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Terracottas figurines with representations of musicians are a privileged field of investigation in understanding the importance of music in both its production and performative contexts. Figurines of male and female musicians are emblematic of the close link between musical practice and the sacred and ritual spheres. They contribute not only to the reconstruction of what music and the production of music meant for ancient societies, but also provide information concerning the relationship of performance to the deities, and about which musical instruments were best suited to the particulars of diverse ritual occasions, including sacred and funerary contexts.

The analysis of terracotta figurines will take into account the presence and characteristics of different musical instruments, gestures, positions, and the clothing of both male and female musicians. The goal is to understand the status of the musicians and to interpret their musical and symbolic significance. Additionally, the terracottas will be analyzed in relation to the development of musical culture and their wider historical and social context.
These topics will be addressed through contributions by scholars working in various fields: archaeology, art history, musicology, history of religion, and anthropology.

The Organizing Committee includes:
Angela Bellia, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna - Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Claude Calame, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Centre AnHiMA: Anthropology and History of the Ancient World), Paris
Barbara Kowalzig, Department of Classics, New York University
Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Donatella Restani, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna
Jaimee Uhlenbrock, Association for Coroplastic Studies

LIST OF SPEAKERS
CLAUDE CALAME, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Centre AnHiMA: Anthropology and History of the Ancient Worlds), Paris: Choral Songs of Girls in Preclassical Sparta: Poetic Performance, Rhythmical Rituals, Musical Arts, Gendered Identities

2. ANNIE CAUBET, Louvre Museum, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Paris: Musician Dwarves in Ancient Mesopotamia and Elam

3. GABRIELA CURRIE, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: The Monkeys of Yotkan and Their Musical Instruments: Iconographical Explorations

4. ELÇİN DOĞAN GURBUZER, Ege University, Izmir: The Terracotta Figurines with Stringed Instruments from the Sanctuary of Apollo Clarios

5. AGNÈS GARCIA-VENTURA, University of Rome La Sapienza, and MIREIA LÓPEZ-BERTRAN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona: Performing Music in Phoenician and Punic Rituals: A Coroplastic Approach

6. REGINE HUNZIKER-RODEWALD, University of Strasbourg: Rethinking Females Figurines from Rabbath-Ammon and Beyond

7. KIKI KAROGLOU, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Eros Mousikos

8. DANIELA LA CHIOMA SILVESTRE VILLALVA, University of São Paulo: The Social Roles of Musicians in the Moche World: An Iconographic Analysis of Their Attributes in the Middle Moche Period’s Ritual Pottery

9. SARA MARANDOLA and DONATA SARRACINO, University of Rome La Sapienza: The Representation of Musicians in Etruscan Decorated Roofs of the Archaic Period: The Temples of Murlo, Ara del Tufo, Aquarossa and Tarquinia

10. DANIELE F. MARAS, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York: Gods, Men, Turtles: Terracotta Lyre-Players in Etruscan Votive Deposits

11. MANOLIS MIKRAKIS, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens: Musical Performance, Society and Politics in Early First Millennium BCE Cyprus: Coroplastic and other Visual Evidence

12. REBECCA MILLER AMMERMAN, Colgate University,Tympanon and Syrinx: A Musical Metaphor within the System of Ritual Practice and Belief at Metaponto

13. ALESSANDRO PAGLIARA, Tuscia University, Viterbo: The Masks of the Dead: Music, Theater, and Burial Customs at Lipara in the Fourth to Third Centuries BCE

14. REGINE PRUZSINSZKY, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg: Musicians and Monkeys. Ancient Near Eastern Clay Plaques Displaying Musicians and their Socio-Cultural Role

15. ARNAUD SAURA-ZIEGELMEYER, Jean Jaurès Laboratory PLH-ERASME, University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail: The Sistrum on Terracottas: Human Instrument or Divine Attribute?

POSTER SESSION
16. MARIA CHIDIROGLOU, National Archaeological Museum, Athens: Terracotta Figurines of Musicians in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

17. GIOCONDA LAMAGNA, Regional Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi, Syracuse: Terracottas with Representations of Musicians from Adranon (Siciliy)

18. LUCİA LEPORE, University of Florence: Grotesque, Burlesque and Obscene Features in Greek Clay Figurines of Musicians and Dancers

19. MARIA AMALIA MASTELLONI, Eolian Regional Archaeological Museum, Lipari: Goddesses, Worshipers, Musicians and Dancers from Lipari and Stromboli

20. AURA PICCIONI, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Regensburg University: Cybele, Dionysus and the Tympanum: The Role of Musicians in Ecstasy

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