Marina Escolano-Poveda is a Senior Lecturer in Classics/Ancient History and Egyptology at the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool. She holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. In 2019, she became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, with a research project on the Graeco-Egyptian Hermetica at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (host: Prof. Dr Christian Leitz). Her research focuses on the literature, religion, philosophy, and society of Graeco-Roman Egypt. She is particularly interested in the study of the intellectual milieu of the Egyptian temples of the Graeco-Roman period, and the role of the Egyptian priesthood in the creation and transmission of knowledge in the Ancient and Late Antique worlds. Within this research area, she currently works on the analysis of Graeco-Egyptian astronomical/astrological and early alchemical sources, as well as the Greek Hermetica from an Egyptological perspective. She is currently part of the interdisciplinary research team "Ostraca d’Athribis", which studies and edits the inscribed sherds discovered by the Athribis-Projekt of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and is coordinated by Dr Sandra Lippert (CNRS) at the research unit AOROC in Paris. As a specialist in astronomy/astrology, she is editing newly discovered astral ostraca (including the largest collection of Demotic horoscopes from Egypt). She is also developing a major project with Prof. Kim Ryholt (University of Copenhagen) for the edition and interpretation of a collection of Demotic handbooks on decanal astrology. 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

2024–present: Honorary Research Fellow of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester. 

2023–present: Senior Lecturer in Classics/Ancient History and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. 

2022–2023: Lecturer in Classics/Ancient History and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

2021–2022: Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester.

2019–2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

2018–2021: Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

 

Selected publications

ABDELLATIF, H., M. ESCOLANO-POVEDA, and M. NASSAR (2025): “A New Demotic-Hieratic Horoscopic Ostracon from the EAO / SCA 1993/4 Archaeological Campaign at Athribis (O. Athribis no. 271)”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 111(1–2), pp. 267–274. 

ESCOLANO-POVEDA, M. (2024): “The astral sciences at Athribis”, in M. Müller and C. Teotino (eds.), Athribis (Atripe) im Kontext. Die Stadt und der Tempel als religiöses und kulturelles Zentrum von der ptolemäischen Zeit bis zum Hochmittelalter. Akten der internationalen Tagung, Tübingen 7.-9. Juni 2022. Athribis-Studien III. SSR 43, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 337–366

ESCOLANO-POVEDA, M. (2022): “Astrologica Athribitana: Four Demotic-Hieratic Horoscopes from Athribis (O. Athribis 17-36-5/1741 and O. Ashm. Dem. 633 Reedited),” The Journal for the History of Astronomy 53(1), pp. 49–87.

ESCOLANO-POVEDA, M. (2020). The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period. An Analysis on the Basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Literary and Paraliterary Sources. SSR 29, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

ESCOLANO-POVEDA, M. (2018/2019): “Astronomica Montserratensia I: A Demotic almanac with synodic phenomena (P. Monts.Roca inv. 314),” Enchoria. Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie 36, pp. 1–36.