The Formation and Transformation of Space and
Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
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  • About
  • Research
    • Topoi I (2007-12)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Spaces
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Transformations
    • Topoi II (2012–2019)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Space
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Topoi Plus
      • Key Topics
      • Topoi Lab
      • Forum – Spatial Data Analysis
      • TOPOImap und TOPOIorganon
    • Early Career and professorships
  • Knowledge Transfer
    • Publications
      • Publication Database
    • Edition Topoi
      • Open Access
      • Book Series
      • eTopoi
      • Data Publication
    • Events
    • Teaching
    • Dialog
      • Spotlight on …
      • Journalist in Residence
      • Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
    • Exhibitions
      • KTESIPHON
      • LIENZO SELER II
      • The Soul is an Octopus
      • THRAKISCHE MÜNZEN
      • Forum Romanum 3.0.
      • MUSEUMSVISIONEN
      • ANTIKE BAUFORSCHUNG
      • IRON METALLURGY
      • Jenseits des Horizonts
      • Auf den Kopf gestellt!
      • Antike Welten
      • Research and Concepts
    • Media
      • News Archive
      • Press Releases
      • Press Review
      • Media Library
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  • Research Projects

  • Applied Historical Geography (B-IV) Teilprojekt: Antike Entfernungsangaben
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XVII/1. Miliaria provinciarum Hispanarum
  • Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum - Land surveying and jurisprudence in the Roman empire
  • Digitalisierung der Berliner Thesauri altorientalischer Sprachen
  • Diversity & Standardization – Teilprojekt Jörg Klinger
  • Empires Memory. Space, Governance and (the Art of) Bureaucracy in the Middle-Assyrian Empire
  • Grenzen und Begrenzungen
  • Grenzraum und Ethnos in der Spätantike
  • Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG) - Datenbank der frühchristlichen Inschriften Kleinasiens und Griechenlands
  • König Herodes und das Imperium Romanum
  • Metrical Norming
  • Modeling Movement in Archaeology
  • Montanism and Christianity – Competition for the Public in Phrygia
  • Politische Raumordnung und lokale Gesellschaft im spätantiken Ägypten
    Das Beispiel des Pagus
  • Soziokulturelle Interaktionen zwischen Residenz, Provinzgouverneuren und Lokalbevölkerung während der 25.–31. Dynastie
  • The Expansion of Early Christianity in Asia Minor
  • The Mittani – Middle Assyrian Transition in the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont
  • Professorial Dissertation

  • "Scientific" theory of ethnic stereotypes in Antiquity
  • Additional Project

  • Interactive atlas of the ancient Near East
  • Dissertations

  • 'And Made them for Our God a Kingdom and Priests'. The βασιλεία-/βασιλεύω-Terminology in Rev 1:6; 5:10; 20:4,6; 22:5
  • Die kulturelle und ethnische Identität von Griechen in Mesopotamien und seinen Nachbarregionen
  • Images of Space in the Third Sibylline Oracle
  • Nerik – a central religious site in northern Anatolia at the time of the Hittites and its continued existence.
  • Perceptions of philosophy in Classical Athens
  • The Grand Strategy of Emperor Hadrian
  • The Impact of Visigothic Legislation on the Church on the Iberian Peninsula after 589
  • The Territoriality of the Egyptian Elites of the New Kingdom
  • The public appearence of Christianity in late Antique Antioch. Focusing on agnonistic metaphors in several homilies of John Chrysostom about Antiochian martyrs
  • The relation between viae publicae and viae privatae
  • War, Violence and the Public. The Integration of Violence into the sacral and mental Topography of the Early Greek Polis

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Cilliers Breytenbach
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum

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Judith Esders
Sandra Feix
Carmen Marcks-Jacobs
Stephanie Schabow

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(B - Defixiones) Corpus Defixionum
(B-I-1) Surveying and Limitation
(B-I-2) Fuzzy Borders
(B-II-1) Governance
(B-II-2) The State in Egypt
(B-III-1) Israel-Judah-Iudaea
(B-III-2) Diversity of Spaces
(B-III-3) Diversity & Standardization
(B-IV) Historical Geography

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