CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
| 9:00 – 9:20 | CONFERENCE OPENING |
| PANEL “THE ALEXANDROVO TOMB” | |
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Diana DIMITROVA, Julia VALEVA, Georgi NEKHRIZOV, Stanislav ILIEV
The Tomb of Alexandrovo: 20 Years Later |
| 9:40 – 10:00 | David BRAUND
Hunting Naked and Hunting with an Axe: Some Greek Implications for Alexandrovo’s Naked Axe-Man |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Emil NANKOV
Military Equipment Depicted in the Frescoes of the Alexandrovo Tomb |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Ruslan STOYCHEV
Hunting Scenes in the Frescoes from Alexandrovo: Fashion or Tradition |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Julia VALEVA
The Place of the Funerary Banquet Scene within the Decorative Programme of Alexandrovo Tomb |
| 11:00 – 11:25 | DISCUSSION |
| 11:25 – 11:35 | BREAK |
| 11:35 – 11:55 | Chavdar TZOCHEV
“They Carried Round Horns of Wine”: Notes on the Thracian Banquet |
| 11:55 – 12:15 | Stephan STEINGRÄBER
Warriors, Horsemen, Duels and Battles – the Alexandrovo and Thracian Tomb Paintings in the Context of Early Hellenistic Painting and Funeral Art in the Mediterranean (Macedonia, Magna Graecia, Etruria) |
| 12:15 – 12:35 | Iliana BORISOVA-KATSAROVA
Some Observations on Textile Products Depicted in the Tomb Near Alexandrovo |
| 12:35 – 12:55 | Nicolay SHARANKOV
The Alexandrovo Graffito within the Epigraphic Habit of Hellenistic Thrace |
| 12:55 – 13:15 | Diana DIMITROVA, Stanislav ILIEV
Burial in a Ceramic Sarcophagus near the Alexandrovo Tomb |
| 13:15 – 13:40 | DISCUSSION |
| 13:40 – 14:40 | BREAK |
| PANEL “HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY” | |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Olga PALAGIA
The “Royal” Hunt in Light of Recent Discoveries |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Lâtife SUMMERER
Color and Space in Wall Paintings of the Uzunyuva-Tomb Chamber in Mylasa |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Maya VASSILEVA
The Achaemenid Anatolian Context of the Alexandrovo Wall Paintings |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Milena TONKOVA
Thracian Domed Tomb in Momina Tumulus and the Funeral Practices in the Region of the Chirpan Hills, South Bulgaria |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Hristo POPOV
Between Thucydides, Xenophon and the Archaeological Evidence. Open Questions to the Habitation along the Middle Maritsa Course during the Classical and Hellenistic Periods |
| 16:20 – 16:45 | DISCUSSION |
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
| PANEL “INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION” | |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Daniela NEDELTCHEVA-ANTONOVA, Kamelia GETCHOVSKA, Stanislav STANEV, Elena KANTAREVA-DECHEVA
Insight into the Painting Techniques Used in the Thracian Tomb at Alexandrovo by Means of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Is there Beeswax as an Organic Paint Binder or not? That’s the Question) |
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Georgi AVDEEV, Bistra STAMBOLIYSKA, Denitsa YANCHEVA, Momtchil DIMITROV, Rositsa KUKEVA, Georgi NEKHRIZOV, Radostina STOYANOVA
X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopic Analysis of Decorative Color Plasters from the Thracian Tomb near Alexandrovo, Haskovo Province, Bulgaria |
| 9:40 – 10:00 | Antonino COSENTINО, Georgi NEKHRIZOV, Julia TZVETKOVA, Angela PENCHEVA, Nayden PRAHOV, Kitan KITANOV, Daniela STOYANOVA
Non-Destructive Documentation of the Wall Painting Decoration of Alexandrovo Tomb in 2019. Results and Interpretation |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Georgi NEKHRIZOV, Julia TZVETKOVA
The Alexandrovo Tomb and Its Archaeological Context |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | DISCUSSION |
| 10:40 – 10:50 | BREAK |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Milena KAMENOVA
Results from 3D Laser Scanning of the Interior of the Alexandrovo Tomb and the Orthophoto Model of the Tomb |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Hariclia BRECOULAKI
Scientific Investigation and Revisualization of the Hunt Frieze from Tomb II at Vergina |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Nikola TONKOV
Detection of Buried Features in the Thracian Mounds by Means of Geophysical Methods of Prospection |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Anjo WEICHBRODT, Georgi NEKHRIZOV, Julia TZVETKOVA, Julia VALEVA, Angela PENCHEVA, Daniela STOYANOVA
Inventory and Management System of the Thracian Tombs in Bulgaria |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Diana GERGOVA
The Alexandrovo Tomb. 20 Years Problems, Professionalism and Moral |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | DISCUSSION |
