International Conference «Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity» – Programme Now Available!

International Conference

Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

Bucharest, 17 – 19 May 2023

Organisers: Liviu Iancu (RO) & Francesco Meo (IT)

DAY 1 (Wednesday, 17 May 2023)

09.00 – 09.30: Registration
09.30 – 10.00: Opening speeches

10.00 – 11.00: Keynote lecture
Textiles for war: archaeological evidence and approaches
Margarita Gleba (Padua, Italy)

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break

Panel 1. From garments and armor to ropes and sails: the use of military textile items and the effects of military campaigns over the acquisition and consumption of textiles

11.30-12.00:
The Sling – an Overlooked Example of a ‘Weaponized Textile’ in Action
Emil Nankov (Sofia, Bulgaria)

12.00-12.30:
Memories of War. The linen cuirass of Lars Tolumnius and the military use of linen in Italic equipment and armour
Gianluca Tagliamonte (Lecce, Italy)

12.30-13.00:
Protecting the legionary’s head: analysis of the evidence of lining in Roman helmets from the Imperial age
Fabio Spagiari, Elisabetta Malaman (Padua, Italy)

13.00-13.30:
Did Wars and Conquests Change Textiles Consumption Habits? – Reused and Recycled textiles of the Jewish Rebels under the Roman Sieges compare to Nabatean Sites, First and Second Centuries CE
Orit Shamir (Jerusalem, Israel)

13.30-15.00: Lunch break

Panel 2. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Greek and Carthaginian military textile items and dress

15.00-15.30:
Iconographic representations of sails and ropes of Greek warships depicted on ancient ceramics
Paulina Lebiedowicz (Toruń, Poland)

15.30-16.00:
A Few War-Related Representations on Ancient Textile Tools
Alina Iancu (Bucharest, Romania)

16.00-16.30:                                                                                                                                                                                                           A technical description of the Carthaginian military dress
Amine Hadj Taieb (Sfax. Tunisia)

17.00-18.00: Visit to The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant: the Romanian folk costume and the interior textiles collections (t.b.c.)

DAY 2 (Thursday, 18 May 2023)

09.30-10.30: Keynote lecture
Craft, design and ergonomics: on decorations, reinforcements and protections for Mediterranean panoplies
Raimon Graells i Fabregat (Alicante, Spain)

10.30-11.00: Coffee break

Panel 3. Taxes, tributes, contracts or specialized workers? Systems of production and acquisition of garments and other textile items for the armies

11.00-11.30:
Quod satis in usum fuit sublato. Booty and tribute as textile supply sources for the ancient Greek and Roman armies
Liviu Mihail Iancu (Bucharest, Romania)

11.30-12.00:
Textiles on the March: Textile Activities in Roman Republican Military Contexts of Western Iberia (1st century BCE)
Francisco B. Gomes, Teresa Rita Pereira, Carlos Pereira, João Pimenta (Lisbon, Portugal / Madrid, Spain)

12.00-12.30:
Dressed for (Military) Success: Official and Private Suppliers for the Roman Army during the Empire
Iulia Dumitrache (Iași, Romania)

12.30-13.00:
Private textile supply and personal appearance of Roman soldiers in Imperial times
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (Bochum / Kassel, Germany)

13.00-13.10: Official group photo

13.10 – 14.30: Lunch break

Panel 4. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Italic military textile items and dress

14.30-15.00:
Woven and engraved military dress from Daunia
Francesco Meo (Lecce, Italy)

15.00-15.30:
Mantles, drapes and other textiles: echoes of military hierarchy on the proto-Lucanian Hydria from tomb 2 of Gravina di Puglia – Botromagno?
Carlo Lualdi (Warwick, United Kingdom)

15.30-16.00:
The paludamentum during the conquests of the Roman Republic
Dimitri Maillard (Paris, France)

16.30-17.45: Visit to the George Severeanu Museum: the Classical collection

19.00: Official dinner

DAY 3 (Friday, 19 May 2023)

10.00-11.00: Keynote Event
Official Launch of The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage

Poster:
The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage: An overview with the occasion of its official launching
Catarina Costeira, Alina Iancu (Lisbon, Portugal / Bucharest, Romania)

11.00-11.30: Coffee break

Panel 5. Elite cloaks and standard uniforms: the iconography of Imperial Roman military textile items and dress

11.30-12.00:
Roman military textile garments on the sarcophagi in Cilicia (southern Turkey)
Ergün Laflı, Maurizio Buora (Izmir, Turkey / Udine, Italy)

12.00-12.30:
Roman soldiers, miners or others: who were the people depicted on the funerary stelae from the Middle Strymon valley?
Philip Kolev (Sofia, Bulgaria)

12.30-13.00:
From milites to Augusti: The adoption of military clothing in Roman emperors’ depictions during the Third Century AD
Adrián Gordón-Zan (Zaragoza, Spain)

13.00-13.30:
Iconographic considerations about Late Antique military “fashion”
Marina Pizzi (Bologna, Italy)

13.30-14.00: Concluding remarks

14.00-15.30: Lunch break (for the members of the Management Committee of Euroweb)

15.30-17.30: Meeting of the Management Committee of Euroweb

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