Writing Culture and Economic Life in Late Antique Ephesus. New Ostraca and Inscriptions on Pottery

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Patrick-Antoine Sänger
• Subject Area: Ancient History
• Term: from 2018 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 413161861

The specific aims of the proposed project "Writing Culture and Economic Life in Late Antique Ephesus. New Ostraca and Inscriptions on Pottery" are as follows:–firstly, the editorial work on and historical evaluation of new inscriptions from Ephesus, which have been preserved on potsherds found in the areas of the Serapeion and the late antique city quarter near the church of St Mary and whose number increased from 60 to 94 pieces in the first year of the project. The results will be presented in a monograph (to be published in the "Asia Minor Studien"), which, on the one hand, contains the extensively annotated edition of the pieces and, on the other hand, deals with the significance of the new epigraphic finds for our understanding of the writing culture and the everyday/business life in Roman and late antique Ephesus as well as of the historical topography of the city and the local epigraphic habit.–secondly, the creation of an online corpus comprising the new epigraphic finds together with the 24 parallel texts from the tomb of Luke that have already been published and which should provide the public with quick and direct access to the material (illustrations, transcriptions, short comments, translations).

• DFG Programme: Research Grants