During late antiquity hygienic habits and the usage of water
change considerably. Small scale urban baths and private
establishments now exist alongside the lavish Roman thermae.
While until recently, primarily the decline of urban structures was
perceived as responsible for the eventual abandonment of the
great ancient thermae, new investigations would seem to
suggest a modified attitude towards body and cleaning as a main
reason for this development. In the addition, religious and
symbolic connotations of water become increasingly important
and complex.The conference aims at a broad discussion of
these issues in the light of new discoveries and archaeological
data from Byzantine and Islamic contexts in the central and
eastern Mediterranean. The concept of decline may eventually
be challenged in view of changing values and meanings
atttached to the baths.
Le abitudine igieniche e l‘utilizzo dell‘acqua sono cambiati in
modo considerevole durante la tarda antichità. In questo periodo
troviamo stabilimenti privati e bagni termali di dimensioni ridotte
accanto alle grandiose thermae degli Romani. Mentre fino a
poco tempo si attribuiva l‘abbandono delle grandi strutture
termali dell‘antichità al generale declino dell‘assetto urbano, oggi
nuovi studi sembrerebbero indicare una nuova attitudine nei
confronti del corpo e dell‘igiene personale come il fattore
decisivo di questa trasformazione. Va tenuto conto anche delle
crescente importanza data ai significati simbolici e alle valenze
religiose dell‘acqua. Scopo della conferenza è propio quello di
promuovere un‘ampia discussione di quesi problemi alla luce
delle nuove scoperte e die rinvenimenti archeologici nelle aree
bizantine e islamiche del Mediterraneo centrale ed orientale.
Possiamo quindi rivedere l‘idea di un cambiamento dovuto
soltanto al degrado architettonico per prendere invece in seria
considerazione la profonda trasformazione dei valori e dei
significati associate ai bagni termali.
In der Spätantike kündigt sich ein veränderter Umgang mit
Wasser an. Neben den verschwenderischen Wasserluxus
öffentlicher Thermen treten klein dimensionierte Stadtteilbäder
und private Einrichtungen. Galt bisher der Niedergang der
städtischen Infrastruktur als Grund für die Aufgabe der Thermen,
so treten in der Gegenwart neue Interpretationsmuster auf, in
denen sich eine veränderte Hygienepraxis und ein neues
Körperverhältnis abzeichnen. Mit dem gezielten Einsatz der
Ressource Wasser geht zugleich eine religiöse, symbolische
Aufladung als Quelle des Lebens oder der Erkenntnis einher. Die
Tagung nimmt diese Veränderungen durch eine breite
Diskussion von Ausgrabungsbefunden in den Blick. Was bislang
primär als Rückschritt und Niedergang im frühen Mittelalter
wahrgenommen wurde, ist in seinen Brüchen und
Transformationen von paradigmatischer Bedeutung.
Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut (DAI), Rom
International Conference
Universität Freiburg
Institut für Archäologische
Wissenschaften (IAW)
Byzantinische Archäologie
in cooperation with
Museo Nazionale Romano
alle Terme di Diocleziano
gefördert durch:
BYZANTINE AND
MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC
BATHS AND THEIR
USE 600 - 1200 AD
5 - 6 June, 2014
Rome
Museo Nazionale Romano
alle Terme di Diocleziano
Viale Enrico de Nicola, 79
For further information please contact:
David Knipp
Universität Freiburg
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften
[email protected]
Thursday, 5 June, 2014
Bathing Establishments in North Africa
during the Dark Ages and Beyond
10.00 Welcome: Ortwin Dally (DAI, Rome)
Chair: Rainer Warland (Universität Freiburg)
10.15 Introduction:
David Knipp (Universität Freiburg)
Baths and Bathing in Times of
Transition and Changing Values
14.30 Chokri Touihri (Paris, Université
Sorbonne)
Les Bains de Dougga entre antiquité
tardive et Haut Moyen Age, à la
lumière de l‘archéologie
Decline and Transformation of the Roman
Bath
15.15 Ralf Bockmann (DAI, Rome)
Changes and Continuity in Baths and
Bathing in North Africa between the
Byzantine and Early Medieval Epochs
Chair: Robert Coates-Stephens (British
School at Rome)
Coffee
10.30 Giulia Giovanetti (Università di Roma,
"La Sapienza")
Balnea 'privati' nel Paesaggio Urbano
di Roma e Ostia in età tardo antica
(III-VI secolo d.C.)
11.15 Lucia Saguì (Università di Roma "la
Sapienza")
Il balneum medievale nell‘esedra della
Crypta Balbi (Roma)
Coffee
12.30 Francesca Romana Stasolla
(Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
Bagni e saune tra tradizioni
tecnologiche e portati culturali
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch Break
16.30 Fathi Bahri (Kairouan, Institut
Nationale du Patrimoine)
Hammam al-Zughbar, un bain et des
questionnements
Friday, 6 June, 2014
Thermal Cures and Bathing in Byzantium
Chair: Philipp Niewöhner (Oxford
University)
09.30 Macit Tekinalp (Ankara Üniversitesi)
Early Byzantine Bath Buildings at
Arykanda and Arif Kale in Lycia
10.15 Ioanna Arvanitidou (Università di
Roma "La Sapienza")
From the Roman to the Byzantine
Bath Complexes in Greece. Early
Approaches
Coffee
11.30 Rainer Warland (Universität Freiburg)
Wohnkultur ohne Bäder? Sondierungen
zum Umgang mit Wasser im
mittelbyzantinischen Kappadokien
12.15 Christine Stephan-Kaissis (Universität
Heidelberg)
Cosmic Waters - Holy Wells: The Art of
Bathing in Byzantium
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Heritage and Transition: Middle Byzantine
and Islamic Baths in Asia Minor and the
Levant
Chair: Ralf Bockmann (DAI, Rome)
14.30 Philipp Niewöhner (Oxford University)
Archaeology and the Social Character
of Bathing in Byzantine Anatolia:
Miletus, Andriake, Kirse Yani and
Germia
15:15 Mahmoud Hawari (Oxford University)
Early Islamic / Umayyad Baths:
Continuity and Innovation - in the Case
of 'Hisham‘s Palace' at Khirbat alMafjar, Jericho, Palestine
Coffee
16:30 Ignacio Arce (Amman, Spanish
Archaeological Mission to Jordan)
The Representative and Social Value
of Umayyad Bath Houses:
Antecedents and Cases-Study
17.15 Conclusions:
David Knipp (Universität Freiburg)