PROGRAMME
Thursday 23 April 2026
8:45 Reception of the attendees
First Morning Session (9:00-11:15)
LATE ANTIQUITY – BYZANTINE PERIOD
ICONOGRAPHY / URBAN PLANNING / ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS / INSCRIPTIONS
CHAIRS: Nikolaos Gioles, Georgios Pallis
9:00 Opening of the Symposium / Greetings (in Greek)
9:30 Georgios Deligiannakis, Aspects of the comic in the art of Late Antiquity (in Greek).
9:45 Nikolaos-Emmanouil Michail, Delos during the Early Christian period: architecture, urbanism and the AU-DeLA research project (in Greek).
10:00 Georgia Delli, “West Area of Samos Archaeological Project”: Preliminary presentation of archaeological data from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period (in Greek).
10:15 Andrea Torno Ginnasi, The Elephant Chariot at the Golden Gate of Constantinople: An exotic agent of Byzantine victory.
10:30 Evangelia Karagianni, Fragment of an inscribed marble mensa from the Archaeological Museum of Almyros: a new reading (in Greek).
10:45 Manos Tsikourakis, An unknown Byzantine inscription from the Bode Museum in Berlin (in Greek).
11:00 Discussion
11:15 Coffee Break
Second Morning Session (12:00-13:30)
BYZANTINE PERIOD
ARCHITECTURE / FORTIFICATIONS
CHAIRS: Stavros Mamaloukos, Demetrios Athanasoulis
12:00 Giuseppe Belsito, The “Cuba” of Sicily: an open debate on the origin and functions of these unique Byzantine architectural structures of the Sicilian rural areas.
12:15 Georgios Velenis, Matters relating to the fortification of Little Thessalonike (the so-called ‘Acropolis’) (in Greek).
12:30 Konstantinos T. Raptis, Byzantine Thessalonica after the 813-820 earthquake: strategies, measures and rehabilitation works towards urban recovery (in Greek).
12:45 Georgios Fousteris, The zone of arched openings at the base of the Rotunda dome. Windows or balconies? (in Greek).
13:00 Petros Koufopoulos and Marina Myriantheos, Observations on the architecture of the Holy Grotto in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem (in Greek).
13:15 Discussion
13:30 Coffee Break and Light Lunch
First Afternoon Session (14:30-16:15)
BYZANTINE PERIOD / THE PERIOD AFTER THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
EXCAVATION FINDS / CERAMIC / TOPOGRAPHY / ARCHITECTURE
CHAIRS: Konstantinos T. Raptis, Anastasia Yangaki
14:30 Magdalina Fekou, Middle Byzantine cemetery of Anargyroi, Florina: burial practices and spatial analysis (in Greek).
14:45 Katerina Chamilaki, Byzantine and imported pottery from Nafpaktos, 11th to 14th century. An overview (in Greek).
15:00 Evangelos Papathanassiou, Thermes’ thermal springs (in Greek).
15:15 Sotiris Voyadjis, Georgia Makrynori and Varvara Papadopoulou, New evidence about Panagia Paregoretissa in Arta (in Greek).
15:30 Xeni Simou, The church of Hagios Theodoros Stratelates at Kalianoi-Psari Corinthia (in Greek).
15:45 Michail Papavarnavas, Design, typology, and construction in the post-Byzantine monastic architecture of Western Greece (in Greek).
16:00 Discussion
16:15 Coffee Break
Second Afternoon Session (16:45-18:00)
BYZANTINE PERIOD
ICONOGRAPHIC ISSUES
CHAIRS: Ioanna Stoufi-Poulimenou, Nikolaos Fyssas
16:45 Andrea Pambuku, “A Cross at the Crossroads”: Interpreting Cross A02 from the church of the Holy Trinity in Berat, Albania.
17:00 Nikitas Passaris, Persian saints: their depiction in Byzantine art and their cult. The examples of Saint James the Persian and Saint Anastasius the Persian (in Greek).
17:15 Anastasia Tsacheiridou, “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High” (Psalm 90/91): Psalms and apotropaic practices in Early Byzantine Minor Art (in Grrek).
17:30 Christodoulos Ntavonis, The iconography of the “Coronation Coins” of Levon I the Magnificent: divine legitimation and secular models of a royal ideology (in Greek).
17:45 Discussion
18:00 End of the first day of the Symposium