The International Conference on Heritage of Naqada and Qus
region
Monastery of the Archangel Michael, Naqada, Egypt
22-28 January 2007
PROGRAM – ICOM
Monday January 22
08:00 PM Transfer from Cairo to Naqada
Tuesday January 23
06:00 PM Registration in the evening
Wednesday January 24
9:00 Registration
10:00
Opening Ceremony (Chairman : Prof. Dr. Hany Hanna)
Presentation of Naqada and Qus (His grace Bishop Beman of
Naqada)
11:30 Registration/ Coffee break
12:30 - 02:10 Session 1
Chairman : Prof. Dr. Franco Casali
Start Authors and speaker - Title
or event
Time (Time includes the presentation &discussion)
12:30 Introduction
by
Session Chair
12:35 John Hillier -
Migrations of the Course
of the River Nile Between
Luxor and Qift Over the Last Four Thousand
Years
01:05 Matteo Bettuzzi, Franco Casali,
Maria Pia Morigi, Rosa Brancaccio,
Alberto Rossi, Vincenzo D’Errico, Alice
Castellani, Diego Cauzzi – X-
ray
3D Computed Tomography of Large Old Paintings on Wood
Panels: a New Tool for Conservation Analysis
01:35 Magdy
Mansour Bdwy - Treatment and Restoration of
Wall-Paintings
in the Archangels Church in Cairo
02:05 Conclusion by Session Chair
02:30 Lunch break
04:30 - 06:10 Session 2
Chairman : Dr. Grazia Antonella Di Pietro
Start Authors and speaker -
Title or event
Time (Time includes the presentation & discussion)
04:30
Introduction by
Session Chair
04:35 Luc
Watrin -
The Relative Chronology of the Naqada Culture: a view
from Buto,
Ma’adi, Harageh and
Gerzeh
05:05
Emmanuelle Honoré -
Earliest Cylinder-Seal
Glyptic in Egypt: From
Greater Mesopotamia to Naqada
05:35
Caroline Simpson -
Qurna: some aspects of
more recent Theban
heritage (Not in the preprints)
06:05 Conclusion by Session Chair
06:15 Free Time
Thursday January 25
10:00 - 11:40 Session 3
Chairman : Luc Watrin
Start Authors and speaker -
Title or event
Time (Time includes the presentation &discussion)
10:00
Introduction by
Session Chair
10:05 Rita
Di Maria -
Naqada (Petrie’s South Town): The Sealing Evidence
10:35 Grazia Antonella Di Pietro -
“Kleinfunde” from the Italian
Excavations at Zawaydah (Petrie’s South
Town)
11:05 Arputha Rani Sengupta -
Naqada Traced in Indus Valley Culture
11:35
Conclusion by
Session Chair
11:40 Coffee break
12:30 - 02:10 Session 4
Chairman : Emmanuelle
Honoré
Start Authors and speaker -
Title or event
Time (Time includes the presentation &discussion)
12:30
Introduction by
Session Chair
12:35 Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi, Ola
Seif
-
Fatimid Frontiers: The
Mausoleum of Qus as a Case Study
01:05
Maheshvari
Naidu
- Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site:
Issues of Identity and Heritage
01:35 Grace Odal-Devora - Mut: The
Ancient Water Goddess as Sign,
Symbol and Myth of the Divine Power of Woman
02:05 Conclusion by Session Chair
02:30 Lunch break
04:30 - 06:15 Session 5
Chairman : Prof. Dr. Sami Sabry Shaker /
Ambassador Dr. Lotfy Yacoub
Start Authors and speaker -
Title or event
Time (Time includes the presentation &discussion)
04:30
Introduction by
Session Chair
04:35 Atef Hanna - The
Relationship Between the Naqada and Qus Regions
and Christian Nubia and its Impact on the
Planning of their Churches
05: 05 His Grace Bishop Martyros -
A Study of the Manuscript of Pontius
Pilate's Martyrdom at the Library of the
Monastery of the Archangel
Michael in Naqada
05:35 Rageh Mohamed - Nabataeans
in Wadi Hammamat and Qefet
06:05 Conclusion by Session Chair
06:15 Free Time
Friday January 26
10:00 - 11:40 Session 6
Chairman : Dr. Gamal Mahgoub / Ambassador Dr. Lotfy
Yacoub
Start Authors and speaker -
Title or event
Time (Time includes the presentation &discussion)
10:00
Introduction by
Session Chair
10:05 Sobhi Shenouda, Hany Hanna. Magdy Badawy,
Fr. Angeluos El-
Naqlony
- Naqada Culture and its
Objects in the International
Museums.
10:35 Abd El-Gawad El-Hagagy
-
The Qusian woman in the Coptic period
and Islamic period
10:05 Sobhi Shenouda - Spotlight on
Coptic History and Coptic Art.
H. Hanna
-
Cheops Wooden Boat and its Museum; Condition Case
Study.
11:35 Conclusion by Session Chair
11:40 Coffee break
12:30 - 02:30 Session 7
(Plenary Session)
(Chairman : Prof. Dr. Hany Hanna)
Closing Ceremony
Presentation of Discos of Naqada an Qus
(His
grace Bishop Beman of Naqada)
02:30 Closing of the conference
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