Research Emphases
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture (IKant) deals with comprehensive cultural-historical problems within a supra-regional range. Hereby, the current research emphases build a temporal bridge from the Archaic to the Byzantine period and are geographically located in the Eastern and the Central Mediterranean as well as in the Roman Danube provinces:
- living and residing in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
- sepulchral context and collective ideals (beliefs of afterlife, death and grave cult, pilgrimage)
- urbanism and settlement-historical transformation processes
- Ancient Music
The current research of the department of "Documenta antiqua" is concentrated on
-coinage and finances of the Roman empire and the ancient Iranian world
-cultural and intellectual history of Greco-Roman Asia Minor on the basis of epigraphic evidence
-legal life in the Greek polis and in Hellenistic-Roman Egypt based on the epigraphic and papyrological evidence
Further information in regard to the single research projects currently carried out by the institute can be found in the detailed descriptions of the respective projects.
