine at the royal table in Mari. Grégory Chambon (Paris)
11.00-12.00 First press. Early textual evidence for Anatolian wine. Gojko Barjamovic (Boston)
12.00-12.30 Archaeobotany of the grape II: Data from Anatolian and Near Eastern archaeological sites. Naomi F. Miller (Philadelphia)/Chantel White (Philadelphia)
Session 3: Hittite Anatolia and satellite kingdoms (Chair: Stefano de Martino)
14.30-15.30 Contribution to the knowledge of viticulture and viniculture in Hittite Anatolia Carlo Corti (Würzburg)
15.30-16.30 The agricultural potential of central Anatolia and what the Hittites made out of it. Andreas Schachner (Istanbul)
17.00-18.00 The administration of vine in Ugarit. Valérie Matoïan (Lyon)/Juan-Pablo Vita (Madrid)
Saturday 18-02-2017
Session 4: Hittite Anatolia: Case study (Chair: Andreas Schachner)
09.30-10.30 “Guess who’s coming to dinner”. Hittite Banquets. Stefano de Martino (Turin)
10.30-11.30 The good god, the wine god and the storm god of the vineyard. Mark Weeden (London)
Session 5: Conclusions
12.00-13.00 Roundtable and Concluding Remarks
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