DOTTORATO ASIA AFRICA MEDITERRANEO

Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo

DOTTORATO TURCHIA IRAN ASIA CENTRALE

The Elamite Cultural Heritage of Persia

An intensive class held by

JAVIER ÁLVAREZ -MON

M ACQUARIE UNIVERSITY SYDNEY

with a contribution by

YASMINA WICKS UN IVERS ITY OF SYDNEY

Day 1 Tuesday

28th October 2014 Palazzo Du Mesnil*

III piano, Sala del Consiglio

14:30-15:30

Introduction to Elamite Culture: the Legacy of Elam

16:00-17:00

The Elamite Cultural Heritage of Persia: Old Paradigms and Recent Discoveries

Day 2 Thursday

30th October 2014 Palazzo Corigliano+

piano terra, aula T2

14:30-15:00

The Journey of a Visual Idea: Bronze “Bathtub” Coffins in Elite Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Elamite Funerary Contexts by Yasmina Wicks

15:00-16:00

The Elamite Heritage of Persia: Mudbrick Architecture, Vitreous Industries and Glyptic Arts

16:30-17:30

The Elamite Heritage of Persia: Sculptural Arts

JAVIER ÁLVAREZ-MON is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art at the Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia). He is one of the few scholars having dealt extensively with Elamite art history and archaeology. He is also known for the study of the Neo-Elamite Arjan tomb, published in the series Acta Iranica.

YASMINA WICKS is a PhD student of the University of Sydney, currently working on a thesis on Neo-Elamite funerary practices.

The class is organized in the framework of the National Research Project “Sedi del potere, comunicazione politica e società nell’Iran achemenide” (PRIN 2009JHSEE7)

directed by prof. Adriano V. Rossi.

Write to Gian Pietro Basello <link@elamit.net> for further details. Updates on <twitter.com/elamici>.

* Via Chiatamone 62, Napoli + Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 12, Napoli

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