Stonecutters And Mosaicists at Work. Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy (University of Warsaw, 30 November-1 December 2023)

The main objective of the stone-masters project, funded from an erc Starting grant awarded to Paweł Nowakowski in 2022 (grant agreement number 101040152) and run from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, is to provide a complex answer to the question about the reasons for the great transformation of Roman commemorative traditions in the realm of epigraphy and build an atlas illustrating a highly regionalized network of workshops, identifying places of origin for the inscriptions on stone and mosaic from the third to the fifth century AD. The first major conference organized as part of the project was held at the University of Warsaw on 30th November and 1st December 2023. The conference aimed at bringing together people following broadly understood studies on ancient workshops, prosopography of craftspeople (including, for example, vase painters, scribes and illuminators of manuscripts), provenance of works of art and craft such as paintings, vases, mosaics, parchments and papyrus scrolls and codices, and others. Unlike most of such meetings, this conference was centred around methods rather than actual outcomes of research