Dr Ine Jacobs

Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture

University College

01865 (2)88398

Ine.Jacobs@classics.ox.ac.uk

I am a late antique archaeologist researching the development of the Mediterranean between the fourth and the seventh centuries. I am particularly interested in Late Roman and Byzantine architecture and settlements, the reception of classical antiquity in later centuries, the archaeology of Christianity, and Dark Age Asia Minor.

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Late Antique archaeology and architecture
Archaeology of Christianity
Popular culture
Dark Age Asia Minor

My research focusses on the development of the Eastern Mediterranean in late antique and Byzantine times. Because I am an archaeologist, I mainly deal with material evidence, but I am particularly interested in how this relates to and can (not) be combined with contemporary literary sources. My DPhil looked into the how and why of late antique and Early Byzantine urban development and representation. In a first postdoctoral fellowship I investigated the reciprocal relations between the drastic political and religious changes taking place in the Theodosian period on the one hand and the economic developments and general prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean on the other. Since then I have been focussing ever more on the influence of Christianity on contemporary society. I am examining how the augmenting power of bishops over their congregations is expressed in the urban fabric as well as how ordinary people experienced their Christianity.

I was a member of the Sagalassos team (Turkey) between 2003 and 2014 and director of the British Archaeological Project at Grumentum (Italy) between 2012 and 2015. Currently, I participate in the excavations at Aphrodisias (Turkey) and co-direct the Kostoperska Karpa Regional Archaeological Project (FYROM).

https://oxford.academia.edu/IneJacobs

Archaeology as an alternative source for late antique Christianity. The example of ritual deposits

Conference paper
Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century

c-book

This volume brings together historians and archaeologists working on diverse aspects of Asia Minor in the long sixth century. They discuss topics as varied as rural prosperity, urbanism in cities large and small, frontier management, and the imperial capital of Constantinople. Many of the papers focus on the fabric of cities during this period, showing that there was much greater vitality than has often been assumed. Together, they produce a comprehensive impression of the quality of life in both city and countryside in the period shortly before the transformation of Asia Minor in the face of the Arab attacks of the seventh century.

Late Antiquity, Archaeology, History
Encroachment in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Fourth and the Seventh Century AD

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Ancient Society
Gates in Late Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean

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BABESCH - Bulletin Antieke Beschaving
Hosting the Council in Nicaea: Material Needs and Solutions

Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea
Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity

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Inscribing Texts in Byzantium. Continuities and Transformations
Chapter 1. Introduction

2018
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Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future Directions

Presents a comprehensive impression of the quality of life across Asia Minor during the last century or so before the end of Antiquity.

History, late antique archaeology, Late Antiquity, Asia Minor
Chapter 3. Pagan-mythological statuary in sixth-century Asia Minor

2018
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Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future Directions

Presents a comprehensive impression of the quality of life across Asia Minor during the last century or so before the end of Antiquity.

History, late antiquity, late antique archaeology
Cross Graffiti as Physical Means to Christianize the Classical City: An Exploration of Their Function, Meaning, Topographical, and Socio-Historical Contexts

2017
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Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and monograms in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds and the contexts that facilitated their dissemination in diverse media.

History
Re-using the gods. A 6th-c. statuary display at Sagalassos and a re-evaluation of pagan-mythological statuary in Early Byzantine civic space

2017
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

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Archaeology as an alternative source for late antique Christianity. The example of ritual deposits

Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century

Encroachment in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Fourth and the Seventh Century AD

Gates in Late Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean

Hosting the Council in Nicaea: Material Needs and Solutions

Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 3. Pagan-mythological statuary in sixth-century Asia Minor

Cross Graffiti as Physical Means to Christianize the Classical City: An Exploration of Their Function, Meaning, Topographical, and Socio-Historical Contexts

Re-using the gods. A 6th-c. statuary display at Sagalassos and a re-evaluation of pagan-mythological statuary in Early Byzantine civic space

Current DPhil Students