Jon C. Cubas Díaz is research associate at the Institute of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen. His current fields of research focus are funerary practices in Late Antique Asia Minor, with a special emphasis on Rough Cilicia, as well as Late Byzantine iconography and sacred architecture. He published a monograph and several articles on Late Roman funerary practices in Cilicia and the Near East, as well as on the Late Byzantine Akathistos Hymnos and intermedial compositional processes.