FORGOTTEN SOULS OF ANTIQUITY HOW TO
How to solve the problems of correctly dating remains to be solved. It appears that when scratching the surface of the epigraphic dating, the card house collapses rather quickly. Pieter Houten presented their work on the funerary epigraphy only to descend into a discussion on dating. The last presentation of the morning was for the epigraphy group. Far from more traditional perspectives, focusing mainly on the evolution of public monuments of the classical period (especially the fora), their communication drew attention to other spaces of collective and public use also present in these centuries. The Urban Spaces group was represented by Ada Lasheras and Stefan Ardeleanu, and their presentation focused on public and collective spaces in late antique cities. She presented the evidence of worldly and religious local government in late antiquity to observe how this slowly changed in our period of research. Sabine had the honour of opening the scientific part of the conference with her presentation for the Political Power work group. Laurent Sabine and Moheddine opening the workshop(*). They were followed by brief introductory words from Laurent Brassous, Sabine Panzram and Moheddine Chaouali, who concluded the opening of the fourth ATLAS project colloquium. Despite these minor setbacks we started our conference with the opening words by Youssef Lachkem (the interim general director of the INP) and Daouda Sow (AMVPPC’s interim general director). With an hour delay we started the colloquium, only to discover that the internet-connection was not stable enough in the sturdy building, the walls were simply too massive. Fortuna was not with us, the busride started too late in the morning leading us to get stuck in the morning traffic of city centre Tunis. Tuesday May 2nd: Conference at Institut Nationale du PatrimoineĪfter a good night’s rest and a coffee with breakfast it was time to head for the INP in the medina of Tunis.
Nothing like meeting up with our colleagues on a terrace with a fantastic view of the city of Tunis!
Fortunately, very few flights were cancelled, they were easily changed and all were in time for the first dinner in the Sidi Bou Said hotel.
Some started their trips on International Labour Day with some concern, crossing their fingers that strikes would not impede travel. The fourth and penultimate ATLAS meeting, Les Villes dans l’Antiquité Tardive au sud de la péninsule Ibérique et en Afrique du Nord: entre recherche et valorisation patrimoniale, took place in Tunisia under the organisation of the Institut National du Patrimoine, the Agence de Mise en Valeur du Patrimoine et de Promotion Culturelle, the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, the Casa de Velázquez, the Universität Hamburg and the UMR 7266 LIENSs (La Rochelle Université/CNRS) on May 2nd and 3rd.
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