Preliminary Academic Program

The 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, PA from January 2–5 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. The academic program began on the morning of Friday, January 3rd and finished on the afternoon of Sunday, January 5th. Sessions were scheduled within morning, midday, and afternoon blocks.  Paper order within a session may not reflect the final time slots. Please check the annual meeting app and printed program for exact order and times.

SESSION BLOCK 1: FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 8:00-10:30 AM

1A: Being First Generation, Low Income in Classics (Joint AIA/SCS Workshop)
Sponsored by First-Generation Low-Income Federation

Organizer(s): Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Katie Tardio, Bucknell University

Preliminary Panelists: Nick Bolig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago, Sinja Küppers, Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Katelin McCullough, Hollins University, Andrea Samz-Pustol, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Katie Tardio, Bucknell University

1B: Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy (Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium)
Sponsored by Friends of Numismatics

Organizer(s): Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth University

Discussant: Lucia Carbone, American Numismatic Society

Numismatriculation: A Case Study of the Yale University Art Gallery’s Numismatics Collection in Education and Teaching
Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery, and Emily Pearce Seigerman, Yale University Art Gallery

Hoards and Replicas as Tools in the Undergraduate Classroom
Anna Accetola, Hamilton College

Coins and Confidence-Building: Numismatics and Undergraduate Research Projects
Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Disentangling Ancient Coins and Questions about Their Provenance in General Education Curricula
Allison Brittany Kidd, Independent Scholar

Die Studies in the Classroom: Making Students ‘Real Ancient Economists
Gregory Callaghan, Union College

1C: Western Asian & Egyptian Visual Culture

The Origins of the Animal Combat Scene in Early Dynastic Mesopotamian Glyptic
David Mulder, University of Pennsylvania

Fish-apkallu in Olympia
David Schneller, UCLA

The Birds of Amnisos and Cretan Connections with the Levant
Brice Erickson, UCSB

“Totenmahl” Reliefs of the Persian Period and Herodotus’ Story of the Death of Atys: An Anatolian Heroic Archetype
Mark Munn, The Pennsylvania State University

Hellenistic Sculpture from Parthian Qalatga Darband in Iraqi Kurdistan
Irene Bald Romano, University of Arizona, and John D. A. MacGinnis, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University

What’s in a Name? Thoughts On a Late Roman Civic Personification in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
Susanna McFadden, University of Hong Kong

1D: Symposia and Banqueting

Valuing the Auletris: Reconsidering  Athenian Female Performers in Sympotic Contexts
Gwyneth Fletcher, University of Pennsylvania

A Drink with Ixion: Body, Myth, and Punishment in the Athenian Symposium
Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University

Taking a Taskscape Approach to Dining in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Nadhira Hill, Randolph-Macon College

The Hellenistic Banquet Relief as Ancestor Shrine: Evidence from the Terrace Houses at Ephesos
C. M. Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara

1E: New Tools for Old Stuff

What Did This Look Like? Recreating Figural Scenes from a Ptolemaic Egyptian Shrine
Lisa M. Anderson-Zhu, The Walters Art Museum

A 3D “First Look” at Egypt by 19th Century Europeans: Stereophotography of unexcavated primary sites, appropriated monuments, exhibitions, and museums.
George L. Mutter, Harvard Medical School, and Bernard P. Fishman, Maine State Museum

AI Rethinks the Past: A New Approach to Landscape in Etruscan and Roman Archaeology
Maurizio Forte, Duke University

Sensory Experiences in a Roman Villascape: The Case of the Villa San Marco
Myat Thinzar Aung, University of Texas at San Antonio

Piece by Piece: Using Photogrammetry and LiDAR Scanning to Contextualise Roman Mosaics in Imperial Era Greece
Nikki K. Vellidis, University of Oxford

Investigating the Monumental Fortification Walls of the Vedi Fortress of Armenia through Digital 3D Reconstruction
Sarah Hinkel, University of Pennsylvania, and Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong

1F: Roman Religion

A Vesta’d Interest: Apotropaia and Shrines as Risk Management Strategies in Vesuvian Bakeries
Abigail J. Staub, University of Michigan

The Sarda Ceres Figurines: Entangled Cult Practices in Early Roman Sardinia
Katie P. Breyer, Bryn Mawr College

The Case of the Missing Mold-Made Uterus: Notable Absences and Bodily Autonomy in Gallo-Roman Healing Votives
Alena Wigodner, Princeton University

Pastoral Epiphanies of a Rock-Born God: Reassessing Scholarly Paradigms of Mithraism through the Močići Mithraeum (Konavle, Croatia)
Ian S. Wilson, Trinity College Dublin

Rooted in the Divine: Arboreal Meaning in the South Agora of Aphrodisias, Turkey
Max Meyer, Brown University

You Only Live Twice: Continuing Bond(s) Theory and Roman Death Practices
Jessica Tilley, Florida State University

1G: Domestic Spaces & Community

Resuming Investigations at Torre del Mordillo (Cosenza, Italy):  Preliminary Results of the 2024 Excavation Campaign
Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, and Giuseppe Lucarelli, Independent Researcher

It’s a Colorful Life:  Investigating Color on Artifacts Found in Domestic Contexts in Karanis, Egypt
Laurel Fricker, University of Michigan

Ethnogenesis and the Formation of Apachean and Puebloan Communities on the High Plains of Kansas
Matthew E. Hill, Jr, University of Iowa and Margaret E. Beck, University of Iowa

All Roads Lead to Rabat: New Excavations at the Domus Romana in Rabat, Malta
Stephan N. Hassam, Randolph-Macon College, Benedict Lowe, University of Northern Alabama, Robert Brown, Intercontinental Archaeology, Alexander Anthony, Syracuse University, David Cardona, Heritage Malta, Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, and Andrew Wilkinson, Flinders University

1H: Field Reports from Greece I

Perachora Peninsula Archaeological Project 2024: The Sanctuary of Hera and the  Inhabited Landscape of the Perachora Peninsula
Susan Lupack, Macquarie University, Panagiota Kasimi, Ephorate of the Corinthia, Barbora Weissova, Charles University, Shawn Ross, Macquarie University, Adela Sobotkova, Aarhus University, and Matthew Skuse, British School at Athens

Mt. Lykaion at 20 years
David Gilman Romano, University of Arizona, and Mary E. Voyatzis, University of Arizona

Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Corinth, 2023-2024
Christopher A. Pfaff, Florida State University

The Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project: Results of the 2024 Field Season
Paul D. Scotton, California State University, Long Beach, Georgios Spyropoulos, Corinthian Ephorate of Antiquities, Katherine Harrington, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, and Dylan Rogers, Florida State University

Cleaning House: A New Look at the Nemean Oikoi
Stephanie Kimmey, Weber State University

Fossil and Bone: Human-Animal Interactions in Household Environments of Mycenae
Jacqueline S. Meier, University of North Florida, Vassiliki Pliatsika, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and Kim Shelton, University of California at Berkeley

1I: Women in Roman Archaeology (Colloquium)
Sponsored by AIA Women in Archaeology Interest Group and the AIA Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group

Organizer: Tatiana Ivleva, Newcastle University

Present and Forgotten: Historiography of Roman Women Archaeologists
Tatiana Ivleva, Newcastle University

An East-West Divide? The Role of Pioneering Women in Research on Provincial and Roman-era Archaeology in Britain and Poland: A Comparative Perspective
Anna Walas, Nottingham University

Ladies of the ‘Limes’: Female Archaeologists in Roman Frontier Studies
Rebecca Jones, Heriot-Watt University / National Museums Scotland

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Archaeologist, Artist, Nobel Prize-winning Chemist
Lisa Brody, Yale University Art Gallery

Wilhemina F. Jashemski and the Study of the Gardens of the Roman World
Maryl B. Gensheimer, University of Maryland

1J: Precarious Heritage: Climate Change and (Un)natural Disasters (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Cultural Heritage Committee

Organizer(s): Omur Harmansah, University of Illinois at Chicago and Betsey Robinson, Vanderbilt University

The Relative Rise of Sea Level in Delos: Observations from 150 Years of Excavations and Projections to the End of the 21st Century
Jean-Charles Moretti, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut de recherche sur l’architecture antique, and École française d’Athènes, Vasilios Kapsimalis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Pavlos Karvonis, Aristotle University of Thessal

The Impact of Climate Change on OxygenRreduced Archaeological Contexts at Vindolanda, UK
Elizabeth Greene, University of Western Ontario, Barbara Birley, The Vindolanda Trust, Andrew Birley, The Vindolanda Trust, and Gillian Taylor, Teesside University

Use of Continuous Monitoring as a Strategy to Assess Climate Change at Magna Roman Fort, UK
Gillian Taylor, Teesside University, Andrew Birley, The Vindolanda Trust, and Francesca Gillis, The Vindolanda Trust

Responding to the Past and Future Impacts of the Relative Sea Level Rise on the Coastscape of the Ancient City of Delos (Cyclades, Greece)
Eleni Kolaiti, Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHR/NHRF), and Nikos Mourtzas, University of Nottingham

An Erosion of Time: Anthropocene and Timelessness in the Rural Landscapes of Ankara, Türkiye
Muge Durusu-Tanrıöver, Temple University

1K: Late Antique Field Reports

Campanaio: The Rise and Fall of a Late Antique Rural Settlement in Central Southern Sicily. First Results of the 2024 Study Season
Fabrizio Ducati, The University of British Columbia, and Roger J.A. Wilson, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Archaeological Excavation at Golemo Gradište, Konjuh, North Macedonia, 2023-2024
Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College, and Goran Sanev, Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia

Urban Abandonment in a Shared Wetland Context: a Cross-Temporal Investigation of the Ends of Salapia and Sipontum (Apulia, Italy)
Darian Marie Totten, McGill University, Roberto Goffredo, Università di Foggia, and Martina Scarcelli, McGill University

“The Metamorphosis of Faith in Philia, Thessaly: The Sanctuary of Itonia Athina from Polytheism to Christianity.” Report of the Inaugural Season, 2024
Mark D. Hammond, Case Western Reserve University, Katerina Ragkou, Philipps University of Marburg, and Maria Vaiopoulou, Karditsa Ephorate of Antiquities

Castellaraccio di Monteverdi (Paganico, GR). A Medieval Deserted Fortified Village along the Ombrone River
Alessandro Sebastiani – University at Buffalo, Alessandro Carabia – IES Abroad Rome Center, and Cleo Barbafiera, Independent Scholar

1L: City of Rome

The Origins of the Tiber Island in Rome
Andrea L. Brock, University of St. Andrews

Buildings, Space, and Coercive Diplomacy in Republican Rome
Zoé Elise Thomas, University of Texas at Austin

New Findings on the Temple of Vesta, Roman Forum.
Krupali Krusche, University of Notre Dame

Retracing Human-Environment Interactions in the Ancient Roman Suburbium through Historical Cartography: Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Legacy Data
Francesca D’Andrea, Scuola Normale Superiore, and Consuelo Manetta, Scuola Normale Superiore

The 2023 and 2024 Excavation Seasons of the Aventinus Minor Project: A Community Archaeology Project in Rome
Elizabeth Wueste, The American University of Rome and Catherine Schenck, The University of Michigan

SESSION BLOCK 2: FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

2A: Undergraduate Paper Session

Late Preclassic Urbanism in the Mensäbäk Basin: An Analysis of Spatial and Social Patterns
Yiduo He, Colgate University

The Pylon of the Nubian Lion Temple at Naga, Ancient Nubia, and Egypt’s Long Intricate Connection
Wanda Harris, UCLA

The Role of Mosaics in the Decorative Program of the Villa Arianna, Stabiae
Stephanie Korth, University of Maryland

Mobile 3D Modeling Use in Archeology: Experimental Digital Recordation Techniques
Dustin Wagner, San Jose State University

2B: Fieldwork & Families: Challenges in the Research/Life Responsibilities (Workshop)
Sponsored by AIA Research and Academic Affairs Committee

Organizer(s): Kim Shelton, University of California, Berkeley and Maryl B. Gensheimer, University of Maryland

Preliminary Panelists: Lynne Kvapil, Butler University, Stephanie Kimmey, Weber State University, and Gypsy Price, SEARCH Inc.

2C: Fieldwork in Central Greece

Architecture and Landscape Management in Prehistoric Gourimadi: Results of the 2024 Season
Žarko Tankosić, University of Bergen, Paschalis Zafeiriadis, Norwegian Institute at Athens-University of Bergen, Fanis Mavridis, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology & Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Denitsa Nenova, Norwegian Institute at Athens, and

The Lower Fortified Town of Ancient Eleon (Boeotia), Greece
Brendan Burke, University of Victoria, Bryan Burns, Wellesley College, Trevor Van Damme, Warwick University, and Alexandra Charami, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia

The Palamas Archaeological Project, Thessaly
Robin Rönnlund, University of Gothenburg, and Maria Vaiopoulou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa

The Central Achaia Phthiotis Survey (CAPS): Results of the 2023-2024 seasons
Margriet J. Haagsma, University of Alberta, Sophia Karapanou, Ephorate of Antiquities, Larissa, Magie Aiken, Museum of Natural History, Sweden, Gino Canlas, University of Western Ontario, Myles Chykerda, UCLA, Edward Middleton, McMaster University, Arturo

2D: Heritage Approaches to Climate Change

Illusion of Forever: Impacts of Climate Change Research on Archaeological Heritage Landscapes
Haley Anne Schwartz, Universitat de Barcelona

Potential Natural Vegetation Models and Climate Resilience – Examples from Trinidad in the Early to Middle Holocene
Chike Pilgrim, The University of Cambridge

Identifying, Sustaining, and Disseminating Biodiversity in Cultural Landscapes of East Attica, Greece
Manolis Petrakis, Hellenic National Archive of Monuments – National Archaeological Museum at Athens, and Alexandra D. Solomou, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems

The Heritage Master Plan for the Ancient Harbor at Kommos, Crete
James C. Wright, Bryn Mawr College

Resilience, Migration and Climate Crisis in a Post-Medieval Greek Landscape: The Proposed Parrhasian Heritage Park
Kostis Kourelis, Franklin & Marshall College, Nota Pantzou, University of Patras, and Kyle Mahoney (Swarthmore College)

2E: Small Finds:Big Picture

Enthralling Elements: Coral, Amber, and Opaque Red Glass in Iron Age and Early Roman Gaul
Rachel Wood, University of California, Los Angeles

Hidden Gems: Depictions of Artisans’ Tools in Etruscan Art
Holly Piper, Florida State University

Loom Weights and Women’s Autonomy in the Ancient Greek World
Greg Kintzele, Dickinson College

Performing Plenty: A Late Fourth Century BCE Diadem from Amphipolis
Ellen M. Archie, Emory University

The Bacchic One has Released You: The Materiality of the Orphic Tablets
Katerina Apokatanidis, University of Toronto

2F: Space, Performance, Experience

Abramovic the Egyptian; A Performance-Based Approach to Ancient Egyptian Ritual Practice
David M. Wheeler, UC Berkeley

Embodying Kingship: Materializations of Royal Power in Egypt and Anatolia
Luiza Osorio G Silva, University of California, Irvine, and Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, Temple University

Beyond the Harem: Re-examining the Roles and Identites of the Palace Women at Mari
Kristina B. Donnally, University of Pennsylvania

Haec amat obscurum: Beholding Darkness in Roman Black-Ground Wall Paintings
Charles J. Ro, University of Pennsylvania

2G: Roman Imperial Imagery & Cult

Lycian Boubon and the Imperial Cult: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Eric Hensley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Social Memory, Numismatics, and Tacitus’ Agrippina Minor
Rachel Andrews, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Under the Shadow of Rome: The Imperial Cult at Lyttos
Georgios Tsolakis, The University of Chicago, and Manolis Petrakis, National Archive of Monuments – National Archaeological Museum, Athens

A Panegyric to the Princeps? Sperlonga, Tiberius, and the Art of Imperial Display
Anne F. LaGatta, Kenyon College

Diverging from Imperial Models: Re-Evaluating a Portrait of Trajan in the Cleveland Museum of Art in the Context of Roman Provincial Portraiture
Lee Ann Riccardi, The College of New Jersey

2H: Space, Settlement, and Community in Pre-Roman Italy (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Etruscan Interest Group

Organizer(s): Antonio Lopiano, Boston College and Kevin S. Lee, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Simon Stoddart, University of Cambridge

Communal Palaces: Space and the Social Dynamics of Monumental Domestic Structures in Archaic Central Italy
Antonio LoPiano, Boston College

High Politics: Civic Communities in the Pre-Roman Apennines
Kevin Lee, The University of Texas at Austin

The Caverzano Collection of the Arizona State Museum: Questions of Identity in the Iron Age Veneto
Amelia Symm, University of Arizona

Administration and Infrastructure of the Metapontine Countryside
Christine Davidson, Trent University

2I: Excavations around the Bay of Naples

Towards an Urban Economy of the Subelite: Three Seasons of Excavation at Pompeii I.14
Allison L. C. Emmerson, Tulane University, Mary-Evelyn Farrior, Columbia University, Gabriel Higgs, AIA Member at Large, and Jordan R. Rogers, North Carolina State University

Ritual Artifacts in Secondary Contexts: Assemblages and Religious Practices in Pompeii I.14
Catherine K. Baker, Mount Holyoke College, and Eleanor Clark, University of Pavia

Excavating a Unique Organic Context at Pompeii: The Reed Workshop of Pompeii I.14
Jordan Rogers, North Carolina State University, Allison L.C. Emmerson, Tulane University, and Mark Robinson, Oxford University

The Sanctuary of Sabatius at Pompeii: The 2023-2024 Fieldwork Seasons in the Complex of Magical Rites
Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa (Italy), and Riccardo Olivito, IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy)

UMD’s Survey of the Villa Arianna in Stabiae and Authority Hierarchies for Documenting Endangered Sites Quickly
Joseph C. Williams, University of Maryland

2J: Recent Research in Sabine Territory

Digitally Reconstructing the Via Salaria Road network in Latium with GIS
Matthew C. Harder, University of Missouri

Old and New Excavations in the Sanctuary of Feronia at Trebula Mutuesca (Monteleone Sabino, Rieti, Italy)
Elizabeth Colantoni, University of Rochester, Gabriele Colantoni, University of Rochester, Stefania Faro, Segretariato Regionale MiBACT per l’Abruzzo, Matthew C. Harder, University of Missouri, Manuela Labate, Independent Researcher, Francesca Lezzi, Museo Civico Archeologico “Trebula Mutuesca,” Jeffrey A. Stevens, University of Missouri, Giulio Vallarino, Università degli Studi “Roma Tre,” and Magda Vuono, Independent Researcher

The so-called Villa of Titus in the Sabina, 2024 Excavation Results
Myles McCallum, Saint Mary’s University, and Martin Beckmann, McMaster University

The 2024 Excavation Season at the Roman Villa of Vacone by the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project
Tyler Franconi, Brown University, Candace Rice, Brown University, Gary Farney, Rutgers University Newark, Dylan Bloy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Giulia Bellato, University of Cambridge, Andrew MacLean, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, and J

2K: International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? Obstacles and Challenges to Equity: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium)
Sponsored by the Mountaintop Coalition

Organizer(s): Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College, Chris Gipson, Loyola Marymount University, and Najee Olya, The College of William and Mary

Assessing the Application and Accessibility of 3D Technologies in Classical Archaeology
Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia

The ‘Cyprus Problem’ and the Limits of Academic Research
Young Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago

PhD in Visa Applications
Ximing Lu, University of Kansas

Oh the Places You (Might) Go: Reflections and Limitations on Study Abroad
Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School

2L: Poster Session (to be held from 12:00-2:00 pm)

Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3
Laura Mazow, East Carolina University

The Phaistos Disk Revisited
Bridget Buxton, University of Rhode Island, Francisco Xavier Alves Pereira, University of Rhode Island, Liam Carcieri, University of Rhode Island, Parker Holland, University of Rhode Island, and Dan Carpenter, University of Rhode Island

The House of the Rhyta at Pseira: A Statistical Analysis of Access and Circulation
Kyle Dempsey, Rhodes College, and Miriam G. Clinton, Rhodes College

New Applications for Experimental Archaeology Using 3D Printing
Cheyenne Eversole-Spina, University of Western Ontario

Blending Tradition and Technology: Methodological Insights from the Torre Mordillo Archaeological Project
Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, Edward Chaykowski, Queen’s University, Olivia Foran, Queen’s University, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Independent Scholar, and Simone Giosuè Madeo, Università degli Studi di Genova

Pedagogy and Destruction:  How the Santa Susana Archaeological Project Teaches Field Methods at a Complicated Site.
Emma Ljung, Princeton University, and Betsy Bevis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

COINing a GLASS Act: IRONing out Issues in Intrasite Find Distribution for Medieval Incastellamento, San Giuliano, Lazio, Italy
Anna C Gibbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Diet and Foodways at the Corlears Hook Park Site, New York
Pam J. Crabtree, New York University

The Rise of Ek Tzul: Developing Radiocarbon Chronologies to Assess Relationships with the Site of Baking Pot, Belize
Julie A. Hoggarth, Baylor University, Brett Meyer, University of Michigan, John Walden, Harvard University, and Jaime Awe, Northern Arizona University

Dynamics and Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean
Angelo Vintaloro, Archeoclub of Italy Association

Nile Siltation and its Effects on the Declining Importance of Mendes and Growing Importance of Thmuis in Late Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt
Brandon J. Poppell, The University of Memphis

Smite Him Down: Constructing Images of Power in the Late Bronze Age
Tenninger J. Kellenbarger, Temple University

Exploring the Assimilation between Artemis and Hecate in Attica, from Ancient Evidence to Modern Interpretations
Micaela Canopoli, University of Warwick

Far from my Hand: A Study of Affiliation Presented in Sling Bullets and Amphora Stamps from Pyla-Vigla
Hannah Tester, Metropolitan University of Denver, Paris Cook, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Ella Arnold, Reed College, and Audrey Davis, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Surface Survey and Surface Scanning: Insights Gained from 3D Modeling Terracotta Figurines from the 2022 Palaiopolis Archaeology Survey, Samothrace
Amanda Cates Ball, UNC Chapel Hill, and Rebecca A. Salem, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Preliminary Analysis of Metal Votives from Three Temples of Poseidon using X-ray Fluorescence
Angela Burr, Texas A&M University, and Nikoletta Kanella Kladouri, Institute of Nuclear Particle Physics, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”; Hellenic National Archaeological Museum

Helen’s Heroic Worship at the Menelaion
Connor O’Rourke, Brock University

Energetics, Operational Knowledge, and Output Capacity of Decorated Ceramics in the Athenian Kerameikoi
Eleni Hasaki, University of Arizona

The ‘VOTA PVBLICA’ Tokens: Isiac Cults and Public Vows in Late Antiquity
Cristian Mondello, University of Messina

Coal Cultures: Results from the Eckley Archival Research Project
Camille Westmont, University of Cambridge

Steppe Change: Crowdsourced Flora as Archaeological Tool in the Black Sea
Erin M. Brantmayer, The University of Texas at Austin

The Pile-Swelling Site of San Giorgio and Santa Maria (Revine-Lago and Tarzo, Italy): New Data from the Field Campaigns of 2019-2023
Marta Modolo, University of Ferrara, Lorenzo Fattorel, Freelance Architect, and Giulia Conte, Freelance Archaeologist

The Sensory Experience of Sacred Space: Affordances and Spatial Design in the Punic Temple of Ashtart at Monte Sirai (Sardinia, Italy)
Sara Mura, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Addressing the Terminology: Scholarship on Gender Non-Conformity in Ancient Rome
Max Forhan, The College of Wooster

Roman Masons at Work: Replicating Ancient Fabrication Methods to Characterize Roman Mortar Properties
Caitlyn Pallas, University of Missouri, Huda Alqader, University of Missouri, Marcello Mogetta, University of Missouri, and Sarah Orton, University of Missouri

Builders’ Influence: An Architectural Study of the Bath Complexes of Roman Sardinia
Max T. B. Peers, Brown University

Personal Dress in Rural Environs: Small Finds from the Loukkos Valley (Larache, Morocco)
Katelin McCullough, Hollins University

Broadening Least-Cost Paths: A Postdictive Approach to Understanding the Roads East of Rome
Gabby Martinez, University of Missouri

The North African Heritage Archives Network
Elizabeth Fentress, AIA Rome chapter

Tell What? The Role of Preservation, Conservation, and Exhibitions in Archaeology
Danielle J. Riebe, University of Georgia, Ashley Lingle, University of York, William P. Ridge, University of North Georgia, Attila Gyucha, University of Georgia, Jerrod Seifert, University of Oslo, Paul R. Duffy, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel

Shared Pasts for a Shared Future: The Work of the Cultural Heritage Center at the U.S. Department of State
Virginia R. Herrmann, U.S. Department of State (Contractor)

Terrestrial Lidar Approaches for Documenting Architecture in Maquis Shrubland Areas
Daniel Plekhov, Portland State University, Erina Baci, University of Michigan, and Elic Weitzel, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Mending and Memory at Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece
Natalie Abell, University of Michigan

Reconstructing Ariadne in a Triclinium from Pompeii I.14.1/11-14
Serena Crosson, Stanford University

The Tiburtine Sibyl, the Anio River, and the Round Temple on the Acropolis of Tibur
Elizabeth Palazzolo, Providence College

The Consecratio-Type Altar: Digitally Reconstructing an Altar from the Coinage of the Second and Third Centuries CE
Dylan Plemper, Emory University

Put a Pin in It: Bone Pins at Gabii in Context
Karleigh Belli, University of South Carolina

Provisioning an Administrative Outpost: Herd Management Reconstruction at Iron Age I-IIA Khirbet Summeily
Lily Kuhn, Barnard College, Kara Larson, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, and Alicia Ventresca Miller, University of Michigan

Roman Amphorae from the Palatine East Excavations: Ancient and Modern Supply Chain Management
Victor Martinez, University of Pittsburgh

Farming Rocks in Ancient Phyle
Robert Wagman, University of Florida, and Andrew G. Nichols, University of Florida

SESSION BLOCK 3: FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2:00-5:00 PM

3A: Recent Fieldwork and New Interpretations from Sicily and Southern Italy

Daily Life at Ancient Segesta, Sicily: Results of the 2024 season of the Arizona Sicily Project
Robert Schon, University of Arizona, Emma Blake, University of Arizona, Alena Wigodner, Princeton University, Lauren Tomanelli, University of Arizona, and Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University

The Oenotrian Settlement at Incoronata “Greca” (MT, Italy): New Data from the 2024 Field Season of the Metaponto Archaeological Project
Sveva Savelli, Saint Mary’s University, and Spencer Pope, McMaster University

The Funerary Sculptural Reliefs of Tarantine Naiskoi: Greek and Italic Interactions in Apulian Contexts
Valeria Riedemann Lorca, University of Washington

Rediscovering the Dead:  Architectural Insights from the Archaic Necropolis of Scala Greca, Syracuse
Ryan Hom, University of South Florida, Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, Lisa Shorts, University of South Florida, Madeleine Kraft, University of South Florida, Angela Costello, University of South Florida, and Kevin Gallagher, University of Sou

The Cult of Demeter and Persephone at Enna, Lake Pergusa, and Mt. Etna: A Reevaluation of a Sacred Landscape in Central Sicily
Phoebe Thompson, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrea Samz-Pustol, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Getting Grounded: Chthonic Practice at Gaggera Hill and the Rooting of Greek Populations in Western Sicily
Mara McNiff, University of Texas at Austin

Building Space, Identity, and a Home for Motyans
Jason Herrmann, University of Pennsylvania, and Paola Sconzo, Università degli Studi di Palermo

3B: New Research of the Capitoline Hill in Rome: Topography and History in Diachronic Perspective (Colloquium)
Sponsored by German Archaeological Institute–Rome

Organizer(s): C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania, and Ortwin Dally, German Archaeological Institute–Rome

Discussant: Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan

New excavations on the South Side of the Capitoline Hill from a Diachronic Perspective
Ortwin Dally, German Archaeological Institute-Rome, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali Capitolina, Valentina Copat, Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali Capitolina, Silvia Aglietti, German Archaeological Institute-Rome, and Ersilia D’Ambrosio, Musei Capitolini

The Capitoline Hill and the Forum Boarium in the Bronze Age
Laura Motta, University of Michigan, and Andrea Brock, University of St. Andrews

A New Complex of Roof Tiles from the Capitoline Hill (Seventh-Third Centuries BCE)
Natalie Wagner, German Archaeological Institute, Rome, and Valentina Copat, Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali Capitolina

Archaeometry as a Tool for Historical Reconstruction in Pre-Roman and Republican Central Tyrrhenian Italy
Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University

New Research on the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus: Foundation, Structure and Roof
John Hopkins, NYU- Institute of Fine Arts, and Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame

The Capitoline Hill in the Medieval Period and the Age of Occupation by the Caffarelli-family (16th-18th century)
Silvia Aglietti, German Archaeological Institute-Rome, and Valentina Copat, Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali Capitolina

3C: Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Rethinking Public Scholarship and Pedagogy on the Ancient Mediterranean (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Megan J. Daniels, The University of British Columbia, Sabrina C. Higgins, Simon Fraser University, and Christine L. Johnston, Western Washington University

Discussant: Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Acadia University

Introducing Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Considering Paths Forward for Public Scholarship and Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Acadia University, and Sabrina C. Higgins, Simon Fraser University

The Unwavering Divide: Collection and Display Practices of Ancient and Medieval African Collections
Annissa Malvoisin, Brooklyn Museum

Densities of Provenancing: Narrating the Colonial Provenance of the Bay View Collection at the Kelsey Museum
Ashton Rodgers, University of Michigan

Teaching the Ancient World with Reproductions: 3D Printed Objects and Authentic Active Learning
Christine Johnston, Western Washington University, Alan Wheeler, recent graduate of Western Washington University, Alexis Nunn, recent graduate of Western Washington University, and Erin Escobar, recent graduate of Western Washington University

The Peopling the Past Project: Multivocality and Multimodality in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Teaching
Megan J. Daniels, The University of British Columbia, Christine L. Johnston, Western Washington University, Sabrina C. Higgins, Simon Fraser University, and Victoria Austen, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3D: Mycenaean Iconography & Cult

Homemaking and the Hearth in EH III-LH I Greece
Rebecca Worsham, Smith College

Reconfiguring Sacred Space in the Mycenaean Argolid
Elizabeth Keyser, University of California, Berkeley

Violent and Vulnerable Bodies: Negotiations of Mycenaean Warrior Ideology in Mortuary and Iconographic Contexts
Kathryn Hall, Cornell University

Childless Deer Lady? A New Take on Mycenaean Artemis
Lora Holland Goldthwaite, University of North Carolina at Asheville

A Jug with “Sea People” Ships and a Horned Helmet Emblem from a Final Palatial Context at Mitrou
Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee, and Salvatore Vitale, University of Pisa

The Cultic Significance of Wheelmade Terracotta Figures in Late Helladic III C Eleon, Greece
Alix Galumbeck, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

3E: Current Efforts to Protect Heritage During Crises: A Workshop on Safeguarding, Reconstruction and Preservation in Northwest Syria (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Salam Al Kuntar, Rutgers University and Emily Wiley, Rutgers University

Preliminary Panelists: Ayman al-Nabo, Idleb Antiquities Center, Salam Al Kuntar, Rutgers University, Ammar Kannawi, Syrians for Heritage (SIMAT), and Emily Wiley, Rutgers University

3F: Recent Work in the Cyclades

The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2024: The Islets of the Southern Cyclades
Alex R. Knodell, Carleton College, Demetrios Athanasoulis, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades, Jeffery Banks, University of Cincinnati, Anna Belza, University of Cincinnati, Ellen R. Campbell, University of Cambridge, John F. Cherry, Brown University

Situating the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Complex of Stelida Within its Larger Socio-Religious Landscape via Drone, LiDAR and GIS Analyses
Kristine Mallinson, Westminster College, Tristan Carter, McMaster University, Shannon Crewson, McMaster University, Melissa Eaby, INSTAP-EC, Doug Faulmann, INSTAP-EC, Matthew Harder, University of Missouri, Kristin Harper, Missouri State University, Scott

Revisiting the Northeast Bastion: Architecture, Ceramics, and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini
Evi Gorogianni, University of Akron, and Rodney D. Fitzsimons, Trent University

A New Look at LC II Pottery and Phasing at Ayia Irini, Kea
Anna Belza, University of Cincinnati, and Natalie Abell, University of Michigan

Naxos Quarry Project 2024: Multiscalar Methods and Results
Jessica Paga, William & Mary, Rebecca Levitan, King’s College London, and Evan Levine, University of Copenhagen

News from the Trenches: The Water Supplies and Storage Rooms in the Sanctuary of Despotiko
Yannos Kourayos, Minister of Culture and Sports. Director of the Excavations at Despotiko

An Analysis of the Delian Sanctuaries Across the Aegean in Light of the Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence
Erica Angliker, State University of Campinas-Unicamp

3G: The Lives of Roman Artifacts (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Aaron Brown, Stanford University and Caroline Cheung, Princeton University

Preliminary Panelists: Massimo Betello, John Cabot University, Myles McCallum, St. Mary’s University, Scott Gallimore, Wilfred Laurier University, Gina Tibbott, Independent Scholar, Susanna Faas-Bush, University of California Berkeley, Francesca LaPasta, University of California Berkeley, Catherine Baker, Mt. Holyoke College, Victor Martínez, University of Pittsburgh, Rhodora G. Vennarucci, Denison University, and Laura Banducci, Carleton University

3H: Exploring Legacy Preservation and Scholarly Innovation: The Role of Archives and Archival Data in Current Late Antique, Byzantine, and Post-Medieval Research (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology (MAPMA)

Organizer(s): Justin Mann, Dumbarton Oaks and Jon Frey, Michigan State University

Discussant: Deb Brown Steward, University of Pennsylvania

Mobilizing Archives for the Archaeological Study of Landscapes: Post-Antique Horizons from the Corinthian Isthmus
David Pettegrew, Messiah University

Old Money, Lamps and Pots in Context: Re-digging Herulian and Post-Herulian deposits in the Athenian Agora Excavation Archives
Guy Sanders, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Conflicting Narratives of Byzantine Athens in the Athenian Agora Excavation Archives
Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia

Extending the Reach of Digital Archaeological Collections
Jon Frey, Michigan State University, Morgan Manuszak, Michigan State University,  and Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Michigan State University

Byzantium Beyond the Textbook: Teaching Byzantium and Dumbarton Oaks’ Portal Project
Justin Mann, Dumbarton Oaks

Incorporating Media Archaeology Methods into Archival Research
Stephanie Grimes, King’s College London

3I: Coins and Archaeology (Colloquium)
Sponsored by AIA Numismatics Interest Group

Organizer: Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery

Numismatic Evidence for the Phasing and Use of the Early Imperial Cult Temple at Sardis
Jane DeRose Evans, Temple University

Excavation Coin Finds and the Commercial Revolution in Italy
Taylor Zaneri, International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and David Yoon, The American Numismatic Society

The Coin Finds from Princeton’s Antioch Excavations Re-Examined
Kirstin Ohrt, Princeton University, and Alan Stahl, Princeton University

Coins in Context: APAHA’s 2014-2023 Excavation Campaigns at Hadrian’s Villa
Alice Sharpless, The American Numismatic Society, and Lucia Carbone, The American Numismatic Society

The Cosa Coins Inventory Project: A Legacy of Data
Melissa Ludke, Florida State University

A Pilgrim’s Wager or Temple’s Hoard: An XRF Analysis of Coinage at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea
Jesse Obert, University of Pittsburgh

Imitating Indian Coins: A Rare Copper Series of Agathokles of Bactria and Chronological Evidences of North India
Charlotte Gorant, Columbia University

3J: Opening Access to the Roman Provinces: RPAIG’s Site Guide and Wikidata Project (Workshop)
Sponsored by Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group (RPAIG)

Organizer(s): Kimberly Cassibry, Wellesley College and Anne Hunell Chen, Bard College

Preliminary Panelists: Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, Nathaniel Durant, Independent Scholar, Colin Omilanoswki, University of Arizona, and Erin Peters, Appalachian State University

SESSION BLOCK 4: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 8:00-10:30 AM

4A: Hellenistic Cities & Sanctuaries

Environmental Impact: Countering the Toxic Reputation of Salmakis’ Spring at Halikarnassos in the Late Second Century BCE
Elizabeth McGowan, Williams College

Revisiting the Doric Temple at Seleucia Pieria
Eirini Spyropoulou, Princeton University

Altar-ing Experiences: The Hellenistic Altar of Artemis at Magnesia on the Maeander
Arielle Hardy, University of Pennsylvania

The Spatiality of Spectacular Sacrifice at Hellenistic Sanctuaries
Lex Ladge, University of Chicago

Neighborhoods and Networks: Constructing Sub-Polis Communities in Hellenistic Priene
Zi Xuan Qin, University of Pennsylvania

Competitions and Connections: Hellenistic Panathenaic Amphoras from a Monumental Public Building in the City of Rhodes
Stella Skaltsa, Queen’s University, Canada

4B: Fieldwork & Analysis in Crete

Intra-Community Dynamics in Later Minoan Crete: Obsidian Consumption at Neopalatial Mochlos
Tristan Carter, McMaster University

A New Vision of an Old Town: Recent Excavations at Minoan Gournia on Crete
Livingston Watrous, University at Buffalo

The Neopalatial and Postpalatial Pottery Sequence of Gournia: New Evidence for Long Term Continuities and Change
R. Angus K. Smith, Brock University

It Never gets Old, the Longevity of the Pacheia Ammos Cemetery
Laura Ursprung Nerling, Columbia College, MO

Religion and Ritual at Pseira
Bernice R. Jones, Independent Scholar

Lyktos Archeological Project (Crete): The Results of ISAW/NYU’s Fieldwork in 2023
Antonis Kotsonas, ISAW/NYU, Cicek Beeby, Brown University, Dominic Pollard, ISAW/NYU, Filippos Roussos, University of Oxford, Christina Stefanou, ISAW/NYU, and Valia Tsikritea, University of Cincinnati

4C: (Mis)Gendered and Object-ified: Challenging Gender Narratives in Classical Archaeology (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Jami R. Baxley Craig, Florida State University, and Jenny Weigel, Florida State University

The Transtemporal Home: Victorian Domesticity, Household Labor, and the Making of the ‘Ancient Athenian Woman’
Katherine Harrington, AAAS

Reassessing Female Labor in Ceramic Manufacturing in Classical Antiquity
Francesca Tomei, IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca

Breaking the Binary: Mirrors and Spears in Etruscan Tombs
Jenny Weigel, Florida State University

‘Warriors’ and ‘Weavers’. Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Roman Provincial Scholarship
Tatiana Ivleva, Newcastle University

Unfair Ground: Assessing Publishing Trend in Ground Stone Tools Studies of the Prehistoric Aegean
Jami Craig, Florida State University

4D: Coroplasts at the Intersection of Craft Boundaries (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Coroplastic Studies Interest Group

Organizer(s): Rebecca Miller Ammerman, Colgate University

Plastic Vases Revisited. A Story of Potters and Coroplasts
Maria Chidiroglou, National Archaeological Museum,  Athens

Ornament and Offering: Metal Jewelry and Archaic Corinthian Terracotta Figurines
Susan Langdon, University of Missouri-Columbia

All that Glitters . . . Clay Imitations of Gold Jewelry from Pre-Roman Southern Italy
Alexandra Sofroniew, University of California, Davis

The Path of Footwear: from Everyday Life Object to Terracotta and Painted Pottery
Hamutal Suliman-Wolf, University of Haifa

Architectural Allusions and Terracottas in a Sicilian Middle Ground
Andrew Farinholt Ward, Fairfield University

Terracotta Temple Models from the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi: between Coroplastic Art and Architectural Production
Francesca Diosono, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Isabella Giannino, Independent Researcher, and Alberto La Notte, Politecnico di Bari

Campana Reliefs – Inspired and Inspiration
Rolf Sporleder, Freie Universität Berlin

4E: Landscape Change and Human Adaptation

Early Coastal Villages in a Landscape of Environmental Change: The Construction and Reoccupation of Creighton Island Shell Ring, Georgia, USA
Rachel Cajigas, University of Alabama

Lagoonal Archaeology in the Northernmost Periphery of Venice: The Roman and Late-Roman Liminal Settlement of Millepertiche, Musile di Piave  (VENETIA Project – 2023-2024 Field Surveys)
Benedetta Baleani, University at Buffalo – SUNY, Federico Ugolini, University of Siena, Giuseppe Prospero Cirigliano, IMT Lucca, and Alessia Mandorlo, University of Salento

Isotopic Data and Climate Reconstruction: A Critical Assessment of Salapia-Salpi in Coastal Apulia (Italy), 5th-15th c. CE
Darian Marie Totten, McGill University, Girolamo Fiorentino, Università del Salento, and Roberto Goffredo, Università di Foggia

Non-Elite Earthquake Responses in Early Medieval (Sixth to Ninth centuries CE) Lechaion Basilica, Corinthia
James Konstantin Razumoff, University of Virginia

Celestial Cycles and Ailing Environments:  Ecological Crisis in the Borgia Group of Codices
Sreekishen Nair, University of Minnesota, College of Design

4F: Conceptualizing ‘Monsters’ I: Approaching Interspecies Hybrids and their Intercultural Networks (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Ancient Figure-Decorated Pottery Interest Group

Organizer(s): Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas and Liz Neill, Boston University, and Guy Hedreen, Williams College

Interspecies Beings, Natural History, and Vase-painting: A Cognitive Approach
Guy Hedreen, Williams College

Reconsidering the Sphinx in Boeotian Black-Figured Vases through a Transcultural Framework
Annika Berendt, University of Victoria

The Multiplicity of the Snake-Headed Beast: Evolutions of Kerberos, the Hydra, and the Chimaera in Archaic Painted Pottery
Liz Neill, Boston University

Hybrid Lionesses: An Exploration of the Complexities of Gender and Procreation in Feline Monsters of the Ancient Mediterranean
Erin Lawrence-Roseman, University of California, Berkeley

The Many Hybrids of the Cock between Greece and Etruria
Cristiana Zaccagnino, Queen’s University

Triangulating Hybridity : Etruscan Interpretations of the “Arimaspian” Grypomachy Motif
Anatoly Grablevsky, Metropolitan Museum of Art

4G: History & Critique of Archaeology

What Do They Think of Us?
Jaclyn Neel, Carleton University

Much Ado at the Agora: Deliberations over the Reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos in the 1950s
Miltiadis Kylindreas, Emory University

The Effect of Genre on Archaeological Publication: Secondary-Source Archaeology in Andalucía
Andrew Welser, Duke University

“The Whole of Athienou was Here:” Oral Histories of Undocumented Digging in Inter- and Postwar Cyprus
Michael K. Toumazou, Davidson College, Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton University, and Derek B. Counts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

John Sitlington Sterrett’s Epigraphic Journeys Through Anatolia: Cartography through an Archaeological Lens
Elvan Cobb, Hong Kong Baptist University

Eroticism and the Imagined Past in the Eighteenth Century
Katherine A. P. Iselin, Emporia State University

4H: Current Fieldwork in Ancient West Asia I

Excavating in the Gulleys: Negotiating Erosion to Peer into the Bronze Age at Turkmen-Karahöyük, Turkey
Nathan Lovejoy, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Alvise Matessi, Bilkent Üniversitesi, and Michele Massa, Bilkent Üniversitesi

Report on Six Seasons of Work at Lagash, Dhi Qar Province, Iraq
Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania

Fieldwork at Phoenix (Rhodian Peraea), 2024
Asil Yaman, The University of Pennsylvania

The First Iron Age Palace in Cyprus and the Rise of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms. A Ninth Century Building on the Acropolis of Amathous
Thierry Petit, Université Laval (Quebec City)

The 2024 Season of the American Expedition to Idalion,  Cyprus
Pamela Gaber, Lycoming College, and Andrew Wright, University of Chicago

Investigating Early Hellenistic Cyprus: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla, 2023-24
Thomas Landvatter, Reed College, Brandon R. Olson, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Melanie Godsey, Trinity University

4I: Archaeology of the Roman Military

Update on The Battle of the Egadi Islands Project
William M. Murray, University of South Florida

Image and Reality: The Hasmoneans and their Fortresses
Roi Sabar, Boston University

A Spartacus Battlefield in South-Central Calabria.  Preliminary Results of the 2024 American Investigations in 2024
Paolo Visona, University of Kentucky

Military Popular Culture and Game Boards in Roman Britain
Madeline P. Newquist, Case Western Reserve University

Determining Military Involvement in Construction of Early Medieval Kastra on Kalymnos
Drosos Kardulias, University of Michigan, Brad Johnson, Davidson College, Shriya Nama, University of Michigan, Hope Siwek, University of Michigan, and Stathis Klimis, Independent Scholar

4J: Pompeian Studies

A New Cameo from a Domestic Garden at Pompeii
Emily Lime, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Excavating the Ancient Archive:  An Exploration of Materials Related to the Production and Storage of Written Documents from Regio I, Insula 11 of Pompeii
Francesca LaPasta,  University of California, Berkeley, and Susanna Faas-Bush, University of California, Berkeley

The Landscape of Hours at Pompeii
Alex Marko, Columbia University

(Non) in intima parte domus: Resident and Non-Resident Engagement with Domestic Baths in the Pompeian Housescape
Cristina M. Hernández, University of Leicester (UK)

Gladiators and Swooshes: Introducing an Analytical Method for Nonsymbolic Lines in Graffiti
Elizabeth Hoak-Doering, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Public Lives, Private Grief, and Community Support:  The Decimi Lucretii Valentes at Pompeii
Rebecca R. Benefiel, Washington & Lee University

SESSION BLOCK 5: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

5A: More–than–human: Agencies, Divination, and the Etruscans (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Etruscan Interest Group

Organizer(s): Tina Bekkali-Poio, University at Buffalo (SUNY) Michael McCabe III, Leiden University, and Elisabeth Woldeyohannes, Independent Scholar

The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar: An Infusion of Mesopotamian Omens
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, University of Pennsylvania

Unveiling Ontological and Cognitive Dimensions in Etruscan Divination through Material Engagement Theory
Michael McCabe III, Leiden University

Divinatory Art and Healing Benefits Behind the Votive Offerings at Bagno Grande  (San Casciano dei Bagni, Central Italy)
Mattia Bischeri, Università per Stranieri di Siena

I’ll Be Your Mirror: More-than-human Reflections and Divination Beyond the Grave
Tina Bekkali-Poio, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

5B: American Museums and Cultural Property: Current Efforts to Enhance Transparency, Ethics, and Collaboration (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Kayla Kane, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Penn Cultural Heritage Center and Brian I. Daniels, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Preliminary Panelists: Corinne Muller, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Soleil Hawley, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Mireille Lee,  Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH), Anne Dunn-Vaturi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kara Vetter, Museum of Us, Jesi Bennett, Museum of Us, Anne Amati, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Elizabeth Campbell, University of Denver, Center for Art Collection Ethics, and Laura Hortz Stanton, University of Pennsylvania Museum

5C: Fieldwork in Northern Greece

American Excavations Samothrace 2023–2024
Bonna D. Wescoat, American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Emory University, Andrew Farinholt Ward, Fairfield University, Samuel Holzman, Princeton University, and Dimitris Matsas,  Ephor Emeritus, 19th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Anti

The Abdera Urban Plan Project (AUPP) Hellenistic to Roman
Maria Papaioannou, University of New Brunswick, Maria Chrysafi, Ephorate of Antiquities of Xanthi, and Nikos Papadopoulos, Institute for Mediterranean Studies-Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas

Moldmade Bowls From the Molyvoti Peninsula
William Austin, Princeton University

A New Temple in Aegean Thrace
Nathan Arrington, Princeton University, Domna Terzopoulou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros, and Marina Tasaklaki, Ephorate of Antiquities of Rhodope

Investigating Ancient Urban Dynamics at Pella, Northern Greece
Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Elisavet Tsigarida, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella, David Stone, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Stratos Nanoglou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella

5D: Where Are They Now? Winners of the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology (Workshop)
Sponsored by AIA’s Digital Technology Committee

Organizer: Leigh Lieberman, Princeton University

Preliminary Panelists: Chuck Jones, The Pennsylvania State University, Elizabeth Fentress, AIA Rome Chapter, Eric Poehler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Justin Walsh, Chapman University, Shawn Graham, Carleton University, Eric Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute, and Sarah Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute

5E: Distribution and Recreation

Destruction by Fire in Spanish Late Antiquity
Henry Gruber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

‘Picking Up the Pieces’ at Roman Sardis
Elizabeth DeRidder Raubolt, Grand Valley State University

The Conversion of Temples to Churches in Late Antique Asia Minor in Comparative Perspective
Elizabeth R. Davis, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

5F: Educating with Antiquities

Solving the Doryphoros Kanon: A New Interdisciplinary Analysis of Polykleitos’s Figure Art Proportions and Its Impact on Art Education
Joshua Jacobo, New Masters Academy

Rethinking the Display of Ancient Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum
Emily R. French, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, and Marlise Brown, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

Cast Away: The Fate of the Plaster Collection at the American Academy in Rome
Valentina Follo , American Academy in Rome, and Raffaella Bucolo, Verona University

Forty Greek pots + 14 First-year College Students + 100 Days = 1 Museum Exhibition
Juliet Graver Istrabadi,  Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, and Julie Van Voorhis, Indiana University

5G: Go Fund Yourself: The Ins and Outs of Funding in the ‘Archaeological World’ (Workshop)
Sponsored by AIA Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG)

Organizer(s): Tina Bekkali-Poio, University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Sophie Cushman, University of California, Berkeley, Allie Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Wendy Vencel, North Carolina State University

Preliminary Panelists: Amanda Ball, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,Lynne Kvapil, Butler University, Kim Shelton, University of California, Berkeley, and John Yellen, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) Archaeology and Archaeometry, National Science Foundation

5H: Sharing Archaeological Stories: A Workshop with ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE (AIA Presidential Plenary Session)

Organizer(s): Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University

Preliminary Panelists: Jarrett A. Lobell, Editor in Chief, ARCHAEOLOGY, Eric A. Powell, Deputy Editor, ARCHAEOLOGY, Daniel Weiss, Executive Editor, ARCHAEOLOGY, Ilana Herzig, Senior Editor, ARCHAEOLOGY, Benjamin Leonard, Senior Editor, ARCHAEOLOGY, and Jason Urbanus, Contributing Editor, ARCHAEOLOGY

5I: Classical Coinages

Numismatic Networks – or Not? Reconsidering the Classical and Early Hellenistic Eagle-and-Dolphin Coinages of Sinope, Histria, and Olbia
Kari M. Fossum, Bryn Mawr College

The Buffer Coinage: the ATRA Cistophoric Series and its Connection with Roman Monetary Policy in the Province of Asia during the mid-First Century BCE
Antonello Mastronardi, University of Michigan

Roman Provincial Reactions to the Establishment of the New Augustan Dynasty through Coinage
Francesca Lam-March, King’s College London

5J: Roman Art & Iconography

Will the Real Antinous Balsamaria Please Stand Up? Using Iconography to Elucidate the Use of Roman Bronze Figural Balsamaria
Arielle Suskin, Case Western Reserve University

Roman Amazons:  Imagining Rome’s Imperial Conquest through Greek Myth
Rachel Kousser, City University of New York

Who’s Afraid of the Column of Marcus Aurelius? Depictions of Severed Heads in Roman Monumental Reliefs
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, IU-Indianapolis

The So-called ‘Peisōn Sculpture Gallery’ in Perge, Pamphylia: New Evidence on its Chronology and Dedicator
Esen Ogus, Utah Valley University

Two Forgeries and More: New Insights into the Rome Antiquities Market, late 1920s to 1930s
Robert Cohon, Kansas City Art Institute

SESSION BLOCK 6: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2:00-5:00 PM

6A: Space and Place in Attica (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Luke Madson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Shannon Dunn, Bryn Mawr College

Discussant: Danielle Kellogg, University of Cincinnati

The Archaeology of Pre-Classical Attica: Marathon and Laurion
Mariana Silva Porto, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Dekeleia and Laconizing Landscapes in Attica
Luke Madson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Intraregional Plant Trade in Classical and Hellenistic Attica
Jane Tully, The University of Tennessee

The Distribution and Archaeological Remains of Farmhouses in Roman Attica
Elise Poppen, University of South Florida

A Colossus for Porto Rafti in Late Roman Attica: The Making and Meaning of a Mascot
Sarah Murray, University of Toronto

6B: Unprovenanced Antiquities and Academic Institutions: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Mireille M. Lee, Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage and Lyssa Stapleton, Waystation Initiative, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

Preliminary Panelists: Jennifer Udell, Fordham University, Annie Shanley, Emory University, Leila Amineddoleh, Leila Amineddoleh & Associates, LLC, Elizabeth Greene, Brock University, Elizabeth Marlowe, Colgate University, and Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center

6C: Early Prehistoric Mediterranean & Environs

New Evidence from Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria, for the Development of Agriculture in Western Asia
Andrew MT Moore, Rochester Institute of Technology, Alexia Smith, University of Connecticut, Loïc Harrault, University of Durham, Peter Rowley-Conwy, University of Durham, and Karen Milek, University of Durham

Exploration and Preservation of Partially Submerged Pleistocene Deposits. Implications for the Early Human Occupation of Sicily
Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, University of Haifa, Ehud Galili, University of Haifa, and Ilaria Patania, Washington University in St. Louis

Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts Found at Gorgo Caezza on Ustica (Sicily)
Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida, and Franco Foresta Martin, Laboratorio Museo di Scienze della Terra Isola di Ustica, Italy

Unearthing Prehistoric Diets: Evidence of Early Horse Meat Consumption in Early Bronze Age Sicily
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida, Enrico Greco, Luis Busetti, University of Trieste, Italy, Pierluigi Barbieri, University of Trieste, Italy, and Roberto Micciché, University of Palermo, Italy

Village Organization and Demographic Trends during the Neolithic of Central Serbia (Sixth – Fifth Millennia BCE)
Bryan K. Hanks, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, and Miroslav Kocic, University of Kragujevac, Center for Archaeology “Dragoslav Srejovic”

Zoo-archaeometric Analyses Reveal the Communalization of Herd Management in Late Prehistoric Croatia
Emily Zavodny, University of Central Florida

Textile Production in Chalcolithic Iberia: A View from Perdigões (Portugal)
Victoria Priola, University of Iowa

The Pran’e Siddi Landscape Project: Survey Results from the 2022-2024 Field Seasons
Julia Gustafson, University of Cambridge, Riley Glickman, University of Pennsylvania, and Emily Holt, University of Cardiff

6D: Early Greece, 1400-700 BC. Recent data from archaeological field projects in Greece. From Literary Prehistory to Early Greek History (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Organizer(s): Irene Lemos, University of Oxford, Andreas Vlachopoulos University of Ioannina, and Anastasia Gadolou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Inhabiting a Changing Landscape: Central Macedonia in the Late Second and the Early First Millennium BCE
Stratos Nanoglou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella and Yiannis Papadias, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aeolian Sanctuary at Klopedi on Lesbos from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Eighth Century BCE and the Historical Background of the Island during this Period
Kokkona Roungou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos

Bridging the Gap: Rhodes in the 11th and 10th centuries BCE. The Cemeteries at Aghia Agathe and Lindos
Photeini Zervaki, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese

From Parnassus to Giona: The Appearance and the Growth of Three Ethne
Nikolaos Petrocheilos, Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens, Elena Kountouri, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens, and Athanasia Psalti, Ephorate of Antiquities of Phokis

Eastern Crete after the Theran Volcanic Eruption and before the Creation of the City-States. Recent Excavations, Surface Surveys, and the Mycenaean Tombs at Kentri and Palaikastro
Chrysa Sofianou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi, and Thomas Brogan, INSTAP

New Data on Mycenaean Palatial Greece: The Palace at Ayios Vasileios near Sparta.
Adamantia Vasilogambrou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Laconia

The Sanctuary of Apollo and Asclepius at Epidaurus. Recent Excavations Shed New Light on the Early History of the Site
Vasilis Lambrinoudakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Alexandra Sfiroera, Archaeological Museum of the University of Athens, and Evangelos Kazolias, Ehporate of Antiquities of Argolida

6E: Recent Research in Etruria

Techno-Archaeology of Landscapes: the Cortona-Valdichiana Project
Maurizio Forte, Duke University, Nevio Danelon, Sapienza University, and Antonio LoPiano, Boston College

Through the Looking Glass: A New Sensory Approach to the Etruscan Bronze Mirror Inside the Chambered Tomb Environment
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva, Seattle Central College

Cerveteri and the Chthonic Diachronic
Lauren Tomanelli, University of Arizona

Cetamura del Chianti: New Results in the Field and Museum
Nancy T. De Grummond, Florida State University

The Long History of an Etruscan Sanctuary: The Southwestern Building at Caere and its Phases
Julianna Taylor, Queen’s University, Alexandra Freitas, Queen’s University, and Anton Strachan, AIA Member at Large

The Changing Urban Landscape at Caere
Haley Miller, Queen’s University, and Sarah Karelsen, Queen’s University

The New Etruscan Temple at Caere: The Building and its Terracottas
Fabio Colivicchi, Queen’s University

6F: Conceptualizing ‘Monsters’ II: Hybridity, Media, and Identity (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Ancient Figure-Decorated Pottery Interest Group

Organizer(s): Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas and Liz Neill, Boston University, and Guy Hedreen, Williams College

Masks and Mischwesen in the Ancient Near East
Diana Stein, Birkbeck (University of London)

Masks and Mischwesen in Egypt and the Aegean
Karen Foster, Yale University

Minoan Genius: De-mystifying the Function of the Mysterious Hybrid in the Bronze Age Aegean and Beyond.
Michele Mitrovich, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

The Ontological Status of the Minotaur in Greek Art
Seth Pevnick, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Hybridity of Species and Forms in a Fifth Century BCE Ceramic Work
Milette Gaifman, Yale University

The Hybrid Guardian Talos in Red-figured Pottery of the Second Half of the Fifth Century B.C.E.
Elvia Giudice, Università di Catania

6G: Architectural Structures for Music, Sonic Events, and Dance  in the Ancient World (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Sponsored by the AIA Archaeomusicology Interest Group

Organizer: Angela Bellia, Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy

Discussant: Clemente Marconi,  Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and University of Milan

Which Music and Dance Activities Took Place in Egypt`s Earliest Temples?
Heidi Köpp-Junk, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures

Spaces and Sonic Settings inside the Mesopotamian Temples
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz, UBUabierta / CDL Murcia

A Dancing Floor at Tsimintiri -Despotiko?
Erica Angliker, State University of Campinas-Unicamp, and Yannos Kourayos, Minister of Culture and Sports, Director of the Excavations at Despotiko

The Choral Interpretation of the Architectural Articulation of Public Space in Archaic Greece: The Case of the Triglyph-Metope Pattern
Jesús Carruesco, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Spain)

Space and Artifacts as Choreographic Indicators at Timpone della Motta (Francavilla Marittima, Calabria)
Marianne Kleibrink, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

Architecture and Performance in Asia Minor. How the Chorus Configured Public Space in Ancient Greece
Marta Nicolás-Muelas, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (Spain)

6H: Roman Construction & Bulding Practices

A Complex Story and an Ingenious Man: The Aqueduct of Saldae
Gabriele Viola, University of Pisa

Gendering the Archaeology of Construction: Women at Roman Building Sites
Diane Favro, UCLA

Mark My Words: Anepigraphic Brick Stamps from Cosa
Allison Smith, Davidson College, and Christina Cha, Florida State University

Transporting Tufo: Spatial and Energetic Analyses for Largo Argentina Building Materials
Kurtis A. Butler, University of Missouri

Stone Extraction and Technology Transfer in the Early Roman Empire
Daniel P. Diffendale, Scuola Superiore Meridionale

Structural Resilience of the Villa dei Quintili: Building Techniques and Environmental Interactions in Roman Times
Marta De Pari, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro;  Sapienza Università di Roma

6I: The Matter of History: Artifacts and the Stories they Tell Gold medal panel in Honor of Andrea Berlin (Gold Medal Colloquium)
Sponsored by AIA Gold Medal Panel

Organizer(s): Kathleen Lynch, University of Cincinnati and Sharon Herbert, University of Michigan

Discussant: Paul Kosmin, Harvard University

The Power of the Pot(tery Database)
Brigitte Keslinske, University of Pennsylvania

Pots, People, and Emerging Markets. A Case for Micro-regional Ceramic Production as a Response to Late Roman Imperial Administration
Nicholas Hudson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

“Can you come look at the amphoras?” Revisiting the Amphora Record of Sardis
Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba

Form, Aesthetic, Use, and Meaning: Ptolemaic Black Ware from al-Ghozza, Egypt
Jennifer Gates-Foster, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Trash and Treasure from Classical and Hellenistic Troy
C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania

Wishing upon an Athenian Merrythought Cup from Gordion
Kathleen Lynch, University of Cincinnati

6J: Transport & Production in the Roman World

Reconstructing the Roman Transport Network: New Methods and Approaches from the R3UrbN Project
Andrew McLean, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)

Transport Amphorae, Economic Integration, and the Meaning of Connectivity in Late Roman Thrace
Claire Sparrow, University of Chicago

Flattery through Imitation: A Longstanding Tradition of Amphora Production in Roman Spain
Karl Racine, Durham University

Gaulish-ish Wine in Mediterranean Markets
Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

Producing Olive Oil in Roman Istria: Results from the Economic Landscapes of Roman Istria Project’s (ELRI) Pilot Season at Barbariga (Croatia)
Candace M. Rice, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Davor Bulić, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, and Andrew McLean, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)

An Exhumation of Roman Clay Coffins and their Connection to Mortuary Maritime Trade
Aviva Pollack, University of Haifa

A New Context for Three Garland Sarcophagi from Antioch on the Orontes: A Tomb in the “Barracks” and the Local Sarcophagus Economy
Sarah Madole Lewis, City University of New York – Borough of Manhattan Community College

The Burial Grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia: The Production and Economy of Roman Sarcophagi
Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa

SESSION BLOCK 7: SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 8:00-11:00 AM

7A: Work and Worship in the Ancient Mediterranean (Colloquium)
Sponsored by Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religion

Organizer(s): Matthew McCarty, University of British Columbia and Katie Rask, The Ohio State University

Discussant: Kim Bowes, University of Pennsylvania

Digging Deeper: A New Pyre at the Athenian Agora
Susan Rotroff, Washington University, St. Louis

Economy and Religion in the House of the Sarno Lararium at Pompeii
David Stone, University of Michigan

Wielding the Axe, Tending the Priestly Garb: Religious Labor in the Emperor’s Household
Molly Swetnam-Burland, College of William & Mary

Cooking and Cult: Gastronomic Labor in Roman Mithras-Worship
Alex Hagler, University of British Columbia, and Matthew McCarty, University of British Columbia

7B: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Archaeological Science in the Aegean and the Mediterranean World (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Steven A. Vitale, United States Military Academy at West Point and Katerina Psimogiannou, University of Illinois Chicago

Preliminary Panelists:  Michael Richards, Simon Freiser University, Jacqueline Meier, University of Northern Florida, Katerina Psimogiannou, University of Illinois at Chicago, Robert Tykot, University of South Florida, William Gilstrap, MIT, Mary Kate Donais, Saint Anslem College, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Ephorate of Speleology, Hellenic Ministry Culture, Anthi Tiliakou, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Theodoros Giannopoulos, Open University of Cyprus

7C: Greek Iconography

Deixis and Animal Metaphors on a Cup by Neandros
Kathryn Topper, University of Washington

Blood and Sweat: Heracles as Embodiment of Human Toil in the Karystia
Brandon Baker, Elon University

Phrasikleia Backwards: Archaism in Sixth-Century Attic Funerary Sculpture
Peter A. Thompson, New York University—IFA

Snakes and Cakes on the Athenian Acropolis
Rebecca H. Sinos, Amherst College

Emblēma: Stone Mending as Ornament on a Greek Temple at Istros
Samuel Holzman, Princeton University

7D: Society & Economy in Late Bronze Age Greece

On the Origin of the Chamber Tomb
Sophie Cushman, University of California, Berkeley

Reassessing Late Helladic Zygouries though Legacy Data
Sarah L. Hilker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mr. Smith Goes to Pylos: Investigating the organization of metal production in Late Bronze Age Messenia
Taylor Stark, University of Toronto

What was Slavery at Pylos? A Marxist Reading of the Material Evidence
Ian A. Tewksbury, Santa Clara University

The “Slab Ingots” from the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck
Nicolle Hirschfeld, Trinity University, Nicholas G. Blackwell, Indiana University, Moritz Jansen, Ruhr University, German Mining Museum, Bochum, Emre Kuruçayırlı, Boğaziçi University, amd Joseph W. Lehner, The University of Sydney

7E: Critical Disciplinary Histories (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Catharine Judson, Duke University and Anne Duray, AAAS

The Archaeological Photograph as Critical Historiography
Taylor Carr-Howard, UCLA

The Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Transition in Greece: Archaeological Practice, Empiricism, and Hellenism
Anne Duray, AAAS

Tyranny of the Text(books): Undergraduate Pedagogy as Disciplinary History
Catharine Judson, Duke University

Inscribing Colonialism on the Archaeological Object: Greek Heads and Egyptian Bodies at Naukratis
Camille Acosta, University of California, Irvine

Unearthing Identities and Challenging Hierarchies: Queering the History of Archaeology
Hélène Maloigne, University of Greenwich

‘The Light Which Guides All Workers in Science’: A Prosopography of the Margins of Archaeology
Thea De Armond, New Mexico State University

7F: Ancient Makerspaces (Joint AIA/SCS Workshop)
Sponsored by AIA Digital Archaeology Interest Group, The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication Art Libraries Society of North America

Organizer(s): Alex Elvis Badillo, Indiana State University, Stephan Hassam, University of South Florida,Eleanor Martin, Yale University, and Hugh McElroy, Episcopal High School

Preliminary Panelists: Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong, Juuso H. Nieminen, University of Hong Kong, Weiting Qi, Independent Scholar, Robert Stephan, University of Arizona, Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona, Christopher Saladin, Carleton College, Garth Henning, Running Reality, Valentina Mignosa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Stefania De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Nicole Berlin, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Johanna Okerlund, Wellesley College, Mervenur Sevil Kandemir, Koc University, Michael McGlin, Brandeis University,Neel Smith and Ashley Terjanian, College of the Holy Cross, Giuliano Sidro, UC Berkeley, Sarah Tew, University of Florida Libraries,Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley, Maddie Qualls, UC Berkeley, Millie You, UC Berkeley, Hannah Lents, University of Texas at Austin, and Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin

7G: The Villa Ludovisi in Rome: Display and Dispersal of its Collection of Antiquities (1621-2024) (Colloquium)

Organizer: T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University

Ancient inscriptions in the Villa Ludovisi
Emilie Puja, Rutgers University

An Unnoticed Portrait of Hadrian’s First Heir, L. Aelius Caesar, in the Ludovisi Collection of Sculptures
Carole Raddato, AIA Rome Society

Sculptures in the Villa Ludovisi Gardens: The Case of ‘Pan’
Hatice Koroglu Cam, Temple University

The Boncompagni Ludovisi Collection of Gems
Jacqueline Giz, University of Michigan

The Villa Ludovisi and its ancient sculpture gallery
T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University

7H: The Archaeology of Communities of Practice (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Claire Challancin, Cornell University and Randall Souza, Seattle University

Discussant: Natalie Abell, University of Michigan

An Introduction to Archaeology with the Communities of Practice Framework
Randall Souza, Seattle University

Making Fibulae, Making Community: New Approaches for Identifying Craft Production at Early Iron Age Monte Finocchito
Alex Moskowitz, University of Michigan

Transmission of Practices and Community Belonging: The Evidence of the Porta Nocera Necropolis at Pompeii
William Van Andringa, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

To Be Colchian: Community and Burial on the Eastern Black Sea
Ruth Portes, Cornell University

Shaping Worlds through Practice: Etruscan Xrafting Communities and their Lived Landscapes
Anna Soifer, Brown University

7I: The Feel of Luxury: The Sense-scape of Roman Convivia (Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Daira Nocera, IES Abroad Rome, and Alice Hu, Reed College

Cultivating Status: People, Plants, and the Multisensory Experience of Outdoor Dining at Pompeii
Annalisa Marzano, Università di Bologna, Caitie Barrett, Cornell University, Kathryn Gleason, Cornell University, Lee Graña Nicolaou, Università di Bologna, and Kaja Tally-Schumacher, Harvard University

A Dining Darkly: Investigating the Ancient Banqueting Space using Combined Digital Methods
Danilo Campanaro, Lund University

Riddles and Rules in Food Performance
Friederike Brunzema, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

The Spice of Life: Aromatics and the Sensoaesthetics of the Roman Convivium
Jeremy Simmons, University of Maryland

The Gap of Luxury: Clientela and Sensory Suffering at the Convivia
River Deng, King’s College London

7J: Urbanism in Italy

Pedestrian Traffic and the Retail Desert of the Amphitheater Plaza at Pompeii
Massimo Betello, John Cabot University

Patterns of Spatial Use at Street Intersections in Roman Urban Environments
Matthew D. Selheimer, University of Leicester

Patterns of Urban Distribution in Imperial Ostia
Katy Knortz, Princeton University

Excavating Roman Urbanism in Italy: Results of the 2022-2024 Seasons of the Gabii Project
Marcello Mogetta, University of Missouri, Laura Banducci, Carleton University, Anna Gallone, John Cabot University, Tyler Johnson, University of Michigan, Andrew Johnston, Yale University, Laura Motta, University of Michigan, and Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan

Revealing small Roman towns in Central Adriatic Italy: integrating non-invasive and invasive archaeology
Frank Vermeulen, Ghent University (Belgium)

The Falerii Novi Project (Civita Castellana, Italy): Results from the 2023-2024 Excavations in the Urban Center
Margaret Andrews, Harvard University, Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Emlyn Dodd, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and Stephen Kay, British School at Rome

7K: Mabel Lang and Her Legacy: New Research in Greek History, Culture, and Archaeology (Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University

Excavating in the Shade of the Temple of Athena at Paestum
Rebecca Miller Ammerman, Colgate University

Herodotus’ Scythian Swarms
Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley

Mabel Lang, Genealogical Succession Myth, and the Athenian Acropolis
Joan Breton Connelly, New York University

The Athenian Citizen, His Heroes and the Parthenon
Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University

From the Tyrant-Slayers to Alcibiades: Assassination and the Revolution of the Four Hundred in Athens
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Following Mabel Lang’s Example: The Importance of Combining Material and Textual Evidence
Lucia Nixon, Wolfson College, Oxford University

SESSION BLOCK 8: SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

8A: Representing the Body in Sculpture, Figures, & Vessels

Articulating the Goddess: Composite Figurines from Archaic Sicily
Megan Gatton, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Sameness Across Contexts: the Seated Goddesses of Southern Italy
Melissa Gryan, University of Michigan

Molding Men: A Reconsideration of East Greek Face Kantharoi
Monica K. Bulger, Columbia University

Handle and (Mis)handling the Body
Wenxuan Huang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

8B: Beyond the Bronze Age: Resilience, Transformation, or Darkness. A Panel Discussion on After 1177 BC (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Alexandra Ratzlaff, Brandeis University

Preliminary Panelists: Jason Ur, Harvard University, Rocco Palermo, Bryn Mawr College, Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, University of Chicago, Louise A. Hitchcock, Independent Scholar, Ian W. N. Jones, New York University, Stephen P. Harvey, Independent Scholar, and Eric H. Cline, George Washington University

8C: Water in the Roman World

A New In Situ Inscribed Lead Fistula from Gabii
Sam Ross, University of Michigan, James Nesbitt-Prosser, University of Michigan, and Cole Juckette, University of Glasgow

A Fountain and More : Examining Multipurpose and Access in Roman Water Structures Built in the Western Roman Empire (46 B.C.E – 337 C.E).
Katherine A Halcrow, University of Oxford, Lincoln College

Urban Resilience: Redevelopment of Water Infrastructure in Late Antique Decapolis
Clare Rasmussen, Bryn Mawr College

The Coriglia Excavation Project: Results of the 2024 Season
William Ramundt, University at Buffalo

8D: Long-Term Human-Environmental Interactions

Weeds as Proxies for Long-Term Arable Change in Roman Yorkshire, UK
Neal H. Payne, University of Cambridge

Human-Environmental Interactions: the Flora and Fauna of the Ancient Rural Sites of Koudiat Hmamou and Hajar Laâraj (Larache, Morocco)
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, and Caroline Pope, Bryn Mawr

Sustaining the Empire: Ancient Agricultural Practices and Roman Military Supply in Southern Jordan and Israel
Jennifer Ramsay, SUNY Brockport

Botanical Results from a Classical, Late Roman, and Early Byzantine Site in Northern Greece
Chantel E. White, University of Pennsylvania, Laura Heale, University of Auckland, Pierre-Antoine Vivier, Paris Nanterre University, and Nathan Arrington, Princeton University

8E: Ancient Makerspaces (Joint AIA/SCS Workshop)
Sponsored by AIA Digital Archaeology Interest Group, The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication Art Libraries Society of North America

Organizer(s): Alex Elvis Badillo, Indiana State University, Stephan Hassam, University of South Florida,Eleanor Martin, Yale University, and Hugh McElroy, Episcopal High School

Preliminary Panelists: Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong, Juuso H. Nieminen, University of Hong Kong, Weiting Qi, Independent Scholar, Robert Stephan, University of Arizona, Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona, Christopher Saladin, Carleton College, Garth Henning, Running Reality, Valentina Mignosa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Stefania De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Nicole Berlin, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Johanna Okerlund, Wellesley College, Mervenur Sevil Kandemir, Koc University, Michael McGlin, Brandeis University,Neel Smith and Ashley Terjanian, College of the Holy Cross, Giuliano Sidro, UC Berkeley, Sarah Tew, University of Florida Libraries,Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley, Maddie Qualls, UC Berkeley, Millie You, UC Berkeley, Hannah Lents, University of Texas at Austin, and Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin

8F: Ceramics and their Analysis

Late Neolithic Pottery from the Taipei Basin, North Taiwan
Che-Hsien Tsai, National Taiwan University

A Not So Simple Style?  The Origin and Manufacture of Examples of Simple Style Pottery from the Jordan Valley
Stephen Czujko, University of Missouri

Architectural Terracottas from Gordion: A Petrographic Study
Janelle Sadarananda, Skidmore College, Brigitte Keslinke, University of Pennsylvania, and Marie-Claude Boileau, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania

The Production and Use of Pottery Mortaria in Late Imperial Rome: Evidence from the Palatine East Excavations
J. Theodore Peña, University of California, Berkeley

More Late Roman Pottery from Karanis
C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, Nicholas Hudson, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Liwei Zheng, University of Manitoba

8G: Giacomo Boni:  Commemoration and Reassessment (Colloquium)

Organizer: Albert J. Ammerman, Istituto Veneto

Discussant: C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania

The Rediscovery of Giacomo Boni in the 1980s
Daniele Manacorda, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

The Limitations of Tea’s Biography and new Directions in the Study of Boni
Myriam Pilutti Namer, Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage, Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Returning to the Black Stone at the Comitium
T. P. Wiseman, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

The Skeletons in the Forum that came out of Boni’s Closet in the last Year of his Life
Albert J. Ammerman, Istituto Veneto

8H: Inscriptions, Dedications, and Meaning

Inscriptions as Archaeological Objects at Phoenix in the Carian Chersonese (Bozburun Peninsula, Türkiye): New Finds and Interpretations
Koray Konuk, CNRS Bordeaux, and Anna M. Sitz, Universität Tübingen

A New IIIIvir from Metellinum (Medellín) in Hispania Ulterior
Jonathan C. Edmondson, York University, Toronto

Portraying Dominance in Content and Form: Aemilius Paullus’ Dedicatory Program
Jacob Morton, Carleton College, and Thomas Rose, Randolph-Macon College

8I: Current Fieldwork across West Asia II

Transgressing Traditional Boundaries: A Middle Ground in the North Pontic
Caleb M. Hammond, Stanford University

Matohasanaj Archaeological Project: Results from the First Field Season
Erin Pitt, Sweet Briar College, Sabina Veseli, Albanian Institute of Archaeology Mirgen Shametaj, Sweet Briar College

The Results of Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Studies of the “Ortvala” Complex (Georgia, South Caucasus)
Otar Berikashvili, International  Archaeological Center of the University of Georgia

The 2022-2024 Excavations of the Vedi Fortress in Armenia
Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong

Türkmen-Karahöyük: A New Bronze Age-Hellenistic Period Center in Southcentral Anatolia. Results of the First Excavation Season
James Osborne, University of Chicago, Hüseyin Erpehlivan, Bilecik University, Nancy Highcock, Ashmolean Museum, Nathan Lovejoy, University of Venice, and Michele Massa, Bilkent University

8J: Roman Spectacles

Exporting the Economy of Spectacle: Venationes on Third-Century African Red Slipware
Clara Pinchbeck, Case Western Reserve University

A Geometric Morphometric Approach to Regionalism in Roman Theater Plans
John Sigmier, University of Toronto

Boom during Crisis: Festival Cultures and Performance Spaces in Third Century Roman East
Tianqi Zhu, University of Cincinnati