Petra Heřmánková
I am an Ancient historian, specializing in the epigraphic production of ancient Thrace. In my research I combine archaeological fieldwork experience with the world of Classics, using digitally enhanced quantitative approaches towards Epigraphy in order to assess long term socio-cultural changes and their effect on the population of the SE Europe in Antiquity. My dissertation (defended Dec 2017) and the database of 4665 inscriptions, together with the results of analyses and maps is accessible online through GitHub.
I have 10+ years of archaeological fieldwork experience, participating on various projects in Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Australia. The range of projects covers the traditional excavations, systematic field surveys, epigraphic field prospection, but also satellite remote sensing and analysis.
As part of my involvement in the FAIMS Project at Macquarie University, Sydney, I have helped various field researchers and projects to make the successful transition from analogue to digital field data collection. My portfolio of 15+ projects from 2016-2017 contains i. e. archaeological excavations in China (TRAP) and in Turkey (Boncuklu), archaeological transect surveys in Malawi (MEMSAP) and Australia (Lake Mungo), ecological projects in New South Wales, Australia (Griffith Ecology Lab; AWARE Project), or geochemical sampling in Western Australia (CSIRO).
Supervisors: PhDr. Jan Souček, CSc. and doc. Václav Marek, CSc.
Address: Project (OSF): https://osf.io/fjnw5/
I have 10+ years of archaeological fieldwork experience, participating on various projects in Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Australia. The range of projects covers the traditional excavations, systematic field surveys, epigraphic field prospection, but also satellite remote sensing and analysis.
As part of my involvement in the FAIMS Project at Macquarie University, Sydney, I have helped various field researchers and projects to make the successful transition from analogue to digital field data collection. My portfolio of 15+ projects from 2016-2017 contains i. e. archaeological excavations in China (TRAP) and in Turkey (Boncuklu), archaeological transect surveys in Malawi (MEMSAP) and Australia (Lake Mungo), ecological projects in New South Wales, Australia (Griffith Ecology Lab; AWARE Project), or geochemical sampling in Western Australia (CSIRO).
Supervisors: PhDr. Jan Souček, CSc. and doc. Václav Marek, CSc.
Address: Project (OSF): https://osf.io/fjnw5/
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inscriptions from funerary context and discusses the main differences in their character. Moreover, we discuss the possible underlying motives for the existence of epigraphy in the context of burial and its broader significance in the society of the respective period. The coastal Thrace has been colonised by Greeks already during the archaic period and not surprisingly, the colonisers brought with them not only their language but also their funerary habits. Thus, we can see the spread of inscribed funerary stelae in the vicinity of Greek colonies all over the Black Sea coast and the Northern Aegean coast. Did some of the habits penetrate to the inland Thrace, either via mutual contacts with the local population or via the internal colonisation? How did the Thracian population adopt and adapt the typical Greek habit of inscribing the funerary stelae and/or the deposited grave goods?
We present the epigraphic material divided by the nature of the inscribed object and its position in the funerary context accordingly: the resultant three groups are encompassing ‘inscriptions on grave markers’, ‘inscriptions on grave goods’ and ‘inscriptions inside the grave’. The analysed material reveals rather diverse approach to the use of writing in funeral habit according to the geographic position, when comparing the coastal and the inland Thrace. The diversity might be explained as a result of different socio-economic structure in the areas.
During 2015 season of Stroyno Archaeological Project several inscribed objects were found revealing new information about the population of the settlement at Yurta-Stroyno: a votive
terracotta tablet with an inscription, graffiti on pottery sherds and anepigraphic fragment of the horse rider votive plaque. All objects belong to the category of ‘small epigraphy’, which is often being neglected for its marginal character and relatively low informative value. The character and the appearance of presented objects points to their local production and their direct connection with the inhabitants of the rural settlement at Yurta-Stroyno. The otherwise unknown mass inhabiting Yurta is due to the recent finds known to have a limited literacy and basic knowledge of Greek script, but the identity of local population remains unknown. Nonetheless, the nature of
epigraphic evidence is outstanding for the rural parts of Thrace, presenting the site at Yurta as exceptional settlement with great archaeological and epigraphic potential. Based on the analysis
of the new epigraphic finds and the already published inscriptions from the broader area, settlement at Yurta seems to have a prominent position in the microregional scale, as well as further links to major cities of the region.
As these funerary monuments continued in tradition already established in the period before the Roman presence, I will compare how the situation changed over time and what might be sociological reasons for the shift in perceiving their own identity. Did Roman presence really have such influence in the region? Or was it just continuation of already existing trend? I would like to answer the question whether the social cohesion evolved and changed over time.