Program

10 September 2021, Friday

10.00 – 10.30 Conference Opening

10.30 – 11.30 Moderator Georgi Atanasov

10.30 – 10.45 Svetlana Gancheva The Fortification System of Late Antique Durostorum.

10.45 – 11.00 Vania Popova The place of the Silistrian Tomb in Late Antique Balkan culture. The Recent Research.

11.00 – 11.15 Kalina Atanasova Reconstruction of garments from the late antique tomb in Silistra.

11.15 – 11.30 Discussion

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 14.15 Moderator Ivo Topalilov

12.00 – 12.15 Mustafa Sayar Two New Provinces Two New Capitals Perinthos/Herakleia and Hadrianoupolis in Late Antiquity.

12.15 – 12.30 Irina Achim Quelques réflexions sur les villes de l’arrière-pays de la Scythie à l’antiquité tardive.

12.30 – 12.45 Kalin Stoev Some aspects of the administrative Development of the Lower Moesian limes in 3rd century AD.

12.45 – 13.00 Laurențiu Nistorescu Transurban continuities on Low Danube region – first millennium AD.

13.00 – 13.45 Valeri Stoichkov Lower Danubian Limes in Notitia Dignitatum manuscripts.

13.45 – 14.15 Discussion

14.15– 15.30 Lunch

15.30 – 17.00 Moderator Kalin Stoev

15.30 – 15.45 Ivan Valchev Pagan gods in the late Roman cities on the Lower Danube.

16.00 – 16.15 Misha Racocija Forum statues and topography of late antique and Paleo-Byzantine Nis.

16.15 – 16.30 Stefan Honcu Strategy and innovation in Late Antiquity. The case of small fortifications and rural settlements in Scythia Minor.

16.30 – 17.00 Discussion

18.00 Concerto of the Shumen Chamber Orchestra

19.30 Municipality of Silistra Welcoming Dinner

11 September 2021, Suterday

9.30 – 11.15 Moderator Ivo Topalilov

9.30 – 9.45 Alexander Rubel The Town of (L)Ibida / Slava Rusă (Scythia Minor) in the context of a new Defence Strategy of the Empire in Late Antiquity.

9.45 – 10.00 Gabriel Mircea Talmatchi Urban evolutions at Tropaeum Traiani in the 4th – 6th centuries AD from the perspective of archaeological research in the southern neighborhood (campaigns 2003–2020).

10.00 – 10.15 Ioan Carol Opriș, Alexandru Rațiu Architectural planning & changes in the official southern quarter of Capidava, from the Tetrarchy to Heraclius. Case study: the Horreum and nearby Principia.

10.15 – 10.30 Zdravko Dimitrov Ratiaria in Late Antiquity – Data from the latest excavations.

10.30 – 10.45 Matthew Schueller The Reuse of Serdica’s Amphitheater as Venue for Late Antique Urbanism.

10.45 – 11.00 Călin Timoc The presence of the Legio VII Claudia in Pojejena Roman Fort.

11.00 – 11.15 Discussion

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.45 Moderator Ivan Valchev

11.30 – 11.45 Iliana Borisova-Katsarova Archaeological evidence of luxury textiles from Late Antique Serdica.

11.45 – 12.00 Rania Michail The Early Christian baptismal complexes of Cyprus and the relationship between liturgy and architecture as reflected in the Cypriot examples.

12.00 – 12.15 Svetla Petrova The Benches in the Furniture and the Liturgical Planning of the Early Byzantine Basilicas of Southwestern Bulgaria.

12.15 – 12.30 Slavtcho Kirov Sources littéraires sur les chrétiens et la vie chrétienne en Thrace Ie–IVe s.

12.30 – 12.45 Discussion

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30 Moderator Dimitar Iliev

14.30– 14.45 Georgi Atanasov L’exception scythe dans l’organisation épiscopale selon Sozomen VI. 21 et sept autres exceptions scythes selon l’histoire et l’archéologie chrétienne.

14.45 – 15.00 Milen Markov The Barbarian christian communities and canons of the Second Ecumenical Council.

15.00 – 15.15 Alenka Cedilnic, Dominic Moreau Macedonius of Constantinople, a true Eusebian? Contribution (IV) to the Christian Prosopography of the Dioecesis Thraciarum.

15.15 – 15.30 Dimitar Iliev Continuity and change as attested in the rhetorical progym-nasmata of Late Antiquity.

15.30 – 15.45 Rossitsa Gicheva-Meimari Intermingling of pagan and Christian religious notions in a funerary inscription from Doxato, Philippi, 3rd century.

15.45 – 16.00 Vania Lozanova-Stancheva Expositio totius mundi et gentium: Ancient Thracia and Thracians in Late Antiquity (4th century AD).

16.00 – 16.30 Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break

17.00 Book Lounge Annales Balcanici – new series of Laboratory for the Study of the Late Antique Balkans.

12 September 2021, Sunday

9.00 – 10.00 Moderator Alexander Rubel

9.00 – 9.15 Nikola Rusev, Boyan Totev Late Antique necropolis nesr the fortress of Zaldapa.

9.15 – 9.30 Sercan Batum The Goths since Adrianople 378 CE: Impact of Their migration upon Roman Thrace.

9.30 – 9.45 Haluk Cetinkaya Hagia Sophia: beneath and during the Iconoclastic period.

9.45 – 10.00 Andreas Pülz Early Byzantine Ampullae from Asia Minor: The iconography of selected examples.

10.00 –10.15 Miguel Galles The Knight who came from the South. The Cult of Saint Menas in Late Antiquity. New 19 th century post-Byzantine icon of Saint Menas, Bulgaria.

10.15 – 10.30 Dorel Bondoc Danubian Horsemen representations from Cioroiu Nou, Dolj County, Romania.

10.00 – 10.15 Discussion

Visit of the Late Antique city Zaldapa.

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