Babylonian-and-Egyptian-Science | Conference Poster

In the last few decades our understanding of scholarship, priesthood and temple institutions during the
late periods of Babylonian and Egyptian history has greatly expanded. However, the results that were obtained in
each area are not always noticed across disciplinary boundaries, and the same may be true for some of the
innovative approaches that were adopted in research. The conference will bring together specialists in
Late Babylonian, Late Egyptian and Egyptian Graeco-Roman science as well as experts in the temple institutions
and the social and institutional contexts in which scholarship was practiced. The conference focuses on
the time between 600 BCE and 200 CE, roughly corresponding to the Neo Babylonian, Achaemenid, Seleucid
and Parthian eras in Babylonia and the Late Egyptian, Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Egypt. During this period
there were significant developments in the sciences as well as major changes in the role of the temples
as loci of scholarship, the notion of priesthood and the practice of royal patronage.

Program

12.5.2016
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 10:20
Egyptian scholars, priests and temples between autonomy and state authority
Brian Muhs
10:20 - 11:10
Chronicles: temples, priests and historiography in Babylonia
Caroline Waerzeggers
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
Egyptian temple inscriptions of the Roman Period – primarily from Esna
David Klotz
12:20 - 13:10
Canonized knowledge in Late Antiquity between Jewish and Babylonian scholars
Markham J. Geller
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
The economic interests of Urukean scholars
Heather Baker
15:20 - 16:10
The business portfolio of Babylonian scholars and private funding of temples in the Late Period
Johannes Hackl
16:10 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:20
Priestly scholars in Late Egypt: the theoretical side
Joachim Quack
13.5.2016
09:30 - 10:20
The religious sciences in Ancient Egypt
Alexandra von Lieven
10:20 - 11:10
Chaeremon of Alexandria and the catasterism of Poppaea (P.Oxy. 77.5105) between Stoic philosophy and Egyptian science
Livia Capponi
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
Incorporating tradition within innovation: the continued relevance of MUL.APIN in Late Babylonian astronomy
John Steele
12:20 - 13:10
Philology: principles of a cuneiform discipline
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:20
Charming snakes (and kings) from Egypt to Persia
Damien Agut
Philippe Clancier
15:20 - 16:10
Babylonian words in Greek lexicographical texts and the transfer of Babylonian knowledge
Geert de Breucker
16:10 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:20
Berossus and the Creation Story
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
14.5.2016
09:30 - 10:20
Late Babylonian predictions of market prices and weather
Mathieu Ossendrijver
10:20 - 11:10
The Babylonian iatro-mathematical calendar
Marvin Schreiber
11:10 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:20
From the archive of an astrologer
Andreas Winkler
12:20 - 13:10
Astronomy and the temple cults in Hellenistic Babylonia
Julia Krul
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch