BABesch-Byvanck Award
Thanks to a generous donation from the bequest of the late Lily Byvanck-Quarles van Ufford, who has been for many years the motor of our periodical Bulletin Antieke Beschaving, we have the pleasure to launch an annual contest for the best contribution of a scholarly paper to our periodical, written by a novice in the field of archaeological research. We think of the products of excellent MA dissertations and the first results of PhD studies covering one of the points of focus in our periodical regarding Mediterranean Archaeology. There are no restrictions as to nationalities and study backgrounds. The award amounts to €1500,00.
The applicant should follow the directions of BABesch (see www.BABesch.org) and add to his or her work a short curriculum vitae. The deadline is 1 March of the running year and this would imply that the contribution should be published in the issue of the following year. The contributions can be submitted to BABesch (info(a)BABesch.org) and will be read and judged by the members of the editorial board of BABesch. All participants will get notice at short term, eventually to improve and/or change the paper before final publication. The author(s) not singled out for publication will get their papers returned.
E.M. Moormann (chief editor)
J.P. Crielaard
L.B. van der Meer
A.J. Nijboer
J. Poblome
J.P.A. van der Vin
L. Schaafsma
Chers collègues,
Je me permets de vous écrire pour vous annoncer la sortie d'un nouveau manuel sur Carthage et le monde Punique, né sous la plume de notre collègue Hédi Dridi, paru ce mois ci à Paris aux éditions Guide Des Civilisations, Belles Lettres. Je pense que cette information mériterait d'être annoncée sur les pages du site de l'IPPSA, je n'ai pas encore le temps de rédiger une revue de cet ouvrage, mais en le parcourant, je n'ai pas manqué d'apprécier le style et les informations très pratiques qui ne manqueront pas d'intéresser un grand public et en particulier les étudiants qui souhaitent se spécialiser.
Raya Ben Guiza Verniers
Dear colleagues
I would like to contact site directors or museum curators in the Phoenician-Punic field on behalf of my colleague Professor Julian Henderson and I; we are trying to obtain glass samples for analysis.
We have been fortunate that Professor Julian Henderson (University of Nottingham) has spent the last six months in Melbourne as a visiting scholar. He is an archaeological scientist, and an expert in early glass, with considerable British Academy backing behind him.
Professor Henderson is currently conducting an exciting project concerning the analysis of early glass. The attached summary explains his current project and the methods he is using. Most exciting is the new method of fingerprinting glass using a range of isotopic signatures.
The main focus of the Julian's study has been on Syria and he has reached a point where he would like to expand the parameters of his project and has asked me to collaborate with him - hence this enquiry. Colleagues working in Anatolia have recently offered samples from their excavations and the analysis of glass from Phoenician sites across the Mediterranean would be a logical and worthwhile next step.
We would very much like to hear from anyone who has glass samples that they would like to have studied. Please direct enquiries to me.
My kindest regards and thanks,
Claudia Sagona
Senior Fellow School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA
fax: +61 3 83444161
tel: +61 3 98538636
Cari Amici e Colleghi,
Una breve nota sulla storia del Comitato Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici:
Il Comitato Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici nasce, con sede presso l’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Roma, per iniziativa di Sabatino Moscati, con il precipuo intento di promuovere i Congressi Internazionali di Studi Fenici e Punici e di curarne l’organizzazione. Tali Congressi si sono costantemente tenuti, fino ad oggi, in Paesi sul cui territorio i Fenici si stabilirono.
Del Comitato fanno parte studiosi di diverse nazionalità, cooptati in varie occasioni nel corso degli anni. Esso, presieduto fin dall’inizio da Sabatino Moscati, era composto da Camille Asmar, María Eugenia Aubet, Mohammed H. Fantar, Giovanni Garbini, Vassos Karageorghis, Hans Georg Niemeyer, Maurice Sznycer e Vincenzo Tusa. Successivamente sono stati cooptati infatti José María Blázquez, nel periodo precedente al IV Congresso, il direttore pro-tempore dell’Istituto per la Civiltà fenicia e punica e, a partire dal 2000, Ana Margarita Arruda e chi scrive. Successivamente alla scomparsa di Sabatino Moscati, il Comitato è stato presieduto da Vincenzo Tusa. Attualmente, come può vedersi nel sito predisposto in occasione del Congresso Internazionale recentemente tenutosi a Lisbona, il Comitato stesso risulta costituito da María Eugenia Aubet, Ana Margarita Arruda, Piero Bartoloni, José María Blázquez, Mohammed H. Fantar, Giovanni Garbini, Vassos Karageorghis, Hans Georg Niemeyer, Maurice Sznycer e Vincenzo Tusa.
Oltre ai congressi internazionali succedutisi in questi anni, il Comitato ha promosso l’organizzazione di un Convegno sul tema «I Fenici: ieri oggi domani», tenutosi a Roma dal 3 al 5 marzo 1994 e dunque in una data intermedia tra il III e il IV Congresso Internazionale.
Cordialmente
Piero Bartoloni
Dipartimento di Storia
Università degli studi di Sassari
Cari Colleghi,
Ci scusiamo ancora una volta per il ritardo con il quale stiamo provvedendo alla spedizione degli Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici.
Vi chiediamo una ulteriore dose di pazienza in attesa che arrivino i promessi contributi necessari per la spedizione di tutti i volumi.
Confidando nella vostra comprensione, vi inviamo cordiali saluti
Antonella Spanò Giammellaro
Chères/Chers Collègues,
«Une vérité scientifique nouvelle, ne triomphe pas en persuadant ses adversaires, ni en leur faisant voir la lumière, elle triomphe parce que ses adversaires finissent par mourir et qu’une nouvelle génération que l’idée neuve n’étonne pas, remplace l’ancienne» — Max Plank
Dans ce forum qui en principe devrait être constructeur de dialogues, je remarque que les idées et les suggestions s’expriment en groupes compacts, épais et serrés. Je donnerai donc un avis égocentrique, que l’on me pardonne mon ego démesuré.
A propos de l’association IPPSA, sur le plan purement technique:
- Je préconise la création d’une revue spécialisée IPPSA, trimestrielle ou semestrielle, qui sera consacrée au monde phénicien et punique, dans laquelle les plus belles idées exprimeront avec talent leur attachement au domaine méditerranéen pluriel et ancien, qui nous a été donnée en gage par la bonne fortune.
- Il faudrait une Présidence IPPSA tournante, élue démocratiquement tous les deux ou trois ou quatre ans par l’ensemble des membres de IPPSA. En particulier si l’association prévoit d’organiser des Colloques (symposium, congrès) en son nom propre. Ceci, sans remettre en cause l’héritage dont est issu le Congrès de Lisbonne. A titre d’exemple, le colloque d’archéométrie qui a eu lieu è Saclay (France) en 2005, est sans rapport avec un autre congrès d’archéométrie, qui doit avoir lieu à Montréal en 2006.
Le cas échéant on aura toujours à faire à la même nomenklatura, et aux énièmes apparatchiks examinateurs ombrageux de textes — au nom de qui et de quoi? — qui veillent au grain en contrôlant et censurant les idées inédites ou nouvelles, qui remettraient en cause leur savoir douillet et si confortable.
Cordialement
Ali-Farid Belkadi
UK • ES
A group of colleagues (a number of them members of IPPSA) recently sent us the previous correspondence, which they have asked us to post on our FORUM.
This we have gladly done, believing that our discipline benefits from open dialogue and the free exchange of opinions.
We welcome their proposal to organize an international meeting to discuss the future of our discipline. At the same time, we would like to emphasize that those who took the initiative to form IPPSA have had no intention to replace the International Scientific Committee responsible for the organization of the quadrennial congresses, and that the opinions expressed in the previous correspondence belong to the signatories of that letter.
We welcome, too, the proposal to use our FORUM as the venue for initial discussion. We hope that all those interested in the future of our discipline can and will contribute.
It is heartening to see how many people have recognized the necessity of forming an international association and the necessity of opening modes of communication beyond the quadrennial international congresses, a fact made evident not only from the number of people joining IPPSA, and not only from the number of hits on our website in just its first two months, but also from this most recent letter.
The wide recognition of a communication gap within our discipline provided us with the impetus to create both IPPSA and this website—we only later realized that our colleague, Hans Georg Niemeyer, had already proposed an initiative of the same sort at the 1994 Rome conference (I Fenici. Ieri Oggi Domani). We find it surprising, therefore, that no such resource and no such cooperative association has been formed in the ensuing decade. We are thus grateful that eminent colleagues have joined our quest to find positive ways to advance our discipline.
IPPSA
Provisional Committee
UK • ES
Un grupo de colegas (una parte de ellos miembros de IPPSA) nos ha enviado recientemente la anterior carta con la petición de que fuese incluida en nuestro FORUM.
Esto es justo lo que hemos hecho con alegría en el convencimiento de que nuestra disciplina se beneficia del establecimiento de un diálogo abierto y del libre intercambio de opiniones.
Nos satisface su propuesta de organizar un encuentro internacional para debatir el futuro de nuestra disciplina. Al mismo tiempo, nos gustaría subrayar en primer lugar que aquellos que tomamos la iniciativa de formar IPPSA ni teníamos ni tenemos intención de reemplazar al Comité Científico Internacional responsable de la organización de los congresos cada cuatro años y también que las opiniones expresadas en la anterior carta pertenecen a los signatarios de la misma.
Damos la bienvenida, también, a la propuesta de usar nuestro FORUM como sede para el debate inicial. Tenemos la esperanza de que todos aquellos interesados en el futuro de nuestra disciplina puedan contribuir y contribuyan al mismo.
Es alentador comprobar cuantas personas han reconocido tanto la necesidad de formar una asociación internacional y como de implementar nuevos medios de comunicación más allá de los congresos internacionales cuatrianuales, un hecho puesto en evidencia no únicamente por el número de personas que han ingresado en IPPSA, ni tampoco por el número de visitas a nuestra web en sus dos primeros meses, sino también por esta reciente carta.
El amplio reconocimiento de que existía una falta de comunicación en nuestra disciplina nos impulsó a crear tanto IPPSA como esta página web (únicamente más tarde supimos que nuestro colega Hans Georg Niemeyer había ya propuesto una iniciativa del mismo tipo en 1994 en la conferencia de Roma (I Fenici. Ieri Oggi Domani). Nos parece sorprendente, por tanto, que ni ese recurso ni esa asociación haya sido creada en la década siguiente. En consecuencia, estamos satisfechos de que nuestros eminentes colegas se hayan unido a nuestra invitación para buscar vías constructivas con las que hacer avanzar nuestra disciplina.
IPPSA
Comité Provisional
Chère/Cher Collègue,
Nous voudrions tout d'abord remercier nos amis portugais et, plus particulièrement, Ana Margarida Arruda, pour leur chaleureux accueil et pour l'excellente organisation du Congrès de Lisbonne : la gentillesse et l'efficacité de nos collègues portugais ont su faire de cette rencontre un succès véritable. Cependant, nous avons ressenti un certain malaise concernant la manière dont ont été prises les décisions relatives à l'organisation pratique et scientifique des congrès futurs. Tout en remerciant la Tunisie, et en particulier notre ami Mhamed Hassine Fantar, pour son offre généreuse qui bien sûr n'est pas en question, la collégialité de la décision devrait rester une option de principe. La question la plus saillante concerne la composition et le rôle du Comité Scientifique International.
Plusieurs problèmes demeurent ouverts:
- Qui sont les membres actuels du Comité Scientifique International?
- Quelles sont leurs fonctions?
- Sur quels critères se base le choix des membres?
- Quelle est la durée de leur mandat?
- Est-il vraiment nécessaire de perpétuer cette structure?
L'absence de réponses claires à ces questions, qui devraient être débattues en séance plénière suivant un principe de collégialité, a laissé planer un sentiment de vague et d'incertitude quant à l'avenir du Congrès et, plus en général, de nos études. Partant de là, nous pensons interpréter un sentiment commun en souhaitant un renouvellement de la structure: il s'agirait de garder les acquis positifs de la tradition mais, en même temps, de favoriser une plus grande ouverture et de répondre aux exigences nouvelles de nos études. Or, la proposition de constituer une Association internationale d'études phéniciennes et puniques (IPPSA), avancée par R. Docter et d'autres, représente indiscutablement une donnée de fait dont il n'est pas possible ignorer l'existence. De la lettre des initiateurs de l'IPPSA publiée dans ce Forum, ainsi que des contacts personnels intervenus dernièrement, il résulte que cette initiative doit être considérée comme in fieri, sans qu'aucune décision ait été prise au préalable. Telle étant la situation, en nous trouvant dans une phase encore provisoire et ouverte à tout développement, il nous semble raisonnable d'utiliser la structure qui vient d'être réalisée — en particulier le Forum — comme siège et point de départ pour un débat général et approfondi sur tous les aspects et les problèmes qui se posent.
Dans cette optique, dans une première phase nous suggérons de recueillir les opinions et les suggestions de tous les intéressés. Dans une deuxième phase, nous proposons qu'un groupe soit chargé d'en faire une synthèse et de songer à la diffuser, dans la perspective d'une rencontre à effectuer selon temps et modalités à établir. Cette rencontre, en principe ouverte à tous, devrait faire le point sur la situation et prendre des décisions pour le futur.
Si vous êtes d'accord pour participer à ce débat, nous vous prions de manifester votre adhésion et d’envoyer vos suggestions et vos idées sur les sujets qui y sont évoqués.
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo
Maria Eugenia Aubet
Leila Badre
Cecilia Beer
María Belén Deamos
Corinne Bonnet
Serena Maria Cecchini
Josette Elayi
María Cruz Marín Ceballos
Ida Oggiano
Hélène Sader
Paolo Xella
José-Ángel Zamora López
Chers collègues:
Je suis honoré de faire parvenir un texte et une illustration au Forum de l'IPPSA, dans l'espoir de voir de belles, enrichissantes et originales idées s'y développer.
«Le sanctuaire punique de al-Hofra, Constantine (Algérie)»
Cordialement
Ali Farid BELKADI
Alger-Paris
Estimados colegas:
En mi opinión ha sido una gran idea la creacion de esta asociacion, ya que somos muchos los que veiamos necesario una agrupacion internacional que aunase los esfuerzos de todos los investigadores del ambito fenicio-punico, por lo que hemos de felicitar al comite que ha tenido la iniciativa de llevar a cabo este proyecto asociativo. Espero que esta agrupacion consiga convertirse en un marco inmejorable para la transmision y el debate de los conocimientos e investigaciones llevadas a cabo por todos los que nos dedicamos a este ambito de actuacion.
Sin mas un cordial saludo a todos,
Roberto Montero Fernandez
templo_melqart(a)hotmail.com
Dear colleagues,
The following link might be of interest:
www.uispp.ipt.pt/en/calls/callc53.html
[Colloquium 53 — A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology]
Best wishes
Dirk Brandherm
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
dirk.brandherm(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Chers collègues,
On m'a transmis l'adresse web du site de votre association IPPSA. Il se trouve que nous sommes quelques uns à faire actuellement la même démarche concernant la création d'une association internationale d'archéologie islamique. Avec les mêmes objectifs, notamment ceux concernant un fonctionnement démocratique, et bien entendu, les mêmes difficultés de choix quant aux droits à acquitter pour être membre de l'association (j'ai lu avec intérêt les échanges sur votre forum). Peut-être vous est-il possible de diffuser l'information autour de vous, puisqu'à défaut d'une chronologie commune, nous partageons en partie un même espace géographique. Nous n'avons pas encore de site, mais je vous donne l'adresse de notre embryon d'association:
Je joins à ce message l'appel à créer cette association. Merci pour votre possible aide et tous mes voeux de réaussite.
Bien cordialement,
Roland-Pierre Gayraud
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme
It is an excellent idea to found the IPPSA; it is most useful and important to find some informal type of exchange between the congresses. As an archaeologist specialized in numismatics I am active in Southern Italy and Sicily as well as in Carthage. Concerned by many Punic questions I should like to adhere to the IPPSA. I also offer my help whenever it could be useful for you in the matter of “my” field of research (e. g. for the contacts or links with international numismatic organisations or for other specific questions).
Best wishes,
Suzanne Frey-Kupper
Présidente du GSETM
suzanne.frey(a)dplanet.ch
Ich sehe, das Schiff hat den richtigen Kurs aufgenommen. Ich freue mich, daß mein Traum, über den ich auf dem
Kongress I Fenici, Ieri, Oggi e Domani 1994 in Rom gesprochen habe, nun Wirklichkeit wird. Hiermit erkläre ich meinen Beitritt zur Gesellschaft IPPSA!
Beste Wünsche!
Eppendorfer Landstr. 60
D-20249 Hamburg
As a member I want to give my view on Bob Stieglitz's suggestions. The first suggestion, I think, is really a good and valid one. There are,
however, already many convegni, workshops, local congresses dealing with
seperate topics and themes in our field. What has been lacking hitherto is one
international message board where these venues are announced. The present
website may fill this gap. As to the second suggestion I have more reservations. I feel that for most
European and US scholars with a university, museum or research position, a
membership fee of ca. €50 would pose no hardhsip. However, asking a
membership fee (of this kind) would pose a hardship for many colleagues from countries with
low exchange rates vs. the Euro, a hardship for most of our younger PhD students, and a hardship for many of the
(still) unemployed researchers. There are definitely other
ways to generate funding that can keep an Association working. Perhaps should we
introduce an income- or academic position-related membership fee, such as the
German Archaeological Association (DAV) has established? At this point, I am not so sure. Roald Docter
Roald.Docter(a)UGent.be
Please feel free to post my suggestion on the website. If members agree, I think a meeting of minds every two years will be stimulating.
12.10.05
Suggestion:
The period between Congresses is too long. If members are interested, perhaps we can have workshops biannually, hosted by a university department.
Annual membership dues (e.g. 50 euros) can be used to pay for some of the organizing expenses for the workshops, unless members can solicit funding from government sources (respective C.N.R.s?).
Robert Stieglitz
Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ 07102-1814
USA
Dear colleagues and friends:
We have just received an email from our colleague and friend Ana Margarida Arruda, which we copy below for those who do not happen to be on her mailing list. It is good to see that she agrees with our initiative, likewise we agree in many respects with the contents of her e-mail. Unfortunately, she does not consent with the way we went ahead with our initiative, and makes a suggestion about how she would have organized such an association. Perhaps this may have been a better procedure, but it provides no immediate solution for forming an international group that would communicate between the quadrennial congresses.
Let us confirm that we very much admire the way she organized the Lisbon congress, and we do not want to leave the impression that we want to create something to outdo the congress. Nor do we wish to organize anything that would serve as a substitute for international congresses in the future. Quite the contrary.
However, if even our friend Ana Margarida Arruda misunderstands our intentions (written in 5 of the languages of our discipline), then surely it is imperative that we clarify our intentions.
For those not present in Lisbon, it may be hard to imagine how many people were discussing the definite need for an international association for our field of studies. In fact, rumors flew that the International Committee (which organizes the quadrennial congresses) had planned to announce the creation of such an association. While meeting informally with some colleagues in Lisbon on the last day of the congress (before our Saturday excursion) we outlined what in our view would be desirable for such an association. We waited, however, until the closing session, expecting that the only member of the International Committee still present, our colleague and friend Piero Bartoloni, would propose the creation of such an association, or at least hint at the fact that the idea had been discussed in committee. Nothing of the sort happened, and the late closing ceremony left no room for any discussions. Everybody was happy with how the congress had evolved, but exhausted from our unforgettable boat tour.
The conference in Lisbon has strengthened our resolve that something should happen; and apparently we are not the only ones, seeing the many positive reactions to our invitation. With all the possibilities that the internet has to offer, we decided to act now, not in 4 or 5 years, in order to open a way to creating an international association for exchanging information immediately.
Apparently Ana Margarida Arruda somehow gained the impression that a formal organization had already been established. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding since we had the exact opposite intention. Even the name of our international group was written on a napkin over coffee. “Association” is concise and, in English at least, has connotations of voluntary union, friendship, and fraternity (as much as and perhaps more than any formal or legal connotations). This name was chosen for convenience and euphony — a more appropriate name can be chosen in the future, if members so decide.
We have no wish to impose anything on anyone, but we do want to create something democratically, so we left open every aspect of the association to be decided by the future members. We only made a mission statement of 4 points (you will find them in the invitation). We are an organizing body functioning only to keep open channels of communication until a formal organization can be put in place. It is the members themselves who should decide what kind of association to form (on the basis of very general guidelines proposed in the invitation) and what exactly its stature and statutes should be (thus we invite any member with and interest in or knowledge of formal, juridical matters to guide us as we draft any statutes that are put forward by common consensus).
The fact that there is free and open membership means that one can always quit if one does not consent. What we seek now are colleagues to help prepare, to lay the groundwork, to get things started — you will find cooperative initiatives and invitations to participate in the next updates of the website. It was heartening to see that several people have already offered to contribute to the working of the association, apart from becoming member. We believe in the free exchange of information within an association of people working for a same goal. So, we will continue our efforts to build an international platform for communication, alongside the proven formula of the quadrennial international congresses. The great success of the Congress in Lisbon offers testament both to the effectiveness of this formula and to the enthusiasm and organizational gifts of Ana Margarida Arruda.
Roald Docter
Brien Garnand
Karin Mansel
Boutheina Maraoui Telmini
Antonella Mezzolani
Joan Ramon Torres
Fernando Villada Paredes
Dears colleagues and friends, Karin Mansel, Roald Docter, Brien Garnand, Boutheina Maraoui Telmini, Antonella Mezzolani, Joan Torres Ramon and Fernando Villada
It was with surprise that I received your e.mail inviting me to adhere to the International Association of Phoenician and Punic Studies (IAPPS). Surprise because, still I agree with the initiative and see with good eyes the creation of an organism integrator of the scientific activity in the domain of the Phoenician and Punic studies, it seems a little precipitated the form as you had create it.
I think that it would have been better, and over all more democratic, to know if such initiative would have good shelter next to the scientific community before launching it.
If you thought that it was no chance to make such proposal during the Congress of Lisbon (and I think it had if you had spoken with the organization) this proposal could would have been sent for mail, in the same way as you inform now that you had already created the International Association of Phoenician and Punic Studies, had constituted a provisory comity, had arranged a headquarters, had defined the general lines of its functioning and you are preparing the statutes. I think that the sensitivity of those that will be, for excellence, the associates must have been listened. Or either you could ask to all of us:
- We judge that the existence of an international association of studies if becomes essential. You agree with its creation?
- Are you disposed to collaborate with a group in the elaboration of statutes or any another form?
This is not the Phoenician and Punic archaeology that dream, and I don't think that the form as the initiative is proposal is particularly well coming.
With this, I do not want to say that it considers illegitimate that any Association is created.
I believe that any person is free to grouping with other people to constitute a group of associates.
I'm democratic and so I can't deny to anyone a right that I consider inalienable of any human being: the right of association. But, given the circumstances, it seems to me that I must wait for the presentation of your proposal of statutes to be able to adhere to your Association, and this because without statutes it does not have association or associates.
An association of this nature needs being credible, and to have this credibility it's necessary that it be legalized.
To legalize it is necessary to have formal statutes to officialize its existence and to guarantee its effectiveness. A group of half dozen of good wills is not enough. The international dimension and the number of people who will be able to associate are of such great form that it's necessary to work in another direction.
With the best archaeological greetings
Ana Margarida Arruda
Centro de Arqueologia
Faculdade de Letras
1600-214 Lisboa
Portugal
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