10-19-2008, 10:54 AM
BRITISH MUSEUM BYZANTINE SEMINAR
RECENT RESEARCH ON ENGRAVED GEMSTONES IN
LATE ANTIQUITY, AD 200-600
A three-day conference on Thursday 28th May, Friday 29th May and Saturday 30th May 2009 to be held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, the Great Court, British Museum
Thursday 28th May
Morning session Chair:
9.00-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Introduction
Professor Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
10.00-10.30 ‘Late Antique cameos and intaglios in 18th-century cast collections’
Dr Lucia Pirzio Biroli (Rome)
10.30-11.00 t.b.a
Dr Elisabetta Gagetti (University of Milan)
11.00-11.25 Coffee
11.25-11.55 ‘Non-destructive gemmological tests on ancient gems’
Dr Cigdem Lule-Whipp (American Gemmological Association)
11.55-12.25 ‘The origins of gemstones in the ancient world’
Lisbet Thoresen (Los Angeles, USA)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session Chair:
14.00-14.30 ‘The use of diamond in ancient and medieval gem engraving’
Dr Jack Ogden (Gemmological Association of Great Britain)
14.30-15.00 ‘Are there reliable criteria for dating magical gems? A sceptical view’
Dr Richard Gordon (Munich)
15.00-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.00 ‘The colours of magical gems’
Professor Attilio Mastrocinque (Venice)
16.00-16.30 ‘Text, image and medium: the evolution of Greco-Roman magical gemstones’
Professor Chris Faraone (University of Chicago)
16.30-17.00 ‘‘Phyge Podagra, Perseus se diochi’ – Greek myths on magical gems’
Dr Ã
RECENT RESEARCH ON ENGRAVED GEMSTONES IN
LATE ANTIQUITY, AD 200-600
A three-day conference on Thursday 28th May, Friday 29th May and Saturday 30th May 2009 to be held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, the Great Court, British Museum
Thursday 28th May
Morning session Chair:
9.00-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Introduction
Professor Sir John Boardman (University of Oxford)
10.00-10.30 ‘Late Antique cameos and intaglios in 18th-century cast collections’
Dr Lucia Pirzio Biroli (Rome)
10.30-11.00 t.b.a
Dr Elisabetta Gagetti (University of Milan)
11.00-11.25 Coffee
11.25-11.55 ‘Non-destructive gemmological tests on ancient gems’
Dr Cigdem Lule-Whipp (American Gemmological Association)
11.55-12.25 ‘The origins of gemstones in the ancient world’
Lisbet Thoresen (Los Angeles, USA)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon session Chair:
14.00-14.30 ‘The use of diamond in ancient and medieval gem engraving’
Dr Jack Ogden (Gemmological Association of Great Britain)
14.30-15.00 ‘Are there reliable criteria for dating magical gems? A sceptical view’
Dr Richard Gordon (Munich)
15.00-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.00 ‘The colours of magical gems’
Professor Attilio Mastrocinque (Venice)
16.00-16.30 ‘Text, image and medium: the evolution of Greco-Roman magical gemstones’
Professor Chris Faraone (University of Chicago)
16.30-17.00 ‘‘Phyge Podagra, Perseus se diochi’ – Greek myths on magical gems’
Dr Ã
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
