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
      • Newsletter
      • Raumwissen
  • People
    • Directors and Boards
    • Central Administration
    • People A-Z
      • Research Area A
      • Research Area B
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      • Research Area E
      • Senior Fellows and Guests
      • Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellows
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  • (C-2-1) Creating Christian concepts of space
  • (C-2-3) Grounded in space? Diachronic and cognitive approaches to spatial metaphors in written Egyptian
  • (C-2-4) The soul as economy – ancient metaphores of space and subjectivity in early modern texts
  • (C-2-5) The ancient symposion as space of knowledge and experience and as medium of metaphorizing processes
  • (C-3-1) Ktesiphon. Vermittlung von archäologischer Forschung im Museum anhand der Architekturtraditionen in sasanidischer und islamischer Zeit
  • (C-3-1-a) Modelling and vizualisation of findings and reconstruction hypotheses
    Third work package of research project C-3-1
  • (C-3-3) Ruins – Museum visions
  • (C-3-4) Ruins and space. A brief history of dealings with archaelogical excavation sites
  • (C-3-5) Archaeotopia
  • (C-4-1) Near and far: Space and Narrative in Assyrian Art
  • (C-4-2) Perspectivation – investigations of viewer construction, viewing directions and hierarchization strategies in the two-dimensional pictorial compositions of Greek and Roman culture
  • (C-4-3) Books and Space in the (Early) Middle Ages
  • (C-4-4) Imaginary space: Backround or protagonist?
  • (C-4-5) Diagrammatic representations of the Ancient Egyptian underworld
  • (C-5-1) Common sense geography and mental modelling
  • (C-5-2) Space, distance, spatiality
  • (C-5-3) Insularity
  • (C-5-4) Bird´s eye view in ancient Greek sources
  • (C-5-5) Winds, wind directions, wind roses
  • (C-5-6) Paradoxography and strange things
  • (C-5-7) Common sense geography and the Peutinger Map
  • (C-5-8) Cognitive perception and the presentation of space and place in Mesoamerica
    Prehispanic mapping systems from Mexico until the early colonial period: cartgraphic communication, spatial organization and its representation
  • (C-5-9) Italia illustrata. Interactions between historico-topographical descriptions and contemporary cartography in the Italy of the early modern era
  • (C-6-1) Raumnutzung und Raumbeanspruchung: Multivalenz des öffentlichen Raumes
  • (C-6-2) Urban planning and urban develpment in Jordan (4th century BC – 4th century AD)
  • (C-6-3) Christian urban discourse. The city as image and argument in the Patristic texts of the 2nd - 5th century AD
  • (C-6-4) Antioch. Rhetorical modeling of a metropolis in late antiquity
  • (C-6-5) Intellectual spaces in narratives of the city. Rome and Carthage in the Roman empire and late antiquity
  • (C-6-6) The city from below – urbs satirica
  • (C-6-7) Bell sound and public space in the Middle Ages
  • (C-6-8) Bathing Culture and the Development of Urban Space: Case Study Pompei
  • Dissertations

  • (C-1-X-1) Imaginary Realia of the Netherworld: Multimodal Display and Production of Knowledge in the Amduat
  • (C-1-X-10) Prosopographia Memphitica. Individual Identities and Collective Biographies from a Royal Residence of the New Kingdom
  • (C-1-X-2) Perceptive verbs and concepts of the netherworld in Ancient Egyptian funerary texts
  • (C-1-X-4) Perspektivierungen im Altnubischen - Ausdrücke des Raumes und der Zeit in übersetzungsnubischen Bibeltexten
  • (C-1-X-5) Persuading the Divine: On the Composition of Hittite Prayers
  • (C-1-X-6) Reception of Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Arabic perspective between transmission of knowledge and reuse
  • (C-1-X-7) Comunicative strategies in new contexts: from verse inscriptions to literary epigrams
  • (C-1-X-8) Comical Space. Communication and Interaction on Vases from Southern Italy
  • (C-1-X-9) Translation practices and techniques in the Hittite Empire
  • (C-2-1-1) Zwei-Wege-Metaphorik in der urchristlichen Literatur
  • (C-2-1-2) Contested body: Metaphors of dominion in Romans 5-8
  • (C-2-1-3) Soteriological perspective of spatiality in the Gospel according to John
  • (C-2-1-4) Being 'in Christ' in the Pauline Letters
  • (C-2-4-1) Visio amoris et veneris – T(r)opische Imaginationen von der Liebe im italienischen Spätmittelalter
  • (C-3-0-3) Glazed Islamic Pottery from Tacht-e Soleiman – Production and Provenance
  • (C-3-1-1) Museum in transformation. A case study at the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
  • (C-3-1-2) From the raw material to cultural heritage - conservation studies on the Sasanian and early Islamic stucco decoration from Ctesiphon
  • (C-4-4-1) Konzepte von Raum und Landschaft in der spätrepublikanischen und frühkaiserzeitlichen Bilderwelt
  • (C-4-4-2) Räumliches Handeln im griechischen Roman
  • (C-5-8-1) Cognitive perception and the presentation of space and place in Mesoamerica — The Lienzo Seler/Coixtlahuaca II in the Ethnology Museum of Berlin
  • (C-5-9-1) Early Netherlandish Painting in the Crown of Aragon. Tradition and Translation
  • (C-6-1-1) On the forum. Use of Public Space in Ancient Cities of Italy
  • (C-6-3-1) Late Antique Alexandria as a Contested Urban Space
  • (C-6-6-1) The literary representation of Rome and its urban spaces in the two historiographical works of Tacitus
  • (C-6-8-1) Honores inauditi. The display of statues in public space in Sicily from Hellenism to Late Antiquity
  • (C-6-8-2) Landschaftsarchäologische Evidenzen in Samnium im Kontext der Samnitischen Kriege – Die samnitischen Höhenfestungen und ihr Umland
  • (C-6-8-3) The Prytaneion of the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD – Study of the Symbolical Center of the Polis Under Roman Rule

Spokespersons

Johanna Fabricius
Frank Kammerzell

Coordinator

Katrin Siebel

Groups

(C-1) Deixis and Frames of Reference
(C-2) Space and Metaphor
(C-3) Fragments, Ruins, and Space
(C-4) Pictorial Constructions of Space(s)
(C-5) Common Sense Geography
(C-6) Cityscaping

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