[Sasnet] News from The Terracottas’ Conference

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An international conference on the terracotta figurines of the Eastern
Mediterranean in Antiquity (7th c. B.C.-A.D. 4th c.) has been taken  
place
on June 2nd-6th, 2007 at Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) in Izmir, Turkey.
The organizers of the conference were Dr Ergun LAFLI of DEU and Prof.
Arthur MULLER of Universite Charles-de-Gaulle – Lille 3 (France),  
with the
supports of Ecole francaise d'Athènes. Ca. 190 participants from more  
than
25 different countries (ca. 40 from Greece) discussed a range of issues
concerning terracotta figurines. This conference with ca. 110 papers (45
oral; the rest was posters) was an excellent opportunity to increase the
knowledge of this material. More than 120 sites in the eastern
Mediterranean were presented; geographical areas represented at this
conference was Greece (Athens, Kerameikos, Corinth, Corfu, Petres,
Tanagra, Boeotia, Thebai, Olynthus, Ithaca etc.), Asia Minor (Miletus,
Myrina, Pergamon, Ephesus, Didyma, Parion, Assos etc.), Cyprus, Sicily,
Italy, North Africa, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Bulgaria, Roumania,
Ukraina, etc. Thematically conference was divided into funeral, domestic
and votive terracotta figurines, and papers were examining production,
diffusion, iconography and function of the Greek and Roman terracotta
figurines, from the beginning of mass production (7th century) to the  
end
of Classical tradition (4th century).
Papers presented at the conference will be published as E. LAFLI/A.  
MULLER
(eds.), Figurines de terre cuite en Mediterranee orientale grecque et
romaine. Production et Diffusion, Iconographie et Fonction. Colloque
international, 2-6 juin 2007 / Izmir, Turquie, in the series of Ecole
francaise d'Athènes, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, Supplements
(Paris/Athens; for 2009).
There already are some (mostly U.S. American) colleagues who are
interested to inaugurate an international association based in Izmir for
Greek and Roman coroplastic studies, entitled, exempli gratia, Diphilos.
Association pour l'etude de la corophathie grecque et romaine. A further
suggestion for a possible collaboration among colleagues was also made
that will enable the creation of an electronic Newsletter for Greek and
Roman Coroplastic Studies on the internet for the activities of the
Association.
E-mail: <terracottas at deu.edu.tr>.
Conference Web Site: <http://web.deu.edu.tr/terracottas/>.



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