Ursula Almond

Ursula Mandel (* 1953 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Ursula Mandel studied classical archeology, art history and Greek studies at the universities of Bonn and Würzburg from 1971 to 1979 . With the work of Asia Minor relief ceramics of the middle imperial period. she received her doctorate in Bonn in 1979. In 1979 she began taking part in the excavations in Pergamon , where she was involved in the residential town excavation and the processing of the finds until 1983. In 1980/81 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , with which she traveled to the Mediterranean . In 1982 she became a trainee at the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart, one year later university assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main . There she became academic advisor in 1991 and curator of the institute collections, which she was in charge of until her retirement in 2015. From 1991 to 1994 Mandel took part in the excavation in Knidos led by Ramazan Özgan and published the Knidos studies with him and Wulf Raeck . From 1998 to 2013 she took part in the excavation in Priene , where she was mainly responsible for processing the finds.

Fonts (selection)

• Asia Minor relief ceramics from the middle imperial period. The "oinophore group" and related things (= Pergamene research , volume 5). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1988, ISBN 3-11-010648-5 .
• with Marlene Herfort-Koch and Ulrich Schädler (eds.): Encounters. Frankfurt and antiquity. In honor of Hans von Steuben (writings of the working group Frankfurt and antiquity). Working group Frankfurt and Antiquity, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• with Marlene Herfort-Koch and Ulrich Schädler (eds.): Hellenistic and imperial ceramics of the eastern Mediterranean region. Colloquium Frankfurt am Main 1995 (writings of the working group Frankfurt and antiquity). Working group Frankfurt and the ancient world, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-9803946-3-8 .

Web links

• Employee page on the website of the University of Frankfurt