Schedule of Sessions (click on each paper title to see the abstract)

Please note: Paper sessions will be held in the Whitley Suite on the first floor of Evans Library, which can accommodate about 75 people.  Since we already have 40-45 participants and registered guests, this means we have room for about 30 TAMU students and faculty.  While all are welcome to attend, please remember that many scholars have traveled long and far to participate in the symposium.  These scholars are our guests, and students should be prepared (and will be expected) to give up their seat(s) to symposium participants if the need arises.

Friday November 2

I. Amphora Capacities, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

1. Mark Lawall (University of Manitoba): Transport Amphorae and Economic Information

2. Elizabeth Greene (Brock University): Why Does Amphora Standardization Matter? The Case of the 6th-Century BC Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu

3. Peter Van Alfen (American Numismatic Society): Newer Light on the Yassıada Shipwreck: The On-Going Restudy of the Globular Amphoras

4. Fred Van Doorninck (Texas A&M University): The Metrology of the Piriform Amphoras from the 11th-Century Byzantine Ship at Serçe Limanı: New Designs but an Old System

II.  Byzantine Amphoras and Trade, 11:30 a.m. - 13:30 p.m. (Mark Lawall, chair)

1. Maria Berg Briese (University of Southern Denmark): Late Roman Halikarnassos: The Amphora Evidence

2. Stella Demesticha (University of Cyprus): The 7th-Century Cypriot Amphora Types: Regional or International?

3. Sauro Gelichi & Claudio Negrelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): New Archaeological Evidence on 8th-9th-Century Amphorae from North Italy

4. Andrei Opait (Institute of Classical Archaeology): Supplying Wine and Olive Oil to a Remote Settlement in the Chora of Crimean Chersonesos

III. Material Culture of Ships and Sailors (“Life at Sea”), 14:45 - 16:00 p.m. (Elizabeth Greene, chair)

1. Susan Katzev (Kyrenia Ship Project): Turning Frogs into Princes

2. Carlo Beltrame (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): The Contribution of the Yassıada Shipwreck Excavation to the Knowledge of Life Aboard Ancient Ships

3. Robert Brill (Corning Glass Museum): Maritime Trade in Glass: A Case History Showing the Value of Scientific Investigations

IV.     Comparative Perspectives from Ports and Surveys, 16:30 - 18:00 p.m. (Cheryl Ward, chair)

1. Robert Hohlfelder (University of Colorado at Boulder): The Late Antique Coastal Settlement of Aperlae on the Lycian Coast

2. Rana Mikati (The Oriental Institute): Trade Networks in an Early Islamic Port: Observations on the Pottery from Beirut

3. Richard Unger (University of British Columbia): Nautical Archaeology. Ships and Port Development: The Mediterranean in the Early and High Middle Ages

Saturday November 3

V.     Byzantine Ships and Ancient Ship Construction, 9:30-11:30 a.m. (Filipe Castro, chair)

1. Patrice Pomey (Centre national de la recherche scientifique): The Madrague de Giens Project in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassıada Excavation

2. Eric Rieth (Centre national de la recherche scientifique): From the Excavation of the Yassıada I Wreck Turkey (1961-1964) to the Excavation of the Port Berteau II Wreck, France (1992-1997)

3. Sarah Kampbell (Princeton University): Reconstructing the Pantano Longarini Ship

4. Cemal Pulak (Texas A&M University): The Ships of Constantinople's Theodosian Harbor

5. Furio Ciciliot (Società Savonese di Storia Patria): The 13th-Century Genoese Pamphilus: Similar to the Yassıada Vessel?

VI.     Byzantine Wrecks and Maritime Trade, 12:00 - 14:00 p.m. (Cemal Pulak, chair)

1. Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical): The Levanzo I Wreck and a Reassessment for the Distribution of Tubi Fittili in the Central Mediterranean

2. Justin Leidwanger (University of Pennsylvania): Early Byzantine Cyprus: A View from the Sea

3. Fred Hocker (Vasa Museum): Learning from Yassiada: The 9th-century wreck at Bozburun

4. Roxani Margariti (Emory University): Wrecks and Texts: A Judeo-Arabic Case Study

5. Vasilios Christides (Institute for Graeco-Oriental and African Studies): Underwater Archaeology and History: The Case of Serçe Limanı

VII.     The International Medieval Mediterranean, 15:00 - 16:30 p.m. (Fred Hocker, chair)

1. Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (Viking Ship Museum): The Byzantine Empire, A Breeding Ground for Viking Warriors?

2. Harry Tzalas (Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition): Two Mediaeval Cartographic Documents and Their Relation to an Underwater Archaeological Survey in Alexandria

3. Irena Radić-Rossi (Croatian Conservation Institute): Archaeological Evidence of the Byzantine Period in the Dubrovnik Area

4. John Pryor (University of Sydney): A Medieval Mediterranean Revolution: Crusading by Sea ca. 1096-1204

VIII.    Final Thoughts, 16:45-17:30 p.m.

1. Michael McCormick (Harvard University): What a Historian Would Like to Learn from Nautical Archaeology

2. Fred Van Doorninck (Texas A&M University): The 7th-Century Byzantine Ship at Yassıada and her Final Voyage: Present Thoughts

Closing Banquet

A catered dinner will be held in honor of Drs. Bass and van Doorninck on Saturday, November 3rd at the Clayton Williams Alumni Center on the Texas A&M University campus.  All symposium presenters are warmly invited to attend what promises to be an evening of much conviviality and friendship!