Rituale, Abfälle und Sammler-Project

Dr. Dr. Stefanie Hoss

Email: stefanie.hossuni-koeln.de

Research Interests

1986-1997 Studied Provincial Roman Archaeology, Jewish Studies, Classical Archaeology and Pre- and Early History at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn.
1997 Magister Artium in Provincial Roman Archaeology ("Studies on the Roman military belts of the 1st and 2nd centuries in the Germanic provinces and Raetia.")
1999-2001 Doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
2002 Doctorate in Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Cologne: "Bad und Baden: The culture of bathing and the baths and thermal baths in Israel from the Hasmoneans to the Muslim conquest (with an appendix on the mikvahs)".
2002-2003 Third-party funded projects in NRW and Syria
Since 2004 working in the Netherlands as Specialist metaal, since 2008 in own company (www.smallfindsarchaeology.nl).
2010-2018 Substitute Assistant for Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the University of Cologne (5 semesters in total).
2013-2015 Substitute Docent 3 for Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2 semesters in total).
2014 PhD in Archeology at the Universiteit Leiden: "Cingulum Militare: Studies on the Roman military belt in the 1st-3rd century AD"
2014 Third-party funded project on the Roman-Byzantine glass finds from Tall Zira'a
2017 Senior KNA specialist for inorganic materials
Since 2019 Specialist Romeinse period at PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands)
2/2024-2/2027 Research Associate Project Ritual, Rubbish and Retrieval: new appro

2016-2017: translation (with M. Bishop) of Fischer, Thomas, Die Armee der Caesaren, Mit Beiträgen von R. Bockius, D. Boschung und Th. Schmidts (Regensburg 2012).
since 2016: Project Romeinse vicus aan de Rijn: Processing of the old excavations in the vici from Alphen aan den Rijn, Zwammerdam, Leiden-Roomburg and other western dutch fort locations.
2016: translation of the summaries in S. Heeren / L. van der Feijst, Fibulae uit de Lage Landen/Brooches from the Low Countries, Zwolle 2016.
since 2015: participation in excavations in Ayn Gharandal, Southern Jordans as find specialist
2010-2015: recording and processing of hellenistic, roman and byzantine glass and metal finds of the Tall Zirā’a in the Wādī al-’Arab (Northern Jordan), of the Gadara Region Projects of the Biblical Archaeological Institute of the Ecclesiastic University of Wuppertal and the German Archaeological Institute for the Antiquity Studies of the Holy Land in Jerusalem and Amman

Hoss, S. (2014), Cingulum Militare. Studien zum römischen Soldatengürtel des 1. bis 3. Jh. n. Chr. (PhD Thesis Leiden University Open Access Repository).
Hoss, S. (2005), Baths and Bathing. The Culture of Bathing and the Baths and thermae in Palestine from the Hasmoneans to the Moslem Conquest (with an Appendix on Miqva’ot). BAR Int. Ser. 1346, Oxford.

Deschler-Erb, E., Henrich, P. & Hoss, S. (Hrsg.), Weapons in ritual context. Proceedings of the 20th Roman Military Equipment Conference, Cologne, June 11th–15th 2019, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 21.
Hoss, S. (Hrsg.), 2018, Latrinae. Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire.
Binsfeld, A., Hoss, S. & Pösche, H. (Hrsg.), 2018, Thermae in context: Roman bathhouses in the town and in daily life. Proceedings of a conference at the Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg-City, 22.-24. February 2013, Archaeologia mosellana.
Bishop, M.C., Hoss, S. (Hrsg.), 2017, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 18.
Hoss, S. & Whitmore, A. (Hrsg.), 2016, Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire, Oxford.