2026 Preliminary Academic Program

AIA Session
AIA Session

The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held in San Francisco, CA from January 7–10 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The academic program begins on the morning of Thursday, January 8 and finishes on the afternoon of Saturday, January 10. Sessions will be scheduled within morning, midday, and afternoon blocks.  Paper order within a session may not reflect the final time slots. Please check the annual meeting app and printed program for exact order and times.

SESSION BLOCK 1: THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 8:00-10:30 AM

1A: Publishing Data and Using Published Data: A Demo Session with Open Context (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Sarah W. Kansa, Open Context, and Eric C. Kansa, Open Context

Panelists: Ann Glennie, College of the Holy Cross, James Newhard, College of Charleston, Adam T. Rabinowitz, University of Texas at Austin, and Anthony Tuck, University of Massachusetts Amherst

1B: Restoring Cultural Heritage in Northwest Syria: Recent Collaborations and Lessons Learned (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Emily Wiley, Rutgers University, and Corinne Muller, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Penn Museum

Panelists: Ayman al-Nabo, Idleb Antiquities Center, Claudia Bührig,  Damascus Branch Office and Research Center of the DAI, Ammar Kannawi, Syrians for Heritage (SIMAT), Brian I. Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, and Corinne Muller, Penn Cultural Heritage Center 

1C: Greek Art and Architecture (Open Session)

Evolving Monsters: The Developing Role and Symbolism of Sirens in Archaic Greek Art
Theodoros Mazis, University of Oxford

‘Orientalizing’ or Natural History?  Griffin Protomes as New Life Forms
Guy Hedreen, Williams College

The Deconstructed sēma: Statue Burials in Early Democratic Attica
Peter A. Thompson, NYU–IFA/Oxford

Through the Eyes of a Child: Growing Up in an Ancient Greek House
Laurel Fricker, University of Michigan

SEG 34.664, SEG 38.658, and the Putative Heroön of Philip II at Philippoi
Paul A. Iversen, Case Western Reserve University

Echoes of Harmony: The Golden Ratio in Greek and Roman Theater Architecture
Dov Tamarkin, Tel Aviv University

1D: Narratives of Movement and Narratives in Motion (Open Session)

Progress to Paikuli: An Archaeological and Literary Reconstruction of Narseh’s Processional Route of 293 CE
Mark K. Gradoni, University of California, Irvine, Melissa DePierro, University of California, Irvine, Carlo Cereti University of California, Irvine, Giulio Maresca, Sapienza Universita di Roma, and Gianfilippo Terribili, Sapienza Universita di Roma

“Ancient temples collapsed”: Rewriting a Procession to Convert Hadrian’s Mausoleum in the Christian Historical Memory of Rome
Kearstin Jacobson, University of Texas at Austin

Movement and Presence in Heritage Tourism: The Footsteps of Saint Paul Cultural Route in Corinth, Greece
Hannah L. Lents, The University of Texas at Austin

George Finlay’s Deme: Archaeology and Foreign Land Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Sebastian Marshall, University of St Andrews

Two Decades Towards the Creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos
David Gilman Romano, Parrhasian Heritage Foundation, Mary E. Voyatzis, Parrhasian Heritage Foundation, Mark Davison, Parrhasian Heritage Foundation, Panagiota Pantzou,

1E: New Research on Lydian, Hellenistic, and Roman Sardis (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Nicholas Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Step-by-step: Urban terracing practices in Lydian Sardis
Güzin Eren, Boston University

The Palaces of Croesus and of his Ancestors
William Bruce, University of Kansas

An Extramural Lydian Neighborhood at Sardis
Eric Hensley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tracing Tombs around Sardis
Leyla Uğurer, Cornell University, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard University, and Annetta Alexandridis, Cornell University

Is this the End?: Parsing Out Cycles of Use, Reuse and Destruction in Late Roman Central Sardis
Frances Gallart Marqués, Sardis Expedition

Measuring the Immeasurable: The Curvatures of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Fikret Yegül, University of California – Santa Barbara, and Philip Stinson, Kansas University

1F: Methods in Making (Open Session)

Fleshing out the Historical Production of Egyptian Blue: Investigating Size and Technical Process
Hilary Becker, Binghamton University, Tyler Rust, Independent Scholar, and Jeffrey T. Pietras, Binghamton University

Crumbs of Evidence: Considering Fragmentary Evidence for Bread Production at Poggio Civitate
Nora Donoghue, Gonzaga University

Advertising Producers on Luxury Vessels: Imagistic Script and Workshop Makers’ Marks on late Roman Portable Objects
Hallie G. Meredith, Washington State University

Made in Motion: Craft Mobility between Satricum and Pofi in Pre-Roman Lazio
Martina Revello Lami, Leiden University

The Production of Roman Period Marble Statuettes in Phrygia and The Agents Routing to Its Expansion
Veli Kose, Ankara University

Archaeological Invetigations of the Ancient Maya Granite Quarry-Workshops of the Mountain Pine Ridge, Belize
Jon Spenard, California State University San Marcos

1G: Local Lakonia: Space and place beyond Sparta (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Shannon Dunn, AJA, Bryn Mawr College, and Luke Madson,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Tainaron as a Place of Refuge
Chelsea Gardner, Acadia University

Gytheio, Emporia, and Religious Change  in Hellenistic Laconia and Sparta
Luke Madson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Bronze Tainiai from the Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas in Laconia
Nicolette Pavlides, University of Edinburgh

Exploring Evolving Identities in Ancient Geronthrai
Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, UC San Diego, Mieke Prent, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University, Amsterdam), Els Hom, Independent Scholar, and Stuart Thorne, Independent Scholar

Selinous: a new Classical-Hellenistic fortified acropolis in the western foothills of the Parnon
Mieke Prent, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Athanasios Themos, Epigraphic Museum, Athens, Eleni Zavvou, Epigraphic Museum, Athens, and Stuart MacVeagh Thorne,  Independent Scholar

Walnut Maidens and Murdered Men: Evolving Myths and Toponyms in a Lakonian Border Town
Shannon Dunn, Bryn Mawr College

1H: The Mobility and Circulation of Ancient Coins and People (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: AIA Numismatics Interest Group

Organizer(s): Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery

Discussant: Fae Amiro, University of Western Ontario

The Coinage of Expelled Populations in Classical Greece: Mobility, Circulation, Identity
James Hua, Oxford University

All Rhodes Lead to Rome: A Geographic Study of the Circulation of Rhodian Coinage in the Late Roman Republic
Araceli Rizzo, Columbia University

Coins on the March: the Hoards of the Anonymous Coins of the Civil Wars 68-69 CE
Elizabeth Fajardo, University of California, Berkeley

Changing Representations: The Iconography of Maternal Power in the Numismatics of Julia Domna Across the Roman Empire
Grace Niehaus, University of Victoria

1I: Perilous Provenance: Museums, Patrimony, and the 1970 UNESCO Convention (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Organizer(s): Alyssa C. Thiel, Penn Cultural Heritage Center and Brian I. Daniels, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Panelists: Patty Gerstenblith, Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law, María José Buerba Romero Valdés, Office of the Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Virginia Hermann, U.S. Department of State, and Daniel Healey, Worcester Art Museum

1J: Opening Access to the Roman Provinces: RPAIG’s Site Guide and Wikidata Project (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group (RPAIG)

Organizer(s): Colin Omilanowski, University of Arizona, and Anne Hunnell Chen, Bard College

Panelists: Rob Collins, Newcastle University, Erin Peters, Appalachian State University, Sarah Craft, Florida State University, Alice Lynn McMichael, Barnard College, Blair Fowlkes Childs, Columbia University, Zoé Elise Thomas, University of Texas at Austin, and Michelle Heeman, Stanford University

SESSION BLOCK 2: THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

2A: Exhibiting the Etruscans Today: Rethinking Ways of Bridging the Past and the Present (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Etruscan Interest Group

Organizer(s): Alexandra A. Carpino, Northern Arizona University, Daniele F. Maras, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, and Richard De Puma, The University of Iowa

Panelists: Daniele F. Maras, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Luana Toniolo, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Nancy de Grummond, Florida State University, Alexander Ekserdjian, Yale University, Kristine Bøggild Johannsen, Thorvaldsens Museum, Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen, The National Museum of Denmark,Cecilie Brøns, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Vinnie Nørskov, Aarhus University, Renée Dreyfus, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young / Legion of Honor, and Lisa C. Pieraccini, University of California Berkeley

2B: Recontextualizing Ritual Environments in Egypt and Western Asia (Open Session)

The Midas Monument in Historical Context
Mark Munn, The Pennsylvania State University

Tracing Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Petra: Insights into Cross-Cultural Exchange
Jennifer Ramsay, State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, and Björn Anderson, University of Iowa

Kyphi Discovered at Tell Timai, Egypt
Robert J Littman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Jay Silverstein, Nottingham Trent University

Sarapis Beyond Egypt: An Exploration of Serapea in Asia Minor
Laryssa A. Shipley, University of Arizona

2C: Now What? Career Opportunities for Archaeology Graduates and Enthusiasts (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Student Affairs Interest Group

Organizer(s): Allison A. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wendy Vencel, North Carolina State University

Panelists: William Loder, Independent Scholar, Adin White, Chico State University, Joel Christensen, CUNY, Jennifer Sacher,  Hesperia, Natalie  Susmann, Brandeis University, and Dani McIvor, Exec Director, The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough

2D: Sicily (Open Session)

Rural Life in Inland Sicily: Preliminary Results of the Khora of Archaic Morgantina Project (KAMP)
Kevin Ennis, Indiana University Bloomington, Alex Moskowitz, Amherst College, Helen Wong, University of Pennsylvania, and Danielle Perry, University of Pennsylvania

The Life and Death of a Life-Sized Limestone Woman at Morgantina
William Pedrick, Princeton University, and Kevin Ennis, Indiana University

Epigraphy, Topography, and Politics in the Agora of Hellenistic Morgantina: A New Decree of the Council
Randall Souza, Seattle University

Building Memories: Materiality and Funerary Monuments in Fourth-to-First Century BCE Sicily
Claire C. Challancin, American University of Rome

For the Love of Gods: Eroticism, Pursuit, and the Divine in the Art of Selinunte
Douglas Braun, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

2E: Authority and Transformation in Late Antique Rome (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks

The Architectural Design of Late Antique Rome: Metrology and Acoustics on the Eastern Caelian
Gianluca Foschi, Newcastle University, Paolo Liverani, and Ian Haynes

Constantius II and Constantina in Rome: Dynastic Unity and Christian Piety
Michele Renee Salzman, University of California, Riverside

The Transformed Radiance of Rome’s Late Antique Audience Halls
Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Governing Rome at the End of Empire
Alessandro Battaglia, New York University

2F: New Tools, New Interpretations (Open Session)

(Re)Visualizing a Sanctuary: The Cave of the Nymphs and Pan at Daphni
Caroline L. Carter, University of Virginia

Digitally Reconstructing the Eastern Workshops of the Athenian Agora: Visualizing Commerce and Architecture During and After the Peloponnesian War
Aspasia Efstathiou, University of Thessaly-ASCSA

Breathing Life into Stone: Using 3D Technology to “Resurrect” Classical Grave Monuments
Stephanie Polos, University of Virginia

Managing the Interpretation of Ancient Spaces Using 3D Simulations: A Case-Study in the Colosseum
Zackary Hegarty, Indiana University

Staging Senses: Art, Architecture, Theatricality, and Sensory Experience at the Serapeum of Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli
Myat Thinzar Aung, The University of Texas at San Antonio

2G: From Punic to Roman (Open Session)

Excavations in the Monumental Center of Tharros, Sardinia
Steven J.R. Ellis, University of Cincinnati, and Eric E. Poehler, UMASS, Amherst

Fieldwork Report: Excavations at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria (Italy)
Carrie Murray, Brock University, Eóin O’Donoghue, Brandeis University, Kate Kreindler, University of Virginia, and Maxine Anastasi, University of Malta

City of Caelestis: The Memory of the Tophet and Civic Identity in Roman Carthage
Christopher Saladin, Rowan University

2H: Houses and Gardens in the Bay of Naples (Open Session)

Towards an Archaeology of Visible and Invisible Horticultural Labor: Archaeological Evidence for Gardeners and Gardening at the Casa della Regina Carolina, Pompeii
Kaja Tally-Schumacher, Harvard University, Caitie Barrett, Cornell University, Annalisa Marzano, University of Bologna, Kathryn Gleason, Cornell University, and Lee Graña, University of Bologna

Artificial Lighting Systems in Post-Earthquake Pompeian Gardens
Emily Lime, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

An Architectural History of Villa A, Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy)
Michael L. Thomas, The University of Texas at Dallas

Ancient Philological Restorations in the House of Orion (V, 2) at Pompeii
Brittany C. Proffitt, University of Missouri- Columbia

2I: Museums. Collecting Histories and Collecting Futures: How and Why Museums Collect Art Today (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Museums and Exhibitions Committee

Organizer(s): Sarah Lepinski, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lisa Anderson-Zhu, The Walters Art Museum

Panelists: Seth Pevnick, Cleveland Museum of Art, Jessica Powers, San Antonio Museum of Art, Lynley McAlpine, San Antonio Museum of Art, Carolyn M. Laferrière, Princeton University Art Museum, MaryKate Cleary, Princeton University Art Museum, and Jens Daehner, J. Paul Getty Museum

2J: Poster Session #1

Complex Context: Examining the Exhibition of Repatriated Artifacts in Turkish Museums
Skylar Masuda, Fulbright Türkiye

Constructing Early Helladic Askitario
Kyle A. Jazwa, Maastricht University

Welcome to the Neighborhood: Reassessing Pompeii’s Urban Structure and Identity with Radial Distance Analysis
Matthew D. Selheimer, University of Leicester / Lone Star College

An Experiment on the Performance of Pigments between Encaustic and Tempera Applications
Abigail Chapman, University of Missouri Columbia

Fleeting Reign, Enduring Fabric: An Antoninianus of Tacitus with Textile Remains
Arielle Suskin, Case Western Reserve University, and Clara Pinchbeck, Case Western Reserve University

Finding Shipwrecks: Archaeological and Environmental Variables for Predictive Modeling in the Eastern Mediterranean
Cassidy J. Robertson, AIA Niagara Peninsula Society

The Pantheon: Porch Design and Divine Narrative
Richard A. Etlin, University of Maryland

An Unidentified Glyph of the Obeliscus Tiberinus
Robert S. Wagman, University of Florida, Andrew G. Nichols, University of Florida, and William N. Bruce, University of Kansas

Reassessing Bronze Age Settlement at Torre Mordillo: Results from the 2025 Excavation
Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University, Olivia Foran, Queen’s University, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Università della Tuscia, Simone Giosué Madeo, Università di Genova, and Parrish Wr

Eroding Prehistory: Predicting River Migration and Site Loss at Altar de Sacrificios
Jill Onken, University of Arizona

The Xiongnu Occupancy of Baga Gazaryn Chuluu, Mongolia
Mark E. Hall, Independent Scholar, Chunag Amartuvshin,  National University of Mongolia, Michelle Hrivnyak, Western Michigan University, William Honeychurch, Yale University, and Albert Nelson, University of Michigan

The Use of Obsidian in Late Iron Age in Sardinia:  A Recent Discovery at Nuraghe S’Urachi
Robert H. Tykot, University of South Florida, Peter van Dommelen, Brown University, and Julia Gustafson, University of Cambridge

A DEM for Seven Hills: Reconstructing Republican Rome’s Topography
Kurtis A. Butler, University of Missouri

The Melanes Monolith: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Colossal Architectural Block on Naxos
Maya Parfitt, College of William & Mary, Devon Keesee, College of William & Mary / University of St. Andrews, and Jessica Paga, College of William & Mary

The Roman Terracotta Masks of Corinth:  The Assemblage from East of Theater
Emmanuel Aprilakis, Rutgers University / Texas A&M University

Two Late Bronze Age Double Pit Graves from the Athenian Agora
Trevor Van Damme, University of Warwick

Secondary Glass Production in Rough Cilicia
Paige S. Daniels, University of Colorado Boulder

Forgotten Frankoklisi: A Frankish Tower-Chapel in Mani
Christos Zigoumis, Carleton University

Preliminary Results from the Faunal Remains of Tharros (OR, Sardinia)
Bailey Franzoi, University of Michigan

Revolutionizing Rock Art Documentation: A Multi-Stage Digital and Analytical Workflow Northern Saudi Arabia
Norah Alqahtani, Inventory Specialist, and Nada Mesfer Alradhan, Heritage Commission, Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia

Ritual or Refuse Disposal? A Zooarchaeological look at the Crossroads Enclosure (Athenian Agora)
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, and Jacqueline Meier, University of North Florida

SESSION BLOCK 3: THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2:00-5:00 PM

3A: Methodologies of Inclusion (Open Session)

Antiquity and Heritage in the 21st Century Berber Pottery of Sejnane
Paul Dambowic, Pratt Institute

Archaeology in Montenegro: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
Dušan Medin, University Donja Gorica, Faculty for Culture and Tourism

Mapping and Excavating a Pre-Colonial African Kingdom
James Bloom, Ethical Culture Fieldston School

The Quantitative and the Quotidian: The Embodied Mathematics of Women’s Labor in Classical Greece
Katherine B. Harrington, UNC Greensboro

Conservation Through Innovation: Integrated Archaeological Methods at Crnobuki
Jessica M. Morris, Cal Poly Humboldt

Putting Objects to Work: Using Artifacts to Foster Museum Literacy and Museum-Going Identities
Jen Thum, Harvard Art Museums

3B: Landscapes in Transition: New Approaches to Medieval and Post-Medieval Fieldwork (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: MAPMA

Organizer(s): Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia, and Angelo Castrorao Barba, Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA), Granada, Spain

Islamic Landscapes in Transition: Comparing Patterns of Change in Sicily and al-Andalus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Angelo Castrorao Barba, School of Arabic Studies EEA, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Granada

Reassessing the Islamic Cemetery at the Domus Romana of Rabat: Archaeological Legacy and Digital Innovation
David Cardona, Heritage Malta, and Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida

Medieval Alpine Archaeology: Power, Production, and Environment between Italy and Switzerland (8th–13th Century)
Federico Zoni, Università degli studi di Bergamo

Archaeology of Monastic Landscapes: Reconstructing Sacred Space and Environment at Kosmosoteira in Byzantine Thrace
Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia, Georgios Makris, University of British Columbia, Görkem Günay, Koç University, Dimitra Sikalidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Justin Mann, Dumbarton Oaks

Contextualizing Fortifications: A Report on the Third Season of the Medieval Roman Archaeological Survey of Kalymnos
Drosos Kardulias, University of Michigan

Fieldwork at the 16th-century Fortress of Achillio in Southern Mani, Greece: Survey, LiDAR, and Photogrammetry
Rebecca Seifried, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Philip Sapirstein, University of Toronto, Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Acadia University, and William Parkinson, Field Museum; University of Illinois at Chicago

3C: Ethnoscapes of the Dead: Italic and Etruscan Chamber Tombs Revisited (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Valeria Riedemann Lorca, University of Washington, and Karolina Sekita, Tel-Aviv University

Discussant: Luigi Todisco, Università degli Studi di Bari

New Observations on the Preserved Sculptural Decoration of Hypogeal Tombs from Canosa
Luigi Todisco, Università degli Studi di Bari

The Funerary Hypogea of Daunia between the Fifth and the Second centuries BCE. Architecture, Paintings, Funerary Rituals and Assemblages
Andrea Celestino Montanaro, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Heritage Science – Lecce

Burial, Population, and Identity in Pre-Roman Southern Apulia
Giovanni Mastronuzzi, Università del Salento, Valeria Melissano, Università del Salento, Giacomo Vizzino, Università del Salento, Foteini Gkrizi, University of Thessaly, and Giorgia Tulumello, National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria

Family Burials at Roccagloriosa. Structure, Decoration, Intent
Helena Fracchia, University of Alberta, and Maurizio Gualtieri, University of Alberta

Theoretical Perspectives and New Approaches on the Interpretation of Necropoleis and Funerary Chamber Tombs of Etruria and Campania
Mariassunta Cuozzo, Università del Molise Campobasso

The Forgotten Tombs. Etruscan Sarcophagi in Context.
Laura Nazim, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Funerary Landscapes and Political Authority. Chamber Tombs and Necropoleis in the Middle and Lower Tiber Valley
Maria Cristina Biella, Sapienza Università di Roma

3D: Mycenaean Society (Open Session)

No Need to BYOC: An Analysis of Handleless Cups, Tripod Cookpots, and Commensality at Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea
Natalie Abell, University of Michigan, Jami Baxley Craig, Florida State University, Lauren Alberti, University of Michigan, and Christine Weber

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery as a Social Strategy
Sophie Cushman, University of California, Berkeley

Rethinking Mycenaean Palaeography
Theodore M. S. Nash, University of Michigan

The Damos at Ancient Pylos: The Case for Marx’s ‘Primitive’ Communism
Ian Tewksbury, Santa Clara University

Squatters in the Mansion: The LH IIIC Late Reoccupation Phase at Koukounaries, Paros
Jason Earle, The Institute for Aegean Prehistory

Reconsidering Nichoria: Continuity from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
Allison A. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3E: The Archaeology and Ecology of Anatolian Landscapes: Fieldwork Results from Yalburt Survey Project in the Hittite Borderlands (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Anatolian Archaeology Interest Group

Organizer(s): Omur Harmansah, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant: Jennie Bradbury, Bryn Mawr College

Introduction: Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project 2010-2021
Omur Harmansah, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Performance of Hydrologic Control: a Late Hittite Dam that Could Never Hold Water
Ben Marsh, Bucknell University

Between a Settlement and a Hard Place: Biography of the Second Millennium BCE Upland Site at Yalburt Yaylası
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver, Temple University

Palimpsests of Pastoralism and the Sacred: the Karst Uplands above Yalburt Yaylası
Peri Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Placing Toriaion in its Historical Landscape, Recontextualizing an Epigraphic Dossier
Noah Kaye, Michigan State University

Vegetation Cover as a Guide to Archaeological Context in Landscape Survey
Bochay Drum, Independent Researcher

Ecofacts Between Sites
Shannon Martino, Morton College

3F: Greek Pottery and its Contents (Open Session)

Ionians Abroad: New Evidence for Greek Mercenaries in the Levant
Aaron Burke, University of California, Los Angeles

Archaic Finewares from the Sanctuary of Isthmia
Angela Ziskowski, Coe College

Petite mais puissante: The Corinthian Pottery Assemblage at Marseille
Haley Bertram, Ohio University

Negotiating Identity Through Clay: Hellenistic Pottery and Cultural Interaction in the Seleucid East
Ileana De Giuseppe, University of California, Irvine

Value on the Vine: An Archaeo-textual Approach to the Study of High Value Wines in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Mediterranean
Sarah T. Wilker, De Anza College, and Rachel E. Dubit, Dartmouth College

Kosmesis, Eros, and Burgon’s Lebes Gamikos
Sheramy Bundrick, University of South Florida

Face Down: Iconographic Censorship and the Mutilation of Hector on Attic Vases
Keren Freidenreich, The Graduate Center, CUNY

3G: Art Historical Approaches to the Study of Ancient West Asia and Egypt (Open Session)

Sleeping Flasks, Waiting Lamps: Self-Reflexive Servile Objects of Ptolemaic Egypt
Charlotte R.F. Mandy, Columbia University

YOUR FACE IS AS A BOOK: Figurine Heads from Tell Hadidi
Jennifer Fueger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Omphalos Bowls at Iron Age Gordion: Individuality, Standardization, and Status
Braden W. Cordivari, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Making Wonder: Workmanship and the Cross-Cultural Appeal of Late Antique Iranian Silver Vessels
Arvin Maghsoudlou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

In the Presence of the King: Proprioception, Protocol, and the Architecture of Etiquette at Persepolis
Neville McFerrin, University of North Texas

3H: Religious Places and Practices in the Roman World (Open Session)

Motherhood and Political Agency in Etruscan Women’s Votive Inscriptions during Roman Expansion
Claudia Paparella, University of Toronto

The Agora Valley Project at Morgantina, Sicily: Report on the 2024–2025 Field Seasons
Christy Schirmer, Wesleyan University, Anne Truetzel, Davidson College, William Pedrick, Princeton University, Alex Moskowitz, Amherst College, Claire Challancin, American University of Rome, Sheridan Marsh, University of Pennsylvania, Phoebe Thompson, University of Pennsylvania, Kevin Ennis, Indiana University, and Alex Walthall, University of Texas at Austin

The Cult of Sabazius at Pompeii: The 2021-2025 Fieldwork Seasons in the Complesso dei Riti Magici
Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa, Italy, and Riccardo Olivito, IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

The Ritual Lives of Oysters: Marine Resource Exploitation and Deposition in Roman Britain
Avner Goldstein, Boston College

Provincial Possibilities: Comparing “Altar Habits” in Roman Britain and Syria
Blair K. Betik, Yale University

The Cult of Jupiter and Hercules Saxanus: Two Altars from Slovenia
Patricia A. Butz, University of California Riverside

The Spatial Politics of Lycian Tomb Monuments and their Adaptation at the End of Antiquity
Allison B. Kidd, The British Museum

3I: Art and Society in Pompeii (Open Session)

Reading Between the Lines: Naming Subelite Households in Pompeii I.14
Laura Malagrino, Oxford University

Writing on the Walls, Standing in the Forum: The Agency of Intermediate Bodies in Pompeii
Simone Ciambelli, Università di Bologna / Brown University

An Appetite for Metal: The Consumption of Bronze Kitchenwares in Pompeii
Aaron D. Brown, Stanford University

Platonism in Pompeiian Paintings: Behind the Wrestling of Eros and Pan
Emily Wiley, Rutgers University

Carthage in Pompeii: The Dido Fresco from the Casa del Meleagro
Marguerite C. Knapp, AIA Western MA Society

3J: Transforming the Life of Society by bringing the Past into the Present: Projects carried out by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture towards the Protection, Enhancement and Communication of the Greek Cultural Heritage (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Organizer(s): Anastasia Gadolou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Musuem of Thessaloniki, and Andreas Vlachopoulos, University of Ioannina

The Project of Restoration and Enhancement of the Archaeological Site of Petres in Florina: Connecting the Local Community with its Cultural Heritage
Elpiniki Naoum, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella

Connecting the Past with the Present: How the Enhancement of the Emblematic Ancient Theater and its Surrounding Monuments in the Phrourion Hill of Larissa in Thessaly, Central Greece, has Transformed the Life and Identity of its Citizens
Stavroula Sdrolia, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Larissa, and Giorgos Toufexis, Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Innovating Cultural Heritage Preservation and Visitor Engagement: The Role of RFID Technology at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Evangelia Tsagaraki, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Department of Metallurgy of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Dimitrios Karolidis, Department of Conservation of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, and Aggeliki Moneda, Department of Digital Transformation of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

The New Archaeological Museum at Chania in Crete: A Reservoir of Knowledge and Experiences.
Eleni Papadopoulou, Head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania

The Dynamic of Cultural Routes in the Protection and Communication of Cultural Heritage
Anastasia Gadolou, Director General of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, and Elena Kountouri, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens

SESSION BLOCK 4: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 8:00-10:30 AM

4A: Reusing Imagery in the Roman World (Open Session)

Reconsidering the “Tiberius Relief”: Recarved or Not?
John Pollini, University of Southern California

Late Roman Reused Coin Pendants and the Performative Potential of Jewelry
Elisha A. Dumser, University of Akron

A Colossal Zeus at Ancient Corinth
Aileen Ajootian, The University of Mississippi

4B: A History of the Mediterranean in Six Shipwrecks (Workshop)
Organizer(s): Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University

Panelists: Lorenz Baumer, University of Geneva, Angeliki Simosi, Ephorate of Underwater Archaeology, Greece, Deborah Carlson, Texas A&M University, Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University, William Murray, University of South Florida, Harun Ozdas, Dokuz Eylul University, and Cemal Pulak, Texas A&M University

4C: Heritage, Memory, and Loss (Open Session)

Re-building Bronze Age Heritage: Results of the AIA Nancy Wilkie Emergency Fund for Heritage Preservation at Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Hatay, Türkiye)
Murat Akar, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University

Unearthing Ethics: Displaying and Researching Human Remains
Yona Siero, None, independent

Choosing to Forget in Burial Studies
Megan M. Matheny, Saint Louis University

From the Ashes: Rapid Response Conservation and Community Heritage After the 2025 Los Angeles Fires
Kristine Garroway, Hebrew Union College, Kiernan Graves, AIA Member at Large, Site & Studio Conservation, LLC, and Margalit Schindler, AIA Member at Large, Pearl Preservation

4D: Beyond the Academy: AIA Career Training Initiative (AIA-CaTI) for Archaeology Students (Workshop)

Sponsored by the AIA Committee on Research and Academic Affairs

Organizer(s): James Newhard, College of Charleston and Joanne Murphy, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Panelists: Carrier Galsworthy, Conestoga College, Catherine Foster,  Argus Cultural Property Consultants, Steve Karacic, Chronicle Heritage, Inc.. Jennifer Thum, Harvard University, and Rachel Dewan, Skagway Public Library, U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield

4E: The Hellenistic World (Open Session)

Excavating a Hellenistic Military Community: Report on the 2025 Season at Pyla-Vigla, Cyprus
Melanie Godsey, Trinity University, Thomas Landvatter, Reed College, and Brandon Olson, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Matohasanaj Archaeological Project: Results from the Second Field Season
Erin Pitt, Sweet Briar College, Sabina Veseli, Albanian Institute of Archaeology, and Mirgen Shametaj, Sweet Briar College

Recent Excavations at Markova Kula: A Hellenistic Fortress in the Demir Kapija (Iron Gate) Gorge
Ordanche Petrov, Institute of Old Slavic Culture – Prilep, North Macedonia, Justin N. Carlson, Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, and Nick A. M. Angeloff, Cal Poly Humboldt

Fieldwork at Phoenix (Carian Chersonese) 2025
Asil Yaman, University of Pennsylvania

Death, Wealth, and the Landscape at Jebel Khalid, Syria
Helen C. Wong, University of Pennsylvania, and Erin M. Brantmayer, The University of Texas

Türkmen-Karahöyük 2025 Results from Field 6
Cory Crawford, Ohio University, and Dominik Lukas, University of Chicago

4F: Crete (Open Session)

The Excavation at Megalos Peristeres Cave (Crete): A Preliminary Report
Thomas F. Strasser, Providence College, Andreas Darlas, Ministry of Culture (Greece), and Miriam Clinton, Rhodes College

Shaking Earth, Shaking Sea: The Theran Eruption and the Making of a Tsunami God
Giulia Paglione, University of Cincinnati, and Paolo Sabattini, University of California, Los Angeles

Knossos in the Final Palatial and Postpalatial Periods: Investigating the Decline of an Urban Landscape
Alice Crowe, Florida State University

Using the Archive as Subject: The Cases of the North-East House and the North Pillar Crypt at Knossos
Renee Trepagnier, University of Bristol and Ashmolean Museum

Lyktos Archeological Project (Crete): The Results of ISAW/NYU’s Fieldwork in 2024
Antonis Kotsonas, New York University, Cicek Beeby, Brown University, Sarah Norvell, Princeton University, Dominic Pollard, University of Cambridge, Filippos Roussos, University of Oxford, Christina Stefanou, New York University, and Valia Tsikritea, University of Cincinnati

Hierapytna’s Northern Expansion: A Hellenistic Beacon Tower at Mochlos (Crete)
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogn, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

4G: Etruscans in America: Gold Medal Symposium in Honor of Nancy Thomson de Grummond (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: AIA Gold Medal Committee

Organizer(s): Lora Holland Goldthwaite, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alexandra A. Carpino, Northern Arizona University

“The glory of Philadelphia”: Pre-Roman Objects, American Museums, and Etruscan Studies
Hilary Becker, Binghamton University, and Jeffrey Becker, Binghamton University

Introducing the Etruscans: Emeline Hill Richardson and The Etruscans: Their Art and Civilization in post-war America
Laurel Taylor, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Scholarship on the Margins: Bonfante, Brendel, and the Power of Etruscan Studies
Francesco de Angelis, Columbia University

The Man from Murlo: The Legacy of Kyle Meredith Phillips
Ingrid Edlund-Berry, University of Texas at Austin, and Anthony Tuck, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mario Del Chiaro: Pioneering the Etruscans in California and Beyond
Lisa C. Pieraccini, University of California, Berkeley

Etruscan Mirrors in US Collections
Alexandra A. Carpino, Northern Arizona University

4H: From the Roman Frontier (Open Session)

Military Bath-Houses as Indicators of Cultural Identity and Garrison Size: Evidence from Roman Britain’s Northern Frontier
James Kenneth, The University of Western Ontario

From Conquered to Conquerors:  The Triumphant Rider on Military Funerary Stelae in Roman Britain
Madeline P. Newquist, Case Western Reserve University

Pannonian Pots for Sarmatian Stew? Cooking and Cuisine in Rome’s Danubian Borderland
Timothy C. Hart, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Outsiders at Intercisa? An Image of Breastfeeding on the Roman Danube Frontier
Nicola Barham, University of Michigan

disiecta membra: Building the Evidence for Roman Stone Architecture in Germany
Catherine Teitz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, and Johannes Lipps, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

4I: Managing Altered Terrain and Waters in the Roman Provinces (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group (RPAIG) and AIA Subcommittee on Climate Change

Organizer(s): Matthew Schueller, The College of William & Mary, and Andrew Welser, Duke University

Discussant: Amanda Gaggioli, University of Memphis

Roman Land Management at Magna Fort: Archaeological and Palaeoecological Evidence for Land Utilization
Franki Gillis, The Vindolanda Trust, Robert McCulloch, University of Edinburgh, and Rachel Frame, The Vindolanda Trust

Ditches and Drainage on the Roman Frontier: Controlling Water Movement at Vindolanda
Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, and Andrew Birley, The Vindolanda Trust

Silver, the Olive, and the Guadalquivir: Human-Driven Environmental Change in Hispania Baetica
Andrew Welser, Duke University

Riverside Erosion, Rising Groundwater, and Desiccation at Roman Stobi
Matthew Schueller, The College of William & Mary

Overcoming Resource Scarcity on the Edge of Empire: The Innovative Construction of Roman-style Baths in Arabia
Craig Harvey, University of Alberta

4J: Small Change (Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Friends of Numismatics

Organizer(s): Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, and Fae Amiro, Western University

Discussant: Peter van Alfen, Chief Curator, American Numismatic Society

Pale Sulfur for Broken Glass: Sulfur as Small Change?
Elliott Piros, Loyola Marymount University

Pierced and Cut: Contextualizing Small Change on the Roman Frontier in the First Century CE
Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery

Imperial Women’s Portraits on Provincial Small Coinage during the Flavian-Trajanic Period: Importance and Significance
Raffaella Bucolo, University of Verona

The Emperor’s New Hair: Non-canonical Hairstyles of Augustus on Small Change in the Roman Province of Hispania
Francesca Lam-March, King’ College London

Uncovering Tarsus’ Small Change: A New Look at Pseudo-Autonomous Coinage
Campbell Orchard, Digital Curator of Greek and Roman Provincial Coins, University of Warwick / University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room).

SESSION BLOCK 5: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

5A: Navigating Contingent Positions and the Precarity of the Faculty Pipeline (Workshop)

Sponsored by: First-Generation Low-Income Federation and the Committee on Contingent Faculty

Organizer(s): Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and Katie Tardio, Bucknell University

Panelists: Naomi Campa, University of Texas at Austin, Matthew Chaldekas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, CJ Rice, Vassar College, Leticia R. Rodriguez, University of Houston, and Jeremy Swist, Michigan State University

5B: The Pedagogical Practice of Opening up Knowledge: How Faculty and Students are Tackling Content Gaps on Wikipedia in their Classes (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education Foundation, and Andres Vera, Wiki Education Foundation

Panelists: Chelsea Gardner, Acadia University, Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan, Ann Glennie, College of the Holy Cross, Katie Rask, The Ohio State University, Victoria Austen, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Andres Vera, Wiki Education Foundation

5C: Undergraduate Paper Session (Open Session)

Morere Alio Die: Consecratio Antoniniani and the Nearness of Death
Dylan MW Plemper, Emory University

‘Monumentum Memoriae’: Finding the Viewer in Late Antique Roman Sarcophagi
Camille Blanco, Brown University

A False-Bottom Lekythos from Princeton: Artistry, Artifice, and Symbolic Form
Paige Walworth, Princeton University

Mycenaean Regionalism: Late Helladic III Ceramic Distribution In Palatial Versus Non-Palatial Contexts
Luke Lomax, University of Toronto

Sardis: A Millennium of Adaptation
Jasper Chen, Columbia University

Rewriting a Dynasty: How One Coin Can Reshape Our Understanding of the Early Ptolemies
Sophia Ying, Carleton College

5D: Technological Change and Professional Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Workshop)

Sponsored by: Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity (SLA), Co-sponsored by the Medieval & Post-Medieval Archaeology AIA Interest Group

Organizer(s): Amelia R. Brown, Macquarie University, and Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks

Panelists: Carly Maris, Wilmington College, Jessica Plant, Clare College, University of Cambridge, Amelia R. Brown, Macquarie University, Lorenzo Livorsi, University of Bamberg, and Mark Letteney, University of Washington

5E: Constructing Antiquity – The Collection and Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome (Open Session)

Are you Lonesome Tonight? Amedeo Maiuri and the Beginnings of Archaeology in the Dodecanese
Athena Hadji, College Year in Athens

Royal Residences: the Role of Ancient Traditions in the Formation of Warsaw’s Palace and Garden Complexes
Hubert Kowalski, University of Warsaw, Arkadiusz Cegliński, University of Warsaw, Monika Dunajko-Ceglińska, University of Warsaw, and Wiesław Małkowski, University of Warsaw

More than Grand Tour Memorabilia, Princeton Library’s First Numismatic Collection
Valentina Follo, American Academy in Rome

The Use of Greek and Roman Material Culture in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Kristen Seaman, University of Oregon

5F: Mortuary Archaeology (Open Session)

The Archaeometrical Study of Collective Cremation Deposits
Paula Becerra Fuello, University of Granada

aDNA Findings from Hellenistic and Roman Period Tombs in Cyrene and El Djaghbub, Libya
Victoria Moses, Harvard University, Alison Barton, Harvard University, Oliva Menozzi,

Echoes of Past Lives: A Multidisciplinary Microhistory of a Group of Roman-Period Burials at Histria, Romania
Adam Rabinowitz, The University of Texas at Austin, Elijah Fleming, University of Minnesota Duluth, Amber Kearns, The University of Texas at Austin, Erin Keenan-Early, The University of Texas at Austin, Katherine Reinberger, Center for Applied Isotope Stu

Genetic Evidence for Shifting and Contracting Mobility in Vandal and Byzantine Carthage, North Africa
Reed Johnston Morgan, Harvard University, Hamden Ben Romdhane, INP-Tunis, Najd Chalghoumi, INP-Tunis, Ralf Bockmann, Independent Scholar, Susan Stevens, Randolph University, John Humphrey, JRA, Jeremy Rossiter, University of Alberta, Harald Ringbauer, Ind

Karya Ossuary Project: Analysis of a 20th Century Skeletal Sample from Central Greece
Kaitlyn Stiles, Kleinfelder, Inc., and Petros Kounouklas, Greek Archaeological Service

5G: Greek Sanctuaries and Ritual (Open Session)

Archaic Greek Altar Deposits: Ritual or Rubbish?
Jackson N. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bodies, Bears, and the Night: Liminality in the arkteia at Brauron
Ginevra Miglierina, University of Michigan

The Athenian Asklepieion and the Theater of Dionysus: Eye-Shaped Votives in Context
Alessandra Migliara, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania Revisited: The Development of an Athenian Public Cult in the Archaic Period
Brian Martens, University of St Andrews

Running in Circles: The Diffusion of the Ruler Cult Tholos from Hellenistic Monarchs to the Roman Imperial Dynasty
Tarryn Andrews, Western University

5H: Situating Roman Towns and Villas (Open Session)

Omnium municipum colonorum suorum censum agito: Tracing Colonial Networks in Late-Republican Italy with the Municipal Census
Drew A. Davis, University of Toronto

Ancient Kassandreia: Contextualizing a Roman Colony in Macedonia
Elise Poppen, Indiana University

The Villa as Minor Center: Combining Approaches to Stratified Landscapes
A. Bryce Deskins, Florida State University

5I: Roman Sarcophagi and Funerary Monuments (Open Session)

Pushing up Vines: Botanical Symbolism in Roman Funerary Verse
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki, Arizona State University

Sculpting Social Worlds: The Production and Significance of Travertine Sarcophagi at Hierapolis of Phrygia
Anna Anguissola, University of Pisa, Italy

A New Sarcophagus for a Roman General: Ancient Typology and Modern Reinterpretation
Alessia Di Santi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Polyxena in Phrygia: Anatolian backgrounds of the Granicus River Sarcophagus
Sarah P. Morris, UCLA

5J: New Insight in the Life of Roman Wall Painting: Material and Human Agency (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Ancient Painting and Decorative Media Interest Group

Organizer(s): Angela Bosco, Università di Bologna, and Hilary Becker, Binghamton University, and Antonella Coralini, Università di Bologna

From the Conservation of Materials to the Restoration of Memory: Material Archaeology on the Wall-paintings of Herculaneum
Angela Bosco, Università di Bologna, Marina Caso,  Parco Archeologico di Ercolano, and Francesco Armignacco, Parco Archeologico di Ercolano

Unveiling Ancient Mastery: A Multi-Analytical Study of Roman Wall Painting Techniques from the Hypogean Villa of Positano
Sara Iafrate, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Raffaella Bonaudo, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Salerno e Avellino, Manuel Giandomenico,  Università di Roma La Sapienza; Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Giancarlo

Function, Technical Process, Archaeometry and Digital Restitution: Problem and Methodological Approaches in Hispania in Roman Wall Painting
Gonzalo Castillo Alcántara, Universidad de Córdoba, Irene Loschi, Universidad de Sevilla, and Alicia Fernández Díaz, Universidad de Murcia

The First Example of a “non finito” in the Baetica Province: the Roman Wall Paintings from the Room K in the Domus I  (Plaza de Armas del Alcázar Real, Écija, Seville, Spain)
Irene Loschi, Universidad de Sevilla

5K: Poster Session #2

Quantifying the “Rich Female Grave”: Grave Good Wealth in Iron Age and Early Archaic Period Athens
Delaney R. Fisher, University of Texas at Austin

The Corrupted Sea: An Archaeological View of Maritime Plastics in Southeast Sicily
Sophia Wu, Stanford University, Nicole Constantine, Stanford University, Elizabeth Greene, Brock University, and Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

Leather Bags as Writing Tablet Carriers from Vindolanda Roman Fort (UK)
Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, Alexander Meyer, University of Western Ontario, and Anna Willi, The British Museum

Nuraghe S’Urachi in the Second Century BCE: Insights from Area H
Anna Soifer, University of Puget Sound, Laura Martín Burgos, Independent Scholar, and Enrique Díes Cusí, Independent Scholar

Revisiting the Argive Heraion: The Old Temple Restored as Apteral, Split-Cella, In Antis Naos
Richard M. Economakis, University of Notre Dame

Mapping Heritage:  A Digital Prototype for Baalbek, Lebanon.
Nehme Abou Rjeily, Lebanese University

Application of 3D Scanning to Excavation-Grade Coins
Andrew Victor Rivadeneira, University of Arizona, and Lauren Tomanelli, University of Arizona

Native American Occupation of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Last 2000 Years
Anya Dalal, Castilleja School

Stone by Stone: The Post-Herulian Wall and the Building Blocks of Lifecycles
Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose, University of California Los Angeles

Mauretanian and Roman Period Chronology of Hinterland Sites in the Loukkos Valley, Northern Morocco
Christopher S. Jazwa, University of Nevada, Reno, Aomar Akerraz, Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine, Layla Es-Sadra, Mohammad V University, Rabat, Fadwa Benjafaar, INSAP, Stephen Collins-Elliott, University of Tennessee, Knox

The Materiality of Contemporary Displacement across the ‘Calabrian Route’
Michelle Heeman, Stanford University, Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University, and Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

Rieti and the Velino Valley: New Interpretations of Old and New Data
Gabriele Colantoni,  University of Rochester, and Carlo Virili,  Sapienza Università di Roma

Casting Iron Objects from the Marzamemi 2 “Church Wreck”: Evidence for a Navis Lapidaria?
Robert L. Muñiz, Stanford University, Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University, Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University, and Andrea Gobbi, Acrobatica Group

PPMx: A Web-Based AI Solution for Searching Pompei Pitture e Mosaici by Image and Caption Similarity
David Fredrick, University of Arkansas, Cindy Roullet, indie game developer, France, and Cade DuPont, Software Engineer III, Walmart Global Tech

Remote Sensing and the Rural Hinterland of Acholla (Tunisia)
J. Andrew Dufton, Dickinson College, Siobhan Morgan, Dickinson College, Nichole Sheldrick, University of Leicester, Nesrine Nasr, Institut National du Patrimoine, Susan E. Alcock, University of Oklahoma, and Rached Hamdi, Institut National du Patrimoine,

Visualizing Power: Experiencing the Elite Landscape of Late Helladic I Mitrou in VR
Justin C. Langlois, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning about Etruscan Mirrors
Illizt Castillo, Bryn Mawr College

The Use of Butchered Meat in Roman Ritual: A Look at Mithras-Worship
Brigitte Keslinke, University of Pennsylvania

Just Another Pretty Face? Using Comparative Analysis to Explore the Role of Female Symposiasts in Red Figure Vase Paintings
Madison Poole, Brock University

First Evidence for Byzantine through Ottoman Plant Use at the Athenian Agora
John M. Marston, Boston University, Owen Lannon, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Angela Zhang, Oxford University, and Anne Johnakin, Boston University

5J: AIA/SCS Joint Roundtable Session (Roundtable)

SESSION BLOCK 6: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2:00-5:00 PM

6A: Landscapes of Trade and Commerce (Open Session)

Hubs of Control: Podere Cannicci as an Administrative and Redistributive Center in Late Hellenistic Etruria
Alessandro Sebastiani, University at Buffalo, Edoardo Vanni, Università per Stranieri Siena, Fabiana Fabbri, Independent Scholar, Marta De Pari, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, and Michael McCabe III, University of Leiden

Dynamic Transitions at the Etrusco-Roman Site at Pian di Mealla: Results from 2024 and 2025 Seasons of the Archaeological Reconnaissance Ficulle Project
Joey Williams, University of Oklahoma, Rhodora G. Vennarucci, Denison University, Jenny Weigel, Florida State University, Sue Alcock, University of Oklahoma, Claudio Bizzarro, Parque Arqueológico Ambiental de Orvieto, and Tom Keep, Getty Research Institut

Makeshift Marketplaces in the Roman City
Caitlin A. Knortz, Princeton University

Architecture and Urbanization in Roman Coastal Cities: Function, Integration, and Identity – The Case of Elaiussa Sebaste (TÜRKİYE)
HATİCE ASENA KIZILARSLANOĞLU, Kastamonu University

Questioning the Quadrifrons: Harbor Arches in an Expanded Field
Crystal Rosenthal, University of Texas at Austin

The Freedman’s Journey: Reconstructing the First Recorded Roman Encounter with Sri Lanka
Nimesh Fonseka, University of Maryland, and Stefan Woehlke, University of Maryland

6B: Current Fieldwork in Early Italy (Open Session)

A Newly Discovered Intact Early Etruscan Tomb in Northern Lazio
Jamie D. Aprile, Baylor University

100 Years of San Giuliano’s Necropolis – Landscape Changes, Rock-Cut Tombs, and Survey from 1925 to 2025
Anna Catherine Gibbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

An Etruscan Sanctuary by the Arno? Results of the 2024 and 2025 Seasons of the Montereggi Project
Jessica Tilley, Centre College, Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University, Agnese Pittari, Archeorete, Giovanni Millemaci, Archeorete, and Catherine Uritis, Florida State University

Exploring the Oenotrian Settlement at Incoronata “Greca” (MT, Italy): New Findings from the 2025 Field Season
Sveva Savelli, Saint Mary’s University, and Spencer Pope, McMaster University

Sicily:  Rocchicella di Mineo (ancient Palikè) – Field Seasons 2024 and 2025
Brian E. McConnell, Florida Atlantic University, Emma Buckingham, University of Missouri Columbia, Laura Maniscalco, Florida Atlantic University, Katelin McCullough, Hollins University, Michela Ursino, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Catania, Abigail Chapman,

Archaic and Medieval households at Segesta, Sicily: Results of the 2025 season of the Arizona Sicily Project Excavations
Emma Blake, University of Arizona, Robert Schon, University of Arizona, Alena Wigodner, University of Maryland, Victoria Moses, Brown University, Lauren Tomanelli, University of Arizona, and Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University

Techno-Archaeology of Landscapes: New Surveys and Remote Sensing in Cortona and Valdichiana
Maurizio Forte, Duke University, Antonio LoPiano, Boston College, and Nevio Danelon, Sapienza University

6C: New Fieldwork in Greece (Open Session)

New Funerary Tumuli at Mitrou, Central Greece
Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee, Amanda Iacobelli, Independent Scholar, Francesca Nani, University of Pisa, Italy, and Nicolas Lissarrague, Institute for Society and Humanities, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes

Hellanion Oros on Aegina, between Refuge Site and Peak Sanctuary: Excavation and Survey 2021-2025
Tobias Krapf, Swiss School of Archaeolgy in Greece, Stella Chryssoulaki, Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Leonidas Vokotopoulos, Independent Researcher, Sophia Michalopoulou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands, and Jérôme André, University

Excavations and Activities in the Athenian Agora: 2023-2025
John K. Papadopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, and Debby Sneed, California State University, Long Beach

Perachora Peninsula Archaeological Project 2025: Closer Study of the Landscape around the Sanctuary of Hera
Susan Lupack, Macquarie University, Panagiota Kasimi, Ephoreia of the Corinthia, Barbora Weissova, Charles University, Sarah James, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Matthew Skuse, British School at Athens

Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project: Results of the 2025 Field Season
Paul D. Scotton, California State University Long Beach, Georgios Spyropoulis, Corinthian Ephorate of Antiquities, and Katherine Harrington, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Southern Mani Archaeological Project 2025: Porto Kagio
William Parkinson, Field Museum, Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Acadia University, Rebecca Seifried, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shannon Dunn, Bryn Mawr College, Phil Sapirstein, University of Toronto, Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, and Mo Snyder,

The Metamorphosis of Faith in Philia, Thessaly: The Sanctuary of Itonia Athina from Polytheism to Christianity. Field Report for the 2025 Season.
Mark D. Hammond, Case Western Reserve University, Katerina Ragkou, Philipps University of Marburg, and Maria Vaiopoulou, Karditsa Ephorate of Antiquities

The Abdera Urban Plan Project (AUPP): Results of the 2025 excavation season
Maria Papaioannou, University of New Brunswick

6D: Assessing the Sacred Significance of Figurative Terracottas (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: AIA Coroplastic Studies Interest Group

Organizer(s): Rebecca Miller Ammerman, Colgate University, Alexandra Katherina Sofroniew, University of California, Davis, and Andrew Farinholt Ward, Fairfield University

Women and the City: Some Thoughts on the Significance of the Female Terracottas from Anavlochos, Crete
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen, University of Cincinnati

Hydriaphoroi at the Boundaries of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods
Amanda C. Ball, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: On the Fungibility of ‘Tanagra’ Figurines
Emily C. Mohr, Duke University

Surrounded by Smoke.  Reclining Terracotta Figurines in Pompeian Censers and Their Significance in Domestic Rituals
Johannes Eber, University of Zurich, Institute for Archaeology

Iberian Figurative Terracottas: Landscape Perspectives, Contextual Analysis and Sacred Significance
Mireia López-Bertran, University of València, Spain, and Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, Museum of Prehistory, València, Spain

Articulating Clay Cult in Roman Africa: Terracotta Statues, Production, and Worship
Matthew M. McCarty, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

6E: Archaeology and Accessibility in the Digital Age (Workshop)

Sponsored by: The Digital Archaeology Interest Group and The Women in Archaeology Interest Group

Organizer(s): David M. Wheeler, UC Davis

Panelists: Carla Schroer, Cultural Heritage Imaging, Mark Mudge, Cultural Heritage Imaging, Amelia Eichengreen, University of Michigan, Kimiko Adler, New York University, James Newhard, College of Charleston, Kacey Hadick , CyArk, Anne Chen, Bard College, Alexandra F. Morris, University of Lincoln, Jon M. Frey, Michigan State University, and Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley

6F: Twenty Years in Selinunte (Sicily): The Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and University of Milan Project in the Main Urban Sanctuary (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Andrew Ward, Fairfield University, Rebecca Salem, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Discussant: Ortwin Dally, Leitender Direktor, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Rom.

Selinunte and its Main Urban Sanctuary: Introduction and Project Overview
Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and University of Milan, and Rosalia Pumo, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU

20 Years of Architectural Investigations at Selinunte: Building Knowledge for Building Knowledge
Rebecca Salem, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU, and Caterina Minniti, Simmons University

Virtual Reconstruction and the Experience of the Sacred in Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary
Massimo Limoncelli, University of Palermo, and Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University

Between Primary and Secondary: Construction Rituals and Sacred Trash in Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary
Andrew Farinholt Ward, Fairfield University, and Andrea Bertaiola, University of Venice

The Pottery’s Voice: Ceramic Assemblages and Ritual Practices in Temple R at Selinunte
Claudia Lambrugo, University of Milan, and Alessandro Pace, University of Milan

The Many Lives of Bones
Megan Gatton, Institute of Fine Arts–NYU, and Arianna Romano, University of Palermo.

6G: Iron Age Hillforts and the Emergence of Indigenous Black Sea Kingdoms (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: East Europe and Eurasia Interest Group

Organizer(s): Owen Doonan, California State University Northridge

Late Iron Age Hillforts between the Eastern Carpathians and Prut (Fifth-Third centuries BCE). An Overview
Alexandru Berzovan, Romanian Academy, Institute of Archaeology in Iași

Iron Age Hillforts in Sinop province, Türkiye
Owen Doonan, California State University Northridge, Alexander Bauer, Queens College, CUNY, Nicole Rose, Northern Arizona University, and Berk Suleyman, University of Pennsylvania

Engineering the Colchian Marshes: New Insights into the LBA/EIA Settlement System in the Kutaisi Archaeological Landscape Zone
Jacek Hamburg, Krukowski Polish-Georgian Interdisciplinary Research Center, Roland Isakadze, National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia, Leszek Leczynski, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdansk, Rafal Bienkowski,  S

Bilsk Hillfort in the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE: Origins of the Largest Fortified Settlement of Scythia
Iryna Shramko, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

New Results from the Study of the Getic Capital Helis, Northeastern Thrace
Daniela Stoyanova, Sofia university St. Kl. Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria

Past and Future of an Archaic Acropolis in the Southern Black Sea Region: Akalan Citadel (Samsun)
Michael Deniz Yilmaz, Ondokuz Mayıs University

The Bilsk Hillfort: The Largest Fortified Settlement of Scythia in the Fifth-Fourth Centuries BC.E
Stanislav Zadnikov, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University

6H: Inscribed Communities: Group Identity and Space in Roman Provincial Epigraphy (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group; Archaeology of North Africa Interest Group

Organizer(s): Andrea Gatzke, SUNY New Paltz, and Katelin McCullough, Hollins University

Rooted in Place: The Spatial Commemoration of Agricultural Workers in the Roman Provinces

Jessica Venner, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Communities and Their Inscriptions in Late Antique Mauretania Caesariensis
Antonello Vilella, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara

Whose Space? Language Choice & Urban Landscapes in Roman Anatolia
Andrea Gatzke, SUNY New Paltz

The Baquates in Mauretania Tingitana : A Spatial Approach to an Epigraphic Corpus (Second-Third Centuries CE)
Néjat Brahmi, École Normale Supérieure (Paris)

We the Huntsmen: Collective Dedication and Group Identity in the Space of Corinthian  Amphitheater (IG 4. 365)
Tianqi Zhu, University of Cincinnati

Priestesses at Thugga and Claiming Space: Local Expressions of a Regional Preference?
Katelin McCullough, Hollins University

6I: Still Defining Roman Art (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Anne H. Kontokosta, New York University, and Peter De Staebler, Pratt Institute

Panelists: Ann Kuttner, University of Pennsylvania, Rachel Kousser, City University of New York. Verity Platt, Cornell University, Rachel Patt, University of Notre Dame, Elizabeth McGowan, Williams College, Elizabeth Marlowe, Colgate University, Erin Peters, Appalachian State University, Sebastian Heath, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and Anne Chen, Bard College

SESSION BLOCK 7: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 8:00-11:00 AM

7A: Baths, Markets,  Crafts, and Urban Life at Cosa (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University, and Allison E. Smith

A Bath for No One: Cosa’s Public Bathhouse and its Role in Reassessing Life at the Town
Allison Smith, Davidson College

Importing Wares to a Ghost Town: A Reassessment of the Ceramics from Cosa
Christina Cha, Florida State University, and Rebecca Frank, Colby College

The Epigraphic Evidence from Imperial Cosa: Brick Stamps, Coins, Inscriptions
Melissa Ludke, Grand Valley State University, Christie Villareal, University of Delaware, and Christina Cha, Florida State University

Cosa’s Commercial Areas
Maximilian Rönnberg, University of Freiburg

The Basilica of Cosa, Revisited
Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University

Carts and Commerce: New Insights on Economic Infrastructure at Cosa
David Picker-Kille, Florida State University, Melissa Ludke, Grand Valley State University, and Clara Schmidt, Universität Freiburg

7B: Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (Open Session)

Integrating Uncertainty in the Reconstruction of Archaeological Buildings: A Monte Carlo Analysis of the Toumba Building at Lefkandi
Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame, and Daniele E. Schiavazzi, University of Notre Dame

Broadening Least-Cost Paths: Iterating the Roads East of Rome
Gabriel J. Martinez, University of Missouri

The Monumental Price of Safety: Assessing the Threat posed by Fortifications to Community Stability via Labor Cost Analyses
Kevin S. Lee, The University of Texas at Austin

The Archaeology of Italic Mercenaries in Fourth-Century BCE Sicily: the case study of Polizzello Mountain (Caltanissetta)
Mara McNiff, University of Texas, and Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida

Monetary Networks and Political Shifts: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Colophonian and Clarian Coinage
Recep C. Mert, Columbia University

Testing Beazley
Amy C. Smith, University of Reading, and Armand Leroi, Imperial College

7C: Diplomatic Efforts and Political Biographies (Open Session)

Shared Values and Celebrated Pasts: The Politics of Gifting and Displaying Archaeological Objects and Replicas at the United Nations
Elizabeth R. Macaulay, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

A Belly Handled Amphora for the US Ambassador to Greece at Nikaia (Kokkinia): Invoking Antiquity and its Values at the Onset of Greece’s “right-wing terror”
Nassos Papalexandrou, The University of Texas at Austin

A Monumental Effort: Rhetoric and Realities of the UNESCO Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
Grace Saunders, University of Colorado, Boulder

Portraying Macedonia: Traveling Exhibitions as Greek Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College

Philadelphia Gunboat Research Initiative (PGRI) – A Revitalized  Approach to Conservation of American Revolutionary War Artifacts
Carolyn Kennedy, Texas A&M University

A Roman Sailor in New Orleans
Susann S. Lusnia, Tulane University

7D: Metal and Greek Society (Open Session)

Provenance and the Mutability of Metal
David Schneller, Department of Art History, UCLA

Bronzeworking in Argilos: Technology Rooted in Tradition?
Justine Lefebvre, Université de Montréal

Sanctuary of Zeus, Lykaion Mountain (Arcadia). Bronze inscribed sheet from the Bath-Complex
Anna Vasiliki Karapanagiotou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands, Garyfallia Smerou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Arkadia, Georgia Karamargiou, Hellenic National Archaeological Museum, and Nelly Kladouri, Hellenic National Archaeological Museum

Fake Gold, Lethal Blade: Reassessing the Depositional History of a (Celtic?) Iron Sword from Nemea
Jesse Obert, University of South Florida

Crowning Connections: Gold and Gilded Wreaths as Tokens of Social Experience in Fourth-3rd Centuries BCE Northern Greece
Ellen M. Archie, Emory University

An Object Itinerary from Laurion to Kalaureia, or: How To Do an Archaeology of Slavery in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Sara Eriksson, UC Berkeley

7E: Queer Roman Archaeology: (Self)-Representations of Queerness in Visual Material Culture (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group

Organizer(s): Tatiana Ivleva, Newcastle University, and Alena Wigodner, University of Maryland

Discussant: Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington

Queer Families: Same-sex and Polygamous Unions on Funerary Reliefs in the Roman Northwest Provinces
Tatiana Ivleva, Newcastle University

Femme, Foreigner, Freak: Gender and Identity Expression in Visual Depictions of the Priests of Magna Mater
Gabriel Key, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Queering Sanctuaries: Finding Meaning in Sex and Gender Ambiguity in Gallo-Roman Healing Votives
Alena Wigodner, University of Maryland

“Seu tu deus es, potes esse Cupido”: Hermaphroditus and Cupid Statues as Representations of Roman Castration Practice
Laurence Drayton, Princeton University

Suspending Sexual Segregation: Queering Monastic Burial in Late Roman Egypt
Camille Leon Angelo, University of Alabama

7F: Heritage in and after Wartime (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Thea De Armond, New Mexico State University, and Lindsay Der, University of British Columbia

The Tigrai War: Impacts on Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Research
Yemane Meresa, University of Rovira i Virgili, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Simon Fraser University, Guesh Tsehay, Tigrai Culture and Tourism Bureau, Hagos Gebremariam, Adigrat University, and Elizabeth Peterson, Royal British Columbia Museum

Archaeology, Heritage, and Community during War: The Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project, Sudan
Sami Elamin, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan, and Geoff Emberling, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan

Looted Coins, Scholarship, and Heritage Preservation in Contemporary Ukraine
Mark Pyzyk, Getty Research Institute, and Vasyl Orlyk, Central Ukrainian Technical University

Ethnogenesis and Monitoring Imperiled Cultural Heritage in Post-War Nagorno-Karabakh
Salpi Bocchieriyan, Caucasus Heritage Watch

Safeguarding for Whom? Examining the Beneficiaries of Disruptive Technologies in the Conservation of Sites Destroyed by Armed Conflict
Lindsay Der, University of British Columbia

Recreating at a Site of Atrocity in Central Europe
Thea De Armond, New Mexico State University

7G: Provenance Research and the Collecting of Figure-Decorated Ceramics from Antiquity to Today (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Ancient Figure-Decorated Pottery Interest Group

Organizer(s): Danielle Bennett, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas, and Liz Neill, Boston University

Vase-apathy? Charles Townley’s Vase Collection
Ollie Croker, British Museum

Vulci, Nola, and Warwickshire: the Ancient Greek Pottery Collection at Charlecote Park (National Trust of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland)
Abigail Allan, University of Oxford / the National Trust

Provenance, Provenience, and Style in the Study of South Italian Painted Vases
Savannah Sather Marquardt, Yale University

Mending Vases:  Amphorae from Orvieto in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Ann Blair Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania Museum

Uncovering the Provenance (and Provenience) of Greek Figured Pottery Confiscated, Traded Stolen, or Collected during the Nazi Period
Irene Bald Romano, University of Arizona

Repatriation behind the Scenes: The Case of the Almagià Vases in San Antonio
Lynley J. McAlpine, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Jessica Powers, San Antonio Museum of Art

7H: Stories from the Worksite: Builders, Materials, Methods in Greek and Roman Architecture (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Samuel Holzman, Princeton University, Phil Stinson, University of Kansas, and Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame

Traveling Architects and Crews:  Mobility and Jobsites in the Construction of Classical Temples
Margaret M. Miles, University of California, Irvine

Living and Working as a Foreign Stonemason in Sixth Century BCE Persia
Ehsan Behbahani-Nia, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Pausanias the stonemason to Asklepios:” Trade as Identity or Patient History?
Samuel Holzman, Princeton University

Communal Building and Community Building at the Gallo-Roman Construction Site
John Sigmier, Princeton University

(De)constructing the Human Factor on Ancient Worksites: Rethinking Workforce Size and Labor Organization
Natalia Toma, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Constructing Meaning: Anicia Juliana, “the building loving woman”
Diane Favro, UCLA

7I: Toxic Waters of Constantinople: A Reassessment of the Sixth Century Demographic Collapse through Lead Contamination in Civic Hydraulic Infrastructure (Workshop)

Organizer(s): Rodney D. Reeves, Florida State University, and Elijah Watson, Florida State University

7J: Lived Religious Experiences in the Ancient Greek World (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Sarah Norvell, Princeton University, and Hannah Smagh, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant: Katie Rask, Ohio State University

Touch me, See me, Speak to me: A Sensory Approach to God-Mortal Relationships at Epidaurus
Sarah Eisen, Northwestern University

Material Microtheologies: Crafting Elysium in Athens and Abydos
Colleen Kron, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt

Between Subjugation and Salvation:  Religious Experiences of the Enslaved in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Figen Geerts, New York University

Talking with Gods: Kinesthetics, Divergent Thinking, and Oracular Consultation at Delphi
Jessica Paga, William & Mary

From Territorial Claims to Affective Encounters: Rethinking Tomb Cult in Early Iron Age Crete
Sarah Norvell, Princeton University

Between the Sacred and Everyday: Lived Religion and Object Agency in Greek Domestic Religion
Hannah Smagh, Pennsylvania State University

Embodied Curses: Ritual Binding in Ancient Greece
Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University

SESSION BLOCK 8: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 11:30 am-1:30 pM

8A: Creating Self-Guided Object-Based Learning Materials (Workshop)

Sponsored by: AIA Outreach & Education Committee

Organizer(s): Jen Thum, Harvard Art Museums, and Meredith Langlitz, AIA

Panelists: To be announced

8B: Outside the Home: Non-Domestic Foodways in the Roman Provinces (Colloquium)

Sponsored by: Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group

Organizer(s): Alex Hagler, University of British Columbia, and Marlee Miller, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Discussant: Erica Rowan, Royal Holloway, University College London

An Introduction to the Archaeology of Foodways within the Roman Provinces
Katie Breyer, Bryn Mawr College

Local Wine and Oil Trade during the Roman Empire: New Evidence from Southwestern Sicily
Fabrizio Ducati, Aix Marseille University, Roger J.A. Wilson, University of British Columbia, Claudio Capelli, Aix Marseille University, Tomoo Mukai, Aix Marseille University, Filippo Pisciotta, Aix Marseille University, and Maria Serena Rizzo, Parco Arch

Blurring Boundaries: Dining at the Roadside Shrine of Higham Ferrers
Alex Hagler, University of British Columbia

Dining with Death: Food in the World of Gladiators and Munera
Marlee Miller, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

8C: Greeks and Others (Open Session)

Mobility, Urbanization, and the Formation of Greek Cities in Comparative Perspective
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna, Eleni Kopanaki, University of Vienna, Jana Mokrišová, Brown University, and Francesco Quondam, University of Vienna

Dividing the Land, Defining the Home: Property Delineation and Colonial Identity in the Greek World
Christine Davidson, Trent University

Localism and the Zone Bilingual
Denver Graninger, University of California, Riverside and American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Beyond the Frontier: A Spatial Analysis of Iapygian–Greek Interactions in Taranto
Raffaele Rizzo, University of Salento

Womanhood in Metapontion: Acculturation through the Lens of Lucanian Vase Painting and Grave Goods (430–370 B.C.E.)
Gizelle G. Winter, University of Notre Dame

8D: Recontextualizing Early Italian Art (Open Session)

Performing Power: A New Sensory Investigation of the Etruscan Painted Tomb at Tarquinia
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva, University of Oxford, and Maurizio Forte,  Duke University

Banquet of the Dead: Etruscanizing the Tomba dello Sgabello Attic Vases
Sara Miller, AIA Member at Large

Ancient Face Paint: Reconstructing Etruscan Antefix Polychromy
Riley Glickman, University of Pennsylvania

Telephos and the Deer on the Tuscania Mirror, Tomb 1 n. 33
Lora Holland Goldthwaite, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Parmenides and the Etruscans
Victoria Hsu, CUNY Graduate Center

8E: New Strategies for Engagement and Collaboration in Archaeology (Open Session)

(Re)inventing at the Wheel: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities for Integrating Experimental Archaeology into Undergraduate Coursework
Kat Moore, University of Arizona

“As if the Pieces of the Past were in our Hands”: Non-Linear Digital Public Archaeology with 3D Models on Sketchfab
Matthew D. Howland, Wichita State University, Brady Liss, University of Vermont, Ian W.N. Jones, New York University, Anthony Tamberino, University of California San Diego, Mohammad Najjar, UCSD Laboratory of Levantine and Cyber-Archaeology, and Thomas E.

Beyond the Stakeholder: Local Teachers, Migration, and Digital Agency in Sardis
Ece Erlat, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

8F: Sherds of Time: The Second Life of Broken Attic Ceramics (Colloquium)

Organizer(s): Michael Anthony Fowler, East Tennessee State University, and Astrid Lindenlauf, Bryn Mawr College

Discussant: Susan I. Rotroff, Washington University in St. Louis

Demon ekolese: Ancient Repairs on Athenian Pottery from Empúries (Spain)
Diana Rodríguez Pérez, University of Oxford

Making-do in Ancient Etruria: Mended Pottery in Context and Gradations of Value
Amanda Reiterman, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Cutting Edge: The Reutilization of Greek Potsherds as Scrapers, Cutters, and Impromptu Weapons
Astrid Lindenlauf, Bryn Mawr College

Sherds for the Afterlife or an Afterlife for Sherds? Fragmentation and Reuse of Potsherds in Central Apulian Graves (Fifth-Fourth centuries BCE)
Bice Peruzzi, Rutgers University

The Afterlives of an Attic Black Glaze Bowl from Dōros
Becky Martin, Boston University

8G: Excavating Roman Urban and Villa Landscapes (Open Session)

Infrastructure, Production, and Continuity: The 2025 Season of the Coriglia Excavation Project
William Ramundt, University at Buffalo, and Amanda K. Chen, Kansas City Art Institute

Investigating a Roman City in Central Marche: The Sentinum City Archaeological Research Project
Amanda K. Chen, Kansas City Art Institute, Matthew Notarian, Hiram College, and William Ramundt, University at Buffalo

The 2024 and 2025 Field Seasons of the Libarna Urban Landscapes Project (LULP)
Katherine V. Huntley, Boise State University, Alexis M. Christensen, University of Utah, Richard Chadwick, Independent Researcher, Alexis Mosley, Network Archaeology, Hannah Russ, Achaeology.biz, and Melania Semeraro, Museo Archeologico di Chieri

Rapolt La Vie: The Excavations at a Villa Rustica in Rapoltu Mare, Romania
Nina Andersen, Archaeotek Canada, John Powers Chamness, Archaeotek Canada, Jamieson Livingston, Archaeotek Canada, Jamie Bone, Archaeotek Canada, Steve Batiuk, Archaeotek Canada, Marius Barbu, Muzeul Civilizației Dacice și Romane, and Angelica Bălos, Roma

8H: Making the Most of Legacy Data (Open Session)

Piecing Together the Past:  Legacy Data from the Archaic-Classical Cemetery at Isthmia
Ulrike Krotscheck, The Evergreen State College

Republican Feasts and Dumps: Examining Structured Deposits in Gabii’s Cuniculi
Laura M. Banducci, Carleton University, P.E.Wright, University of South Carolina, J.M. Evans, Kalamazoo College, and A. Gallone, John Cabot University

Intentional Deposition of Single Silver Denarii in Late Republican Italy
Olivia Graves, Cornell University

Excavating the Archive: Rediscovery and Recontextualization of the Villa della Pisanella Assemblage
Susanna Faas-Bush, University of California, Berkeley

8I: Roman Waterworks: New Data from the Field (Open Session)

A New Monumental Complex at Gabii Revealed: Results of the 2025 season of the Gabii Project
Marcello Mogetta, University of Missouri, Laura Banducci, Carleton University, Anna Gallone, Gabii Project, Tyler Johnson, University of Michigan, Andrew Johnston, Yale University, Laura Motta, University of Michigan, Nic Terrenato, University of Michigan

Report on the 2024/2025 Seasons of the MSU Excavations at Isthmia
Jon M Frey, Michigan State University, Michael Arvanitis, Guideline GEO, Morgan Manuszak, University College Dublin, and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens

The EAA/MYA surveys of the Amphipolitan hinterland
Javier Martínez Jiménez, University of Granada

Between Land and Sea:  A Maritime Landscape in Northern Lebanon
Jennie Bradbury, Bryn Mawr College, and Lucy Semaan, Honor Frost Foundation

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