Vita
Academic education
- 2013 – 2016
Ph.D. Candidate
Research assistant in the research training group “Value & Equivalence” at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main, Germany.
Title of thesis: The Glyptic of Tell Chuera – sealing practice in administrative and economic contexts. - 2005 – 2011
Magistra Artium
Degree with one major and two minor subjects: Near Eastern Archaeology (major), Ancient Near Eastern Philology (minor), Oriental Studies (minor).
Title of thesis: Kurangun – Kunsthistorische Analyse eines Felsreliefs.
Field work
- 2016
Pottery specialist
Gird-î Qilirikh (Iraqi Kurdistan), Goethe-University Frankfurt - 2015
Research Assistant
Western Harra Survey (Jordan), Director: Stefan Smith, Council for British Research in the Levant - 2014
Field supervisor
Bakr Awa (Iraqi Kurdistan), University of Heidelberg - 2012
Assistant director
Gelnhausen (Germany), construction project Kappellenweg - 2010
Field supervisor
Tell Chuera (Syria), Goethe-University Frankfurt - 2009
Field supervisor
Tell Chuera (Syria), Goethe-University Frankfurt - 2008
Field excavator
Hanau (Germany), construction project Justizzentrum Hanau - 2008
Assistant field supervisor
Tell Chuera (Syria), Goethe-University Frankfurt - 2007
Pottery specialist
Kharab Sayyar (Syria), Goethe-University Frankfurt - 2006
Field excavator
Tell Chuera (Syria), Goethe-University Frankfurt
Positions held
- 04.2013 – 04.2015
Representative of Research Assistants
Research training group “Value & Equivalence” at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main, Germany - 2011 – 2013
Research assistant
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - 2008 – 2009
Student representative
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - 2007 – 2011
Student research assistant
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main
Teaching
- Winter 2014/15
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists II (in German). Lectureship at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - Summer 2014
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists II (in German). Lectureship at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - Winter 2013/14
Introductory seminar
Theories, methods, and discussions in Near Eastern Archaeology (in German). Lectureship at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main.
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists I“ (in German). Lectureship at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main. - Summer 2013
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists II (in German). Lectureship at Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - Winter 2012/13
Introductory seminar
The development of domestic architecture from Anatolia to the Persian-Arabian Gulf (in German).
Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists I“ (in German). Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - Summer 2012
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists II (in German). Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main - Winter 2011/12
Exercise
Introduction to Syrian Arabic for archaeologists I (in German). Goethe-University Frankfurt/ Main
Association Memberships
- Member of German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft)
- Member of Enki e.V., association for sponsorship of archaeological excavations in the Near East
Publikationen
- 2012
Varianten der Götterkronen in der Ikonographie Elams. In: Mofidi-Nasrabadi (Ed.): Elamica, Vol. 2, 1-32. - 2013
Von Susa nach Anšan – Zu Datierung und Ursprung des Felsreliefs von Kūrāngūn. In: Mofidi-Nasrabadi (Ed.), Elamica, Vol. 3, 35-88. - 2014
About Distribution and Dating of Glyptic Evidence from Early Bronze Age Tell Chuera. In: Buccellati, Helms, Tamm (Ed.), Household and household economies in 3rd millennium B.C.E. Syro-Mesopotamia. BAR International Series 2682, 27-34. - 2015
Der Siegeszug der Bürokratie – Eine altorientalische Erfindung mit Zukunft.
Exhibition catalogue „Menschen | Tun | Dinge. Forschungen zu Wert und Wandel von Objekten“ of the Research Training Group „Value and Equivalence“, 138-143. - 2016
Documentation, publication, and reception by and of Anton Moortgat.
In: Stucky, R. A., Kaelin, O., Mathys, H.-P. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 9–13 June 2014, Basel, 313-324. - In print
Bericht über die Grabungen in Teilbereich W-6: Das östliche Stadttor in der Unterstadt. In: Meyer, J.W. (ed.), Ausgrabungen im Gebiet der südöstlichen Unterstadt Tell Chueras (Bereich W). Vorderasiatische Forschungen der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung. 417-476. - Djemdet Nasr or Early Bronze Age III? – Dating Tell Chuera seal impression find spots. In: Castel, Meyer, Quenet (eds.), Origins, Structure, Development and Sociology of Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria. Subartu Series.