Jessica Schellig

Jessica Schellig began her archaeological training in 2014 in Halle (Saale), where she initially studied Art History and European Archaeology as a two-subject Bachelor’s degree. After a year, she switched to Classical Antiquity with a focus on Classical Archaeology as well as Art History and Archaeology of the Pre-Islamic Orient. She wrote her bachelor’s thesis on the antoninyes of the usurper Carausius.

She then moved to Münster in 2018 for the Research Master’s in Ancient Cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. From 2019, she assisted as a student assistant with the digitization of the university coin collection as part of the NUMiD project. She deepened her numismatic focus and completed her studies in 2022 with a master’s thesis on the coin iconography of the Armenian Artaxiads.

During her studies, she was involved in archaeological projects in Germany, Turkey (Tavşan Adası) and Israel (Bet She’an) and completed internships at the Landesmuseum Halle (Saale), DAI Athens and the Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem, among others.

Jessica Schellig has been employed as a research assistant at the German Protestant Institute in Jerusalem since February 2023. As part of this, she is working on her dissertation on “The Imperial Coinage of Akko-Ptolemais” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger and Prof. Dr. Oren Tal).