Bärbel Morstadt

Bärbel Morstadt (* 1975 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Bärbel Morstadt studied Classical Archeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Art History at the University of Würzburg between 1996 and 2002 . This time was interrupted by a study visit for the summer semester of 2000 at the University of Padua . She completed her studies in Würzburg in 2002 with the thesis The oriental bronze reliefs from Brunnen 17 in the Zeus sanctuary of Olympia with a Magister Artium title. Until 2003, he did a traineeship at the magazine Antike Welt in Mainz . In the same year she began a doctoral degree at the University of Erlangen . The doctorate took place in 2007 with the thesis Thymiateria - Evidence of the Orientalization Process in the Mediterranean Area with Hartmut Matthäus . Between October and December 2007, as the owner of a work contract, she developed a new exhibition concept for the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim . From the summer semester of 2008 to the winter semester of 2008/2009, Morstadt was a partial deputy as senior assistant at the University of Erlangen. During her time in Bochum she was one of the organizers of the international Cyprus colloquia . Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period (2004) and The Origins of Europe and the Orient - Cultural Relationships from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (2007). In 2009 she became junior professor for the archeology of the Phoenician diaspora at the Ruhr University Bochum , and since 2016 she has been a temporary academic councilor there .

Morstadt researches primarily on the cultural contacts in the Iron Age Mediterranean area, the Phoenician diaspora, and the island of Cyprus in the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. As well as to ancient Greece in the early 1st millennium BC She researches economic exchange networks in Phenicia as well as Phoenician burial customs, the mining landscape in south-west Sardinia and the necropolis of Monte Luma on the island. Another research focus is the royal tombs of Tamassos .

Fonts

• Phoenician thymiateria. Evidence of the process of orientalization in the Mediterranean area. Original finds, pictorial sources, original context. (= Old Orient and Old Testament . Volume 354), Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-86835-011-1 .
• with Anne Viola Siebert : From Aphrodite's Island. Cypriot antiquities in the August Kestner Museum. (= Museum Kestnerianum , Volume 18),
• The Phoenicians. von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8053-4878-2 .
• Editor with Linda-Marie Günther : Phoenician, Greek and Roman deities in historical change. (= Contextualizing the sacred , Volume 5), Brepols, Turnhout 2015, ISBN 978-2-503-54457-1 .
• Editor with Alexander Berner, Jan-Marc Henke, Achim Lichtenberger , Anne Riedel: The Mediterranean and Death. Mediterranean mobility and sepulchral culture. Fink / Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6070-7 (Fink) and ISBN 978-3-506-78522-0 (Schöningh).

Web links

• Personal website on the homepage of the University of Bochum
• Personal website on the homepage of the University of Erlangen