Papers
Theology & Life. Journal of Christian Thought and Spirituality, 2023
This article discusses the impact of saints on naming practices during the Late Antique period (3... more This article discusses the impact of saints on naming practices during the Late Antique period (3rd to 7th centuries). The veneration of saints played a pivotal role in shaping names given to individuals in Christian communities. Naming children after saints and biblical figures became popular, reflecting the belief that these names carried saints' sanctity.
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Paganism in the 4th Century Nicomedia, 2023
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Gregory of Nyssa's oration 40, 2023
This contribution aims to place another brick in the tower of late antiquity's topics, by examini... more This contribution aims to place another brick in the tower of late antiquity's topics, by examining the works of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395), focusing on his oration on the catechumens who delay holy baptism (40).
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Περιοδικό "Στέπα", τ. 12 , 2019
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Conference Presentations
Orthodox Academy of Crete, After Constantine Journal, Medievalists.net
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ΕΕΠΕΚ, 2020
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Αντλώντας κοινωνική ιστορία μέσα από τα αγιολογικά και ρητορικά κείμενα, 2019
Περίληψη εργαστηριακής παρουσίασης/διδασκαλίας που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο 4ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για τ... more Περίληψη εργαστηριακής παρουσίασης/διδασκαλίας που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο 4ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για την Προώθηση της Εκπαιδευτικής Καινοτομίας (Λάρισα, 12-14 Οκτώβριου 2018)
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Pithoi in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. Studies on pithos as a storage and burial vessel in the ancient Classical and Byzantine world, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD... more Dear Colleagues,
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international e-symposium, entitled “Pithoi in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. An e-conference on the studies of pithos as a storage and burial vessel in the ancient Classical and Byzantine world”. On May 8, 2024 we have hosted on Zoom c. 30 participants from eight countries, and 15 papers dealing with pithoi were presented in one single day of the symposium. Please note that all the symposium documents were updated in our Academia account. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please let us know by e-mail.
Publication of the proceedings of the pithoi e-conference
1- The language of the publication will be English; the only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we, therefore, ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English. We would like to use British English for the proceedings, as most of our participants were from Europe. Spelling can be either British or American, provided it is consistent in either case.
2- We have no limit for the length of the papers.
3- The paper submission deadline is January 1, 2025.
4- Papers and photos should be submitted to the second editor of the proceedings (Ms Zoe Tsiami) electronically via e-mail. Here is her e-mail address: zotsiami@uth.gr
5- The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Europe in 2027.
6- As the book will contain only papers related to pithoi, we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with pithoi. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished, and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
7- If you did not attend the pithoi e-symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about pithoi, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until January 1, 2025.
8- We are also seeking external peer reviewers for the proceedings. Please let us know if you would like to be a peer reviewer for our symposium‘s proceedings. As one of the member of our publication committee, your comments on all of the papers, such as their length, clearness and supported by the scientific data, will be most welcome. In regards of papers, you could also advise any improvements or submit your corrections about their jargon, language, organization of material, and conclusion of each paper.
9- We are also seeking proofreaders for the whole volume in regards of its English language style and grammar. We would be thankful if you are interested to assist us in terms of language. Contributors whose English is not their first language are advised to have their text copy-edited by a native speaker with knowledge of the subject.
10- Images of your papers should be in colour and have at least 600 dpi. Please note that lower resolutions will result a reduction or a suppression of the publication. We will of course keep photos in colour in pdf offprints and digital version of the book.
11- Each author must hold the copyrights of all of the images. If you wish to use images that have been originated by someone else (i.e. previously published material), then you need to seek permission to reproduce each item in your paper. Please bear this in mind when preparing the images of your manuscript. Permission from third parties could be requested by the publisher.
12- Each of the papers will be sent to anonymous peer reviewers enlisted by the Publisher before they are accepted for publication. Academic standards, originality, and a good level of English language will be the main criteria for selection.
13- We will also produce pdf offprints; each participant will receive whichever pdf offprints they want for free.
14- Unfortunately, the proceedings volume cannot be donated to the authors for free.
Publication rules
1- Texts should be designed in the following order: Title, author(s)‘ name(s), academic affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address, key-words in English, text (introduction, presentation, conclusion, and catalogue), bibliography, figure captions and credits. Texts should be submitted as Word data (please not as pdf) and figures should be submitted as JPEG (please not as pdf). All figures, tables and illustrations should be submitted as separate files and not in the text. We kindly ask you to follow up publication rules explained hereby so that the publication of the proceedings will not be delayed because of unnecessary reformattings.
2- Your text should be designed in Times New Roman 12 pt with footnotes in 10 pt., all in single-lined.
3- Please provide all lists or tables in Word, not in Excel, and without any footnotes.
4- For illustrations, please provide figure captions and authorizations of reproduction at the end of your paper, before the bibliography. For each illustration, the authors must obtain authorization for reproduction. The editors and the publisher have the right to not accept illustrations that could accuse problems with copyright.
5- Please use in-text citations to reference published works [i.e. “(Smith, 1998: 67, fig. 2)”] and use footnotes for further information, clarifications, and/or comments.
6- All Latin words should be quoted in italics, without quotation marks.
7- Examples for the abbreviations of books in the bibliography:
Hortsmanhoff M., King H., Zittel Cl. (eds) (2012), Blood, sweat and tears. The changing Concepts of physiology from antiquity into modern early Europe, Leiden.
Espinosa D. (2013), Plinio y los “oppida de antiguo Lacio”. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior, Madrid.
Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Hesperia suppl. 43 or Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Athens (Hesperia suppl. 43).
8- An example for the abbreviations of proceedings in the bibliography:
Laurent J. (ed.) (2003), Les dieux de Platon, actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, les 24, 25 et 26 janvier 2002, Caen.
Please do not forget to add (ed.) or (eds) to the name of the editors!
9- An example for the abbreviations of the journal articles in the bibliography:
Valdés Guía M. (2000), « La apertura de una zona político-religiosa en los orígenes de la
polis de Atenas », Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, 26/1, p. 35-55.
10- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in a collective book in the bibliography:
Mehl V. (2008), « Corps iliadiques, corps héroïques », in V. Dasen, J. Wilgaux (eds), Langages et métaphores du corps, Rennes, p. 29-42.
11- References for the ancient sources should be developed separately in the bibliography under the title “Ancient sources”. For example:
Desrousseaux A. M. (1956), Athénée de Naucratis, Les Deipnosophistes, books I and II, Paris.
12- References for the ancient sources should be given in footnotes, using Roman numerals for books, and without abbreviations. Use commas rather than colons. For example: Xenophon, Anabasis, II, 3, 3.
13- In the references of the epigraphic collections, quoted corpara should be in italics. In the quotations of each inscription there should be no comma between the volume number in Roman numeral and the number of inscription in Arabic numeral, but a space between them. For example:
CIL XIII 8553; ILS II 5318; P. Lond. V 1657.
14- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in an encyclopedia in the bibliography:
Jessen O. (1913), s.u. « Helios », RE, VIII, col. 58-93.
15- As a general reference, and for all issues not mentioned here, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style Online. Here is its website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
Next symposium in May 2025
On May 14, 2025 we organize the next Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses in Izmir, with the title “Bone objects in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea area during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods in honour of Hector E. Williams” on Zoom. This symposium is free of charge and all is welcome.
Hoping to host you in Izmir and/or on Zoom in our next symposium in May 2025, we wish you a productive and recreative summer season.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
Ergün Laflı
Zoe Tsiami
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Baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor. Historical, theological and epigraphic approaches, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to inform you that an international e-symposium on baptism in Ear... more Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to inform you that an international e-symposium on baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor will take place on December 22, 2024 on Zoom.us. Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual for Christians. But where did this ritual come from? And what did it mean? Although the term “baptism” is not today used to describe the Jewish rituals (in contrast to New Testament times, when the Greek word βαπτισμός did indicate Jewish ablutions or rites of purification), the purification rites (or מִקְוֶה / מקווה; mikvah—ritual immersion) in Jewish law and tradition are similar to baptism, and the two have been linked.
This e-meeting will focus on the following questions related to baptism in Early Christianity: how did people practice and understand baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor, what kind of connotations did the baptismal use of water evoke in the Asian context, and what significance did baptism gain during the first centuries A.D.? Baptism seems to have been developed in the early years in close contact with the local religious context and the construction of baptisteries in the sixth century A.D. adapted local pagan elements of architecture. The Early Christian baptisteries featured water as the central element of baptism in an architecturally, ritually, and theologically reflected way.
In the study of baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor we will especially focus on epigraphic evidence which has been overlooked whereas there is still a huge amount of material from excavations and museums in Turkey. It is also our aim to analyze the subject with literary sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the liturgy and the actions of Early Christians, especially in ancient Anatolia. In this e-meeting, we only focus on baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor between c. fourth and sixth centuries A.D. and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor. It is also our intention to create a complete bibliography of previous publications on Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor.
We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines related to this subject. Intended to bring together scholars of Early Christian theology, Roman history and Greek epigraphy to discuss a range of issues concerning this ritual’s characteristics, this video conference should be an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this subject. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium which are prescriptive:
- The origins and development of baptism in Asia Minor,
- Relevance and performance of baptism in Early Christian contexts in Asia Minor,
- Early Christian baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor from archaeological field projects and museums,
- Etymology of Early Christian baptism,
- Ancient Greek and Latin textual sources on Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor,
- Hellenistic and Roman gravestones and other iconographic media depicting Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bringing some progress to our current knowledge are of course welcome: theology, ancient history, epigraphy, archaeology, history of art, cultural anthropology, etc. The symposium will take place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference will be in English, and recorded for later viewing as a podcast on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2026. The symposium is free of charge.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before September 1, 2024. Our e-mail address is: zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For all your queries concerning the symposium, our phone number is: +90.544.938 54 64. The organizers seek to widen participation at this symposium and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. We kindly request that you alert any interested researchers, colleagues and students within your research community who would be interested in participating in this e-conference, either by forwarding our first circular and poster through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other similar social media, or by printing them and displaying in your institution. Please share them also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us on Zoom, and look forward to seeing you!
Required information for the participation to the e-conference
Type of your participation (virtual lecturer or virtual observer):
Name:
Academic title:
Institution:
E-mail:
Complete professional address:
Cell phone:
Academia or Researchgate account:
Orcid ID:
Would you agree with the recording of your virtual lecture and to be displayed as a podcast in our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4How2qUqAuGBEm27pKLZw) later?:
Any special requests:
Title of your lecture:
Your abstract:
NB: One or two illustrations can be included which should be sent by e-mail to zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
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E-conference on baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor. Historical, theological and epigraphic approaches, 2025
We organize an e-conference on "Baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia... more We organize an e-conference on "Baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor. Historical, theological and epigraphic approaches" on December 22, 2024 on Zoom.
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Archaeology and history of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia, 2023
This video conference was held on May 10, 2023 on zoom.us. There were more than 26 paper applicat... more This video conference was held on May 10, 2023 on zoom.us. There were more than 26 paper applications from seven countries, including -in alphabetical order- Belgium, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the U.K., 26 of which were accepted as a lecture to be presented at our video conference.
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
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Studia Bithynica. Proceedings of an e-conference on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia, 10 May 2023 / Izmir, Turkey, , 2023
We are glad to inform you that an international symposium on the region Bithynia in north-western... more We are glad to inform you that an international symposium on the region Bithynia in north-western Turkey took place on May 10, 2023 on Zoom. Bithynia was an ancient region and Roman province located on the south-eastern edge of the Marmara Sea in north-western part of present-day Turkey. It was bordered by Mysia, Paphlagonia and Phrygia. From the fourth century B.C. it was an independent Hellenistic kingdom, and around 74 B.C. it became a Roman province. During the seventh century A.D. it was incorporated into the Byzantine theme of Opsikion. It became a border region to the Seljuk Empire in the 13th century, and was eventually conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the early 14th century. Several major cities of Bithynia sat on the fertile shores of the Propontis or in the forested inland, such as Nicomedia (İzmit-Kocaeli), Nicaea (İznik), Chalcedon (Kadıköy), Cius (Gemlik), Prusa ad Olympum (Bursa) and Apamea Myrlea (Mudanya). Beside being a coastal region, it is also occupied by mountains as well as forests, and has valleys of great fertility. Since the studies of F.K. Dörner in the 1950s, archaeologically and historically Bithynia became a special focus in the fields of ancient Anatolian studies.
The aim of this online video conference is to report on the state of research concerning Bithynia during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods between ca. early sixth century B.C. and early 14th century A.D. We warmly welcome submissions from senior and junior scholars, including advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from a variety of disciplines related to this Anatolian region. We intended to bring together researchers who can present new syntheses of archaeological data from Bithynia and enter into dialogue with scholars working on the same material subsets. Intended to bring together scholars of Greek, Roman and Byzantine archaeology to discuss a range of issues concerning Bithynia, this electronic conference is an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this region. Such papers that engage the following themes and topics are invited:
- Bithynia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Archaeological field projects in Bithynia,
- Museum studies in Kocaeli, İznik, Bursa, Istanbul, Bolu and Düzce as well as abroad,
- Ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine authors and other textual as well as cartographic sources on Bithynia and Bithynians,
- Bithynia during the Late Iron Age,
- Bithynia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.,
- The Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia and its rulers,
- Pre-Roman tumuli in Bithynia and their archaeology,
- The coinage of the Kingdom of Bithynia and Roman province of Bithynia,
- The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus (after the two legendary volumes of Chr. Marek in 1993 and 2003),
- Roman provincial administration in Bithynia,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia and Propontis,
- Two Bithynian cities and their interregional relationships: Nicomedia and Nicaea (after the 2020 volume of Asia Minor Studien no. 96 on the recent studies about Nicomedia and Nicaea),
- Epigraphic and numismatic studies in Bithynia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Geographical, cultural and ethnic borders of Bithynia,
- Relationships between Bithynia and neighbouring regions,
- Roads, routes and population in Bithynia,
- Military archaeology in Roman Bithynia,
- The province Bithynia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Roman Bithynia and Christianity to the mid-fourth century A.D. (after the Michigan dissertation of G.J. Johnson in 1984),
- Religious conflict in Late Roman Nicomedia and the rest of Bithynia,
- The Christian martyrs of the late third-early fourth century A.D. in Bithynia,
- Forms of Christian presence in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman Bithynia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia’s companion for the Christianity and early eastern Orthodox Church,
- Notable personalities of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia (e.g., Arrian, Cassisus Dio and Helena),
- The Byzantine province of Opsikion (after the TIB volume no. 13 in 2020 on Bithynia and Hellespontus by K. Belke)
- Middle and Late Byzantine studies in Bithynia,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bring some progress to our current knowledge were of course welcome: archaeology, ancient history, historical geography, epigraphy, numismatic, history of art, cultural anthropology etc. The symposium took place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and recorded for later viewing on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2025. The symposium was free of charge.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
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Studia bithynica. An e-conference on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia, 2023
This video conference was held on May 10, 2023 on zoom.us. There were more than 26 paper applicat... more This video conference was held on May 10, 2023 on zoom.us. There were more than 26 paper applications from seven countries, including -in alphabetical order- Belgium, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the U.K., 26 of which were accepted as a lecture to be presented at our video conference.
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference proceedings will be published in 2025 in Europe and in the third circular there are information about its rules etc.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
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Studia bithynica. Symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia, May 11-12, 2023, 2023
This is the poster of the symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern An... more This is the poster of the symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia that took place on May 10, 2023 in Izmir, Turkey via Zoom. It was a part of Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses.
STUDIA BITHYNICA. An e-symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia
Date: May 10, 2023.
Meeting venue: Zoom.us
Bithynia was an ancient region in northwestern part of Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of the Marmara, the Bosporus and the Black Sea. It was bordered Mysia, Paphlagonia and Phrygia. From the fourth century B.C. it was an independent kingdom and its capital Nicomedia (today İzmit in Kocaeli) was rebuilt on the site of ancient Astacus in 264 B.C. Bithynia was bequeathed to the Roman Republic in 74 B.C., and became united with the Pontus region as the province of Bithynia et Pontus. During the Late Antiquity the region of Nicomedia and Nicaea witnessed several events related to early Christianity and early Christian ecclestiastical history. In the seventh century it was incorporated into the Byzantine Opsikion theme. Bithynia was eventually conquered by the Ottoman Turks between A.D. 1325 and 1333.
In this e-symposium our aim was to compile all recent evidence on the archaeology, history, epigraphy, numismatics, historical geography etc. on Bithynia and its cities, such as Nicomedia and Nicaea during the ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods, i.e. between the sixth century B.C. and 14th century A.D.
The main organizers of this symposium is Ergün Laflı from Izmir (elafli@yahoo.ca) and Zoe Tsiami from Volos (zoetsiami@gmail.com).
E-mail: terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
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Archaeology of western Anatolia, 2025
This is the publication guidelines of our new journal: on August 22, 2024 a new journal has been ... more This is the publication guidelines of our new journal: on August 22, 2024 a new journal has been inagurated in Izmir, Turkey on the online Turkish scholarly journal platform "DergiPark" with the title "Archaeology of western Anatolia" first issue of which will be out in 1 January 2025. The Archaeology of western Anatolia (AwA) is aimed at archaeologists and scientists engaged with the application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology in western Turkey. The journal focuses on the results of the application of scientific methods to archaeological problems and debates of wide interest. It provides a forum for reviews as well.
Here is the Awa on the online Turkish scholarly journal platform "DergiPark":
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/awa
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Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international e-symposium, entitled “Pithoi in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. An e-conference on the studies of pithos as a storage and burial vessel in the ancient Classical and Byzantine world”. On May 8, 2024 we have hosted on Zoom c. 30 participants from eight countries, and 15 papers dealing with pithoi were presented in one single day of the symposium. Please note that all the symposium documents were updated in our Academia account. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please let us know by e-mail.
Publication of the proceedings of the pithoi e-conference
1- The language of the publication will be English; the only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we, therefore, ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English. We would like to use British English for the proceedings, as most of our participants were from Europe. Spelling can be either British or American, provided it is consistent in either case.
2- We have no limit for the length of the papers.
3- The paper submission deadline is January 1, 2025.
4- Papers and photos should be submitted to the second editor of the proceedings (Ms Zoe Tsiami) electronically via e-mail. Here is her e-mail address: zotsiami@uth.gr
5- The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Europe in 2027.
6- As the book will contain only papers related to pithoi, we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with pithoi. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished, and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
7- If you did not attend the pithoi e-symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about pithoi, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until January 1, 2025.
8- We are also seeking external peer reviewers for the proceedings. Please let us know if you would like to be a peer reviewer for our symposium‘s proceedings. As one of the member of our publication committee, your comments on all of the papers, such as their length, clearness and supported by the scientific data, will be most welcome. In regards of papers, you could also advise any improvements or submit your corrections about their jargon, language, organization of material, and conclusion of each paper.
9- We are also seeking proofreaders for the whole volume in regards of its English language style and grammar. We would be thankful if you are interested to assist us in terms of language. Contributors whose English is not their first language are advised to have their text copy-edited by a native speaker with knowledge of the subject.
10- Images of your papers should be in colour and have at least 600 dpi. Please note that lower resolutions will result a reduction or a suppression of the publication. We will of course keep photos in colour in pdf offprints and digital version of the book.
11- Each author must hold the copyrights of all of the images. If you wish to use images that have been originated by someone else (i.e. previously published material), then you need to seek permission to reproduce each item in your paper. Please bear this in mind when preparing the images of your manuscript. Permission from third parties could be requested by the publisher.
12- Each of the papers will be sent to anonymous peer reviewers enlisted by the Publisher before they are accepted for publication. Academic standards, originality, and a good level of English language will be the main criteria for selection.
13- We will also produce pdf offprints; each participant will receive whichever pdf offprints they want for free.
14- Unfortunately, the proceedings volume cannot be donated to the authors for free.
Publication rules
1- Texts should be designed in the following order: Title, author(s)‘ name(s), academic affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address, key-words in English, text (introduction, presentation, conclusion, and catalogue), bibliography, figure captions and credits. Texts should be submitted as Word data (please not as pdf) and figures should be submitted as JPEG (please not as pdf). All figures, tables and illustrations should be submitted as separate files and not in the text. We kindly ask you to follow up publication rules explained hereby so that the publication of the proceedings will not be delayed because of unnecessary reformattings.
2- Your text should be designed in Times New Roman 12 pt with footnotes in 10 pt., all in single-lined.
3- Please provide all lists or tables in Word, not in Excel, and without any footnotes.
4- For illustrations, please provide figure captions and authorizations of reproduction at the end of your paper, before the bibliography. For each illustration, the authors must obtain authorization for reproduction. The editors and the publisher have the right to not accept illustrations that could accuse problems with copyright.
5- Please use in-text citations to reference published works [i.e. “(Smith, 1998: 67, fig. 2)”] and use footnotes for further information, clarifications, and/or comments.
6- All Latin words should be quoted in italics, without quotation marks.
7- Examples for the abbreviations of books in the bibliography:
Hortsmanhoff M., King H., Zittel Cl. (eds) (2012), Blood, sweat and tears. The changing Concepts of physiology from antiquity into modern early Europe, Leiden.
Espinosa D. (2013), Plinio y los “oppida de antiguo Lacio”. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior, Madrid.
Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Hesperia suppl. 43 or Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Athens (Hesperia suppl. 43).
8- An example for the abbreviations of proceedings in the bibliography:
Laurent J. (ed.) (2003), Les dieux de Platon, actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, les 24, 25 et 26 janvier 2002, Caen.
Please do not forget to add (ed.) or (eds) to the name of the editors!
9- An example for the abbreviations of the journal articles in the bibliography:
Valdés Guía M. (2000), « La apertura de una zona político-religiosa en los orígenes de la
polis de Atenas », Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, 26/1, p. 35-55.
10- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in a collective book in the bibliography:
Mehl V. (2008), « Corps iliadiques, corps héroïques », in V. Dasen, J. Wilgaux (eds), Langages et métaphores du corps, Rennes, p. 29-42.
11- References for the ancient sources should be developed separately in the bibliography under the title “Ancient sources”. For example:
Desrousseaux A. M. (1956), Athénée de Naucratis, Les Deipnosophistes, books I and II, Paris.
12- References for the ancient sources should be given in footnotes, using Roman numerals for books, and without abbreviations. Use commas rather than colons. For example: Xenophon, Anabasis, II, 3, 3.
13- In the references of the epigraphic collections, quoted corpara should be in italics. In the quotations of each inscription there should be no comma between the volume number in Roman numeral and the number of inscription in Arabic numeral, but a space between them. For example:
CIL XIII 8553; ILS II 5318; P. Lond. V 1657.
14- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in an encyclopedia in the bibliography:
Jessen O. (1913), s.u. « Helios », RE, VIII, col. 58-93.
15- As a general reference, and for all issues not mentioned here, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style Online. Here is its website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
Next symposium in May 2025
On May 14, 2025 we organize the next Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses in Izmir, with the title “Bone objects in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea area during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods in honour of Hector E. Williams” on Zoom. This symposium is free of charge and all is welcome.
Hoping to host you in Izmir and/or on Zoom in our next symposium in May 2025, we wish you a productive and recreative summer season.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
Ergün Laflı
Zoe Tsiami
We are glad to inform you that an international e-symposium on baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor will take place on December 22, 2024 on Zoom.us. Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual for Christians. But where did this ritual come from? And what did it mean? Although the term “baptism” is not today used to describe the Jewish rituals (in contrast to New Testament times, when the Greek word βαπτισμός did indicate Jewish ablutions or rites of purification), the purification rites (or מִקְוֶה / מקווה; mikvah—ritual immersion) in Jewish law and tradition are similar to baptism, and the two have been linked.
This e-meeting will focus on the following questions related to baptism in Early Christianity: how did people practice and understand baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor, what kind of connotations did the baptismal use of water evoke in the Asian context, and what significance did baptism gain during the first centuries A.D.? Baptism seems to have been developed in the early years in close contact with the local religious context and the construction of baptisteries in the sixth century A.D. adapted local pagan elements of architecture. The Early Christian baptisteries featured water as the central element of baptism in an architecturally, ritually, and theologically reflected way.
In the study of baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor we will especially focus on epigraphic evidence which has been overlooked whereas there is still a huge amount of material from excavations and museums in Turkey. It is also our aim to analyze the subject with literary sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the liturgy and the actions of Early Christians, especially in ancient Anatolia. In this e-meeting, we only focus on baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor between c. fourth and sixth centuries A.D. and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor. It is also our intention to create a complete bibliography of previous publications on Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor.
We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines related to this subject. Intended to bring together scholars of Early Christian theology, Roman history and Greek epigraphy to discuss a range of issues concerning this ritual’s characteristics, this video conference should be an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this subject. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium which are prescriptive:
- The origins and development of baptism in Asia Minor,
- Relevance and performance of baptism in Early Christian contexts in Asia Minor,
- Early Christian baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor from archaeological field projects and museums,
- Etymology of Early Christian baptism,
- Ancient Greek and Latin textual sources on Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor,
- Hellenistic and Roman gravestones and other iconographic media depicting Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bringing some progress to our current knowledge are of course welcome: theology, ancient history, epigraphy, archaeology, history of art, cultural anthropology, etc. The symposium will take place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference will be in English, and recorded for later viewing as a podcast on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2026. The symposium is free of charge.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before September 1, 2024. Our e-mail address is: zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For all your queries concerning the symposium, our phone number is: +90.544.938 54 64. The organizers seek to widen participation at this symposium and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. We kindly request that you alert any interested researchers, colleagues and students within your research community who would be interested in participating in this e-conference, either by forwarding our first circular and poster through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other similar social media, or by printing them and displaying in your institution. Please share them also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us on Zoom, and look forward to seeing you!
Required information for the participation to the e-conference
Type of your participation (virtual lecturer or virtual observer):
Name:
Academic title:
Institution:
E-mail:
Complete professional address:
Cell phone:
Academia or Researchgate account:
Orcid ID:
Would you agree with the recording of your virtual lecture and to be displayed as a podcast in our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4How2qUqAuGBEm27pKLZw) later?:
Any special requests:
Title of your lecture:
Your abstract:
NB: One or two illustrations can be included which should be sent by e-mail to zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
The aim of this online video conference is to report on the state of research concerning Bithynia during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods between ca. early sixth century B.C. and early 14th century A.D. We warmly welcome submissions from senior and junior scholars, including advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from a variety of disciplines related to this Anatolian region. We intended to bring together researchers who can present new syntheses of archaeological data from Bithynia and enter into dialogue with scholars working on the same material subsets. Intended to bring together scholars of Greek, Roman and Byzantine archaeology to discuss a range of issues concerning Bithynia, this electronic conference is an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this region. Such papers that engage the following themes and topics are invited:
- Bithynia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Archaeological field projects in Bithynia,
- Museum studies in Kocaeli, İznik, Bursa, Istanbul, Bolu and Düzce as well as abroad,
- Ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine authors and other textual as well as cartographic sources on Bithynia and Bithynians,
- Bithynia during the Late Iron Age,
- Bithynia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.,
- The Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia and its rulers,
- Pre-Roman tumuli in Bithynia and their archaeology,
- The coinage of the Kingdom of Bithynia and Roman province of Bithynia,
- The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus (after the two legendary volumes of Chr. Marek in 1993 and 2003),
- Roman provincial administration in Bithynia,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia and Propontis,
- Two Bithynian cities and their interregional relationships: Nicomedia and Nicaea (after the 2020 volume of Asia Minor Studien no. 96 on the recent studies about Nicomedia and Nicaea),
- Epigraphic and numismatic studies in Bithynia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Geographical, cultural and ethnic borders of Bithynia,
- Relationships between Bithynia and neighbouring regions,
- Roads, routes and population in Bithynia,
- Military archaeology in Roman Bithynia,
- The province Bithynia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Roman Bithynia and Christianity to the mid-fourth century A.D. (after the Michigan dissertation of G.J. Johnson in 1984),
- Religious conflict in Late Roman Nicomedia and the rest of Bithynia,
- The Christian martyrs of the late third-early fourth century A.D. in Bithynia,
- Forms of Christian presence in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman Bithynia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia’s companion for the Christianity and early eastern Orthodox Church,
- Notable personalities of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia (e.g., Arrian, Cassisus Dio and Helena),
- The Byzantine province of Opsikion (after the TIB volume no. 13 in 2020 on Bithynia and Hellespontus by K. Belke)
- Middle and Late Byzantine studies in Bithynia,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bring some progress to our current knowledge were of course welcome: archaeology, ancient history, historical geography, epigraphy, numismatic, history of art, cultural anthropology etc. The symposium took place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and recorded for later viewing on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2025. The symposium was free of charge.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference proceedings will be published in 2025 in Europe and in the third circular there are information about its rules etc.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
STUDIA BITHYNICA. An e-symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia
Date: May 10, 2023.
Meeting venue: Zoom.us
Bithynia was an ancient region in northwestern part of Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of the Marmara, the Bosporus and the Black Sea. It was bordered Mysia, Paphlagonia and Phrygia. From the fourth century B.C. it was an independent kingdom and its capital Nicomedia (today İzmit in Kocaeli) was rebuilt on the site of ancient Astacus in 264 B.C. Bithynia was bequeathed to the Roman Republic in 74 B.C., and became united with the Pontus region as the province of Bithynia et Pontus. During the Late Antiquity the region of Nicomedia and Nicaea witnessed several events related to early Christianity and early Christian ecclestiastical history. In the seventh century it was incorporated into the Byzantine Opsikion theme. Bithynia was eventually conquered by the Ottoman Turks between A.D. 1325 and 1333.
In this e-symposium our aim was to compile all recent evidence on the archaeology, history, epigraphy, numismatics, historical geography etc. on Bithynia and its cities, such as Nicomedia and Nicaea during the ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods, i.e. between the sixth century B.C. and 14th century A.D.
The main organizers of this symposium is Ergün Laflı from Izmir (elafli@yahoo.ca) and Zoe Tsiami from Volos (zoetsiami@gmail.com).
E-mail: terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
Journal of "Archaeology of western Anatolia"
Here is the Awa on the online Turkish scholarly journal platform "DergiPark":
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/awa
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international e-symposium, entitled “Pithoi in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean. An e-conference on the studies of pithos as a storage and burial vessel in the ancient Classical and Byzantine world”. On May 8, 2024 we have hosted on Zoom c. 30 participants from eight countries, and 15 papers dealing with pithoi were presented in one single day of the symposium. Please note that all the symposium documents were updated in our Academia account. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please let us know by e-mail.
Publication of the proceedings of the pithoi e-conference
1- The language of the publication will be English; the only accepted language for the proceedings is English; we, therefore, ask you kindly to submit your paper only in English. We would like to use British English for the proceedings, as most of our participants were from Europe. Spelling can be either British or American, provided it is consistent in either case.
2- We have no limit for the length of the papers.
3- The paper submission deadline is January 1, 2025.
4- Papers and photos should be submitted to the second editor of the proceedings (Ms Zoe Tsiami) electronically via e-mail. Here is her e-mail address: zotsiami@uth.gr
5- The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Europe in 2027.
6- As the book will contain only papers related to pithoi, we ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with pithoi. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished, and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.
7- If you did not attend the pithoi e-symposium because of a scheduling conflict or other reasons, but still have a paper about pithoi, you are also welcome to submit it to us for publication until January 1, 2025.
8- We are also seeking external peer reviewers for the proceedings. Please let us know if you would like to be a peer reviewer for our symposium‘s proceedings. As one of the member of our publication committee, your comments on all of the papers, such as their length, clearness and supported by the scientific data, will be most welcome. In regards of papers, you could also advise any improvements or submit your corrections about their jargon, language, organization of material, and conclusion of each paper.
9- We are also seeking proofreaders for the whole volume in regards of its English language style and grammar. We would be thankful if you are interested to assist us in terms of language. Contributors whose English is not their first language are advised to have their text copy-edited by a native speaker with knowledge of the subject.
10- Images of your papers should be in colour and have at least 600 dpi. Please note that lower resolutions will result a reduction or a suppression of the publication. We will of course keep photos in colour in pdf offprints and digital version of the book.
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6- All Latin words should be quoted in italics, without quotation marks.
7- Examples for the abbreviations of books in the bibliography:
Hortsmanhoff M., King H., Zittel Cl. (eds) (2012), Blood, sweat and tears. The changing Concepts of physiology from antiquity into modern early Europe, Leiden.
Espinosa D. (2013), Plinio y los “oppida de antiguo Lacio”. El proceso de difusión del Latium en Hispania Citerior, Madrid.
Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Hesperia suppl. 43 or Schepartz L. A., Fox S. C., Bourbou C. (2009), New directions in the skeletal biology of Greece, Athens (Hesperia suppl. 43).
8- An example for the abbreviations of proceedings in the bibliography:
Laurent J. (ed.) (2003), Les dieux de Platon, actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, les 24, 25 et 26 janvier 2002, Caen.
Please do not forget to add (ed.) or (eds) to the name of the editors!
9- An example for the abbreviations of the journal articles in the bibliography:
Valdés Guía M. (2000), « La apertura de una zona político-religiosa en los orígenes de la
polis de Atenas », Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, 26/1, p. 35-55.
10- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in a collective book in the bibliography:
Mehl V. (2008), « Corps iliadiques, corps héroïques », in V. Dasen, J. Wilgaux (eds), Langages et métaphores du corps, Rennes, p. 29-42.
11- References for the ancient sources should be developed separately in the bibliography under the title “Ancient sources”. For example:
Desrousseaux A. M. (1956), Athénée de Naucratis, Les Deipnosophistes, books I and II, Paris.
12- References for the ancient sources should be given in footnotes, using Roman numerals for books, and without abbreviations. Use commas rather than colons. For example: Xenophon, Anabasis, II, 3, 3.
13- In the references of the epigraphic collections, quoted corpara should be in italics. In the quotations of each inscription there should be no comma between the volume number in Roman numeral and the number of inscription in Arabic numeral, but a space between them. For example:
CIL XIII 8553; ILS II 5318; P. Lond. V 1657.
14- An example for the abbreviations of the articles in an encyclopedia in the bibliography:
Jessen O. (1913), s.u. « Helios », RE, VIII, col. 58-93.
15- As a general reference, and for all issues not mentioned here, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style Online. Here is its website: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
Next symposium in May 2025
On May 14, 2025 we organize the next Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea, Congressus internationales Smyrnenses in Izmir, with the title “Bone objects in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea area during the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods in honour of Hector E. Williams” on Zoom. This symposium is free of charge and all is welcome.
Hoping to host you in Izmir and/or on Zoom in our next symposium in May 2025, we wish you a productive and recreative summer season.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq2E-Bd7Z8>
Ergün Laflı
Zoe Tsiami
We are glad to inform you that an international e-symposium on baptism in Early Christianity and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor will take place on December 22, 2024 on Zoom.us. Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual for Christians. But where did this ritual come from? And what did it mean? Although the term “baptism” is not today used to describe the Jewish rituals (in contrast to New Testament times, when the Greek word βαπτισμός did indicate Jewish ablutions or rites of purification), the purification rites (or מִקְוֶה / מקווה; mikvah—ritual immersion) in Jewish law and tradition are similar to baptism, and the two have been linked.
This e-meeting will focus on the following questions related to baptism in Early Christianity: how did people practice and understand baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor, what kind of connotations did the baptismal use of water evoke in the Asian context, and what significance did baptism gain during the first centuries A.D.? Baptism seems to have been developed in the early years in close contact with the local religious context and the construction of baptisteries in the sixth century A.D. adapted local pagan elements of architecture. The Early Christian baptisteries featured water as the central element of baptism in an architecturally, ritually, and theologically reflected way.
In the study of baptism in Early Christian Asia Minor we will especially focus on epigraphic evidence which has been overlooked whereas there is still a huge amount of material from excavations and museums in Turkey. It is also our aim to analyze the subject with literary sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the liturgy and the actions of Early Christians, especially in ancient Anatolia. In this e-meeting, we only focus on baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor between c. fourth and sixth centuries A.D. and attempt to set out a comprehensive model for the study of Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor. It is also our intention to create a complete bibliography of previous publications on Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor.
We warmly invite contributions by scholars and graduate students from a variety of disciplines related to this subject. Intended to bring together scholars of Early Christian theology, Roman history and Greek epigraphy to discuss a range of issues concerning this ritual’s characteristics, this video conference should be an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this subject. The following theme groups are the main questions of the symposium which are prescriptive:
- The origins and development of baptism in Asia Minor,
- Relevance and performance of baptism in Early Christian contexts in Asia Minor,
- Early Christian baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor from archaeological field projects and museums,
- Etymology of Early Christian baptism,
- Ancient Greek and Latin textual sources on Early Christian baptism in Asia Minor,
- Hellenistic and Roman gravestones and other iconographic media depicting Early Christian baptism and baptismal inscriptions in Asia Minor,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bringing some progress to our current knowledge are of course welcome: theology, ancient history, epigraphy, archaeology, history of art, cultural anthropology, etc. The symposium will take place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference will be in English, and recorded for later viewing as a podcast on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2026. The symposium is free of charge.
We would be delighted, if you could consider contributing to our symposium and contact us with the required information below before September 1, 2024. Our e-mail address is: zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
For all your queries concerning the symposium, our phone number is: +90.544.938 54 64. The organizers seek to widen participation at this symposium and would like to encourage colleagues from all parts of the world to attend. We kindly request that you alert any interested researchers, colleagues and students within your research community who would be interested in participating in this e-conference, either by forwarding our first circular and poster through Academia, Researchgate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other similar social media, or by printing them and displaying in your institution. Please share them also on your ListServs. We hope that you will be able to join us on Zoom, and look forward to seeing you!
Required information for the participation to the e-conference
Type of your participation (virtual lecturer or virtual observer):
Name:
Academic title:
Institution:
E-mail:
Complete professional address:
Cell phone:
Academia or Researchgate account:
Orcid ID:
Would you agree with the recording of your virtual lecture and to be displayed as a podcast in our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4How2qUqAuGBEm27pKLZw) later?:
Any special requests:
Title of your lecture:
Your abstract:
NB: One or two illustrations can be included which should be sent by e-mail to zoetsiami@gmail.com and/or terracottas@deu.edu.tr
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
The aim of this online video conference is to report on the state of research concerning Bithynia during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods between ca. early sixth century B.C. and early 14th century A.D. We warmly welcome submissions from senior and junior scholars, including advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from a variety of disciplines related to this Anatolian region. We intended to bring together researchers who can present new syntheses of archaeological data from Bithynia and enter into dialogue with scholars working on the same material subsets. Intended to bring together scholars of Greek, Roman and Byzantine archaeology to discuss a range of issues concerning Bithynia, this electronic conference is an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about this region. Such papers that engage the following themes and topics are invited:
- Bithynia during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Archaeological field projects in Bithynia,
- Museum studies in Kocaeli, İznik, Bursa, Istanbul, Bolu and Düzce as well as abroad,
- Ancient Greek, Latin and Byzantine authors and other textual as well as cartographic sources on Bithynia and Bithynians,
- Bithynia during the Late Iron Age,
- Bithynia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.,
- The Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia and its rulers,
- Pre-Roman tumuli in Bithynia and their archaeology,
- The coinage of the Kingdom of Bithynia and Roman province of Bithynia,
- The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus (after the two legendary volumes of Chr. Marek in 1993 and 2003),
- Roman provincial administration in Bithynia,
- Historical geography and settlement patterns in pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia and Propontis,
- Two Bithynian cities and their interregional relationships: Nicomedia and Nicaea (after the 2020 volume of Asia Minor Studien no. 96 on the recent studies about Nicomedia and Nicaea),
- Epigraphic and numismatic studies in Bithynia during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods,
- Geographical, cultural and ethnic borders of Bithynia,
- Relationships between Bithynia and neighbouring regions,
- Roads, routes and population in Bithynia,
- Military archaeology in Roman Bithynia,
- The province Bithynia under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296,
- Roman Bithynia and Christianity to the mid-fourth century A.D. (after the Michigan dissertation of G.J. Johnson in 1984),
- Religious conflict in Late Roman Nicomedia and the rest of Bithynia,
- The Christian martyrs of the late third-early fourth century A.D. in Bithynia,
- Forms of Christian presence in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Episcopal sees of the Late Roman Bithynia,
- Jews and Jewish heritage in Roman and Early Byzantine Bithynia,
- Bithynia’s companion for the Christianity and early eastern Orthodox Church,
- Notable personalities of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Bithynia (e.g., Arrian, Cassisus Dio and Helena),
- The Byzantine province of Opsikion (after the TIB volume no. 13 in 2020 on Bithynia and Hellespontus by K. Belke)
- Middle and Late Byzantine studies in Bithynia,
- Miscellanea.
On these themes and questions, all approaches and methods susceptible to bring some progress to our current knowledge were of course welcome: archaeology, ancient history, historical geography, epigraphy, numismatic, history of art, cultural anthropology etc. The symposium took place virtually on Zoom. All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and recorded for later viewing on YouTube. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in 2025. The symposium was free of charge.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
All the readings and discussions in our e-conference were in English, and were recorded for later viewing on YouTube, if participants were unable to attend the live performance. The YouTube links of the e-conference can be found below.
The conference proceedings will be published in 2025 in Europe and in the third circular there are information about its rules etc.
Our culture is to deliver happiness to our conference participants. We therefore value the input of each one of our participants and would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide so that we can better meet your needs going forward for our future e-conferences. Thank you.
The conference committee kindly requests that you alert any persons within your research community by forwarding following links who would be interested in viewing our YouTube links.
Records of the e-conference in YouTube:
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
STUDIA BITHYNICA. An e-symposium on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia
Date: May 10, 2023.
Meeting venue: Zoom.us
Bithynia was an ancient region in northwestern part of Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of the Marmara, the Bosporus and the Black Sea. It was bordered Mysia, Paphlagonia and Phrygia. From the fourth century B.C. it was an independent kingdom and its capital Nicomedia (today İzmit in Kocaeli) was rebuilt on the site of ancient Astacus in 264 B.C. Bithynia was bequeathed to the Roman Republic in 74 B.C., and became united with the Pontus region as the province of Bithynia et Pontus. During the Late Antiquity the region of Nicomedia and Nicaea witnessed several events related to early Christianity and early Christian ecclestiastical history. In the seventh century it was incorporated into the Byzantine Opsikion theme. Bithynia was eventually conquered by the Ottoman Turks between A.D. 1325 and 1333.
In this e-symposium our aim was to compile all recent evidence on the archaeology, history, epigraphy, numismatics, historical geography etc. on Bithynia and its cities, such as Nicomedia and Nicaea during the ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods, i.e. between the sixth century B.C. and 14th century A.D.
The main organizers of this symposium is Ergün Laflı from Izmir (elafli@yahoo.ca) and Zoe Tsiami from Volos (zoetsiami@gmail.com).
E-mail: terracottas@deu.edu.tr
Records of the e-conference in YouTube
All videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@ergunlafli9033/videos
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMn4GyJozA4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7zlivGWFg&t=4167s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzxxVFGdus
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLBMrf1HiM
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWsJI7DUZ4
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 6:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-tPAeIUdpA
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGcW_ZMOwF8
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, part 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2I3Szjukus&t=480s
Bithynia e-symposium held on May 10, 2023, lecture by Sean Silvia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1kr1iZPtY
Here is the Awa on the online Turkish scholarly journal platform "DergiPark":
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/awa