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Current third-party funded projects

1) DFG-GRK 1876: Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged

Research Training Group at University of Mainz in cooperation with the disciplines pre- and early history (pleistocene archeology), egyptology, ancient orientalistic philology, west Asian archeology, classical philology, classical archeology, medieval and Byzantine research.

DFG joint project
Project life span: 2013 until 2022 (DFG), 2022 until 2023 (University of Mainz)
Instigator und chairwoman 2013 until 2020: Tanja Pommerening; from 2021 supporting member

Current subprojects (co-)supervised by T. Pommerening

Riccardo Andreozzi: Cultural Exchanges in the Botanical and Pharmaceutical Field in Greco-Roman Egypt

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

University of Pisa
Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge
Via Pasquale Paoli 15
56126 Pisa (PI)

E-Mail: riccardo-andreozzi@hotmail.com

Project title: Cultural exchanges in the botanical and pharmaceutical field in Greco-roman Egypt

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Marilina Betrò

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Nicky van de Beek: A tomb with a view: Conceptualizing landscape in Egyptian tombs of the Old to New Kingdom

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: nbeek@uni-mainz.de

Project title: A tomb with a view: Representations of landscape in ancient Egyptian tombs from the Old to the New Kingdom (ca. 2700-1050 BCE)

Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Judit Garzón Rodríguez: Archaeological-philological-ethno-historical study of fundamental aspects of the penis, its symbolism and meaning in Ancient Egypt

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: jgarzon@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Archaeological-philological-ethno-historical study of fundamental aspects of the penis, its symbolism and meaning in Ancient Egypt

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Jessica Knebel: Studies on concepts of fire in Ancient Egypt

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: jeknebel@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Studies on concepts of fire in Ancient Egypt

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Aleksandar Milenković: Concepts of visual perception in Greek scientific thought from the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: almilenk@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Concepts of visual perception in Greek scientific thought from the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Rebekka Pabst: The Dead Body. Studies on Concepts of the "Corpse" in Ancient Egypt

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: repabst@uni-mainz.de

Project title: The Dead Body. Studies on Concepts of the "Corpse" in Ancient Egypt

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Lauer

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Oxana Polozhentseva: Dead bodies: Semantics of the mortal / transient in the German Medieval texts

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: o.polozhentseva@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Dead bodies: Semantics of the mortal / transient in the German Medieval texts

Supervisors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Lauer, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Yossra Ibrahim: Lights of Eternity – Investigating Concepts, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Egyptian Celestial Diagrams

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: yibrahim@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Lights of Eternity – Investigating Concepts, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Egyptian Celestial Diagrams

Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, apl. Prof. Dr. Marion Gindhart

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Jonny Russell: The Theory of Healing in Ancient Egypt: The Biophysical and Cultural Realities of Healing Practices from the Nile Valley during the Late Second Millennium BCE

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

Universiteit Leiden
Matthias de Vrieshof 4, 2.04c
Witte Singel 25
2311 BG Leiden
The Netherlands

E-Mail: jrussell@uni-mainz.de

Project title: The Theory of Healing in Ancient Egypt: The Biophysical and Cultural Realities of Healing Practices from the Nile Valley during the Late Second Millennium BCE

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaper (Leiden)

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Sonja Speck: Origins and development of Ancient Egyptian body concepts in Pre- and Early Dynastic anthropomorphic sculpture.

Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 Mainz

E-Mail: sonspeck@uni-mainz.de

Project title: Ursprünge und Entwicklung altägyptischer Körperkonzepte in prä- und frühdynastischer anthropomorpher Plastik.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß

Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)

Current publication projects

Living Bodies, Dead Bodies and the Cosmos: Culturally Specific and Universal Concepts, edited by Chiara Ferella, Tanja Pommerening and Ulrike Steinert, Mohr Siebeck, ASK
"Lebendig oder tot, gesund oder krank. Der menschliche Körper in vormodernen Kulturen", edited by Tanja Pommerening and Jochen Althoff, WBG, special edition in the series "Antike Welt"

Homepage of the project - RTG Humans and Nature (external link, University of Mainz)

2) An Annotated Digital Catalogue and Index of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs in the Galenic Corpus

3) Mineralia in cancer therapy in the 18th to 20th century with special reference to homeopathy

Dissertation fellowship by the Waltraud Hülshorst Foundation

Awardee: Esther Jestädt
Supervisor: Prof Dr Christoph Friedrich
Project life span: 01.03.2020 until 31.05.2024