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Research Projects (Drittmittelprojekte)

The Asyut Project

Institute of Egyptology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl,

Asyut, situated c. 375 km to the south of Cairo, on midway between two ancient Egyptian capitals Memphis and Thebes, was a political and cultural centre of Middle Egypt since the First Intermediate Period (c. 2100 BCE) at the latest, and remained such to the decline of the Pharaonic epoch. The ...

Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC)

Ägyptologisches Seminar

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter

The effect of contact on linguistic change in Egyptian The linguistic evolution of the ancient Egyptian-Coptic language can be traced through over 4,000 years of continuous textual tradition — a unique opportunity for historical linguistics. As far as we can ascertain, Egyptian vocabulary ...

Gesamtanblick des ummauerten Klosters von Osten © DAI Kairo Lena Krastel

Deir Anba Hadra

Ägyptologisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin

Dr.-Ing. Ralph Bodenstein, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter (bis 2019)

Jan 01, 2014

  https://www.dainst.org/forschung/projekte/noslug/1988   The project, 'Deir Anba Hadra: Epigraphy, Art and Architectural Research at the Monastery on the West Bank of Aswan', was initiated during an epigraphic survey in 2013, and has been active since 2014. Work carried out at Deir Anba Hadra ...

Ägyptische Geschichte der 21.-30. Dynastie

A handbook on the history of Egypt in the late period. * Handbuch zur Geschichte der ägyptischen Spätzeit

Ägyptologisches Seminar Freie Universität Berlin

Karl Jansen-Winklen

https://www.zaphon.de/aegyptische-geschichte/en   A comprehensive history of Egypt's Late Period (21st–30th Dynasties, c. 1075–332 BCE) that does not rely solely on the limited number of sources that make explicit statements about historical events. Instead, it will seek to draw upon all ...

Animal cult in ancient Egyptian religion: exploratory workshop with multidisciplinary approaches (Tokyo, 28 - 30 July 2025)

Institute of Egyptology FU Berlin and Ancient Orient Museum Tokyo

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl, Dr. Keiko Tazawa

In ancient Egypt, animals were an integral part of religious practices from the Predynastic Period onwards, with their symbolic and physical roles evolving over time. Various animal taxa associated with Egyptian deities were placed in animal necropoleis and tombs across various locations of Egypt. ...

Figure 1: The Memphite temple and necropolis area with the New Kingdom burial places marked in pink. Map: Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf.

Beyond Theban Horizons – Hymns and Prayers to the Sun God in Memphite Tombs of the New Kingdom

Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf

Mar 01, 2026 — Feb 28, 2028

Background The religious history of the New Kingdom continues to be reconstructed largely on the basis of Theban sources. This applies in particular to the study of the so-called solar religion, which is based to a significant extent on the corpus of hymns and prayers in which the sun god is ...

Ägyptische Geschichte der 21.-30. Dynastie

Collection and publication of inscriptions from the 27th–30th dynasties and the Ptolemaic dynasty * Sammlung und Veröffentlichung der Inschriften der 27. – 30. Dynastie und der Alexanderdynastie

Ägyptologisches Seminar Freie Universität Berlin

Prof. (apl.) Karl Jansen-Winkeln

https://www.zaphon.de/aegyptische-geschichte/en   The plan is to compile a comprehensive collection of historically relevant Egyptian inscriptions and other texts from the 27th–30th Dynasties and the Ptolemaic Dynasty (526–305 BCE), excluding standard funerary and ritual texts. Demotic ...

Location of the Hayter-Sherraif Workshop

Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550–1069 BCE)

Dr. Anna K. Hodgkinson (FU Berlin), Dr. Frederik W. Rademakers (British Museum, London: Department of Scientific Research )

Mar 01, 2025

Project Summary This project charts for the first time the interaction between high-temperature technologies in New Kingdom Egypt (1550–1069 BCE). It focuses on a pivotal time in history when industrial-scale glass production was developed alongside growing copper alloy, faience and pigment ...

From a Coptic Monastic Library: Paleographic, Codicological, Linguistic and Material Analysis, and Historical Contextualisation of Coptic Literary Texts from the Fayyum in the Papyrus and Ostraca Collection of the Leipzig University Library

Vincent Walter

Feb 01, 2025

The Papyrus and Ostraca Collection of Leipzig University Library owns an until recently still uninventoried assemblage of more than 750 Coptic papyrus fragments, which were catalogued, digitized, and inventoried by a DFG-funded project from 2020 to 2022. In the course of the work on this project, ...

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Georg Schweinfurth’s collection of plant remains from Ancient Egypt revisited and (re-)contextualized

Institute of Egyptology

Jochem Kahl, Norbert Kilian, Susanne Feldmann M.A. Dr. Thomas Gertzen Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Richter

From 4-6 December 2024, the workshop Georg Schweinfurth's collection of plant remains from Ancient Egypt revisited and (re-)contextualized, organized by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and the Institute of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin, and ...

The Wepwawet temple of Asyut

Institute of Egyptology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl

Since 2015, an international team of researchers led by Jochem Kahl (Freie Universität Berlin) and Mohamed Abdelrahiem (Sohag University) has been examining archaeological objects in the antiquities magazine at Shutb. These artefacts include blocks from the main temple of Asyut, which were ...

Valency and Tranitivity in Contact: The Case of Coptic

Egyptological Seminar & Hebrew University

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter, Prof. Eitan Grossmann

Languages change over time. The study of language change is crucial to any explanatory account of synchronic language structures, since the latter are the result of diachronic processes (Greenberg 1979, Givón 2001, Bybee 2008). Language contact is a major mechanism of language change. Bilingual ...

WoodScope 2025

WoodSope

Tina Beck-Hasselbach M.A., Dr. Monika Zöller-Engelhardt (Mainz), Prof. Dr. Alan Crivellaro (Turin), Dr. Flavio Ruffinatto (Turin), Dr. Alma Piermattei (Turin)

WoodScope, with its complementary DendroScope approach, is an interdisciplinary approach for the analysis and identification of ancient wooden objects developed by Egyptologists Monika Zöller-Engelhardt and Tina Beck-Hasselbach in collaboration with wood specialists Alan Crivellaro, Flavio ...