Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.

Andrea M. Pülz

Academy Scientist

Contact

Email: andrea.puelz(at)oeaw.ac.at

Telephone: +43 1 51581-4121

Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna

Biographical sketch

Studied Classical Archaeology and a combination of subjects (Prehistory and Early History, Ancient History, History) at the University of Vienna. Doctorate in 2003, habilitation in 2023. Since 1997 he has been working on the small finds in Ephesus as part of FWF-funded projects: first the gold finds from the Artemision, then the Byzantine small finds made of metal and bone. From 2007 to 2009, work on the Byzantine gold jewellery in the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. From 2017 to 2020 processing of small finds from the Theban Paulos Monastery/Upper Egypt (FWF/DFG). Since 2020 research associate in the long-term project »The Artemision of Ephesus«. 

Detailed Biography

Research Projects

• »Does Material Matter? Similarities and Differences in Metal Jewellery of the Early and Middle Byzantine Periods«
• Publication projekt: B. Pulsinger, Perlen und Anhänger aus dem Artemision von Ephesos (ungedr. Dissertation 2003), Bearbeitung und Drucklegung
•  The material evidence from the late antique-early medieval city quarter in Ephesus/Turkey
•  The gold-leaf crosses from a Lombard cemetery in Bariano/Italy
•  The book clasps made of wood and bone from the Theban Paulos Monastery in Deir el-Bâchit/Egypt
•  The ivory and bone finds from the sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus
•  Analysis of the stratigraphy in the Artemision of Ephesus

Research interests

• The material evidence of the archaic period in the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus 
• Material culture in late antiquity and the Byzantine period

Publications