Over the last few years archaeological and architectural invesgaon in ancient Akragas (modern day Agrigento, Sicily) has gathered new momentum. This internaonal conference intends to bring together researchers to discuss their recent findings with each other. General perspecves of invesgaon will be dealt

5 March 2014Rijksmuseum of Anquies, Leemanszaal

Leiden

6 March 2014Gravensteen, Room 011,

Leiden University

with and special aenon will be paid to three currently pursued research areas, namely the Olympieion, the so-called sanctuary of the Chthonic Divinies and the extra-urban site of S. Anna.

Thursday 6 March Session 3 : Research at the Olympieion9.00-9.30 Heinz Beste (Deutsches Archäologisches Instut Rom)L’Olympieion di Agrigento: Ricerca, Valorizzazione e Fruizione

9.30-10.00 Monica de Cesare, Elisa Chiara Portale (Università di Palermo)Nuove ricerche nell’area a Sud dell’Olympieion

Session 4 : The Session 4 : The extra-urban sanctuary of S. Anna10.00-10.30 Caterina Trombi (Collaboratrice esterna Parco Valle dei Templi/Soprintendenza BBCCAA di Agrigento) Il materiale vovo e di uso rituale del Santuario extraurbano di S. Anna: note sugli aspe cultuali e socio-polici.

10.30-11.00 Holger Bainger (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz)The Metal Vove Objects from the Sanctuary of S. Anna in their Sicilian Context

11.20-11.40 N11.20-11.40 Natascha Sojc (Leiden University)The Byvanck Akragas Project: Acvies and insights thus far

11.40-12.00 Dennis Braekmans (Del University/Leiden University)Material Analysis of terracoa items and local clays from Akragas

12.00-12.20 Annalize Rheeder & Gerrie van Rooijen (Leiden University)Invesgang architectural and vove terracoa from Akragas

12.20-12.40 Hanna Stöger & Eric Dullaart (ArchLand, Leiden University)Mapping S. AnnaMapping S. Anna

12.40-13.00 Kenneth Kvamme (University of Arkansas) Magnec gradiometry and electrical resisvity surveys at the extra-urban sanctuary of S. Anna

13.00-13.20 Linda Adorno (Deutsches Archäologisches Instut Rom)Survey at S. Anna: The ceramic finds

13.20-13.30 John Bintliff Concluding remarks

Il Museo Archeologico Regionale di AgrigentoIl Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigentoc

Wednesday 5 March Introducon: Natascha Sojc (University of Leiden)

Session 1 : General Perspecves13.30 -14.00 Donatella Mangione

(Museo Archeologico ‘Pietro Griffo’ di Agrigento) Il Museo ArcheologiIl Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento e le sue collezioni: pun

di forza e debolezze

14.00-14.30 Giuseppe Parello (Parco Archeologico e Paesaggisco Valle dei Templi)

La gesone del Parco Archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento. Esperienze in corso e programmi futuri

14.30-15.00 Maria Concea Parello ((Parco Archeologico e Paesaggisco Valle dei Templi)

Gli indirizzi della ricerca scienfica nel Parco della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento

15.00-15.30 Oscar Belvedere (Università di Palermo)GIS and survey in the archaeological and landscape park of Agrigento

Session 2 : The so-called sanctuary of Chthonic Divinies16.00- 16.30 Gianfranco Adornato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)Cults, archiCults, architecture, and terracoas in the Sanctuary of the Chthonic

Diees

16.30-17.00 Clemens Voigts (Universität der Bundeswehr München)A new reconstrucon of the altar of temple L

The conference is organized by the Byvanck Chair and has been sponsored by the Leiden University Fund / Byvanck and the Rijksmuseum van OudhedenFor further informaon contact Prof. Dr. Natascha Sojc N.Sojc@arch.leidenuniv.nl

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