Ongoing research projects

Univ.-Prof. Basema Hamarneh, PhD

• Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades

• Hagiography, Visual and Archaeological sources in the Byzantine lives of the Holy Fools. St Symeon and St Andrew Saloi

• Archaeological Research project at al-Jumayil (Jordan)

• Rethinking Periphery in Late Antique Arabia

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Schörner

• Cults in Africa Proconsularis: rituals as an expression of independence and integration

• Sacrificial representations in Roman Asia Minor: iconography and rite between adaptation and distinction

• Historical Landuse and Landscape Reconstruction in the Dekapolis Region (Jordan)

• Ancient rural settlement in Upper Austria

• Val di Pesa and Val Orme in transition: an integrated approach to research

• Survey in the suburbium of Ephesus

• Mirobriga - Regina T.: City and countryside in the Roman West

Univ.-Prof. Naoise Mac Sweeney, PhD

• MIGMAG: Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World (https://www.migmag-erc.eu)

• The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP)

• Metauros Archaeological Project (MAP)

ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Fritz Blakolmer

• Minoan-Mycenaean relief art

• Reception of Minoan-Mycenaean art in the 20th century

Univ.-Ass. Mag. Mag. Dr. Matthias Hoernes

• Fake Food: Lead Feasting Utensils, Terracotta Food, and Community Formation in Pre-Roman Southern Italy

• Teaching Paradigms: Classical Archaeology Courses at German-Speaking Universities in the 21st Century

• The Polygnotos Krater Revisited: Object History, Iconography, and Digitisation

• Tracing the Transformation of Southern Italy in the Long Fourth Century BCE (volume co-edited with Christian Heitz [Innsbruck], Agnes Henning [HU Berlin], and Ted Robinson [Sydney]).

Univ.-Ass. Mag. Mag. Dr. Julia Kopf

• Meaningful sherds: sigillata from pre-consumption deposits

• Destructions of the Year of the Four Emperors 69 AD and the Batavian Revolt 70 AD in the Germanic provinces and Raetia – historiographical projection or archaeological evidence?

Univ.-Ass. Dr. Astrid Schmölzer

• The Crossbow Brooches of the Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier (internal project funding of the University of Bamberg)
• PostDoc-Researcher at DFG project ‘Settlements in dynamic spaces - Neuenstadt am Kocher and the Civitas Aurelia G(...) as a model for urbanisation processes in Roman border zones of the 2nd century AD’ (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Michaela Konrad, Dr. Klaus Kortüm)

Ongoing research projects by externally funded project staff:

Dr. Babette Bechtold

• Consuming the East in Sicily. The eastern Greek transport amphorae from the necropolises of Himera and new insights into the colony's extra-regional trade (mid-7th to 5th century BCE)

Dr. Barbara Borgers

• Cooking Ware as Indicator for Regional Trade and Exchange. A view from 4th-1st c. BC Central Mediterranean

Blanka Misic, BA MA PhD

• Cognitive Aspects of Mithraic Rituals in Pannonia (CAMRIP)

Mag. Dr. Hadwiga Schörner

• Greek vases from Viennese university collections for CVA - Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum