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Academic Background:

1987–1993: Studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, and Classical Philology (Latin) in Heidelberg and Munich.

1993/1997: Master’s degree /Ph.D.

1997–2021: Research Associate on the project Heidelberg Epigraphic Database (EDH).

since , Research Associate on the project German Inscriptions (DI) and on the DFG project Edition Tools for Digital Epigraphy / Ephemeris Epigraphica Electronica (EDEp / EEE).

since , I have been collaborating on the STTL project —Sit Tibi Terra Levis: Formulae and Phrases from Funerary Monuments of Ancient Liburnia and Iapodia (Croatian Science Foundation).

Research focus:

• Funeral Customs in Rome and the Roman Provinces
• Ancient (Latin), Medieval, and Early Modern (Latin and German-language) Epigraphy
• Reception of Antiquity
• Image-Text Phenomena
• Inscriptions / Corpus of Ancient Label Inscriptions (CALI)
• CVSN - Edition of the Inscriptions from the Civitas Ulpia Sueborum Nicrensium

a) Monographs:

• Ubi diutius nobis habitandum est. The Interior Decoration of Imperial-Era Tombs in Rome, Palilia 9 (Wiesbaden 2001).
• Inscriptions and "Self-Representation" in Urban Roman Tombs, Libitina 2 (Rome 2003).
• … ubique naufragium …? Aspects and Meanings of Ship Depictions in Tombs - II. A Catalog of Ship Depictions on Tomb Monuments from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, with Special Attention to the Inscriptions (Heidelberg 2017). - Part I.
• The Roman Stones of Heidelberg: Sculptures, Architectural Elements, and Inscriptions in the Kurpfälzisches Museum (Heidelberg 2017) (co-authored with R. Ludwig).

b) Publishers:

• by Perali, Pericle, *I fasti* (unpublished manuscript, 1949) (Heidelberg, 2008) (online resources: Vol. 1 - https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000962,  Vol. 2 – https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000087).
• Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives, Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Lanham, Md., 2010).
• by Feraudi, Benedetto, Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Sat sas en medu neter em kemt - The Book of the Writing of the Sacred Language of Egypt (self-published, 1971) (Heidelberg, 2017) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00003318).
• Co-editor of *Current Epigraphy*.

c) Essays / Book chapters:

•  The Heidelberg Epigraphic Database, in: M. Hainzmann and Chr. Schäfer (eds.), Ancient History and New Media: On the Use of Computers in Classical Studies, *Computer and Antiquity* 5 (St. Katharinen 2000), 45–65 (co-authored with A. Dafferner and H. Niquet).
• Tomb Inscriptions in an Archaeological Context. Complementarity of Text and Image? In: M. Heinzelmann et al. (eds.), Roman Burial Customs and Burial Goods, International Colloquium, Rome 1998, Palilia 8 (Wiesbaden 2001), 203–213.
• Sepulchral “Self-Representation” of the Lower Classes: Observations on Inscriptions in Urban Roman Funerary Monuments of the Imperial Period (Preliminary Report), in: G. Alföldy and S. Panciera (eds.), Inscribed Monuments as Media of Self-Representation in the Roman World, Habes 36 (Stuttgart 2001), 121–124.
• "Joy of Life in the Tomb," Antike Welt 4, 2002, 421–430.
• For Eternity? The Design of Senatorial Tombs in Rome and Their Context, in: W. Eck and M. Heil (eds.), *Senatores populi Romani: Reality and Media Representation of a Ruling Class*, Habes 40 (Stuttgart 2005), 137–168.
• Uxor dedit ac posuit. The Presence of Women in Urban Tomb Inscriptions, in: A. Donati (ed.), Donna e vita cittadina nella documentazione epigrafica (Faenza 2005), 605–624.
• Carl Theodor and the "Poor Parish" of Meckesheim. A Documentary Discovery in the Catholic Rectory in Mauer, *Kraichgau 20*, 2007, 91–104.
• L∙A∙T: L(awrence) A(lma) T(adema) and the Transformation of Ancient Inscriptions, or: How Does (Did) the “Reception of Antiquity” Work?, in: P. Castillo et al. (eds.), Congreso Internacional: Imagines - la antigüedad en las artes escénicas y visuales, Logroño 2007 (Logroño 2008) 491–514.
• 1 Daughter and 2 Fathers, or: qui vario modo patris vice funguntur, in: M.L. Caldelli, G.L. Gregori, and S. Orlandi (eds.), Epigrafia 2006. Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Epigraphy in Honor of Silvio Panciera, with additional contributions by colleagues, students, and collaborators, Tituli 9 (Rome 2008), 1431–1447.
• DEVOTED - devote{d}? Kurfürstlich-epigraphische Kuriosa in und um Heidelberg, in: D. Bandini - U. Kronauer (Hrsg.), Früchte vom Baum des Wissens. 100 Jahre Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Eine Festschrift der wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (Heidelberg 2009), 229-249.
• The inscription on the newly discovered Jupiter Gigant column from Heidelberg, in: J. Biel (ed.), Landesarchäologie: Festschrift for Dieter Planck on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Stuttgart 2009), 418–422 (co-authored with B. Gräf).
• Re-examined—Reinterpreted. A fragment of a Latin inscription and an “anonymous” relief from Sinsheim, FBW 31, 2010, 439–448 (see also the Europeana EAGLE storytelling app).
• CIL XIII 6391 and 6392: Correction of a “Corrected” Site Location, FBW 32, 2011, 333–337.
• Epigraphy and Christian Archaeology in 19th-Century Rome, RQ 107, 2012, 49–73.
• The Allure of Inscriptions. On the 100th Anniversary of the Death of the Painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Antike Welt 6, 2012, 78–83.
• χαῖρε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδεω.... . The Reception of Antiquity at the Heidelberg Mountain Cemetery, in: J. Stroszeck and H. Frielinghaus (eds.), Greece as a Model. On the Influence of Ancient Greek Sculpture on Modern Funerary Monuments (Möhnesee 2012) 139–161.
• The Singular Gentile Name Splattia. Remarks on AE 1976, 188 = AE 1978, 282 from Vasto / Histonium, ZPE 184, 2013, 301–303.
• New Discoveries Without Excavation: Reflections on a Previously Unknown Roman Shrine in Sinsheim, in: J. Kreutz and B. Müller (eds.), Kulturzentrum Stiftskirche Sunnisheim: History—Archaeology—Architecture, Bausteine zur Kreisgeschichte 10 (Heidelberg 2013), 185–194.
• Splattius. A New Inscription and a Rare Gentilice from the Campo Santo Teutonico, RAC 87/88, 2011/2012, 137–146.
• Nomina mulierum in Ulpiana (Graçanicë / Gračanica, Kosovo). A New Epigraphic Discovery and New Historical Insights, ZPE 188, 2014, 275–283 (co-authored with F. Teichner).
• Corrigendum to ZPE 188, 2014, 275–283 (Nomina mulierum in Ulpiana), ZPE 189, 2014, 254.
• The Role of the “Text Carrier” in Epigraphy. Practical Text-Actor Relations in Reception: The Case of a Recent Spolia Find, in: A. Kehnel and D. Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Schriftträger - Textträger. On the Material Presence of the Written Word in Early Societies, Materiale Textkulturen 6 (Berlin - Boston 2014) 39-74.
• "The Decoration of Roman Tombs," in: B.E. Borg (ed.), *The Blackwell Companion to Roman Art* (Chichester 2015), pp. 431–451.
• Inscriptions in Early Christian Visual Contexts in Rome: Continuities—Innovations—Tendencies Toward Emblematization, in: L. Clemens, H. Merten, and C. Schäfer (eds.), Early Christian Tomb Inscriptions in the West of the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the International Conference “Early Christian Tomb Inscriptions in the Western Roman Empire,” Trier, June 13–15, 2013, Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Archaeology and History 3 (Trier 2015) 191–207.
• A Glimpse into the Historian’s Workshop: The Heidelberg Epigraphic Database (EDH) —Latin Inscriptions from Roman Antiquity Online, Skriptum 5, 2015, 7–17 (co-authored with E. Neubert).
• Latin on Stone: Discovering Inscriptions in Heidelberg, in: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2015 (Heidelberg 2016), 104–108.
• The Wieblingen Senecio Stele from the Neckar River near Heidelberg, AKB 46, 2016, 233–239.
• Senecio Ianuari civis Nemes. An unpublished ancient inscription found in the Neckar River near Heidelberg, ZPE 199, 2016, 239–242.
• … ubique naufragium … ? Aspects and Meanings of Ship Depictions in Tombs. - I. Centrality versus Peripherality in the Visual Discourses of Roman Sources, in: H. Frielinghaus, T. Schmidts, and V. Tsamakda (eds.), Ships and Their Context. Depictions, Models, Components—from the Bronze Age to the End of the Byzantine Empire (Regensburg 2017) 63–78. — Part II.
• No Interaction! Image-Text Relationships in Captions. A Five-Point Assessment, in: Yearbook of the a.r.t.e.s.
  Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne 2016/2017 (Cologne 2017), 90–97.
• The Synactive Potential of Inscriptions, in: I. Berti, K. Bolle, F. Opdenhoff, and F. Stroth (eds.), Writing Matters. Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Berlin 2017) 43–76 (online resource: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110534597-004).
• A "descriptio inscription" from Ladenburg, FeRA 34, 2017, 1–6.
• On the Inscription of the *vicani Saliobrigenses*on the Sinsheim Stone of the Four Gods. History of Research, Transcriptions, and Optical 3D Surveying, FBW 37, 2017, 195–202.
• An unpublished tomb inscription of a Cornic from Ladenburg /Lopodunum, FeRA 36, 2018, 1–13.
• New Inscriptions from the Collection of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg. Edenda—Addenda—Corrigenda, FeRA 42, 2020, 1–9.
• A Hypothetical Inscription on the Camp Gate of the Roman Stone Fort at Heidelberg-Neuenheim. Documentation of a Reconstruction (Heidelberg 2021) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00005001).
• Two rediscovered 18th-century guild regulations of the butchers’ guild in the town of Neckargemünd, from Meckesheim, and the document GLA 229/71657 (Heidelberg 2021) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00030515) — featuring digitized versions ofthe “Guild Regulations of the Praiseworthy Butchers’ Trade of the Town of Neckargemünd and the District of Dilsberg” (1716) and the “Guild Regulations of the Butchers of the Town of Neckargemünd” (1752).
• "Data Repositories and Their Sustainability," in: M. Horster, R. Flower, F. Hurlet, and R. Mathisen (eds.), Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography (Leiden 2026), pp. 182–203 (co-authored with F. Grieshaber).
• The Language(s) of the Inscriptions: Greek - Latin - Romanized?, in: Proceedings of the Congress on Romanization, Heidelberg 2017 (to be published in 2025).
• Edition of senatorial and chivalric inscriptions from Aquileia as part of the Aquileia Project(manuscript).

d) Encyclopedia entries:

• Raoul-Rochette, Désiré, in: S. Heid and M. Dennert (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Christian Archaeology: Scholars and Figures from the 16th to the 21st Century (Regensburg 2012), 1056–1058.
• Secchi, Giampietro, in: S. Heid and M. Dennert (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Christian Archaeology: Scholars and Figures from the 16th to the 21st Century (Regensburg 2012), 1154–1155.
• Firsthand Accounts / Self-Representation. II. Freedmen, in: H. Heinen et al. (eds.), Concise Dictionary of Ancient Slavery HAS 3, Studies on Ancient Slavery, Supplement 5 (Stuttgart 2017), 2537–2540.

e) Reviews:

• On P. Kragelund, M. Moltesen, and J. Stubbe Østergaard, “The Licinian Tomb: Fact or Fiction?” (Copenhagen 2003): *Gnomon* 76, 2004, 726–728.
• On A. Barbet (ed.), M.J. Rostovtseff, *La peinture décorative antique en Russie méridionale*, Saint Petersburg 1913–1914 (Paris 2003): *Gnomon* 79, 2007, 170–175.
• On G. Camodeca, *I ceti dirigenti di rango senatorio equestre e decurionale della Campania romana I* (Naples 2008): *Tyche* 26, 2011, 313–318.
• See K. Matijević, “Roman and Early Christian Evidence in Northern Upper Germania: Epigraphic Studies on the Lower Moselle and the Eastern Eifel” (Rahden 2010): *Trierer Zeitschrift* 75/76, 2012/13, 478–484.
• See N. Dietrich, J. Fouquet, and C. Reinhardt, “Writing on Statuary Monuments: Aspects of Material Text Culture in the Archaic and Early Classical Periods,” *Materiale Textkulturen* 29 (Berlin–Boston 2020): *Bonner Jahrbücher* 220, 2020, 421–426.

f) Miscellaneous:

• Lesung einer Grabstele aus Kostolac/Viminacium (Serbien/Moesia superior) <adn. Tyche 9>, Tyche 26, 2011, 301-302.
• AE 2001, 347 wiederentdeckt <adn. Tyche 10>, Tyche 26, 2011, 302.
• Die Inschrift(en?) CIL XIII 7782 - 7783 aus Dernau (Rheinland-Pfalz, D) <adn. Tyche 75>, Tyche 33, 2018, 251-253.

g) Bibliographic and prosopographic articles:

• Bibliography of Désirée Raoul-Rochette, RQ 106, 2011, 45–71.
• See: “Raoul-Rochette, Désiré” and “Secchi, Giampietro.” (See above, d) Encyclopedia entries)
• Re: 'Secchi, Giampietro'. (see above, d) Encyclopedia entries)

h) Papers & Posters:

• Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) - Or: The Challenge of Making All Ancient Latin Inscriptions Outside Rome Available "with a Single Click," conference paper, Mainz, June 12, 2016 (online resource:https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024187).
• Digital Epigraphy at a Crossroads? / Digital Epigraphy at a Crossroads?, Conference paper, Düsseldorf, November 10, 2016 (online resource https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00022141) (co-authored with F. Grieshaber).
• epigraphy.info. A collaborative platform for digital epigraphy (under construction), poster, XV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Vienna 2017 (online resource: https://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/titel/68380837) (in collaboration with F. Grieshaber).
• Report on the first epigraphy.info workshop in Heidelberg, March 21–23, 2018 (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024397) (co-authored with F. Grieshaber, J. Cowey, and J. Lougovaya-Ast).
• Recommendations for an Open Collaborative Platform for Ancient Epigraphy - epigraphy.info / Recommendation for an Open Collaborative Platform for Ancient Epigraphy - epigraphy.info, June 1, 2018 (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00024674) (co-authored with F. Grieshaber).
• Report on the Second epigraphy.info Workshop in Zadar, December 14–16, 2018 (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00026330) (co-authored with J. Cowey, T. Gheldof, F. Grieshaber, A. Kurilić, and P. Liuzzo).
• The archival materials of the Heidelberg Epigraphic Database (EDH) at the Heidelberg University Archives (Heidelberg 2022) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00031153).
• Two New Editors for Ancient and Medieval Epigraphy, Conference Paper, Bari, February 27, 2024 (Heidelberg, 2025) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00035774).
• Editing Tools for a Digital Epigraphy (EDEp). A poster, November 2024 (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006584) (in collaboration with D. Eibeck and M. Horster).

i) Teaching materials:

• Pontius Pilate—More Than Just a Biblical Figure, in: RAAbits History. Ideas and Materials for Creative Teaching (May 2003 issue), 18 pp.
• "Properemus Mogontiacum—Off to Mainz!", in: RAAbits History: Ideas and Resources for Creative Teaching (August 2005 issue), 32 pp.
   

j) Research data:

• An Overview of: Prosopographic Digital Data in Classics (Persons and Names) (2024) (online resource: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/AO0EPS).

• for the Epigraphy Archive
• for the *Bonner Jahrbücher*
• for Current Epigraphy
• for RIDE
• for Tyche

• epigraphy.info
• AIEGL - International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• Archaeological Society of Baden-Württemberg, Inc.