Waters from the Margin
Strategies of Water Management in Dry Regions and Marshy Environments in the Ancient Near East
Venerdì 18 novembre: ore 9.30-19
Odeion, Museo dei Gessi,
Facoltà di Lettere
Sapienza Università di Roma
Programma:
9.30-10.00: Saluti delle autorità e introduzione al convegno:
E. Janulardo (Referente Settore Archeologia MAECI DGSP-VI), Per un’archeologia del moderno
L. Mori (Sapienza Università di Roma), Watering the dry regions of the ancient Near East: an introduction
SESSION 1: STRUGGLING AGAINST THE SEA: THE MARSHES OF LOWER
MESOPOTAMIA (CHAIR: M. LIVERANI)
10.00-10.30 - Francis Joannès (Sorbonne, Université de Paris I), La navigation fluviale en Mésopotamie néo-babylonienne
10.30-11.00 Ariel Bagg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), The unconquerable country: the marshlands of lower Mesopotamia from the Assyrian sources
11.00-11.15 - Coffee break
11.15-11.45 - Davide Nadali (Roma Sapienza), “Once there was the sea”. The case of Tell Surghul/Nigin in the ancient State of Lagash
11.45-12.15 - Angela Greco (Roma Sapienza), The taming of wilderness: Marshes as an economical resource in the III millennium Mesopotamia
12.15-12.45 - Lorenzo Verderame (Roma Sapienza), Waterscapes of ancient Sumer: marshes and lagoons in literary and administrative sources
12.45-13.15 - Franco D’Agostino – Licia Romano (Roma Sapienza), Water for Life, Water for Culture. The Marshlands today
13.15-15.00 - Lunch break
SESSION 2: FLOWING UNDER: THE TECHNOLOGY OF CANALS, TUNNELS AND
QANAT IN THE NEAR EAST AND SURROUNDING REGIONS (CHAIR: M.
FRANGIPANE)
15.00-15.30 - Frederick Mario Fales (Università di Udine), From Sargon to Sennacherib: wondrous waterworks abroad and at home
15.30-16.00 - Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (Università di Udine), Irrigating the Assyrian countryside. New evidence from the Assyrian irrigation network in the Nineveh hinterland and its impact on the region’s agricultural production system
16.00-16.30 – Massimo Vidale (Università di Padova) Irrigation in ancient Iran and the role of the qanat technology
16.30-17.00 - Mauro Cremaschi - Andrea Zerboni (Università di Milano) - Michele Degli Esposti (Università di Pisa ), The qanat/falaj (underground channels) of the Arabian Peninsula: the case study of the Salut plain (Sultanate of Oman)
17.00-17.15 - Coffee break
SESSION 3: WATERING THE DRY LANDS: THE EXPLOITATION OF SPRINGS,
MARSHES, LAKES AND WELLS IN ANCIENT SYRIA (CHAIR: A. VANZETTI)
17.15-17.45 - Maria Giovanna Biga (Roma Sapienza), Wells, rivers, lakes in the region around Ebla (Syria XXIV cent. BC.)
17.45-18.15 - Francesca Baffi (Università del Salento), Tell Tuqan: sulle rive di un lago
18.15-18.45 - Marco Bonechi (Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, CNR) – Luca Peyronel (IULM, Milano), Syrian Steppe and Amorite Hydraulics, Between Mari and Ebla: An Integrated Archaeological and Philological Perspective
