Online workshop on the Indian finds from the archaeological site in Berenike, an ancient port city of Egypt. The presentations will focus on Indian sculpture, a marble Buddha, two sculpture frags of Buddha statuettes, a stele with images of three Hindu deities and a Sanskrit inscription with laconic Greek paraphrasing.

Monday, March 25, 2024
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Webinar

The presentations will focus on Indian sculpture, a marble Buddha, two sculpture frags of Buddha statuettes, a stele with images of three Hindu deities and a Sanskrit inscription with laconic Greek paraphrasing.

Steven Sidebotham (University of Delaware), Indians at Berenike: A Ptolemaic Roman Emporium on Egypt's Red Sea Shore

Steven Sidebotham is a professor in the History Department at the University of Delaware. His major research interests include all aspects of commercial and cultural exchanges between the classical Hellenistic-Roman world and the Red Sea/northwest Indian Ocean.

Rodney Ast (University of Heidelberg), Reflections on the Broader Context and Significance of the Berenike Indian Finds

Dr. Rodney Ast, Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Institute for Papyrology at the University of Heidelberg.He has a PhD in Classics from the University of Toronto. He is Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Institute for Papyrologyat the University of Heidelberg. His main areas of interest are Greek and Latin documentary and literary papyrology and palaeography; the cultural and social history of Graeco-Roman Egypt; Egyptian archaeology; digital papyrology.

Roderick Geerts (Leiden University), Stupa or A Lighthouse? Interpretation of a Berenike Graffito in the Context of Indian-Roman Interactions

Roderick Geerts is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, focusing on Roman archaeology in the Low Countries.  He is working on his dissertation on Romanisation in the Netherlands, based on the comparison of various case studies and sites. He is the ceramic specialist of the Berenike Project. 

Willeke Wendrich (Politecnico di Torino and UCLA), World Citizens, Inconspicuous Evidence of Embodied Cultural Memory

Willeke Wendrich is a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities at the Politecnico di Torino and a Research Professor in Archaeology at UCLA. She holds her degrees from the University of Amsterdam, (M.A.) and Leiden University (Ph.D.), and her areas of specialization are the archaeology of Egypt and digital Humanities. 

Cost : Free but advance registration is required

Sponsor(s): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Global Antiquity