The Crisler Library at
Ephesos

Ulrike Muss

PD Dr.  Ulrike Muss

1953 born in Essen, Germany
German citizen

Scientific Director of Crisler Library at Ephesos
Anton Kallinger Caddesi No. 40
35920 Selcuk - Izmir
Tel. +90 232 892 8317
cell +90 (0) 531 325 7843
email: umuss@crislerlibraryephesos.com

Lecturer at Vienna University, Institute for Classical Archaeology
Vienna University
Institute for Classical Archaeology
Franz Klein-Gasse 1
1190 Wien
Tel. +43 – 1 4277 – 40601
cell: +43 (0) 699 11 33 0584
email: ulrike.muss@univie.ac.at

Exams:
1982 PhD in Classical Archaeology, Art History and Ancient History,
University of Bonn/Germany

2003 Habilitation in Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna/Austria

Academic Career

1973-82 PhD Student at the ‘Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität’ in Münster
and the ‘Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität’ in Bonn/Germany

1977 Member of the German excavations team at Didyma/TR

1979 Member of the German excavation team at Samos/GR

1982 - 2008 Member of the Austrian excavation team in Ephesos
Excavation and research in the Artemision.

1989/90 Lecturer at the Institute for Classical Archaeology at the
University of Hamburg (Institute for Classical Archaeology)

since 1989 Lecturer at the Institute for Classical Archaeology at
Vienna University

1990 - 1997 Co - Director of the Austrian excavation in Aigeira/Greece.

1996 - 2008 Employee in the Federal Service at the Austrian Archaeological
Institute in Vienna

1996 - 2008 Director of the Artemision Project of the Austrian Archaeological
Institute

1998 and 2007 Deputy Director of the ‘Ephesos Excavations’

2004 - 2006 Member of the Knidos Excavation team.

2008 Curator of the Exhibition: ‘The Artemision of Ephesos.
Sacred Location of a Goddess’. Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

since 2009 Scientific Director of ‘Crisler Library at Ephesos’

Scholarships

1978 -1979 Scholarship awarded by the ‘Deutscher Akademischer
Auschtauschdienst’ for studies ın Greece.

1983 -1984 Holder of a travel-scholarship granted by the German Archaeological Institute.

Memberships:

Since 1991 Corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute

Since 2007 Member of the Austrian Committee for the Protection of
Monuments

Since 2008 Board member of the ‘Selçuk Artemis Sanat, Kültür ve Eğitim Vakfı
(Selçuk Artemis Art, Culture and Education Foundation)

Publications (selection):

Editor:

Die Archäologie der ephesischen Artemis (Ed. U. Muss 2008).

Der Kosmos der Artemis von Ephesos (Ed. U. Muss 2001).

Books:

Der Altar des Artemisions von Ephesos (with Anton Bammer and Mustafa Büyükkolancı) (2001)

Das Artemision von Ephesos. Das Heiligtum in archaischer und klassischer Zeit
(with Anton Bammer) (1996).

Die Akropolis von Athen (with Charlotte Schubert) (1988).

.Die Bauplastik des archaischen Artemisions von Ephesos (1983 and 1994).

Articles:

Deponien im Artemision von Ephesos in (with Anton Bammer): ‚Zurück zum Gegenstand’. Festschrift für Andreas Furtwängler. Hrgs von St. Lehmann et alt. (2009), 391 – 404.

Der Hekatompedos im Artemision von Ephesos (with Anton Bammer). Anatolia Antiqua 17, 2009 151 – 174.

The Kosmos of Ephesain Artemis at the time of Archilochos, in Archilochos and his Age. 2nd International Congress of the Archaeology of the Cyclades. Ed. D. Katsonopoulou. (2008) 465 - 479.

Potnia Theron im Artemision von Ephesos. Thiasos. Festschrift für Erwin Pochmarski, 2008, 669 - 676.

Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Terracottas from the Artemision at Ephesus and their significance for an early cult place in the Artemision, in: Anatolian Iron Ages 6. Proceedings of the Sixth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium held at Eskişehir. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Suppl. 20 edited by A. Çilingiroglu and A. Sagona. (2007) 167 - 194.

Amber from the Artemision at Ephesus in the Museums of Istanbul and Efes- Selçuk. İn 25. Araştıirma Sonuçları Toplantıtı 3. Cilt (2007) Kocaeli 13 - 26.

Rosinen and Archaeologie. Palaeokastro -Aigeira auf der Peloponnes. Eine ethnoarchäologische Studie (with Anton Bammer). Thetis 13 -14, 2007, 205 - 237.

Kleinplastik aus dem Artemision von Ephesos, in: V.v. Graeve et alt. Frühes Ionien:
Eine Bestandsaufnahme.

Ein Felsdenkmal auf dem Bülbüldağ von Ephesos. Anatolia Antiqua XIV 2006, 65 - 69 (with Anton Bammer).

Das Artemision von Ephesos in römischer Zeit. Festschrift für Ramazan Özgan.
Eds. M. Sahin and H. Mert (2005) 249 – 264.

Zu einem bronzezeitlichen Elfenbeinkopf aus dem Artemision in Festschrift für Fahri Isik. Ed. T. Korkut (2004) 505 - 512.

Early cults at Ephesus Their relation to the Mycenaens and the Ionian Migration, in: Helike III. Ancient Helike and Aigealeia. Proceedings of the Third International Conference. Nikolaiika 6. - 9.10.2000. Ed. D.Katsonopoulou (2005) 133 – 151.

Şirince Köy Doğal Cevresi ve Inasanları, in: Arredamento Mimarlik. Mayıs 1999.

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