45 projects
Tall al-Hamidiya Online
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Tall al-Hamidiya Online

The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.

MitanniAssyriapalaces
Textures of Sacred Scripture
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Textures of Sacred Scripture

Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Medieval book art780–1300Materiality
The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century
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The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century

This project consists of four individual projects and a digital literary atlas as a visualisation of the function of the beach in anglophone literature between 1890 and 2023.

modernismbeachanglophone literature
The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)

Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing

AntikenrezeptionArcheologyArchäologie
The Electronic Catalogue of the Samaria Ivory Carvings
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The Electronic Catalogue of the Samaria Ivory Carvings

"Samaria Ivories" provides access to a catalogue with color photographs of the entire assemblage of ivory carvings and related material that once decorated luxurious furniture of the Israelite elite.

Ancient Near EastLevantKingdom of Israel
University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project
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University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project

Assessment of tombs in the Kings’ Valley used for burials of royal family and entourage (ca. 1350 BCE), looted (ca. 1000 BCE), and reused for burials of members of priestly families (ca. 800–700 BCE).

ArchaeologyEgyptValley of the Kings
Vitae Sanctae Wiboradae — Lebensbeschreibungen der heiligen Wiborada von St. Gallen, herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen von Walter Berschin
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Vitae Sanctae Wiboradae — Lebensbeschreibungen der heiligen Wiborada von St. Gallen, herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen von Walter Berschin

Edition und Übersetzung der beiden von den St. Galler Mönchen Ekkehart I. und Herimannus verfassten Viten Wiboradas von St. Gallen († 926) durch Walter Berschin.

WiboradaEkkehart I.Herimannus
WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language
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WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

The WoPoss project aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings in Latin from the prehistory of the language up to the 7th century CE, through a linguistically annotated, diachronic corpus.

Diachronic semanticsModalityLatin
WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period
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WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period

WordWeb/IDEM offers an innovative digital database for representing intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare’s time.

Digital HumanitiesEarly Modern PeriodElizabethan