Timo Eichhorn Has Joined Our Project!

In May, we welcomed a new member of our project, Dr Timo Eichhorn. He will be responsible for curating data for the Digital Atlas of Workshops in Epigraphy (DAWE), both by processing, cleaning, and inputting datasets collected by other project members and by independently gathering epigraphic data from the Eastern Later Roman Empire.

Timo Eichhorn is a Latin philologist and epigraphist with a particular focus on Latin verse inscriptions (Carmina Latina Epigraphica). He earned his degree in Latin Philology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 2020. Between 2017 and 2021, he worked as a research assistant to Prof. Jan-Felix Gaertner in the University’s Department of Classics and to Prof. Werner Eck at the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae (CIIP).

In 2021, he joined the CARMEN project (“Communal Art – Reconceptualising Metrical Epigraphy Network”) as an Early Stage Researcher and doctoral student. The project, which was headed by Prof. Marietta Horster, sought to explore poetry in the epigraphic tradition of the Roman Empire. His PhD thesis, written at the University La Sapienza in Rome and supervised by Prof. Gian Luca Gregori, Prof. Concepción Fernández Martínez and Dr. María Limón Belén, focused on the critical edition and analysis of a selection of Latin funerary inscriptions composed in elegiac metre. Beyond the philological, linguistic and prosodic-metrical aspects of these texts, he also examined their archaeological, epigraphic, palaeographic and onomastic dimensions. He completed his PhD in 2024. Throughout his doctoral studies, he participated in numerous workshops, seminars and conferences organised by the CARMEN network. Among others, he received training in EpiDoc, completed a two-month internship in Digital Humanities at the Ausonius Institute (University of Bordeaux) and undertook an extended field trip to archaeological sites in Tunisia.