Anna‐Katharina Rieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna‐Katharina Rieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna‐Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rieger |
| SIGNATURE | RIEGER A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9244-508X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hellenistic and Roman Ḥaurān
Ḥaurān, the basalt region of southern Syria and northern Jordan, forms a distinct regional entity in terms of environment and history. The particularities of Ḥaurān in Graeco-Roman times not only consist of the landscape, the material culture, and architecture, but they are also reflected in the interrelations of different people and their lifestyles, in economic and political organization, in settlement patterns as well as in the religious pract…
Arnhold, Marlis (2020). Transformationen stadtrömischer Heiligtümer während der späten Republik und Kaiserzeit. Contextualizing the Sacred, 10. Turnhout
Wandering through modern Rome, one of the most intriguing and ubiquitous impression is sacred architecture: many of the temples and sanctuaries of Roman Republican and Imperial times are still to be found in various stages of preservation -the sunken area at the Largo di Torre Argentina, the temples below the church of San Omobono, the temples that have been converted into churches, such as the temple of Portunus or the three of the Forum Holitor…
Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions
Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples. Because of the fragmented nature of the evidence, archaeological methods focus on detailed descriptions, chronologies and operational…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
This god is your god, this god is my god
Numerous sacralized places with a wide range of architectonic, iconographical, and epigraphical-linguistic motifs, habits, and religious practices populate the Roman provinces of Syria and Syria Phoenice (Mount Hermon, plain of Beqaa, Lebanon mountains). This paper examines the socio-spatial strategies used at some of these sacralized places between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in order to establish a local identity by making use of local deities…
Introduction to Section 2
Pursuing lived ancient religion
Short-Term Phenomena and Long-Lasting Places
The altars of the Lares Augusti, their imagery and spatial contexts, as well as the institution of the Augustan vicomagistri are commonly treated as a homogeneous phenomenon in Roman archaeology. Starting from an adjusted concept of ‘biography of places and objects’, the paper analyses the material evidence along the (multidimensional) line from the setting up of the altars in certain spatial contexts — mostly compital shrines — to the renovation…
Rituals and Habitus in the Ancient World. An Introduction
Introducción
The Spectrum of Religiousness, or What Makes an Object Religious. Habits, Patterned Evidence and Religious Meanings of Image-Objects in Pompeii
Cómo adquieren los objetos-imagen un significado religioso? ¿Cuándo podemos interpretar las fuentes materiales como restos de un ritual religioso? Estas cuestiones son fundamentales para la arqueología de la religión, pero a menudo se responden en favor de lo religioso sin criterios sólidos. Utilizando ejemplos de Pompeya, exploro en este estudio la “religión material” a través del prisma de los hábitos de visión y de las prácticas habitualizadas…
Buried in the Village
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Loose Bonds and Porous Boundaries among Mobile People as Religious Agents in the Greco-Roman Arabian Desert
What happens when people of different provenance, profession, and individual interests are en route and share the same (sacred) places for short moments in time? How inclusive or exclusive are their activities and behaviour? What elements of their identities do they emphasise to show an affiliation or distinction? The paper reviews some Late Hellenistic and Roman places along the routes of the Arabian Desert (Wadi Ramm, el-Kanayis and Wadi Hammām…
Grouping Together in Lived Ancient Religion
3
The Various Ways of Being Mobile
Mobility, from a historical perspective, comprises a broad variety of movements of people. This paper focuses on the mobility of multisited groups, based on the preconditions that an arid environment imposes on mobility. The Eastern Marmarica-Plateau in NW-Egypt in Graeco-Roman times (5th century BCE to 4th century CE) serves as case study of the various ways in which people in such landscapes were mobile, and what we can infer from the aspect of…
Waste Matters
Accumulations of pot shards, many of them from common vessels and deposited below surface, are ubiquitous phenomena in Greco-Roman sacred places. The modern denomination of this pottery in fills, terraces, or pits, as 'sacred waste' falls short, since it implies its use- and meaninglessness after deposition. The first part of the article sets out to discuss the life cycle, transformation and potential agency of these ceramic remains in order to r…
Northern Libyan Desert Ware
A group of handmade pottery from the Eastern Marmarica (north-west Egypt) can be associated with the indigenous population of the region, subsumed as nomadic Libyans. A discussion of its type and fabric – mainly shell-tempered – leads to questions about its chronology as well as the ethnic and cultural background of the producers and users of these wares. Stratified finds and a diligent assessment of the reliability of associated pottery from sur…
Ancient rainwater harvesting systems in the north-eastern Marmarica (north-western Egypt)
In arid and semi-arid regions runoff-fed agriculture has been common for millennia. Recent geographical and archaeological investigations in the north-eastern part of ancient Marmarica (north-western Egypt) revealed a dense network of water harvesting systems associated with settlements and production sites dating back to Ptolemaic times. The environmental conditions and the ancient water management strategies are characterised by minimal interve…
Tradition locale contre unité supra-régionale
1. La transmission du culte de Magna Mater dans le matériel archéologique Magna Mater, la Grande Mère de l’Asie mineure, constitue un cas intéressant pour l’examen des mécanismes de diffusion des signes religieux. En effet, la transmission de son culte à Rome depuis cette région se prête à une reconstitution historique dans la mesure où suffisamment de traces ont été conservées dans les sources tant écrites qu’archéologiques. De plus, la déesse e…
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
The Various Ways of Being Mobile
Mobility, from a historical perspective, comprises a broad variety of movements of people. This paper focuses on the mobility of multisited groups, based on the preconditions that an arid environment imposes on mobility. The Eastern Marmarica-Plateau in NW-Egypt in Graeco-Roman times (5th century BCE to 4th century CE) serves as case study of the various ways in which people in such landscapes were mobile, and what we can infer from the aspect of…
Ancient rainwater harvesting systems in the north-eastern Marmarica (north-western Egypt)
In arid and semi-arid regions runoff-fed agriculture has been common for millennia. Recent geographical and archaeological investigations in the north-eastern part of ancient Marmarica (north-western Egypt) revealed a dense network of water harvesting systems associated with settlements and production sites dating back to Ptolemaic times. The environmental conditions and the ancient water management strategies are characterised by minimal interve…
The Spectrum of Religiousness, or What Makes an Object Religious. Habits, Patterned Evidence and Religious Meanings of Image-Objects in Pompeii
Cómo adquieren los objetos-imagen un significado religioso? ¿Cuándo podemos interpretar las fuentes materiales como restos de un ritual religioso? Estas cuestiones son fundamentales para la arqueología de la religión, pero a menudo se responden en favor de lo religioso sin criterios sólidos. Utilizando ejemplos de Pompeya, exploro en este estudio la “religión material” a través del prisma de los hábitos de visión y de las prácticas habitualizadas…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
Ancient rainwater harvesting systems in the north-eastern Marmarica (north-western Egypt)
In arid and semi-arid regions runoff-fed agriculture has been common for millennia. Recent geographical and archaeological investigations in the north-eastern part of ancient Marmarica (north-western Egypt) revealed a dense network of water harvesting systems associated with settlements and production sites dating back to Ptolemaic times. The environmental conditions and the ancient water management strategies are characterised by minimal interve…
Tradition locale contre unité supra-régionale
1. La transmission du culte de Magna Mater dans le matériel archéologique Magna Mater, la Grande Mère de l’Asie mineure, constitue un cas intéressant pour l’examen des mécanismes de diffusion des signes religieux. En effet, la transmission de son culte à Rome depuis cette région se prête à une reconstitution historique dans la mesure où suffisamment de traces ont été conservées dans les sources tant écrites qu’archéologiques. De plus, la déesse e…
Northern Libyan Desert Ware
A group of handmade pottery from the Eastern Marmarica (north-west Egypt) can be associated with the indigenous population of the region, subsumed as nomadic Libyans. A discussion of its type and fabric – mainly shell-tempered – leads to questions about its chronology as well as the ethnic and cultural background of the producers and users of these wares. Stratified finds and a diligent assessment of the reliability of associated pottery from sur…
Waste Matters
Accumulations of pot shards, many of them from common vessels and deposited below surface, are ubiquitous phenomena in Greco-Roman sacred places. The modern denomination of this pottery in fills, terraces, or pits, as 'sacred waste' falls short, since it implies its use- and meaninglessness after deposition. The first part of the article sets out to discuss the life cycle, transformation and potential agency of these ceramic remains in order to r…
Loose Bonds and Porous Boundaries among Mobile People as Religious Agents in the Greco-Roman Arabian Desert
What happens when people of different provenance, profession, and individual interests are en route and share the same (sacred) places for short moments in time? How inclusive or exclusive are their activities and behaviour? What elements of their identities do they emphasise to show an affiliation or distinction? The paper reviews some Late Hellenistic and Roman places along the routes of the Arabian Desert (Wadi Ramm, el-Kanayis and Wadi Hammām…
Grouping Together in Lived Ancient Religion
3
The Various Ways of Being Mobile
Mobility, from a historical perspective, comprises a broad variety of movements of people. This paper focuses on the mobility of multisited groups, based on the preconditions that an arid environment imposes on mobility. The Eastern Marmarica-Plateau in NW-Egypt in Graeco-Roman times (5th century BCE to 4th century CE) serves as case study of the various ways in which people in such landscapes were mobile, and what we can infer from the aspect of…
Religion in the making
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Buried in the Village
This god is your god, this god is my god
Numerous sacralized places with a wide range of architectonic, iconographical, and epigraphical-linguistic motifs, habits, and religious practices populate the Roman provinces of Syria and Syria Phoenice (Mount Hermon, plain of Beqaa, Lebanon mountains). This paper examines the socio-spatial strategies used at some of these sacralized places between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in order to establish a local identity by making use of local deities…
Introduction to Section 2
Pursuing lived ancient religion
Short-Term Phenomena and Long-Lasting Places
The altars of the Lares Augusti, their imagery and spatial contexts, as well as the institution of the Augustan vicomagistri are commonly treated as a homogeneous phenomenon in Roman archaeology. Starting from an adjusted concept of ‘biography of places and objects’, the paper analyses the material evidence along the (multidimensional) line from the setting up of the altars in certain spatial contexts — mostly compital shrines — to the renovation…
Rituals and Habitus in the Ancient World. An Introduction
Introducción
The Spectrum of Religiousness, or What Makes an Object Religious. Habits, Patterned Evidence and Religious Meanings of Image-Objects in Pompeii
Cómo adquieren los objetos-imagen un significado religioso? ¿Cuándo podemos interpretar las fuentes materiales como restos de un ritual religioso? Estas cuestiones son fundamentales para la arqueología de la religión, pero a menudo se responden en favor de lo religioso sin criterios sólidos. Utilizando ejemplos de Pompeya, exploro en este estudio la “religión material” a través del prisma de los hábitos de visión y de las prácticas habitualizadas…
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them th…
Arnhold, Marlis (2020). Transformationen stadtrömischer Heiligtümer während der späten Republik und Kaiserzeit. Contextualizing the Sacred, 10. Turnhout
Wandering through modern Rome, one of the most intriguing and ubiquitous impression is sacred architecture: many of the temples and sanctuaries of Roman Republican and Imperial times are still to be found in various stages of preservation -the sunken area at the Largo di Torre Argentina, the temples below the church of San Omobono, the temples that have been converted into churches, such as the temple of Portunus or the three of the Forum Holitor…
Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions
Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples. Because of the fragmented nature of the evidence, archaeological methods focus on detailed descriptions, chronologies and operational…
Hellenistic and Roman Ḥaurān
Ḥaurān, the basalt region of southern Syria and northern Jordan, forms a distinct regional entity in terms of environment and history. The particularities of Ḥaurān in Graeco-Roman times not only consist of the landscape, the material culture, and architecture, but they are also reflected in the interrelations of different people and their lifestyles, in economic and political organization, in settlement patterns as well as in the religious pract…
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