Announcements
25.09.2024, 11 a.m. | Workshop on our current research (program)
04.07.2024, 11 a.m. | Guest lecture by Yohannes Gebreselassie on the topic: "Gädlä Kaleb: A New Document from the Island Monastery of Däbrä Ṣәyon, Tullu Guddoo, Lake Zway"
11.06. - 11.07.2024 | Research visit of Mohammed Al-Hajj, PhD (University of Hail, Saudi Arabia)
During his research stay, which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Mohammed Al-Hajj is working on previously unpublished Sabaean and Minaean inscriptions from the 7th and 8th centuries BC from Wadi al-Jawf.
31 May 2024 | Digital atlas of Ethiopian cultural artefacts
(press release, FSU Jena) An international team is documenting more than 1,700 archaeological sites in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray.
(Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, MDR)
26.04.2024 Report by Mulugeta Feseha, PhD: "Heritage Education for the Young Generation of Tigray"
October 2023 | Ethno-historical and epigraphic field research in Tigray (Ethiopia) has been resumed
See the DAI press release.
since June 2023 | Research visit of Roey Schneider, PhD (Tel Aviv, Leipzig), Minerva research fellow
First volume of the new series
Sabaica et Æthiopica published.
The volume contains contributions from the symposium “Migration and cultural transfer in the cultures of the Near East in antiquity” held at the research center in September 2019. (table of contents)
Latest publications
W.G.C. Smidt, Ludolf und seine äthiopischen Lehrer in Europa: Der Gelehrte Abba Gorgoryos als Mitbegründer der Äthiopistik als wissenschaftliche Ethnographie, in: A. Ben-Tov/J. Loop/M. Mulsow (ed.), HiobLudolf and Johann Michael Wansleben. Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700. Leiden 2024, 177-237
N. Nebes, A Hitherto Unattested Ethio-Sabaean King in a Woman’s Altar Dedication from Ṣ́ǝrḥan (Tǝgray/Ethiopia). Edition, Translation and Commentary, in: Aethiopica 26 (2023), 16-29
N. Nebes, Die Sabäer in Äthiopien und die Minäer in Nordwestarabien/Dedan. Zur Aussagekraft der epigraphischen Zeugnisse, in: N. Nebes/I. Gerlach (ed.), Migration und Kulturtransfer. Zur kulturellen Interaktion im Vorderen Orient und Nordostafrika im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Wiesbaden 2023, 135-159
W.G.C. Smidt, Muster von Migrationen in historischen und kulturellen Überlieferungender äthiopischen Region – eine ethnohistorische Diskussion, in: N. Nebes/I. Gerlach (ed.), Migration und Kulturtransfer. Zur kulturellen Interaktion im Vorderen Orient und Nordostafrika im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Wiesbaden 2023, 177-228
W.G.C. Smidt: 'Košta akwa', What an Italian pidgin poem from Tigray says about self-image, resistance and conflict, in: M.V. Höhne/ E.C. Gabbert/J. R. Eidson (ed.): Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological encounters [essays in honour of Günther Schlee], New York - Oxford 2023, 186-195
P. Stein, Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Band 1: Die altsabäischen und minäischen Inschriften. Mit einem Anhang: Unbeschriftete Objekte und Fälschungen (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel 10), Wiesbaden 2023.
Preliminary Reports
Preliminary report on the archaeological survey carried out in Debreqal, Central Tigray, Ethiopia
by Amanuel Abrha, Addigrat University