Research Center Asia Minor
The Asia Minor research center is a facility at the Institute for Ancient History and Epigraphy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , which has set itself the goal of researching ancient Asia Minor .
The research center was founded in 1968 by Friedrich Karl Dörner with the aim of providing an institutional basis for historical and archaeological research in Asia Minor. Dörner's research initially concentrated on the southern Anatolian kingdom of Commagene , while examining the Arsameia he discovered on Nymphaios and the Hierothesion on Nemrut Dağı . Projects in western Turkey were added later. After Dörner's retirement, Wolfgang Orth , then Elmar Schwertheim and, since 2009, Klaus Zimmermann took over the management of the research center.
Projects of the research center are the excavations in Doliche in Kommagene and in the nearby sanctuary of Jupiter Dolichenus at Dülük Baba Tepesi , on the west coast excavations in Alexandria Troas and the completed recording of Neandria and, since 2010, the epigraphic processing of Patara in Lycia . Since 2008 the research center has been involved in the processing and cataloging of the inscriptions of the Archaeological Museum of Adıyaman . Research directors are Engelbert Winter in Kommagene, Elmar Schwertheim in Alexandria Troas and Neandria, and Klaus Zimmermann in Patara.
The Asia Minor Research Center organizes colloquia and has published the series Asia Minor Studies at irregular intervals since 1990 .
Web links
- Research Center Asia Minor
- Doliche & Kommagene, Asia Minor Research Center
- Asia Minor Studies
- 40 years of the "Asia Minor" Research Center Archeology-online March 13, 2008
First chair: Otto Seeck (1907–1921) | Friedrich Münzer (1921–1935) | Hans Erich Stier (1936–1970) | Thomas Pekáry (1971–1994) | Johannes Hahn (since 1996)
Second chair: Kurt Stade ([1956–] 1959–1965) | Ruth Altheim-Stiehl (1965–1991) | Norbert Ehrhardt (1993-2017) | Patrick Singer (since 2018)
Third chair: Peter Funke (1988–2018) | Hans Beck (since 2018)
Head of the Asia Minor Research Center: Friedrich Karl Dörner (1968–1976) | Wolfgang Orth (1976–1988, provisional) | Elmar Schwertheim (1988–2008) | Klaus Zimmermann (since 2009)