December Late Roman lectures in Oxford

[Caballo]

ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY SPECIAL LECTURE
Prof. Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia):
The late Roman villa at Caddeddi on the
Tellaro in Sicily and its mosaics
Monday 16 December 2013 (10th Week) at 5.00 pm
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Lecture Room, Oxford University

The Roman villa in contrada Caddeddi on the Tellaro river, near Noto in southeast
Sicily, was discovered by chance in 1970. Although brief notes have been
published about the villa and its mosaics, and the site is mentioned in passing in
general surveys of late Roman villas and late Roman mosaics, it remains
unpublished in detail. The villa dates to the second half of the fourth century
AD, and so belongs a generation or more later than the famous Casale villa near
Piazza Armerina. This talk will consider the iconography of the three main
figured mosaics at Caddeddi – a mythological scene, the ransoming of the body
of Hector; a floor depicting a bust of Bacchus at the center with satyrs and
maenads in the panels around; and an action-packed hunting scene with many
episodes paralleled in general terms on the Piazza Armerina floors. The paper
also sets the Caddeddi mosaics in context by comparing details from all three
with parallels in north Africa; like those at Piazza Armerina, it seems very
probable that all the floors at Caddeddi were laid by itinerant African craftsmen
based at Carthage. Above all, the talk will present new colour images, taken by
the speaker, to illustrate both the dazzling polychromy of these mosaics and the
wide range of incidental detail that they contain.

http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/pdf/poster_roma...ec2013.pdf

Plus another for the diary in Oxford.....

Kellogg College, the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, and the
Oxford Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life

Constantine and the Grandeur that was Rome
An Interdisciplinary Symposium: www.constantine2013.org
11–12 December 2013
Kellogg College, 60 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN

Speakers include Werner de Saeger, Aleksandra Krauze-Kolodziej, Graham Jones, Riccardo Saccenti, Alberto Melloni, Davide Dainese, Javier Beida Iniesta, Eireni Artemi, Sebastian Petzolt, Jorge Tomás Garcia, Carlos Jesus, Bertrand Lançon & Tiphaine Moreau, Norman Austin, Tara Baker, Sean Griffin, Frederick Lauritzen, Alberto Melloni

The conference is free, but it is essential to register with [email protected]

[Musivarius]

Thanks for posting that, I might see if I can get there.
Just looked it up, will be very interesting if he has some decent pictures of the mosaics as there's very little out there and what there is looks good.