Prof. Dr. Astrid Nunn
Expertise and Research Interests
Polychromy in the ancient Near East; iconography; the Levant in the Achaemenid period.
Curriculum Vitae
From WS 1977-1978 | Student of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Minors: Assyriology, Semitic Studies and Turkish Studies. |
February 1986 | Ph.D. under Prof. B. Hrouda. |
1997 | Habilitation under Prof. M. Roaf. |
2001 | Umhabilitierung from Munich to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. |
2008–2010 | Collaboration with the Projekt „Kelainai / Apameia Kibotos and its Environs: Investigation of a Royal Palace in Phrygia“ (Institute for Classical Archaeology of the LMU). |
2010–12 | Preparation of an online database of the „Mediterranean Collection“ of the Archäologische Staatssammlung (Munich). |
Projects and research interests | |
Polychromy in the ancient Near East | Research Project «Polychromy of the Mesopotamian Stone Statues», with Prof. Dr. Rupert Gebhard, director of the State Archaeological Collection in Munich. |
The Franco-German Figurines Project | With Prof. Régine Hunziker-Rodewald (Protestant Theology, Strasbourg University), projet du Groupe de Recherches et d’Études Sémitiques Anciennes (GRESA), „Les terres cuites féminines de l’époque du Fer II (1000 – env. 600 av. J.C.) à l’est du Jourdain“. |
| Iconography in Early Religions | |
Iconism and Aniconism in the Cult of the Ancient Near East |
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The Levant in the Achaemenid Period |
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