The Thebaid in Times of Crisis. Between Integration and Insurrection

Colloque

, by Jean-Michel Colas

Colloque à Berlin du 2 au 4 mai 2019.
Organisateurs : Laurent Coulon, Ralph Birk & Tonio Sebastian Richter

Programme

THURSDAY 2 MAY 2019

Registration

  • 16:30–17:30 : Registration and Welcome Tea Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Research Center for Primary Sources of the Ancient World Unter den Linden 8 10117 Berlin

Welcome & Keynote Lecture

  • 18:00 : Tonio Sebastian Richter and Ralph Birk (Freie Universität Berlin) Welcome Address Presentation of the Speaker
  • 18:15 : Joseph G. Manning (Yale University) Volcanoes, Floods and Social Unrest: the Theban Revolts in their Social and Climatic Context Please register in advance: www2.bbaw.de/anmeldung-volcanoes Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Einstein-Saal (5th floor) Jägerstraße 22/23 10117 Berlin

FRIDAY 3 MAY 2019

Talks & Discussion

  • 09:00 : Ralph Birk (Freie Universität Berlin) Laurent Coulon (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL Paris) Introductory Remarks
  • 09:15 : Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) From the ‘Great Theban Revolt’ to the Turmoil of the 80s: a Century of Theban ‘Separatism’?
  • 10:00 : Daniel von Recklinghausen (Universität Tübingen) War in the Thebaid: The Great Revolt 206–186 BCE according to the Synodal Decree Philensis II
  • 10:45 : Coffee break
  • 11:15 : René Preys (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Royal Cult, Destruction of the Enemy and the Maintenance of World Order on Ptolemaic Temple Walls
  • 12:00 : Martina Minas-Nerpel (Universität Trier) Arsinoe, Berenike, and Cleopatra – the ABC of the Ptolemaic Ruler Cult
  • 12:45 : Martina Minas-Nerpel (Universität Trier) René Preys (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) The Courtyard of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in the Times of Ptolemaic Crisis
  • 13:15 : Lunch break
  • 14:30 : Alexandra Nespoulous-Phalippou (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier) Indigenous Revolts in the Area of South Thebes and North Thebes: Historical Facts and Royal Ideology according to the Priestly Decrees under Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204–180 BC)
  • 15:15 : Laurent Coulon (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL Paris) Osirian Cults, Priests and Rebel Kings during the Ptolemaic Period in Thebes
  • 16:00 : Coffee break
  • 16:30 : Ralph Birk (Freie Universität Berlin) Great Governors in Thebes and the Great Revolt in the Thebaid
  • 17:15 : Stefano Caneva (Université de Liège) Stefan Pfeiffer (Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Strategos Kallimachos II of the Thebaid: The Honors for a Royal Local Official in the Context of the Epigraphical Records from the Hellenistic World

Speakersʼ Dinner

SATURDAY 4 MAY 2019

Talks & Discussion

  • 09:00 : Felix Relats Montserrat (Institut français d‘archéologie orientale, Cairo) Temple Destruction during the Revolts: Some Considerations from Medamud
  • 09:45 : Thomas Faucher (CNRS, Université dʼOrléans) How Coins survived the Theban Crises in the Ptolemaic Period
  • 10:30 : Coffee break
  • 11:00 : Katelijn Vandorpe and Valérie Wyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Investing Strategies in the Thebaid after the Great Revolt
  • 12:00 : Marie-Pierre Chaufray (CNRS, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne) Lesoneis in the Thebaid: Before and After the Crises
  • 12:45 : Lunch break
  • 13:15 : Jan Moje (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) The Great Revolt against Ptolemaios IV. / V. in the Light of the Demotic Sources from Elephantine
  • 14:00 : Lorenzo Uggetti (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL Paris) A Glimpse behind the Paper Curtain: Cult Places on the Theban West Bank mentioned in Ptolemaic Papyri
  • 14:45 : Ralph Birk (Freie Universität Berlin) Laurent Coulon (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL Paris) Concluding Discussion

OrganisateursLaurent Coulon, Ralph Birk & Tonio Sebastian Richter