Materiale Textkulturen - Sonderforschungsbereich 933 an der Universität Heidelberg
Description: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of the Scriptural in Non-Typographic Societies - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Council, University of Heidelberg, College of Jewish Studies Heidelberg
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After the Bronze Age collapse of circa 1200 BCE, Greeks forgot how to write. Linear B texts – syllabic script used for writing in Mycenaean Greek – disappeared. Greeks did not learn how to write again until perhaps the eighth century BCE, when, at various places in the Greek world, semitic letters were adopted and adapted to Greek language. The rest, as they say, is history: the Greeks developed or expanded many of the writing genres that are still with us today, from tragedies and comedies to history writi
Die The winners of the university-wide photo competition "Your own tattoo as an exhibition object" have been determined. In October, the subproject Ö „ Schrifttragende Artefakte in Neuen Medien “ of the CRC 933 had been looking for members of the university with a tattoo that consists of or contains characters. They were invited to submit a photo of their tattoo. Photos and background information on the winning tattoos can be viewed here on the CRC-Blog (in German).
The intermediality of image and text in Greco-Roman sculpture is the subject of a new volume published in the CRC's "Material Text Cultures" series. Editors of the English-language anthology, titled " Image, Text, Stone – Intermedial Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Sculpture ," are Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Dietrich and Dr. Johannes Fouquet, who conduct research in subproject A10 "Text and Image in Greek Sculpture" . Their work bridges the traditional gap between archaeologists, epigraphists, and philologists, who ha
Materiale Textkulturen - Sonderforschungsbereich 933 an der Universität Heidelberg