Inspired by the increased archaeological activity in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and in particular in Erbil Governorate, the conference Ancient Arbela: Pre-Islamic History of Erbil aspires to bring together experts of archaeology, Assyriology and ancient history to discuss the new findings that have changed our perception of this age old city and its surroundings. Central themes of the conference will be new archaeological work in Erbil Governorate, Arbela in cuneiform and classical sources.
Organization
Raija Mattila, the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME)
Jessica Giraud, Institut français du Proche-Orient – Erbil (Ifpo)
Dr. Zidan Bradosty, department of Archaeology, Salahaddin University - Hawler
Academic partners
FIME - the Finnish Institute in the Middle East
Ifpo-Institut français du Proche-Orient
Department of Archaeology, Salahaddin University - Hawler
The conference venue will be the Cultural Centre of the Salahaddin University in Erbil, the 7-10 April 2014.
Program
7APRIL
08.00
Registration in Peshawa Hall - Ministry of Culture and Youth
Karel Nováček (University of West Bohemia), Drawing a New City on Map: Archaeology of Pre-Islamic Arbela.
John MacGinnis (University of Cambridge), Ishtar Triumphant: Archaeology, Epigraphy and the Rise of an Imperial Super-City.
13.00-13.30
Transportation to the Cultural Centre of the Salahaddin University
13.30-14.30
Lunch Break
Main Hall
Lecture Hall
Session 1: Palaeolithic
Session 2: III Millennium bc
14.30-15.00
Ahmed Saied and Abou Al-Hassan Bakry (Cairo University), Shanidar and Teshik-Tash: Middle Paleolithic Caves in Erbil Iraqi Kurdistan and Central Asia.
Ardalan Khwshnaw (Salahaddin University), Erbil in the early Dynastic Period.
15.00-15.30
Ismail Alipour, Chiay Takaltu Rock shelters and Open-Air Sites.
Nawala Ahmad Al-Mulawaly (University of Baghdad), Erbil in Ur III Cuneiform Texts (2112-2004 BC).
15.30-16.00
Konstantinos Kopanias, Claudia Beuger (University of Athens) and Nader Babakr (Antiquities Directorate of Erbil), Preliminary Results from the 2013 Excavation Season in Tell Nader and in Tell Baqrta in the Erbil Province.
Marcel Sigrist (École Biblique), Urbilum in the Ur III period.
16.00-17.30
Othman Ghanim Mohammad (University of Mosul), Mulaffa’āt in the light of archaeological excavations and new surface phenomena.
Rafedah Abdullah Qaradaghy (University of Sulaimaniya), Erbil in the third millennium BC, Gutian period.
17.30-18.00
Graeme Barker (University of Cambridge), New excavations at Shanidar Cave: first impressions.
Ari Manme, History of Erbil at the end of the third millennium.
18.00-18.30
Break
18.30-20.00
Welcoming dinner hosted by Dr Ahmed Dezayeh, President of the Salahaddin University – Hawler
8 APRIL
09.00-10.30
Keynote Addresses
Jason Ur (Harvard University), The Settlement History of the Erbil Plain (Dasht-i Hawler).
Aala el-din M Shaheen (Cairo University), Introduction to the Assyrian Relations in the Second Millennium BC.
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
Session 3: Regional Studies
Session 4: Hurrians
11.00-11.30
Lionel Marti (CNRS) and Christophe Nicolle, Erbil and its relations with the surrounding plain: the case of Bash Tappa.
Abdullah Bakr Othman (Salahaddin University), La diffusion de la céramique nuzienne en région d’Erbil.
11.30-12.00
Salem Yahya Al-Jubury (University of Mosul), The Fall of Qabra Kingdom: Causes and Results.
Frouk Ismail (Mardin Artuklu University), Umman-manda, a Hurrian Group.
Session 3: Regional Studies (Continued)
Session 5: Historical Geography I
12.00-12.30
Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault (Sorbonne University) and Olivier Rouault (Lyons2 University), Mirroring Arbela: Kilizu, a Regional Centre in the Assyrian Empire.
Kozad Ahmad (University of Sulaimaniya), A Contribution to the Historical Geography of Erbil Province in the Second Millennium BC.
12.30-13.00
Cinzia Pappi (University of Leipzig), The Land of Idu: Province, Kingdom, and Sanjaq.
Numan Jumaha Ibrahim (Salahaddin University), The Historical Sources of Settlement in the region of Erbil in the Light of Excavation.
13.00-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.30
Keynote Addresses
Martti Nissinen (University of Helsinki), Ishtar of Arbela.
Munther Ali Abdul Malik (University of Baghdad), Astronomical Reports for Prophets from Arbil.
Session 6: City of Arbela
Session7: Astronomy
15.30-16.00
Farouq Alrawe (Museum of Sulaymania), Arbil through the cuneiform writing in Sulaimaniya Museum.
Qusay M al-Turki (Akre University of Dohuk), Astronomical Observatory of Erbil City. A Study of Cuneiform Texts.
16.00-16.30
Heather D. Baker (Vienna University), Arbail: city and temple in the economy of the Neo-Assyrian heartland.
Shaymaa Ali (University of Mosul), Observatory of Erbil in the Assyrian Age.
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break
Session 6: City of Arbela (continued)
Session 8: Gods of Arbela
17.00-17.30
Aziz Mohammad Amin Zebari (Cairo University), Erbil as a base for Assyrian military campaigns.
Ibrahim Ali Salim (University of Raparin), The Gods worshiped in ancient Erbil.
17.30-18.00
Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki), Queen’s household in Arbela.
Sanae Ito (University of Helsinki), The Mother-Child Relationship between the Goddess and Assurbanipal.
(Transportation to the Rotana Hotel)
19.00-21.00
Reception Hosted by the Ambassador of Finland, HE Kari Kahiluoto at the Rotana Hotel (Pool area).
9 APRIL
09.00-10.30
Keynote Addresses
Arnulf Hausleiter (Freie Universität Berlin), TBA
Nasser Makawy (Cairo University), The Gods of Erbil (Original Name of Arba - elo).
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
Session 9: Ethno-political Change
Session 10: Historical Geography II
11.00-11.30
Dlshad A. Marf (Salahaddin University-Erbil and Leiden University), Who was who in Arbail? Investigating the ethno-political changes in Arbail and its neighboring mountainous provinces during 720-520 BC
Aram Jalal Hamawand (Salahaddin University), About the meaning of ancient Erbil’s name in the cuneiform sources.
11.30-12.00
Rocio Da Riva (University of Barcelona) and Simonetta Ponchia (University of Verona), People from and to Arbela in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods.
Amir Abdulla Al-Jumaili (University of Mosul), Some of the Geographical Sites of Erbil in the 1st millennium BC in the Light of the Cuneiform Sources.
Ethno-political Change (continued)
Session 11: The Battle Of Gaugamela
12.00-12.30
Rukhsar Ramazan Ahmad (Ministry of Education), The Neo-Assyrian Empire as a multi-ethnic society and the effect of multi-ethnicity on identity during pre-Islamic time to Islamic period, Erbil as an example.
Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw), The Campaign of Gaugamela and the Alexander Romance.
12.30-13.00
Rana Waleed Hame (University of Mosul), The city of Arbela in the cuneiform texts of the Assyrian period. (In Arabic)
Kleanthis Zouboulakis (University of Athens), In search of the Gaugamela battlefield. Ancient sources, modern views and topographical problems.
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
Session 12: Arbail Hymns
Session 11: The Battle Of Gaugamela (continued)
14.30-15.00
Frances Reynolds (University of Oxford), Assyrian City Hymns: Praising Arbela.
Christoph Schäfer (University of Trier), Alexander’s royal representation and the battle of Gaugamela with a view on Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander’.
15.00-15.30
Mattias Karlsson (Uppsala University), Some reflections on a hymn to the city of Arbela (LKA 32).
Robert Rollinger (Universities of Helsinki and Innsbruck) and Sebastian Fink (University of Innsbruck), The Battle of Arbela in 331 BCE and the ‘Panic’ in the Persian Army.
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
Session 13: Adiabene
Session 11:The Battle Of Gaugamela (continued)
16.00-16.30
Gianfilippo Terribili (Sapienza University of Rome, Italian Archaeological Mission in Kurdistan), The Sasanian Administration in Late Antiquity Adiabene.
Andreas Parpas (Cyprus University) Alexander at Gaugamela and Arbela – Nikatorion 331 BBC
Session 14: Christianity
16.30-17.00
D. Agonist Abdul Razzaq book Qaisi (Baghdad University/ Klahaladap/Department of Antiquities) and A. D. Suhaila Hassan Mizban (Baghdad University/College of Education Ibn Rushd of Human Sciences/Department of History), Money circulating to Erbil in Pre-Islamic period.
Qader Mohamad Hasan (Salahaddin University), Pre-Islamic Christianity in Erbil.
17.00-17.30
Jean-Sylvain Caillou (Ifpo Palestine), D’Erbil à Jérusalem: histoire et vestiges d’un royaume méconnu, l’Adiabène.
Barween Badri Tawfiq (Salahaddin University), Location the monastery Qaradag where the ancient Temple of Ishtar was situated.
Session 15 : Site Preservation and New Projects
17.30-18.00
Narmen Ali Muhamad Amen (Salahaddin University and Paris CNRS), Adiabene: According to a preliminary archaeological preliminary survey and the type of Sassanian pottery (example in Qasr Shamamok).
Jessica S. Johnson, Katharyn Hanson, Brian M. Lione (University of Delaware), Archaeological Site Preservation Instruction, The Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage, Erbil, Iraq, University of Delaware Academic Programs.
18.00-18.30
Kameran Mohammad Jalal Majeed (University of Koya), Adiabene's position: its influence on political and religious developments.
Miquel Molist, Anna Gómez-Bach, Walter Cruells (University of Barcelona) and Zidan Bradosty (Salahaddin University), First farmers: how to define complexities in northern Mesopotamia.
18.30-19.00
Nicholas Al-Jeloo, The Link in the Chain: Arbela, Adiabene and Assyria between Late Antiquity and the Islamic Period.
19.00-19.30
Kaiwan Azad Anwar (Soulaimaniah University), Hawler in the Sassanid Period.
(Transportation to the Citadel)
20.00-22.00
Reception Hosted by the French Consul, Ifpo, and the French Institute of Iraq in the Shalabi House in the Citadel.