Iris Gerlach

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Iris Gerlach (* 1967 ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

Iris Gerlach has been a research assistant at the Institute for Middle Eastern Archeology in Munich since 1995 and a museum assistant at the Middle Eastern Museum in Berlin from 1996/1997 . She started in 1997 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the work center and periphery. Doctorate in independence and dependence of artistic creation in the Neo-Assyrian area of ​​influence . After receiving her doctorate, Gerlach traveled to the Middle East in 1997/1998 as a travel grant holder from the German Archaeological Institute . She then became a consultant in the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute . Since October 2000 she has headed the Sanaa branch of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

Between 1987 and 1997 Gerlach took part in excavations in Germany, Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Since 2000, as the chief archaeologist of the DAI in Arabia, she has led the excavations of the Sabaean city ​​complex of Sirwah , the cemetery of the Awâm temple as well as the dam system and the early Sabaean settlement of Wadi Jufaina and the Marib oasis . There are also emergency excavations at the Sha'ub cemetery , a Bronze Age cemetery on western Jawl and several settlements in Wadi Jirdan . Gerlach researches in particular the cultural relations of South Arabia in the 1st millennium BC. Chr. To the neighboring regions, to questions of art history, especially the style history of South Arabian sculpture and relief art, to the burial customs and the cult of the dead in South Arabia, to the genesis , development and the fall of the Sabaean culture, to the sanctuaries of South Arabia as well as to irrigation strategies and settlement processes in arid areas of Yemen. Other projects deal with aspects of cultural and development policy, such as the education of residents of the Sirwah region, but also the digitization of Yemeni manuscripts. She is a full member of the DAI.

Publications

  • On the provincial Assyrian art of Northern Syria and Southeast Anatolia. Independence and dependence of artistic creation in the Neo-Assyrian area of ​​influence. Ludwig Maximilians University Munich Munich 1999 [dissertation, microfiche edition].
  • with Holger Hitgen and Rémy Crassard: Rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline from Marib to Balhaf . Yemen LNG Company, 2008.
  • with Holger Hitgen: The Empire of Saba . In: Martin Maischberger : The Greek Classical: Idea or Reality. An exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, March 1 - June 2, 2002 and in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, July 5 - October 6, 2002 . State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Collection of Antiquities, Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany [i. e. July 12 - October 13, 2002]. Zabern, 2002, pp. 141ff.
  • Editor with Dietrich Raue : Sanctuary and ritual. Holy places in archaeological evidence. (= People - Cultures - Traditions, Volume 10), Leidorf, Rahden 2013, ISBN 978-3-86757-390-0 .
  • Editor: South Arabia and its neighbors. Phenomena of intercultural contacts. (= Archaeological Reports from Yemen, Volume 14), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95490-087-9 .

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SURNAME Gerlach, Iris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist from the Middle East
DATE OF BIRTH 1967