Stefanie Schmidt
Freie Universität Berlin, Ägyptologisches Seminar, Faculty Member
- Economic History, Early Islamic History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Papyrology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Ancient History, and 29 moreUrban History, Greek Epigraphy, Ancient Near East, Early Christianity, Coptic Studies, Ancient Egyptian History, Middle East Studies, Arabic Literature, Islamic History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Ancient economy, Roman History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Roman Economy, Greek Papyrology, History of the Islamic World, Roman Egypt, Early Byzantine Pottery production, Globular Amphorae, Trade and Exchange during 7th and 8th c. A.D., Byzantine and Medieval Shipping, Trade and Warfare In the Med. and Black Sea, Byzantine Archaeology, Early Islam, Amphorae (Archaeology), Arabic Papyrology, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Islamic Archaeology, Umayyads (Islamic History), Travel Writing, and Umayyad Literatureedit
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At the end of the 19th century, a substantial part of the Arabic tombstones from the cemetery of Aswan were brought to Cairo, where they are at present kept in the Museum of Islamic Art. Due to a lack of transparency in the documentation... more
At the end of the 19th century, a substantial part of the Arabic tombstones from the cemetery of Aswan were brought to Cairo, where they are at present kept in the Museum of Islamic Art. Due to a lack of transparency in the documentation of transports, already in the 1930s it was difficult to determine which of the tombstones actually belonged to Aswan.
The aim of this article is to find a reliable way to assign tombstones to a certain locality and hereby to facilitate their access for further studies of Muslim prosopography, social, economic, and political history.
It identifies two standard Arabic formulas that were common in Aswan funerary contexts between the beginning of the 8th and 9th centuries.
The aim of this article is to find a reliable way to assign tombstones to a certain locality and hereby to facilitate their access for further studies of Muslim prosopography, social, economic, and political history.
It identifies two standard Arabic formulas that were common in Aswan funerary contexts between the beginning of the 8th and 9th centuries.
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Due to its strategic position at the First Cataract, Syene (modern Aswān) obtained a central position in transregional trade at Egypt’s border to the Meroitic kingdom. Archeological finds of Aswān pottery throughout Egypt and the Arabian... more
Due to its strategic position at the First Cataract, Syene (modern Aswān) obtained a central position in transregional trade at Egypt’s border to the Meroitic kingdom. Archeological finds of Aswān pottery throughout Egypt and the Arabian Sea demonstrate, moreover, that Syene’s economic outreach went far beyond a mere cross-border trade. Based on a new discussion of a well-known inscription by a paralēmptēs of the Red Sea and an ostracon from Pselkis, this paper aims at exploring to what extent early Roman Syene was also involved in trade carried out in the Red Sea and beyond
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Building an Empire involves more than just the occupation of foreign territory. It needs an economic strategy to sustainably exploit the resources of a country and to keep resistance among the inhabitants to a minimum. The paper aims at... more
Building an Empire involves more than just the occupation of foreign territory.
It needs an economic strategy to sustainably exploit the resources of a country
and to keep resistance among the inhabitants to a minimum. The paper aims at
exploring how, after the conquest of Egypt in 642, Muslims mobilized economic
resources, to what extent they integrated former Byzantine levy systems, and
what incentives they created in order to guarantee the economy’s continued
productivity.
It needs an economic strategy to sustainably exploit the resources of a country
and to keep resistance among the inhabitants to a minimum. The paper aims at
exploring how, after the conquest of Egypt in 642, Muslims mobilized economic
resources, to what extent they integrated former Byzantine levy systems, and
what incentives they created in order to guarantee the economy’s continued
productivity.
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Festschrift für Rudolf Haensch, wissenschaftlicher Direktor der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts zum 65. Geburtstag
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Since roughly a century, alternating teams have been devoted to the archaeological exploration of the Nile island Elephantine in the south of Egypt, the city Aswan (Roman Syene) on the opposite east bank, the neighboring monastery Dayr... more
Since roughly a century, alternating teams have been devoted to the archaeological exploration of the Nile island Elephantine in the south of Egypt, the city Aswan (Roman Syene) on the opposite east bank, the neighboring monastery Dayr Anba Hadra, as well as the settlement and fortress Qasr Ibrim in Lower Nubia. Field research has yielded a multitude of papyri, ostraca and inscriptions, which have in part not all been published to this day. The edition and publication of these texts depends on the work of philologists from all over the world, associated to various excavation and museum teams. In December 2018, these text editors met for the first time in Basel at the workshop “ConText. Greek, Coptic and Arabic Sources from Aswan, Elephantine, Dayr Anba Hadra and Qasr Ibrim” to compare notes with colleagues from related excavations and projects. The 2nd workshop took place in Berlin from 10th to 12th of December 2021 and united colleagues from Europe, Egypt, the US and Canada.
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The interdisciplinary workshop, organised by Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam) and Marta García Morcillo (Durham), brought together scholars from the fields of economic history and behavioural economics to find common intersections and... more
The interdisciplinary workshop, organised by Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam) and Marta García Morcillo (Durham), brought together scholars from the fields of economic history and behavioural economics to find common intersections and discuss ways of adapting subject-specific methods across disciplines.
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Der wissenschaftliche Direktor der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts feierte am 21. Januar 2024 seinen 65. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass erscheint diese Festschrift, mit der das breit... more
Der wissenschaftliche Direktor der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts feierte am 21. Januar 2024 seinen 65. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass erscheint diese Festschrift, mit der das breit gefächerte wissenschaftliche Œuvre des Jubilars gewürdigt wird. Die Festschrift versammelt 41 Beiträge von Kolleginnen und Kollegen sowie Schülerinnen und Schülern, die die Forschungsschwerpunkte des Geehrten zur Alten Geschichte, Epigraphik und Papyrologie, Archäologie, antiken Rechtsgeschichte und spätantiken Kirchengeschichte, Metrologie, Prosopographie und römischen Administration widerspiegeln.