DECORATION OF HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN BUILDINGS IN CYPRUS
Residences at Nea Paphos and other cities of the region
International Conference, 10 – 11 March 2017, Warsaw
Nowy Świat 72 St., Maria Skłodowska-Curie Hall, 10:00 a.m.
Conference Program
Friday, 10. March
Registration
9:30 - 10:00: Coffee for start
10:00 - 10:30: Inauguration
Teodozja I. Rzeuska
Director of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures
Polish Academy of Sciences
Tomasz Waliszewski Director of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the
University of Warsaw
Chair 10:30 - 12:00: Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski
10:30 - 11:00
Henryk Meyza (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)
Poverty and richness of Paphian residences problems of reconstruction of décor in structures excavated by
the Polish Mission
11:00 - 11:30
Demetrios Michaelides (University of Cyprus)
The House of Orpheus, Nea Paphos
11:30 - 12:00
Claire Balandier (Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse)
Ségolène de Pontbriand (AOROC CNRS-ENS Paris)
Espaces et décors d'une Maison romaine de Nea Paphos au Nord de la Colline de Fabrika
12:00 - 12:30: Coffee break
Chair 12:30 - 14:30: Eustathios Raptou
12:30 - 13:00
Patrizio Pensabene (The Sapienza University of Rome)
The spread of Alexandrian architectural types in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Cyprus
13:00 - 13:30
Monika Rekowska (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Decoration of houses in Cyprus and Cyrenaica – an architectural koiné? Towards research objectives and
methodological approaches
13:30 - 14:00
Jerzy Żelazowski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Wall-paintings from the House of Leukaktios in Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)
14:00 - 14:30
Rafał Czerner (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
The Geometricized Architectural Decoration of the Funerary Monuments of Marina el-Alamein
14:30 - 16:00: Lunch break
Chair 16:00 - 18:00: Demetrios Michaelides
16:00 - 16:30
Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska (Institute of Archeology, Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
Avifauna as a symbolic and decorative motif in Cypriot mosaics
16:30 - 17:00
Marek Tycjan Olszewski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Les figures de rhétorique et l'antithèse dans la narration allégorique de la mosaïque de la Maison d'Aion
à Néa Paphos (Chypre). Complément d'enquête
17:00 - 17:30
Elżbieta Jastrzębowska (University of Warsaw)
Mosaics in the House of Aion: a small contribution to a big problem
17:30 - 18:00
Fryni Hadjichristofi (Department of Antiquities of Cyprus)
A New Building at the Locality Piadhia at Akaki, Lefkosia
Saturday 11. March
9:00 - 9:30: Coffee for start
Chair 9:30 - 11:00: Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka
09:30 - 10:00
Jane Fejfer (The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Luxuria and decorum: Marble furnishing in private spaces in Roman Cyprus
10:00 - 10:30
Panayiotis Panayides (Department of Antiquities of Cyprus)
Living among the gods: the sculptures from the Villa of Theseus in their spatial and cultural context
10:30 - 11:00
Barbara Lichocka (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)
Un groupe syncrétiste de Nea Paphos. Existait-il dans l'Antiquité?
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
Chair 11:30 - 13:30: Claire Balandier
11:30 - 12:00
Françoise Alabe (Département d'histoire des arts, L'Université François-Rabelais de Tours)
Délos et la systeme decorative des maisons hellénistiques
12:00 - 12:30
Ségolène de Pontbriand (AOROC CNRS-ENS Paris)
Ornementation et décor architectural des résidences d'Europos-Doura (Syrie)
12:30 - 13:00
Eustathios Raptou (Department of Antiquities of Cyprus)
Éléments décoratifs de l'espace domestique à Nea Paphos.
L' apport des peintures funéraires
13:00 - 13:30
Craig Barker and Diana Wood Conroy (University of Sydney)
Evidence of Roman painted walls in the theatre of Nea Paphos
13:30 - 15:00: Lunch break
Chair 15:00 - 17:30: Patrizio Pensabene
15:00 - 15:30
Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka, Konrad Leśniak, Anna Tomkowska, Justyna Włoch, Łukasz Miszk
(Institute of Archeology, Jagiellonian University)
Decoration of the internal eastern portico of the Paphos Agora
15:30 - 16:00
Barbara Tkaczow (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)
Two Unusual Corinthian Capitals from Paphos
16:00 - 16:30
Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
The Block-out Capitals from Nea Paphos, preliminary remarks
16:30 - 17:00
Leonardo Fuduli (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo)
The architectural decoration of Nea Paphos through the evidence from Garrison Camp.
17:00 - 17:30
Concluding remarks and closing of the session
Posters' session during coffee break at 11:00 on Saturday
Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
Reconstruction of the Western Courtyard from the ’Hellenistic’ House in Nea Paphos, Cyprus
Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
Reconstruction of a Façade Decoration of the House of Aion, Nea Paphos, Cyprus
Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski (University of Warsaw)
Paintings from the House of Aion
Michalina Dzwoniarek-Konieczna (Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University)
A look at stone building materials in Nea Paphos
Marcin Romaniuk (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw;
Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)
A fishpond (piscina) in the ‘Hellenistic’ House? Some considerations on the new discovery of the Polish
Mission in Nea Paphos
Conference financed by Minister of Science and Higher Education, agreement no. 660/P-DUN/2016