Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz

Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie (FU)

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Since 2003, Dominik Bonatz has served as a professor at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. His academic career started early with doctoral research on Iron Age funerary monuments in the Syrian-Anatolian region. This research laid the foundations for his key interest in the study of ancient Near Eastern visual arts with a focus on the anthropology, performance and perception of images. As a Principle Investigator in Topoi he puts a new emphasis on this interest by investigating the modes of representing and ordering space, including social space, in the pictorial systems of ancient Near Eastern civilizations. While thus remaining active as an ‘art historian’ in his field Dominik Bonatz also heads two excavation projects, one in North Syria since 2005, the other on Sumatra in Indonesia since 2002. The results of the excavation in Syria contribute to an understanding of the territorial expansion of the Middle Assyrian Empire in the late second millennium BC. Taking a generalizing archaeological perspective from this project Dominik Bonatz inquires in another research area of Topoi into the material components which became the means of creating and structuring political space.

 

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Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie

Address

Hüttenweg 7
14195 Berlin
Deutschland

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+49 30 838-55033

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+49 30 838-52106
 
 

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Activities

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"Bild - Macht - Raum im neuassyrischen Reich "
part of the Workshop Perception and Representation of Space

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"Perceiving Mittani imperial space: A material perspective"
part of the Workshop Imperial Space. The Organisation of Near Eastern Empires from the Second Millennium B.C. to the Second Millennium A.D.

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"Siegel als Medium der Repräsentation von Herrschaft in Assyriens westlicher Peripherie"
part of the Conference Die Umsetzung von Herrschaft im Raum: Königtum im Alten Orient

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"Tell Fakheriye in the Late Bronze Age: Investigations into the structures of political governance in the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont"
part of the Workshop The Archaeology of the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BC

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"The Evolution of Ritual Space in Ancient Near Eastern Art: Aspects of Illusion, Immersion and Inclusion"
part of the Conference Cast in space - Images, Gaze and Place in the Ancient World (and beyond)

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Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society: Language, Image, Archaeology
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Curriculum Vitae

A detailed CV can be found on the website of the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology