November 29th 9:00 - Opening session Simone Maria Collavini, Head of the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge Piergiorgio Borbone, On behalf of the President of the MA Degree Course in Near Eastern Studies: Egypt, Near and Middle East 9:10 - Anacleto D’Agostino (Università di Pisa) Introduction First Session – Urban Spaces in the Ancient Near East I Chair: Rocco Palermo 9:35 - Mirko Novák (Universität Bern) The Citadel City in Assyria and the Northern Levant: Parallel developments or mutual influence? 10:10 - James Osborne (University of Chicago) Reconsidering Space and Power in Syro-Anatolian Cities of the Iron Age 10:45 - Valérie Matoïan (CNRS, Paris) Ugarit, social and urban geography 11:20 – 11:35 Coffe break Second Session – Urban Spaces in the Ancient Near East II Chair: Alfonso Archi 11:35 - Dirk Mielke (Freie Universität Berlin) Origin, Development and Decline of Hittite Cities 12:10 - Giulia Torri (Università degli Studi di Firenze) The king of Ḫattuša and his cities: Royal administrative duties in peripheral cities of Anatolia Lunch break Third Session – Urban experiences in the Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran Chair: Chiara Barbati 15:00 - Jason Ur (Harvard University) Urbanism Trajectories in Ancient Mesopotamia 15:35 - Giulio Maresca (Sapienza, Università di Roma) From the diffused cityscape of the royal Achaemenid residences to the geometric layout of the first Sasanian capitals: considerations on the elusiveness of the urban experience in pre-Islamic Iran 16:10 - Carlo G. Cereti (Sapienza, Università di Roma) The Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr in the context of late-Sasanian Iran. 16:45 – 17:00 Coffe break Fourth Session – Naming cities: evidence from Greece and the Near East Chair: Chiara Barbati 17:00 - Carolina Marescotti and Domenica Romagno (Università di Pisa) Origin, functions, and distribution of the suffix -eus in ancient Greek: between toponyms and agent nouns 17:35 - Marc Janse (Ghent University) Lost & Found: Trading Places in Ancient Anatolia 18:10 - Discussion ‘Lost cities': form, meaning and perception of urban settlements in the Ancient Near and Middle East Pisa, November 29th - 30th, 2022 Palazzo della Sapienza, Aula Magna Storica, (Via Curtatone e Montanara 15) Per informazioni: anacleto.dagostino@unipi.it Progetto di ricerca di Ateneo 2020 - 2021 'Città perdute: forma, significato e percezione degli insediamenti urbani nel Vicino Oriente antico'