Dr Ine Jacobs
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture
University College
01865 (2)88398
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.
Research
- 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).
Publications
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Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century:
2019|c-bookThis 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, Asia Minor -
Chapter 1. Introduction
2019|Chapter|Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future DirectionsPresents 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
2019|Chapter|Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future DirectionsPresents 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|Chapter|Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesIn 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|Journal article|Journal of Roman Archaeology -
Old Habits Die Hard. A group of mythological statuettes from Sagalassos and the afterlife of sculpture in Asia Minor
2016|Chapter|The Afterlife of Classical Sculpture: Late Antique Responses and PracticesStatuary, Late Antiquity, Sagalassos -
Ecclesiastical Dominance and Urban Setting. Colonnaded streets as back-drop for Christian display
2014|Journal article|Brepols -
Five centuries of glory. The Colonnaded Street of Sagalassos in the first and the sixth century AD
2014|Journal article|Istanbuler Mitteillungen -
Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian Period
2014|c-bookThis volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the familial contexts.History -
Sagalassos in the Theodosian Period
2014|Chapter|Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian period
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Teaching
Current DPhil Students
- Kristina Terpoy
- Hugh Jeffery
- Jelena Jaric
I would be willing to hear from potential DPhil students regarding:
- Late Antique archaeology and architecture
- Archaeology of Christianity
- Popular culture
- Dark Age Asia Minor
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