Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique oecumene

Stefan Ardeleanu is postdoctoral research associate at the RomanIslam-Center at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of research are urbanism in pre- and early Roman in, as well as Late Antique funerary inscriptions from North Africa, stone monuments of Roman Germany, Late Antique commemorative rituals in funerary contexts and modern perceptions of antiquity. He has published books on ancient Numidia and on a museum collection of Roman stone monuments in Mannheim, as well as many contributions to small finds, inscriptions and funerary contexts from Roman to Late antique North Africa and the Germanies.

Jon C. Cubas Díaz is research associate at the Institute of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen. His current fields of research focus are funerary practices in Late Antique Asia Minor, with a special emphasis on Rough Cilicia, as well as Late Byzantine iconography and sacred architecture. He published a monograph and several articles on Late Roman funerary practices in Cilicia and the Near East, as well as on the Late Byzantine Akathistos Hymnos and intermedial compositional processes.