Johannes LippsJohannes Lipps holds a chair of Classical Archaeology and is fellow at the Gutenberg Research College at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat at Mainz. He studied Classical archaeology and ancient history in Marburg, Rome, Bonn and Cologne. He complete his PhD in 2008 at Cologne, which was followed by an assistant professorship at LMU Munich from 2009-2014 and a junior professorship at Tubingen from 2014-2019. His research interests concern architecture, urbanism and sculpture especially in ancient Rome and the provinces. Recently, he published the monograph Die Stuckdecke des Oecus Tetrastylos im sog. Augustushaus im Kontext antiker Deckenverzierungen (Rahden/Westf. 2018). Matthias Grawehr is currently interim Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz. His research is focused on the Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, unfinished ancient architecture and Roman small finds such as lamps and bronze statuettes. He studied classical archaeology, art history and ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the Universitat Basel. He has conducted excavations in the Near East and published two volumes on excavations at Petra in Jordan: ""Die Lampen der Grabungen auf ez Zantur in Petra"" (Mainz 2006); ""Eine Bronzewerkstatt des 1. Jhs. n. Chr. von ez Zantur in Petra/Jordanien"" (Mainz 2010). In 2019 he completed his habilitation on ""Akzidentelle Unfertigkeiten und intentioneller Bossenstil in der Architektur des Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit"". Matthias Grawehr has taught widely at the Universities of Basel, Zurich, and Mainz and coedited volumes on Klassik - Kunst der Konige. Kings and Greek Art in the 4th Century BC (2020) and Economy and Cultural Contact in the Mediterranean Iron Age (2022). Read More Read Less