Session 3a: New archaeological Data from Rescue Excavations (presented in Turkish) Chair: Latife Summerer 9:00 Uğur Akyüz/O. Alper Şirin (Museum of Samsun), Rescue Excavation in the Teras-Kafe-Park-Area, Samsun. 9:45 Muhsin Endoğru/Uğur Akyüz (Museum of Samsun), Rescue Excavation in the Street Basarabya, Samsun. 10:30 Đlkay Đvgin (Museum of Samsun), Results of the Rescue Excavations in Zafer Köy and Restoration Works, Samsun. 11:15-11:30 Coffee 11:30 Muzaffer Doğanbaş (Museum of Amasya), Roman and Byzantine Necropoleis in the City Center of Amasya. 12:15 Celal Özdemir (Museum of Amasya), The Sanctuary of Zeus Stratios at Yassıçal. 13:00-14:30 Lunch Session 3b: New archaeological Data from Rescue Excavations (presented in Turkish) Chair: Latife Summerer 14:30 Celal Özdemir (Museum of Amasya), The Results of the Rescue Excavation in 2006. Rescue excavation in the City Center of Amasya (Merkez Gökmedrese Mahallesi 588 ada 2 parsel). 15:15 Esra Keskin (Hitit University, Çorum), Rescue Excavation of a Roman, Mosaic Paved Building in Yavru Köyü Küpderesi, Amasya. 16:00 Türkmen Murat Turan (Museum of Amasya), Rescue Excavation of a Roman Tumulus in Eraslan (Suluova, Amasya province). 16:45 Sengül Dilek Ful, (Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat), Sebastopolis - A Roman Settlement in Northern Anatolia. 17:30 Closing statement by Hugh Elton, Trent University.

Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine period

Historical Saraydüzü Barracks, National Struggle Museum and

Conference Center, Amasya

April 24-26, 2014

SATURDAY April 26

This conference is organized by

Where East meets West: Urbanisation, provincialisation and cultural interaction in Roman Anatolia

A three-year collective, interdisciplinary research project sponsored by

The Danish Council for Independent Research

The University of Southern Denmark

The University of Copenhagen

in collaboration with

The Ludwig-Maximilians-University

The University of Kastamonu

The ministry of culture and tourism, Amasya Museum

The Directorate for Culture and Tourism, Amasya Province Governorship

The Free University of Berlin

For further information, please visit our websites:

www.sdu.dk/halys

www.nerik.de

www.klass-archaeologie.uni-muenchen.de/projekte/pompeiopolis/index.html

Registration: 9:30-10:30

Opening session Chair: Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen 10:30 Celal Özdemir (Museum of Amasya), Latife Summerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-/Kasta-monu University) and Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen), welcome address 11:00 Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen), A glimpse at settlement dynamics around Neoclaudiopolis 11:45 Latife Summerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-/Kastamonu University), Identities of Public Space. A State of Research from Pompeiopolis 12:30-14:00 Lunch

Session 1a: placing the site in the region and their settlement patterns Chair: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen 14:00 Hugh Elton (Trent University), The Changing Landscape of Euchaita: some results from the Avkat Archaeological Project 14:45 Burcu Erciyas/M.Lütfi Süzen/Hakan Tanya (Middle East Technical University), A Settlement Analysis at Byzantine Komana through Excavation, Survey and GIS Data 15:30-15:45 Coffee 15:45 Owen Doonan (California State University, Northridge), Settlement and Economic Intensification in the Early Byzantine Hinterland of Sinop, Turkey 16:30 Philip Bes (Cide Archaeological Survey Project), Roman to Late Roman Bits and Pieces from the Cide Archaeological Survey 17:30 Guided tour of museum or tombs 20:00 Dinner

Session 2a (poster session) Chair: Jesper Majbom Madsen 9:00 Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark)/Rainer Czichon (Uşak University), Roads and bridges of the Phazemonitis 9:30 Søren Lund Sørensen (University of Southern Denmark), The imperial oath from Neapolis 10:00 Julia Koch (University of Munich, Bamberg), New marble doorstones from Pompeiopolis. Tracing local identity from the Phrygian Highlands to the Inner Paphlagonia 10:30 Laura Buccino (University of Florence), A headless statue of a Late Antiquetogatus from Samsun at the Museum of Kastamonu 11:00-11:15 Coffee Session 2b: comparative studies on the region Chair: Jesper Majbom Madsen 11:15 Vera Sauer (University of Southern Denmark), The coinage of Neoklaudiopolis and Pompeiopolis against the background of minting practices of Pontic and Paphlagonien cities in the age of the Roman Empire 12:00 Luisa Musso (Third University of Rome), In Pontus and in Paphlagonia: the North Face of the mosaics of Asia Minor in the Roman and early Byzantine period 12:45 Max Ritter (Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz), The end of Late Antiquity in Paphlagonia: deurbanization and incastellamento in a comparative perspective

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13:30-16:00 Lunch and visit to the Roman bath in Terziköy Session 2c: comparative studies on the region Chair: Owen Doonan 16:00 Jesper Majbom Madsen (University of Southern Denmark), Pompey’s urbanisation of Pontus: were the cities Greek or Roman? 16:45 Christian Marek (University of Zürich), Epigraphy and the provincial organization of Paphlagonian cities in the Roman Empire 17:30 Baran Aydın (Museum of Amasra), Some Statue Finds from Roman Amastris 18:15 Pavol Hnila (Free University of Berlin), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine graves at Oymaağaç Höyük 20:00 Conference dinner

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