Library of the DAI Istanbul closed
Dear Readers, Our library will be closed between 26.06.-31.08.2023. We wish you a nice time during the summer. Thank you for your understanding.
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Book of the Month – May 2023
The book we would like to introduce this month is fresh from the press “Kirkbride at Çatalhöyük: The Çatalhöyük slides of Diana Kirkbride-Helbaek from 1963 (ed. by Moritz Kinzel)”. It contains many photographs of Çatalhöyük reliefs and wall paintings, some of which we have only known from drawings. It is well known that some of […]
Lecture Announcement: Continuity and Transformation in the Ionic Architecture of Hierapolis of Phrygia During the Hellenistic and Imperial Period
Hierapolis of Phrygia is located in Western Anatolia in the Lycus Valley (modern Pamukkale). The city was founded by the Seleucids in the late 3rd cent. BC and had an intense urban development throughout its history. The Ionic order was an essential, long-lasting architectural language, used from the Hellenistic to the Imperial age in public […]
DAI Istanbul Spring Tours 2023
We are pleased to announce the 2023 spring tours! Prof. Dr. Felix Pirson will start with the “Highlights of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum” on Sunday, 04.06.2023 at 12:00. The meeting point is at the entrance to the Archaeological Museum. The tour will be held in German. Please bring the Müze Kart with you.
The View Through the Camera. Photography in Archaeology
Antique remains used to be documented through drawings and engravings or with gypsum casts and models even before archaeology became an established scientific occupation. These products of artists and travellers, although sometimes blended with fantasy, were the primary visual source of information until photography was introduced and applied in archaeology. These early documents are sources […]
Lecture Announcement: Turning Mud Into Bricks
The project Building sustainability aims to investigate Levantine Iron Age earthen architecture as a reflection of social dynamics, using the approach of analysing mudbricks as material culture. The study examines changes in architectural form and technology alongside the reconstruction of technological and social processes of earthen materials manufacture and construction in monumental public architecture in […]
Book of the Month – April 2023
In our new category Book of the Month, we would like to introduce you to a book from our library each month. We will start with the publication “…die Reste noch eindrucksvoller gestalten” und erhalten: Erfahrungen aus 150 Jahren archäologischer Denkmalpflege in der Türkei” (Katharina Steudtner, ed., Wiesbaden 2022). The book was published in the […]
Lecture Announcement: Re-Considering Hellenistic North Mesopotamia. Investigations at Girdi Matrab and in the Erbil Plain
The transition from Assyria to the Seleucids in North Mesopotamia is one of the most fascinating examples of imperial durability, manifested through phenomena of change and resilience. In this talk I will use a multi-scalar approach to explore the transformation of the settlements structure in the former Assyrian heartland from the late Iron Age to […]
The exhibition “An Archive within an Archive” is also available in Turkish
The online exhibition “An Archive within an Archive”, which was prepared for the International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Venice and Padua in August 2022 is now also available in Turkish. The exhibition’s subject forms a 74 pages long notebook that appeared while digitizing the Müller-Wiener archive. After the discovery of the notebook, the curiosity […]
Lecture is Cancelled: Luxus & Exotismus. Die Repräsentation des römischen Indienhandels im 1. – 4. Jh. n. Chr.
Unfortunately, the lecture “Luxus & Exotismus. Die Repräsentation des römischen Indienhandels im 1.-4. Jh. n. Chr.” on Thursday, 6 April 2023 has to be cancelled. Thank you for your understanding. The Indian Ocean was already in ancient times a highly frequented sailed region. From the late first century BC, Roman merchants also sent ships from […]
