Aspects of religion and food production in the ancient Greek world

A conference to the memory of Berit Wells  

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Stockholm, 14–15 December 2009 

Conference organisers: Jenny Wallensten and Arto Penttinen, Swedish Institute at Athens 

Sponsors: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond  

Monday 14 December 

09.00–09.15    Eva Rystedt                  Introduction

09.15–09.45    John Papadopoulos       The bronze diadems of prehistoric Lofkënd and their Aegean and Balkan connections

09.45–10.15    Monica Nilsson              Let’s drink to that! Perachora and Lerna as indicators of EH II ritualised interaction and transaction

10.15–10.45    Sarah Morris                 Dairy Queen? Churns and Cults in the Aegean and Beyond

10.45–11.00                                      Discussion

11.00–11.30                                      Coffee

11.30–12.00    Mats Johnson                Food production and cult: the Neolithic perspective

12.00–12.30    Ann-Louise Schallin       The Berbati valley as a service area for the Mycenean state - a model

12.30–14.00                                      Lunch

14.00–14.30    François de Polignac     Water, grain and gods: a survey of panoramic cults

14.30–15.00    Signe Isager                 ‘May the earth bear them no fruit’ – two inscriptions from Halikarnassos, a partly published funerary inscription and a hitherto unpublished foundation

15.00–15.30    Jenny Wallensten          Karpophoros deities and the produce of the earth

15.30–15.45                                      Discussion

15.45–16.15                                      Coffee

16.15–16.45    Gunnel Ekroth              Animal Castration: cultic and agricultural perspectives

16.45–17.15    Charlotte Scheffer        Preparation of food in Greek sanctuaries

17.15–17.30                                       Discussion

18.00                                                Dinner  
 

Tuesday 15 December 

10.00–10.15    Arto Penttinen              Introduction to recent results from the Kalaureia Research program “The Sea, the city and the god” 

0.15–10.45    Yannis Hamilakis & Aris Anagnostopoulos

                                                       Archaeological ethnography and public and community archaeology at Kalaureia

10.45–11.15    Anastasia Sarpaki & Arto Penttinen  

                                                       Life next-door to a sanctuary: excavations in  the so-called Building I in 2007–2009

11.15–11.45                                       Coffee

11.45–12.15    Marie-Françoise Billot & Jari Pakkanen

                                                       Observations on the architecture and the terracotta roofs in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia 

2.15–12.45    Arja Karivieri & Petra Pakkanen       

                                                       Deposit of miniature lamps: questions of cultic functions in the vicinity of the entrance to the Archaic Temple of Poseidon in Kalaureia

12.45–13.00                                       Discussion

13.00–13.15    Jenny Wallensten          Closing remarks