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11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:20Judith Thomalsky, in proxy of Javad Jafari,

News about ancient times: Stories from Tappe Rivi, Samalghan, North-Khorasan, Iran,

Rémy Boucharlat, Questioning the dearth of archaeological sites of the Achaemenid period in Iran: An archaeological bias or a reality?

12:20-12:40 Discussion

12:40-14:30 Lunch

CHAIRPERSON Amélie Kuhrt

14:30-15:30Shahrokh Razmjou, Revisiting Achaemenid

Rock-cut Shafts: The Riddle of FunctionGiulio Maresca, The (Iron Age) evidence

from the Sorkh Dagh at Nad-i Ali in Afghan Sistan and its (im)possible (ir)relevance to Achaemenid studies

15:30-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-16:20Gian Pietro Basello in proxy of Julien Cuny

& Günter Schweiger, First results from the Louvre-DARIOSH project on Achaemenid royal inscription fragments

16:20-16:35 Discussion

16:35-17:00 Closing session: Pierre Briant, Amélie Kuhrt

Doctoral Program DAAM-UniOr

The Conference is organized within the framework of the PRIN 2015 Project

Territorio, ideologia, società: il continuum culturale in Iran dalla tarda età

del ferro allo stato achemenide (ricerche archeologiche ed epigrafiche)

directed by Bruno Genito

* Directions from the railway station:https://tinyurl.com/rettorato

Cover photoKuh-e Rahmat and Takht-e Jamshid as seen from Tol-e Ajori

International Conference

AchaemenidStudiesToday

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A Societas Iranologica Europaea Mid-Term Conference

J o i n t l y o r g a n i z e d w i t h

“L’Orientale” Università di Napoli

ISMEO – Rome

Venue“L’Orientale” Università di NapoliRettorato, via Chiatamone 61/62*

Kuh-e Rahm

at and Takht-e Jamshid as seen from

Tol-e Ajori

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Monday December 1110:00-11:00 Opening session:

Giorgio Banti (“L’Orientale”, First Vice-rector)

Pierfrancesco Callieri (SIE, President)

Adriano V. Rossi (ISMEO, President)

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:20Bruno Genito, For an archaeological

definition of empire: the Achaemenid dynasty between architecture and art?

Robert Rollinger, Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian empire: What does empire mean in the 1st millennium BCE

12:20-12:30 Discussion

12:30-14:30 Lunch

CHAIRPERSON Pietro Vannicelli

14:30-15:30Elynn Gorris, Guess who? Athamaita:

a Rebel or a King?Christopher Tuplin, Greeks from a Persian

Perspective?

15:30-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-16:50Kai Ruffing, Herodotus, Athens and

the PersiansJosef Wiesehöfer, Das Nachleben

of the Persian Kings in Early Modern Europe: The Image of Cyrus in the Works of Melanchthon and Wieland

16:50-17:10 Discussion

Tuesday December 12

CHAIRPERSON Simonetta Graziani

10:00-11:00Bruno Jacobs, Administration

in the Achaemenid Empire – Old and new perspectives

Wouter F.M. Henkelman, The pilpi of Gobryas – towards a new prosopo-graphy of Achaemenid noble and administrative elites

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:20Mark B. Garrison, From Bīsotūn to

Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification Archive

Annalisa Azzoni, Aramaic Tablets and Seals at Persepolis

12:20-12:40 Discussion

12:40-14:30 Lunch

CHAIRPERSON Pierre Briant

14:30-15:30Antonio C.D. Panaino, Temper and

self-control in the Persian king’s ideal portrait

Adriano V. Rossi, Sociolinguistics of the Achaemenid societies

15:30-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-17:20Ela Filippone, On ‘earth-and-water’ againLindsay Allen, Reconciling fragment

histories at Takht-i JamshidMichael Roaf, The migration

of the Persians into Fars

17:20-17:45 Discussion

Wednesday December 13

CHAIRPERSON Michele Bernardini

10:00-11:00Alireza Askari Chaverdi & Pierfrancesco

Callieri, An Early Achaemenid project in the area of Parsa: the gate at Tol-e Ajori

Sébastien Gondet & Kourosh Mohammadkhani, New insights on Pasargadae: report on the 2015-2017 activities of the Iran-France archaeological project on the city and its nearby territory