Rubina Raja

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Rubina Raja is affiliated with the following schools: Aarhus University, University of Oxford, University of Copenhagen

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Rubina Raja's Degrees

PhD Classical Archaeology Aarhus University
Masters Classical Archaeology Aarhus University
Bachelors Archaeology Aarhus University

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According to Wikipedia, Rubina Raja is a classical archaeologist educated at University of Copenhagen , La Sapienza University and University of Oxford . She is professor of classical archaeology at Aarhus University and centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions . She specialises in the cultural, social and religious archaeology and history of past societies. Research foci include urban development and network studies, architecture and urban planning, the materiality of religion as well as iconography from the Hellenistic to Early Medieval periods. Her publications include articles, edited volumes and monographs on historiography, ancient portraiture and urban archaeology as well as themes in the intersecting fields between humanities and natural sciences. Rubina Raja received her DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 with a thesis on urban development and regional identities in the eastern Roman provinces under the supervision of Professors R.R.R. Smith and Margareta Steinby. Thereafter, she held a post-doctoral position at Hamburg University, Germany, before she in 2007 moved to a second post-doctoral position at Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2011–2016, she was a member of the Young Academy of Denmark, where she was elected chairwoman in 2013.

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Religion in the making: the Lived Ancient Religion approach (2018) (64)
Mapping an ancient city with a century of remotely sensed data (2018) (33)
A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World: Rüpke/A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World (2015) (33)
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2020) (29)
Appropriating Religion: Methodological Issues in Testing the 'Lived Ancient Religion' Approach (2015) (26)
Geochemistry of Byzantine and Early Islamic glass from Jerash, Jordan: Typology, recycling, and provenance (2018) (25)
New Archaeological Research in the Northwest Quarter of Jerash and Its Implications for the Urban Development of Roman Gerasa (2015) (23)
Revealing text in a complexly rolled silver scroll from Jerash with computed tomography and advanced imaging software (2015) (23)
Radiocarbon analysis of mortar from Roman and Byzantine water management installations in the Northwest Quarter of Jerash, Jordan (2015) (22)
‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes (2020) (21)
Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC - AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa (2012) (16)
Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments: Millennial-Scale Change, Adaptations, and Environmental Responses at Gerasa/Jerash (2019) (15)
Archaeology of Religion, Material Religion, and the Ancient World (2015) (14)
A newly excavated private house in Jerash. Reconsidering aspects of continuity and change in material culture from Late Antiquity to the early Islamic period (2016) (14)
Copper-based metalwork in Roman to early Islamic Jerash (Jordan): Insights into production and recycling through alloy compositions and lead isotopes (2020) (12)
Mosaicists at work: the organisation of mosaic production in Early Islamic Jerash (2017) (12)
Grouping Together in Lived Ancient Religion: Individual Interacting and the Formation of Groups (2017) (11)
An Umayyad Period Magical Amulet from a Domestic Context in Jerash, Jordan (2016) (9)
Palmyrene funerary portrait in context. Portrait habit between local traditions and imperial trends (2015) (8)
The “Beauty of Palmyra” and Qasr Abjad (Palmyra): new discoveries in the archive of Harald Ingholt (2015) (8)
The Role of Objects: Meanings, Situations and Interaction (2015) (8)
8. Staging “private” religion in Roman “public” Palmyra. The role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae) (2015) (7)
Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change (2015) (7)
Mapping Gerasa: a new and open data map of the site (2019) (7)
From nummi minimi to fulūs—small change and wider issues: characterising coinage from Gerasa/Jerash (Late Roman to Umayyad periods) (2019) (7)
Reconstructing the social, economic and demographic trends of Palmyra's elite from funerary data (2021) (6)
In and Out of Contexts: Explaining Religious Complexity through the Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra (2016) (6)
Management of water resources over time in semiarid regions: The case of Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan (2019) (6)
1. A New Perspective on Gerasa/Jerash through the Findings of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project (2020) (6)
City and wadi: exploring the environs of Jerash (2017) (6)
Archive Archaeology in palmyra, Syria a new 3D reconstruction of the tomb of Ḥairan (2020) (5)
Exotic glass types and the intensity of recycling in the northwest Quarter of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) (2022) (5)
Urban Networks and High-Definition Narratives: Rethinking the Archaeology of Urbanism (2020) (5)
Trends in ceramic assemblages from the Northwest Quarter of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan (2021) (5)
Complex Sanctuaries in the Roman Period (2015) (4)
Practicing Urban Archaeology in a Modern City: The Alessandrino Quarter of Rome (2021) (4)
Intentional Cooking Pot Deposits in Late Roman Jerash (Northwest Quarter) (2015) (4)
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation (2021) (4)
The Sanctuary of Artemis in Gerasa (2009) (3)
Luminescence dating of soils and sediments from Jerash, Jordan (2018) (3)
“The Ingholt Archive. Data from the Project ‘Archive Archaeology: Preserving and Sharing Palmyra’s Cultural Heritage through Harald Ingholt’s Digital Archives’” (2021) (3)
Moringa Oleifera-An Overview (2016) (3)
The matter of the palmyrene ”modius”. Remarks on the history of research into the terminology of the palmyrene priestly hat (2018) (3)
Compilation and digitisation of the Palmyrene corpus of funerary portraits (2018) (3)
Archive Archaeology: Preserving and Sharing Palmyra's Cultural Heritage through Harald Ingholt's Digital Archives. A case study in the accessibility and potential of archives (2021) (3)
The Significance of Objects: Considerations on Agency and Context (2016) (3)
3. Ceramics in Cities in Context: An Overview of Published Roman Imperial to Umayyad Pottery in the Southern Levant (2020) (3)
A virtual market for illegal trade in cultural goods: Palmyra in Syria as an example (2017) (3)
Christen, Juden und Soldaten im Gerasa des 6. Jahrhunderts (2016) (2)
Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity (2020) (2)
High-Definition Urban Narratives from Central Rome: Virtual Reconstructions of the Past and the New Caesar’s Forum Excavations (2021) (2)
Between Continuity and Change: Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed (2015) (2)
Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) (2021) (2)
Urban Archaeology: A New Agenda - Editorial (2020) (2)
Urban archaeology and the understanding of the past: Antiochia on the Chrysorrhoas, also called Gerasa (2017) (2)
The Palmyra Portrait Project (2014) (2)
Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources (2021) (2)
Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations (2021) (2)
Divine symbolism on the tesserae from PalmyraConsiderations about the so-called “symbol of Bel” or “signe de la pluie” (2018) (2)
Becoming Urban (2016) (2)
Representations of Priests in Palmyra: Methodological Considerations on the Meaning of the Representation of Priesthood in the Funerary Sculpture from Roman Period Palmyra (2016) (2)
Antioch on the Chrysorrhoas, Formerly Called Gerasa: Perspectives on Biographies of a Place (2020) (2)
An architectural block with altar-iconography from the North-west Quarter of Jerash* (2015) (2)
Representations of the so-called “Former Priests” in Palmyrene Funerary Art. A Methodological Contribution and Commentary (2017) (2)
A Roman provincial city and its contamination legacy from artisanal and daily-life activities (2021) (2)
Revisiting radiocarbon dating of lime mortar and lime plaster from Jerash in Jordan: Sample preparation by stepwise injection of diluted phosphoric acid (2022) (2)
Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation (2019) (2)
Studies on Palmyrene Sculpture (2021) (2)
Powerful Images of the Deceased (2017) (1)
The Role of Objects: Creating Meaning in Situations * (2015) (1)
Urban gardens in Antiquity (2022) (1)
Through the looking glass: glass, high-definition archaeology and urban networks in the 8th century CE from North to South (2018) (1)
9. Geophysical Data and Archaeological Evidence: A Comparative Interpretation (2020) (1)
2. Late Hellenistic and Roman Antiochia on the Chrysorrhoas, also Called Gerasa: A Reappreciation of the Urban Development in the Light of the Findings of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project (2011-17) (2020) (1)
Animal bones from the North-West Quarter (2017) (1)
‘You can leave your hat on.’ Priestly representations from Palmyra: Between visual genre, religious importance and social status (2017) (1)
Historical Trajectories of Palmyra’s Elites through the Lens of Archaeological Data (2021) (1)
Open-data presentation of a geophysical survey in Gerasa (Jerash), Jordan (2019) (1)
Contextualizing the sacred in the hellenistic and Roman Near East (2017) (1)
Funerary data from Palmyra, Syria collated by the Palmyra Portrait Project (2021) (1)
The Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project at Jarash: Results from the 2011-2013 seasons (2017) (1)
Food security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in light of paleoclimatological evidence and its historical implications (2022) (1)
12. Roman City Coins of Gerasa: Contextualizing Currency and Circulation from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman Period (2020) (1)
Revisiting the Jerash Silver Scroll: A new visual data analysis approach (2021) (1)
The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Rome (2022) (1)
Networking beyond Death. Priests and their family networks explored through teh funerary sculpture (2017) (1)
Come and dine with us: invitations to ritual dining as part of social strategies in sacred spaces in Palmyra (2020) (1)
Radiocarbon dating of lime plaster from a Roman period cistern in ancient Gerasa, Jerash in Jordan (2022) (1)
The Matter of the Palmyrene 'modius' (2018) (1)
Urban Religion in Late Antiquity (2020) (1)
Jarash Northwest Quarter Project (2014) (1)
The Ingholt Archive (2022) (1)
Changing Ties (2022) (0)
Introduction: Coming to Terms with Ancient Religion (2018) (0)
Excavating Palmyra (2021) (0)
Dark Sides of the City — Editorial (2021) (0)
Archaeology and Architecture (2021) (0)
C. Historiography : Danish Research from Johannes Østrup (1893) to the Palmyra Portrait Project (2019) (0)
Metallurgy at the frontier: Roman and early Islamic copper-based technology at Jerash, Jordan (2018) (0)
Book Review of Rome et ses provinces. Genèse et diffusion d'une image du pouvoir. Hommages à Jean-Charles Balty, edited by Cécile Evers and Athéna Tsingarida (2007) (0)
Review (2000) (0)
1. Glass, Lamps, and Jerash Bowls: The Finds from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project’s Excavation Campaigns 2012–2016 (2021) (0)
Biographies of Place — An Introduction (2020) (0)
A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation (2021) (0)
Pursuing lived ancient religion (2020) (0)
New Insights from Middle Islamic Ceramics from Jerash (2021) (0)
Biella Gods of Value : Preliminary Remarks on Religion and Economy in Pre-Roman Italy (2019) (0)
Alternative Urban Economies: The Case of Roman Palmyra (2022) (0)
RELIGIOUS INSCRIPTIONS FROM PALMYRA (2022) (0)
Water management in the North-West Quarter of Gerasa/Jerash (2017) (0)
PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2018) (0)
Renaissance Rome and the Italian Glass Connection: 16th-Century a.d. Hospital Dumps in the Forum of Caesar (2022) (0)
1. Preface and Introduction (2020) (0)
Groups in Lived Ancient Religion (2017) (0)
Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East (2018) (0)
Urban Religion in Palmyra (2022) (0)
Gerasa: The City and the wadi (2018) (0)
S. NAGEL, J. F. QUACK and C. WITSCHEL (EDS), ENTANGLED WORLDS: RELIGIOUS CONFLUENCES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THE CULTS OF ISIS, MITHRAS AND JUPITER DOLICHENUS. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Pp. x + 470, illus. isbn9783161547300. €159.00. (2019) (0)
1. Harald Ingholt and Palmyrene Sculpture: Continuing a Lifelong Relationship a Century Later (2021) (0)
The World of Palmyra at Copenhagen (2016) (0)
Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation (2019) (0)
Harald Ingholt's Twentieth-Century Archive of Palmyrene Sculptures (2022) (0)
The Politics of a semi-sovereign prince (2010) (0)
Glass in Rome during the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages: materials from the Forum of Caesar (2022) (0)
GREG WOOLF, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ANCIENT CITIES: A NATURAL HISTORY. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528, illus. isbn 9780199664733. £25. (2021) (0)
Evaluating the Environmental Kuznets Curves through Archaeological Data: A Conceptual and Theoretical Framework (2021) (0)
Andreas J. M. Kropp, Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 bc – ad 100 (2015) (0)
Martha Sharp Joukowsky . Petra Great Temple volume 3: Brown University excavations 1993–2008, architecture and material culture. 2016. xxiv+598 pages, numerous bw 978-1-78570-612-7 hardback £60. (2017) (0)
W. AYLWARD (ED.), EXCAVATIONS AT ZEUGMA, CONDUCTED BY OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGY. Los Altos, California: Packard Humanities Institute, 2013. 3 vols: pp. xii + 279, vi + 258, vi + 449, illus., maps, plans.isbn 9781938325298. (2015) (0)
3. Soils, Sediments, and Urban History of the Ancient City Jerash (2020) (0)
Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge (2023) (0)
Emesa zwischen Klientelreich und Provinz. Identität und Identitätswandel einer lokalen Fürstendynastie im Spiegel der archäologischen Quellen; Baalbek in nachantiker Zeit. Untersuchungen zur Stadtbaugeschichte vom 5. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (2017) (0)
Disease control and the disposal of infectious materials in Renaissance Rome: excavations in the area of Caesar's Forum (2023) (0)
It stays in the Family. Palmyrene priests and their iconography (2017) (0)
1. Invisible Pasts, Urban Fates, and the Central Role of Ceramics: Gerasa in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2020) (0)
‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes (2020) (0)
Ancient Sanctuaries (2018) (0)
Roman Empire Religion in the Discourses and Narratives , Experiences and Identities (2016) (0)
3. Greek and Roman Coins from the Jerash Northwest Quarter Excavations (2020) (0)
Introduction: Urban Archaeology (2021) (0)
Visual Histories in the Classical World: Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith (2018) (0)
Populating Public Palmyra (2021) (0)
Embattled Cities: The Urban Reinvention of History – Editorial (2022) (0)
M. BLÖMER andE. WINTER (EDS), IUPPITER DOLICHENUS. VOM LOKALKULT ZUR REICHSRELIGION (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 8).Tübingen:Mohr-Siebeck,2012. Pp. 306, illus. isbn 9783161517976. €99.00. (2014) (0)
Between fashion phenomena and status symbols:: Contextualising the wardrobe of the so-called “former priests” of Palmyra (2017) (0)
Harald Ingholt’s Excavation Diaries from his Fieldwork in Palmyra – an Open Data Online Resource (2021) (0)
Urban Religion in the Desert (2022) (0)
RECEPTIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN (2021) (0)
David and Goliath: Giants and Dwarfs in Settlement Archaeology — Editorial (2023) (0)
Network Evolutions and High-Definition Narratives — An Introduction (2021) (0)
A new inscribed amulet from Gerasa (Jerash) (2017) (0)

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