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Curriculum Vitae

Akademische Ausbildung

Seit 2022 Promotion in Vorderasiatischer Archäologie an der Freien Universität Berlin unter Prof. D. Bonatz

2020 Dual Master in Classical Archaeology and History, Universität Zürich (summa cum laude)

2019 SEMP Austausch in Near Eastern Archaeology, Universität Leiden, Niederlande

2017 Bachelor in Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Photography

Berufliche Tätigkeit

Seit 2023 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin, Arbeitsbereich Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger

2021 Sprachlehrerin an der ILS-Zürich für Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch

2016-2019 Tutorin diverser Kurse in Archäologie und Geschichte, Universität Zürich

Archäologische Ausgrabungen

2022 Schnittleitung Areal B, Tell Ushayer, Jordanien

2021 Co-Leitung der Seetal-Ausgrabung, Kempraten, Schweiz

2017 & 2018 Schnittleitung Agora, Monte Iato, Sizilien

2015-2018 Diverse Ausgrabungen in Kempraten, Schweiz

WS 24/25: Kolloquium International Perspectives (with Copenhagen) Master

Identity in Archaeology and Archaeological Material.

SS 2024:  Methodenübung Master & Englischer Master

Stories of Life and Death. Narratives as a Method in Near Eastern Funerary Archaeology.

WS 23/24: Bachelor-Seminar

Ideologie, Identität und Gender in Neuassyrischer Zeit.

SS 2023: Bachelor-Seminar

Gender Archaeology. Frauen, Männlichkeiten und das ´Dritte Geschlecht´.

Forschung

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Archäologie und Geschichte Mesopotamiens im 1. Jt. v. u. Z., Gender Archaeology & Identity Theory, Mortuary Archeology, Digital Archaeology

PhD Project: Mortuary Archaeology and Identity. Communal and Individual Identity in Neo-Assyrian Funerary Cult and the Identities of the Nimrud Queens

Mitarbeit am Digital Storytelling Projekt von Prof. Roßberger: Dinge mit Geschichte(n). Synergien zwischen universitärer Lehre, Wissenschaftskommunikation und musealer Öffentlichkeitsarbeit durch Digital Storytelling.

Dissertationsprojekt:

The Neo-Assyrian Empire (912-612 BC) denotes a period of territorial expansion and thus an amalgamation of different cultural identities. Out of this, a Neo-Assyrian identity evolved during the 8^th century BC defined by a common language, a highest god and king as well as civil rights and duties according to the written sources. But how was communal and individual identity expressed and performed through material culture? The present dissertation examines this question through around 30 elite tombs from Ashur, Nimrud, and other Neo-Assyrian cities since funerals are an exemplary platform to negotiate identity as an intricate nexus of intertwined identity traits such as age, gender, kinship, social roles, etc. The identity of the dead was interpreted and distorted by the living kin responsible for the entombment to reevaluate the values and structure of the respective society itself. This means that not only the identity of the dead but the identity of the community is present in burials. Through the compilation of the tombs’ characteristics such as architecture, location, and grave good assemblages into a database a qualitative, contextual and comparative analysis will offer a unique insight into the self-perception of individual and communal Neo-Assyrian identity. Furthermore, the work aims to compose an archaeological method for the study of identities in mortuary context on the base of current Mortuary and Identity Theory.

The PhD project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz.

Beiträge an Tagungen

6th GeMANE 8. - 11. April: Beards Maketh Man, no Beards Maketh ša rēši? Depictions of the Beardless and the "Eunuch" in Neo-Assyria and Why Tomb 1 of Nimrud has Nothing to Do with it

EAA Belfast 30. Aug. - 2. Sep 2023: Facing the Gordion Knot of Identity: Intersectionality and Relativized Representation of Identity in Mortuary Archaeology

15th Melammu Konferenz Graz 21. – 24. September 2022: Pazuzu & Bes: How the Woman of Tomb I at Nimrud Sheds New Light on the Conflicts between Assyria and Egypt

EAA Budapest 31. Aug. – 3. Sep. 2022: Non Aequat omnis Cinis – Obsolete and New Approaches on Gender in Mortuary Archaeology

EAA Kiel 8. – 11. September 2021: Clamour from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Revised Dating and Distribution Patterns of Engraved Tridacna squamosa

ICAANE Bologna 6. – 11. April 2021: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Timber Resources in the ANE and their Impact on Royal Architecture in the First Millennium BC

SAFT März 2019, Archäologien 2020! Forschungstagung aller Archäologiestudierenden der Universität Zürich: Ecological Motives behind the Choice of Wood Types and their Provenance for Neo-Assyrian Timber. An Interdisciplinary Approach with archaeological, historical and palynological data based on a Case Study of Palace Doors at Nimrud, Balawat and Khorsabad.

Publikationen

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Timber Resources in the ANE and their Impact on Royal Architecture in the First Millennium BC, Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Bologna (2023) https://doi.org/10.13173/9783447118736

Ecological Motives Behind the Choice of Wood Types in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. A Case Study of Palace Doors at Nimrud, Balawat and Khorsabad, in: D. A. Baumgartner / A. Guirard / J. Held / M. Mohr (ed.), Archäologien 2020! Studentische Archäologische Forschungstagung (SAFT) Universität Zürich, 16. März 2019. BOTHROS Zürcher Hefte für Archäologie 1, Zürich 2023, 87-97. Link: https://www.hope.uzh.ch/bothros/article/view/4154/3006

Clamour from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Revised Dating and Patterns of Distribution of Engraved Tridacna squamosa, in: L. Recht/Ch. Tsouparopoulou, Human and Aquatic Beings: Interactions in and beyond the Eastern Mediterranean (3rd-1st Millennia BCE) (in print preparation)

Pazuzu & Bes: How the Woman of Tomb I at Nimrud Sheds New Light on the Conflicts between Assyria and Egypt, in: W. Spickermann/L. Recht/M. Zinko/H. Galter, Proceedings of the 15^th Melammu conference in Graz (in preparation).

Dominik Bonatz, Nathalie Kallas, Yvonne Helmholz, Laith Alshboul, Stefano Aprà, Valery Schlegel, Giampiero Tursi, Marina Weiss. (Forthcoming 2024).  "Excavations at Tell Ushayer: A Preliminary Report on the 2021, 2022 And 2023 Seasons". ADAJ 62.

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