Tanais – antique town

Tanais
Person conducting excavation: Marcin Matera, PhD
Country: Russia, Tanais (Myasnikovski district, Rostov Oblast)
Site name: Tanais
Type of the site: Antique town
Involved institutions: Museum-Reserve “Tanais”, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, University of Warsaw
Tanais
Description of the research:
Excavations conducted at Tanais by the University of Warsaw began in 1995 and have continued ever since . Since 1999, the Polish mission has explored Trench XXV situated at the western border of Western Tanais. Up until now, circa 1300 square metres have been investigated, which resulted in unearthing Hellenistic architectural remains: a bridge made of wood and stone leading across a defensive ditch protecting the town, a fortification complex consisting of a ditch dug from the side facing the steppe, a stone defensive wall, as well as a carefully fortified gateway to the town . Residential housing was confined inside the town walls (the rooms: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, and ‘F’) along with an urban street grid (‘a’ and ‘b’).

Currently, research is conducted within the framework of the project “Hellenistic Buildings in Tanais – fortifications and adjacent intramural district. Further research” funded by National Science Center, Poland (2016/21/B/HS3/03423).

Wróblewski Wojciech

Wojciech Wróblewski
Dr. Wojciech Wróblewski
Department of Medieval and Early Modern Archeology
(retired)

e-mail:
wojciech_wroblewski@hotmail.com

research interests:
lands around the Baltic Sea in the early Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on the history of Prussia (funerary rite) and contacts of this region with the milieau of nomadic peoples. Ethnography of Slavs

last excavations: Szurpiły near Suwałk (2008-2011) and Nowe Bagienice near Mrągowo (2108)

vice-chairman of the Dajna Foundation named after Jerzy Okulicz-Kozaryna

bibliography:
Wojciech Wróblewski

Zielińska Dobrochna

dr hab. Dobrochna Zielińska
dr hab. Dobrochna Zielińska
Katedra Archeologii Egiptu i Nubii

e-mail:
d.zielinska@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 808

duty hours:
Tuesday 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., room 3.08
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., room 3.08

research interests:
– Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia

The art of the Nile Valley in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Material and immaterial aspects of wall painting, with particular reference to the Nubian wall paintings.

bibliography:
Zielińska, D., „Faras Cathedral: A Witness of Art Development in the Nubian Kingdoms of Nobadia and Makuria”, Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw 5(41), 2016, 46–53

Zielińska, D., „Painted Decoration of the Central Hall: Preliminary Inventory”, [w:] D. Dzierzbicka, W. Godlewski (eds.), Dongola 2012-2014. Report On Excavations, Conservation Work And Site Management, Warsaw, 2016, 25–42

Zielińska, D., „Painted decoration of Building V (Royal Church) on the Citadel: state of research”, [w:] D. Dzierzbicka, W. Godlewski (eds.), Dongola 2012-2014. Report on excavations, conservation work and site management, Warsaw, 2016, 103-110

Zielińska, D., „The Iconography of Power – The Power of Iconography: The Nubian Royal Ideology and Its Expression in Wall-Painting”, [w:] The Fourth Cataract and Beyond Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies, Anderson J.R., Welsby D.A (eds.)[=British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 1], Peeters, Leuven, 2014, 943–950

Zielińska, D., „The painted decoration of the church at Sonqi Tino in the context of the iconographical program of Nubian churches”, Scienze dell’Antichità 18(2013), 413–418

Zielińska, D., „Hawarte 2007. Reconstruction project of the painted decoration”, Polish Archaeology in Mediterranean XIX [=Reports 2007], Warszawa, 2011, 527–535

Zielińska, D., „The Iconographical program in Nubian churches: Progress Report Based on a New Reconstruction Project”, [w:] Between the Cataracts. Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August – 2 September 2006. Part two, fascicule 2 [= PAM Supplement Series 2.2/2], Warszawa, 2010, 643–651

Zielińska, D., „Edifice without parallel: the Cruciform Building on the Citadel in Od Dongola”, [w:] Between the Cataracts. Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies, Warsaw University, 27 August – 2 September 2006. Part two, fascicule 2 [= PAM Supplement Series 2.2/2], Warszawa 2010, 695–703

Zielińska, D., 2004, „The Painted Decoration of the Cruciform Building (B.III) in Dongola. Preliminary Report”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XV: Reports 2003, 216–223

Innemée, K.C. Zielińska, D., „The King and the Cross, the iconography of a painting in the throne hall of Dongola” [w:] Proceedings of the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies (1-6 September, 2014), Peeters Publishers, 2018, 615–624

Danys, K., Zielińska, D., „Alwan Art: Towards an Insight into the Aesthetics of the Kingdom of Alwa through the Painted Pottery Decoration”, Sudan & Nubia 21, 2017,177–85

Łajtar, A. Zielińska, D., „The northern pastophorium of Nubian churches: Ideology and function (on the basis of inscriptions and paintings)” [w:] A. Łajtar, A. Obłuski, I. Zych (eds.), Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Warsaw, 2016, 435–457

Wagner M., Zielińska D. (eds.), Hawarte. Last Masterpieces of Ancient Painters, Wagner M., Zielińska D. (eds.),Warszawa, 2012, “A Roman mithraeum in virtual space”, [w:] The Last Masterpieces of the Ancient Painters: The Mithraeum of Hawarte, Warszawa,  2012, 89-93

Godlewski, W., Obłuski, A., Zielińska, D., 2005  „Uli Island. Preliminary Report”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XVI: Reports 2004, 339–356

Syta, O., Wagner, B., Bulska, E.,  Zielińska, D., Żukowska, G.  Z., Gonzalez, J., Russo, R.,  „Elemental imaging of heterogeneous inorganic samples by means of simultaneous laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurements” , [w:] Talanta. The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry, 179, DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.12.011

Syta, O., Rozum.,K., Choińska, M., Zielińska, D., Żukowska, G. Z., Kijowska, A., Wagner, B., „Analytical procedure for characterization of medieval wall-paintings by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Raman Spectroscopy”, Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Elsevier, 10.1016/j.sab.2014.08.003

Williams, B.,  Danys-Lasek, K., Heidorn, L., Obluski, A., Then-Obluska, J., Reshetnikova, N., Tsakos, A., Zielińska, D.,  „The Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition Publication Project” [w:] Oriental Institute 2012-2013 Annual Report [https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu /files/uploads/shared/docs/ar/11-20/12-13/12-13_OINE.pdf]

Bursche Aleksander

Aleksander Bursche
prof. dr hab. Aleksander Bursche
Katedra Numizmatyki i Muzealnictwa

e-mail:
abursche@uw.edu.pl

phone number:
+48 22 55 22 827

duty hours:
Wednesday 12.00–14.00, room 3.27

research interests:
I am a full professor specializing in Roman and Barbarian numismatics and relationships between the Classical World and the Barbarians. My other areas of interest include popularisation and public relations in archaeology, cultural heritage management and experimental archaeology. I have been visiting professor at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel (Germany), Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University and American Numismatic Society in New York.
I am Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (Frankfurt am Main), a Research Fellow at the Wolfson College (Oxford), Research Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, correspondent member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), member of the Scientific Board of the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw (http://www.kopernik.org.pl/en/) and a President of the Board of the Digital Humanities Consortium DARIAH-PL (http://dariah.pl/en/). I am also member of the board of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Archäologie der Sachsen und ihrer Nachbarvölker in Nordwesteuropa” (https://www.sachsensymposion.org/allgemeine-informationen).
I have participated in many international scientific projects, including: “Atlas of Greek and Roman World” (coordinated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton) and Groupement de Recherche Européen: “Trouvailles monétaires” (coordinated by CNRS in Paris). Recently I have coordinated (as PI) three interdisciplinary and international research projects: 6 years Maestro “Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula” financed by the Polish Science Center (http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/), 6 years “FRCPL: Recording Roman Coin Finds from Poland and Territory Associated Historically with Poland” within the frame of the National Program of Humanities Development (https://coindb-prod.ocean.icm.edu.pl/AFE_PL/), as well as 4 years “IMAGMA: Imagines Maiestatis, Barbarian Coins, Elite Identities and Birth of Europe together with the German Archaeological Institute within Beethoven program (http://www.imagma.eu).
In 2014 the President of Poland  has awarded me with the Polonia Restituta order „for outstanding achievements in research and education in archaeology and on merits in protection and promotion of Polish cultural heritage” and in 2015 the Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded me with the Gilljam Prize for Ancient Numismatics.
Since 2015 I am a member of the Committee of the International Numismatic Council (https://www.inc-cin.org/) and the chief organizer of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, which will take place in 2021 in Warsaw (http://inc2021.pl/).

bibliography:
Aleksander Bursche