Lettered and Inscribed. Inscriptions in Urban Space in the Greco-Roman Period and Middle Ages (A01)

• Subject Area: Ancient History
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

In the main focus of this interdisciplinary project are inscriptions that have been carved in stone in order to permit long-term display, and set up in public or semi-public locations in the cities of the Mediterranean region in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The project will be divided into four sub-projects which will concentrate on central premises of the CRC, from the materiality of the objects under examination and the topology of their arrangement within urban and sacred space, to their perception and reception, as well as the reuse of the inscribed artefacts in secondary contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jens-Arne Dickmann, until 9/2012; Professor Dr. Nikolas Jaspert; Dr. Ludwig Meier, until 6/2019; Dr. Anna Sitz; Professor Dr. Kai Trampedach, until 6/2015; Professor Dr. Stephan Westphalen; Professor Dr. Christian Witschel