THE MADABA MAP
        CENTENARY 1897-1997
        Travelling through the Byzantine-Umayyad Period

        PROGRAMME
        Monday 7 April - 1st Day
        At the Royal Cultural Centre in Amman
        Opening Ceremony
        09.00 - 10.00
          Dr. Ghazi Bisheh, Director General of the Department of Antiquties
          H.E. Dr. Salih Irshidat, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
          Prof. Fr. Michele Piccirillo, Franciscan Archaeological Institute
          H.R.Highness Prince Hassan Bib Talal, the Regent.

        A life-size copy of the Madaba Mosaic Map will be on display. This reproduction was created by the first graduates of the Madaba Mosaic School under the tuition of Franco Sciorilli and directed by Prof. Michele Piccirillo of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        1st Session: The Discovery of the Madaba Map
        (all conferences to be held at this Hotel which has been generously offered for the occasion by the proprietors Sami and Hanna Sawalha of Madaba and Mr. Tony Nazzal of Jerusalem).
        Chairman: Irfan Shahid
        10.30 - 11.00
        Michele Piccirillo: Madaba in Jordan. The Byzantine-Ummayad City and its Mosaics
        11.30 - 12.00
        Yanis Meimaris: The Discovery of the Madaba Map and its size. Mythology and Reality.
        12.00 - 12.30
        Herbert Donner: The uniqueness of the Madaba Map and its Restoration in 1965.

        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        2nd Session: Geographic Context of the Map and Its Literary Sources
        Chairman: Yoram Tzafrir
        15.00 - 15.30
        Ekkehard Weber: The Tabula Peutingeriana and the Madaba Map
        15.30 - 16.00
        Israel Roll: The Roads in Roman - Byzantine Palestine and Arabia.
        16.00 - 16.30
        Lea Di Segni: The Eusebius Onomasticon and the Madaba Map
        16.30 - 17.00
        Eugenio Alliata: The routes of Pilgrimages in the ByzantinePeriod
        17.00 - 17.15
        David Graf: Roman Roads East of the Jordan

        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        3rd Session: The Artistic Context
        Chairman: Abd el Hamid Nur el Din
        17.30 - 18.00
        James Russell: The Palaeography of the Madaba Map in the Light of Recent Discoveries.
        18.00 - 18.30
        Katherine Dunbabin: The Floor as Map
        18.30 - 19.00
        Noël Duval: The Carthografic Symbols in the Madaba Map.
        19.00 - 19.15
        Guadalupe López Monteagudo: The Maps in the Byzantine Period.

          Origin and Transfer of the Architectonic Models
        19.15 - 19.30
        Soren Giversen: The Madaba Map in the History of Cartography

        Tuesday 8 April - 2nd Day
        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        4thSession: The Artistic and Theological Context of the Map
        Chairman: Noel Duval
        09.00 - 09.30
        Irfan Shahid: The Meaning and Purpose of the Madaba Map: - New Observations.
        09.30 -10.00
        Yoram Tsafrir: The Holy City of Jerusalem.
        10.00 - 10.30
        Wendy Pullan: The Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem as Represented in the Madaba Map.
        10.30 -11.00
        Raffaella Farioli Campanati: Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the Iconography of of the Sanctuary Area.

        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        5th Session: Egypt
        Chairman: Dr. Ali Hassan
        11.30 - 12.00
        Henry Maguire: The Nile and the Rivers of the Paradise.
        12.00 - 12.30
        Basemah Hamarneh: The River Nile and Egypt in the Mosaics of the Middle East.
        12.30 - 13.00
        Abd al-Halim Nour el-Din: The Identification of Egyptian Cities
        13.00 - 13.15
        Pau Figueras: The Road Linking Palestine and Egypt along the Sinaitic Coast.
        13.15 - 13.30
        Khalid Nashef: Tradition and Reality of Holy Tombs in the Madaba Map.

        At the Regency Hotel in Amman
        6th Session: The Identification and Exploration of the Sites
        Chairman: Herbert Donner
        14.30 - 14.45
        Ghazi Bisheh: The Traces of Iconoclasm in the Madaba Map.
        14.45 - 15.00
        Pierre - Louis Gatier: To be a City: Towards a Meaning of the Madaba Map.
        15.00 - 15.15
        Roberto Parapetti: Town Representation in Classical Antiquity. An Iconographic Discussion.
        15.15 - 15.30
        Clementina Rizzardi: The Jordan River in the Madaba Map in the Byzantine Iconography.
        15.30 - 15.45
        Konstantinos Politis: The Sanctuary of Saint Lot at 'Ayn 'Abbata
        15.45 - 16.00
        Christa Clamer The Hot Baths of Callirhoe and Baarou
        16.00 - 16.15
        Fawzi Zayadine: The Kerak District in the Madaba Map.
        16.15 - 16.30
        Robert Schick: The Region of Moab in the Madaba Map and in the archaeological Reality.
        16.30 - 16.45
        Mohammad Moain Sadek - J.-B. Humbert: Gaza. Between the Byzantine Madaba Map and Today.
        16.45 - 17.00
        Nazmi al-Jubba: Mamre-Hebron.
        17.30 - 17.45
        Patricia Bikai: Sarepta in the Region of Tyre and Sydon.
        17.45 - 18.00
        Amos Kloner: The City of Eleutheropolis.
        18.00 - 18.15
        Uzi Dahari : Haditha.
        18.15 - 18.30
        M. Sartre: Toponyms and the Madaba Mosaic Map
        18.30-18.45
        Hamdan Taha: Jericho Region
        18.45 - 19.00
        Yitzhak Magen: Mount Garizin and Mount Ebal
        19.00 - 19.15
        Thomas Waliszeweski: The Lost Section of Phoenicia and Galilee in the Madaba Map.
        19.15 - 19.30
        Grzegorz Majcherek: The transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam.
        19.30 - 19.45
        Asher Ovadiah: The Churches of Jerusalem in the Madaba Map.
        19.45 - 20.00
        José M. Blásquez: The Nature in the Madaba Mosaic Map.

        Wednesday 9 April - 3rd Day
        Field Trip to the Madaba Region
        Guide: Michele Piccirillo
        09.00
        Umm al-Rasas - Kastron Mefaa
        Madaba: The Archaeological Park and the Madaba Mosaic School

          (Coffee Reception by the Madaba Society).
        Mount Nebo. Visit and lunch

        Final Session in Amman - At the Regency Hotel
        18.00
        Chairman: Henry Maguire
        Open discussion about the Madaba Map and its Preservation.
        Arch. Yousef al-Alami, Arch. Luigi Marino, Arch. Antonio Almagro

        ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
        Ghazi Bisheh (Director General of Antiquities, Jordan)
        Chafik Chamass (Aujourd'hui l'Egypte)
        Mark Easton (American research Center in Egypt)
        Elhamy el Zayat (Middle East Mediterranean Travel and Tourism Association)
        Widad Kawar (Author)
        Yousriya Nassif Loza (The Association for the Protection of the Environment)
        Khaled Nashef (Palestinian Institute of Archaeology, Birzeit University)
        Abdel Halim Nur el Din (Institute of Archaeology, Cairo University)
        Michele Piccirillo (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem - Mount Nebo)
        Naguib Sawiris (ORASCOM)
        Yoram Tsafrir (Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
        Shafiq Zawaydeh (The Madaba Society)

        Conference Secretariat
        Environmental Quality International - Cairo

          Tel. (+20) 2-3408284 / 3400052
          Fax: (+20) 2-3413331
        Department of Antiquities of Jordan (Nazmieh Rida Tawfiq Darwish)
          Tel. (+962) 6-64336 / 641275 / 644320
          Fax. (+962) 6-615848

        Have Accepted to participate
        His Beatitude Diodoros I, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
        His Beatitude Torkom Manoogian, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
        His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
        Most Reverend Father Giuseppe Nazzaro, Custos of the Holy land
        H. E. Mons. Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Nuncio of the Holy See in Jordan

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