Thursday 2 May 2019
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Research Center for Primary Sources of the Ancient World (ZGAW), Unter den Linden 8, 10118 Berlin
16:30 – 17:30 Registration and Welcome Tea
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstraße 22/23, Einstein-Saal (5th Floor)
18:00 Tonio-Sebastian Richter / Ralph Birk: Welcome Address / Presentation of the Speaker
18:15 Joseph G. Manning, Yale University, New Haven: Volcanoes, Floods and Social Unrest: the Theban Revolts in their Social and Climatic Context
Friday 3 May 2019
TOPOI-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Room 010
09:00 Introductory Remarks (Ralph Birk / Laurent Coulon)
09:15 From the ‘Great Theban Revolt‘ to the Turmoil of the 80s: a Century of Theban ‚Separatism‘? (Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse)
10:00 War in the Thebaid: The Great Revolt 206–186 BCE according to the Synodal Decree Philensis II (Daniel von Recklinghausen)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Royal Cult, Destruction of the Enemy and the Maintenance of World Order on Ptolemaic Temple Walls (René Preys)
12:00 Arsinoe, Berenike, and Cleopatra – the ABC of the Ptolemaic Ruler Cult (Martina Minas-Nerpel)
12:45 The Courtyard of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in the Times of Ptolemaic Crisis (Martina Minas-Nerpel/René Preys)
13:15 Lunch Break
14:30 Indigenous Revolts in the Area of South Thebes and North Thebes: Historical Facts and Royal Ideology according to the Priestly Decrees under Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204–180 BC) (Alexandra Nespoulous-Phalippou)
15:15 Osirian Cults, Priests and Rebel Kings during the Ptolemaic Period in Thebes (Laurent Coulon)
16:00Coffee Break
16:30 Great Governors in Thebes and the Great Revolt in the Thebaid (Ralph Birk)
17:15 Strategos Kallimachos II of the Thebaid: The Honors for a Royal Local Official in the Context of the Epigraphical Records from the Hellenistic World (Stefano Caneva/Stefan Pfeiffer)
Speakers‘ Dinner
Saturday 4 May 2019
TOPOI-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Room 010
09:00 Temple Destruction during the Revolts: Some Considerations from Medamud (Felix Relats-Montserrat)
09:45 How Coins survived the Theban Crises in the Ptolemaic Period (Thomas Faucher)
10:30Coffee Break
11:00 Investing Strategies in the Thebaid after the Great Revolt (Katelijn Vandorpe / Valérie Wyns)
12:00 Lesoneis in the Thebaid: Before and After the Crises (Marie-Pierre Chaufray)
12:45 Light Lunch
13:15 The Great Revolt against Ptolemaios IV. / V. in the Light of the Demotic Sources from Elephantine (Jan Moje)
14:00 A Glimpse behind the Paper Curtain: Cult Places on the Theban West Bank mentioned in Ptolemaic Papyri (Lorenzo Uggetti)
14:45 Concluding Discussion (R. Birk / L. Coulon)
The Thebaid in Times of Crisis. Between Integration and Insurrection 