Egyptology

History of Egyptology in Mainz

On the 1st of October 2013, the departments of Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Philology, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology, Near Eastern Archaeology, and Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology merged to form the “Institute for Ancient Studies“. At the same time the Research Training Group 1876 on Early Concepts of man and Nature (DFG) was started (spokesperson until 2020: T. Pommerening).

In December 2013, D. Budde received her post-doctoral professorial qualification in Egyptology. Budde was awarded the venia legendi for Egyptology.

In 2014, T. Pommerening’s was appointed a full professorship. Her research areas are Egyptian natural history and medicine, metrology, the history of knowledge, and the cult of the dead.

In April 2015, the 23-year long Mainz Academy project “Altägyptische Kursivschriften” (Ancient Egyptian Cursive Writings), lead by U. Verhoeven, was started in collaboration with Computer Philology at the TU in Darmstadt (A. Rapp). The head of the team is S.A. Gülden.

In 2015, A. Ilin-Tomich came to Mainz as a postdoctoral Humboldt research fellow. In 2017-2021, his project “Transformation and Variability in the Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Personal Names 2055-1550 BC” was funded by the Thyssen Foundation.

From 2016 to 2022, D. Budde headed her DFG project “The Mammisi of Edfu“.

From 2020 until 2023, A. Motte from the University of Liège, Belgium, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Egyptology department in Mainz on a Humboldt Fellowship, working on her project “The Kemyt: Towards a contextualized view of an Ancient Egyptian literary letter”.

In October 2020, T. Pommerening turned down a W3 professorship in Egyptology at the University of Mainz and became a W3 Professor in the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg.

In April 2021, M. Zöller-Engelhardt was appointed researcher and lecturer.

In July 2021, D. Budde was awarded the title “adjunct professor”.

Since August 2021, A. Ilin-Tomich has been leading his project “Ancient Egyptian titles in official and family contexts, 2055-1352 BC“, which is funded by the Thyssen Foundation.

In June 2022, A. Ilin-Tomich received his postdoctoral lecturing qualification and was awarded the venia legendi for the subject of Egyptology.

From July 2022 to June 2024, Dr. (A. Yu. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) O. Romanova was working on her research project “The Adoration Gesture” in Mainz as part of the Volkswagen Foundation guest research program for Ukrainian refugees.

In July 2022, the interdisciplinary project “Ancient Sciences Innovation Lab (ASIL)” was launched under the direction of M. Zöller-Engelhardt and S. Gerhards, which resulted in a new teaching-learning room and modern multimedia equipment in the lecture rooms and the foyer of the Hegelstraße 59. The project was funded by the “room laboratories” funding initiative of the donors association and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation.

U. Verhoeven retired on March 31, 2023. She was awarded a senior research professorship by JGU Mainz from April 2023 to March 2027.

In May 2024, M. Zöller-Engelhardt was promoted to senior researcher and lecturer.

From the summer semester of 2024, the study program of Egyptology is part of the new joint degree program “B.A. Archaeology and Philology in Ancient Studies (ALPHA)”, which can be continued by a corresponding Master’s degree program.

On 01.07.2024 K. Gabler was appointed professor in Egyptology at the Institute for Ancient Studies, succeeding U. Verhoeven. Her research interests reach from social and economic history, and prosopography, to material studies and “object biographies”. Her research involves the New Kingdom/Late Bronze Age, hieratic texts, and the workers settlement of Deir el-Medina. After studying Egyptology, Classical Archaeology, and Religious Studies in Munich and Leiden, she has worked as a research assistant at the department of Egyptology at the University of Basel, starting from 2022. During her time in Basel she became a post-doctoral researcher in the “Crossing Boundaries Project” and initiated the project of TT 217 in collaboration with the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao Cairo). Afterwards, she held a position as a temporary professor at the University of Copenhagen. K. Gabler is currently a researcher at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAIK), where she was in charge of the photographic archive and the German House in Thebes.

In 2002, the three specialisms of Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Philology, and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology merged into one department.

The interdisciplinary study program B.A.-Studiengang “Ägyptologie/Altorientalistik” (major and minor), was offered since the winter semester of 2008/09. In the winter semester of 2010/11 a corresponding Master was added to the program. Egyptology can be chosen as a major in both programs. In addition, a doctorate in the subject of Egyptology is also possible.

From 2005 until 2019 U. Verhoeven and J. Kahl (from 2008, FU Berlin) conducted research on the necropolis of Assiut, including regular fieldwork, in cooperation with M. El-Khadragy and other colleagues from the Sohag University. This research was funded by long-term funding of the DFG. From 2006 until 2008 J. Kahl was an associate professor in Mainz, before he was appointed at the FU in Berlin.

U. Verhoeven received a fellowship from the Gutenberg Research College for the period 2010-2015. T. Pommerening was appointed a W2 professorship.

In 2010, the “Jungnickel Egyptological Study Collection” was founded, which contains replicas for display and teaching purposes. This collection is expanded regularly through donations and purchases.

In the summer semester of 2011, the department, including its library and offices, moved into the new building in the Hegelstraße 59, on first and 2nd floor. Two lecture rooms are located at the ground level.

After the transfer of E. Winters, the chair of Egyptology in Mainz remained unoccupied for three years until K.-Th. Zauzich was appointed C3 Professor on October 1st, 1980 and an independent “Department of Egyptology” was established. On July 1, 1981, however, he succeeded E. Lüddecken as a C4 professor at the University of Würzburg.

In 1982 a C4 professorship was established at JGU with the appointment of R. Gundlach. He shifted the former research topics of Graeco-Roman Egypt to the “classical” periods of the Old Kingdom until the New Kingdom and established two major research fields in Mainz: Egyptian temples and Egyptian royal ideology. Through international cooperations he founded two conference series on these topics, the proceedings of which are published in separate series. R. Gundlach has supervised a total of 15 doctoral theses. Through a postdoctoral lecturing qualification Th. von der Way became part of the teaching staff in 1993. The specialism of Egyptology was given the status of institute, and moved from three rooms in the Philosophicum building to three apartments on the Pfeifferweg 5. In the middle of the 1990’s R. Gundlach founded the interdisciplinary working group “Northern African and Western Asiatic studies”, whose aim was to apply for and found the collaborate research centre 295. Entitled ‘Cultural and Linguistic Contacts – Processes of Change in Historical Areas of Tension in North-East Africa/West Asia’, this collaborate research centre was funded by the German Research Foundation for a maximum period of twelve years, from 1997 to 2008 (spokespersons: R. Gundlach from 1997 to 1998, M. Kropp in 1999, and W. Bisang from 1999 to 2008).
R. Gundlach’s teaching and research activities did not cease after his retirement in 1997. In 2004, he founded the Mainz series ‘Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen’ (King, State, and Society in Early Advanced Civilisations), initiated a working group on military history, edited various conference proceedings and published two monographs.

U. Verhoeven was appointed as the successor of R. Gundlachs in 1998. She specializes in the fields of Egyptian philology and religion, the Book of the Dead, and the hieratic script. As part of the SFB 295, she headed a project on the worship of Egyptian child gods. Thanks to the efforts of D. Budde, Ptolemaic Studies are represented at the institute since 2000.

Between the years 1971-1977, Egyptology was part of the Department of Classical Philology and was represented by Professor E. Winter, a specialist in the inscriptions of the Ptolemaic temples in Egypt. In 1966, K.-Th. Zauzich was awarded his doctorate. On June 24, 1975, he was appointed C3 professor and head of the new division of Egyptology. On August 1, 1977, E. Winter took over the C4 professorship at the University of Trier.

After the war, Egyptology in Mainz was represented by the Danish Egyptologist W. Erichsen (1890–1966) from 1948 until 1953. Erichsen was an associate professor and taught Old Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic within the department of Oriental Studies, and he was a member of the “Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur” (Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz). As early as 1950, he laid the foundation for a long-term project at the Mainz Academy, titled “Demotische Namenbuch” (the Demotic Name Book), which was published between 1980 and 2000 and was edited by his students E. Lüddeckens and H.J. Thissen. The work of W. Erichsens, “Demotisches Glossar”, was published in 1954, shortly after he was appointed professor in Copenhagen in 1953.
From 1953 until 1963 E. Lüddeckens (1913–2004) taught the subject of Egyptology in Mainz. He joined the Academy of Mainz as a researcher in the project of the Demotic Name Book and obtained his postdoctoral lecturing qualification in Mainz in 1953 with a professorial dissertation on Egyptian marriage contracts. In 1964 he was appointed at the University of Würzburg, where held the first chair in demotic studies. In 1956, G. Rudnitzky was the first to receive his PhD in Egyptology at the JGU Mainz. Because the subsequent researchers of the Mainz Academy project of the “Demotisches Namenbuch” (H.J. Thissen, and later G. Vittmann) lived in Würzburg, the connection with Mainz was ended.

Travel Information

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Bus

Take line 6 in the direction of “Gonsenheim/Münchfeld” from Mainz central station (bus stop F), and exit at bus stop “Hegelstraße”. Continue walking in the direction of travel of the bus. At the crossroad, continue straight ahead and follow the road until number 59. The building is on the left-hand side of the street.

Tram

Take tram 51 in the direction of “Mainz-Lerchenberg Hindemithstraße” from Mainz central station (Haltestelle A) and exit at the stop “Mainz-Oberstadt Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg”. After exiting the tram, cross the road and turn left onto the Eichendorffstraße. Continue straight ahead and turn right onto the Mörikestraße. Follow the Mörikestraße until you reach the Hegelstraße and turn left. Continue until you reach number 59. The building is on the left hand side of the road.

If you are arriving from the west (i.e. from the direction of Bonn/Cologne) follow the A60 highway via the Mainz motorway junction in the direction of Darmstadt and exit the highway at exit “19-MainzßFinthen” onto the L419 and follow the sign “Saarstraße/Innenstadt”. At the roundabout “Europaplatz” take the exit “Saarstraße” and follow the Saarstraße/L419 until the exit “Mainz Gonsenheim/Mainz Bretzenheim”. There, leave the L419 and turn right onto Koblenzer Straße/K3 after the exit. Keep right and turn onto the first street on your right named “Im Münchfeld”. Then, take the first street on the right again onto the Hegelstraße. After 250 metres the building “Hegelstraße 59” is located on your right hand side.

If you are arriving from the east (i.e. from the direction of Würzburg/Darmstadt) follow the A60 highway from the “Autobahn-Dreieck Rüsselsheim” junction, or from the A63 to the “Autobahnkreuz Mainz” on the A60 in the direction of Bingen. Take the exit at “19-Mainz-Finthen” onto the L419 and follow the sign “Saarstraße/Innenstadt”. At the roundabout “Europaplatz” take the exit “Saarstraße” and follow the Saarstraße/L419 until the exit “Mainz Gonsenheim/Mainz Bretzenheim”. There, leave the L419 and turn right onto Koblenzer Straße/K3 after the exit. Keep right and turn onto the first street on your right named “Im Münchfeld”. Then, take the first street on the right again onto the Hegelstraße. After 250 metres the building “Hegelstraße 59” is located on your right hand side.

If you are arriving from the north (i.e. from Kassel), follow the A66 motorway and change to the A643 at the ‘Schiersteiner Kreuz’ junction towards ‘Koblenz/Bingen/Mainz/WI-Äppelallee/WI-Schierstein’. Follow the motorway to the Mainz highway junction, where you change to the A60 towards Darmstadt. Exit the highway at “19-Mainz-Finthen” and continue on the L419, follow the signs “Saarstraße/Innenstadt”. At the roundabout “Europaplatz” take the exit “Saarstraße” and follow the Saarstraße/L419 until the exit “Mainz Gonsenheim/Mainz Bretzenheim”. There, leave the L419 and turn right onto Koblenzer Straße/K3 after the exit. Keep right and turn onto the first street on your right named “Im Münchfeld”. Then, take the first street on the right again onto the Hegelstraße. After 250 metres the building “Hegelstraße 59” is located on your right hand side.

Administration

Professorships

Associate professors and academic advisors

Research assistants

Third-party funded employees, scholarship holders, visiting scholars

Team of the Mainz Academy Project “Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts” (AKU)

Project management

Workplace manager

Employees

Student Advising Office

Librarian of the Egyptology Library (University Library, part-time)

Associate lecturers

Friends of Egyptology

Egyptologists formerly active in Mainz

Philologie und Digital Humanities

The Mainz Academy project “Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts (AKU). Digital palaeography and systematic analysis of the hieratic script and cursive hieroglyphs” is planned to run from 2015-2037. The aim is to palaeographically process cursive handwritings, in order to research their origins, developments, and datings in the context of ancient Egyptian writing culture. Therefore, various digital methods for documentation and analysis will be developed and applied for the first time. In addition to the shapes of the signs, the research will also focus on the materiality of the writings, the varying signs of the scribes’ hands and the link with calligraphy and economy, as well as the social functions, applications and combinations of the different styles over the millennia. The specific sign list compiled by the project corresponds to the repertoire of hieratic signs and cursive hieroglyphic signs and contains over 700 graphemes. The facsimile of the signs of selected documents are provided with extensive metadata and linked to illustrations and other databases. The online palaeography AKU-PAL, which emerged from the project database, has been made available through open access since 2022. Methods and results of the research are published in “Hieratic Studies Online (HSO)” and “Beiträgen zu Altägyptischen Kursivschriften (BAKU)”, among others. In 2024, the fifth international academy conference of the series “Ägyptologische ‘Binsen’-Weisheiten” took place in Mainz, the proceedings of which will be published by the project. The blog “HieratischAKUell” offers tools, guidelines, reports, teaching materials, and much more.

Project page: https://aku.uni-mainz.de/

AKU-PAL: https://aku-pal.uni-mainz.de/

HSO: https://aku.uni-mainz.de/hieratic-studies-online/

Binsen IV: https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7173

Blog: https://aku.hypotheses.org/

The team

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen (project leader)

Svenja A. Gülden M.A. (head of the team)

Tobias Konrad M.A.

Dr. Kyra van der Moezel

Michael Leuk

WHK Tabitha Kraus M.A.

WHK Pascal Siesenop M.A.

cooperations

Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp, TU Darmstadt

Financing

Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

The project researching Egyptian personal names and titles from the Middle Kingdom until the Early New Kingdom was supported by two grants from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation: ‘Transformation and Variability in the Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Personal Names 2055–1550 BC’ (2017–2021) and ‘Ancient Egyptian Titles in Official and Family Contexts, 2055–1352 BC’ (2021–2024). Consideration of family relationships and other social ties. It includes quantitative and qualitative analyses and aims to reconstruct the principles of Egyptian names based on the corpus and forms a typological perspective, as well as to identify patterns in the use of titles.

In the framework of the project, an open access database of persons and names from the Middle Kingdom, the Second Intermediate Period and the early New Kingdom up to the reign of Amenophis III is being developed as a basis for analysis: Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom (https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info). The online database serves as an encyclopaedia of personal names and titles, as well as a prosopographical reference work. In addition to bibliographical references and gender information, each entry is supplemented with details regarding the date, location and place of production of the text carrier, as well as the origin of its owners.
The database follows the linked open data approach. The entire data set is available for download as free content in order to make it as easy as possible to use the data collected as part of the project.

ProjektResearchSpace Deir el-Medina

ResearchSpace is an innovative digital platform that is developed to provide researchers with a unique, powerful tool for the administration, use, and analysis of heterogeneous data. Using the Egyptological special case of the ancient Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina as an example, all associated data sets will be comprehensively collected, documented, analysed and published for the first time – all in one central place; the ResearchSpace Deir el-Medina.

The project is currently in a pilot phase, which was funded between March 2022 and June 2023 with the support of the Research Fund Junior Researchers of the University of Basel. The project is located at JGU Mainz since 2024. Tomb TT 217 serves as a case study for building the platform. The tomb offers an impressive variety of data: from digitized archival materials to objects discovered during (recent) excavation campaigns, museum pieces, and even newly created 3D models. This combination makes it the perfect test case for the development and optimization of ResearchSpace Deir el-Medina.

A preview was launched during the XIIIth ICE in Leiden (August 2023), ThinkingFrames [Deir el-Medina ResearchSpace] (kartography.net).

The team

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler (project leader)

Cooperations

Mission d’étude et de conservation Deir el-Médina (https://www.ifao.egnet.net/archeologie/deir-el-medina/), IFAOResearchSpace (ResearchSpace – representing knowledge with context)Kartography Community Interest Company (D. Oldman, D. Tanase, A. Kozlov, C. Giancristofaro. https://kartography.org/)N. Spencer as well as M. Lehmann (ResearchSpace Amara-West. https://amara-west.researchspace.org/resource/rsp:Start).

The project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is focussed on the birthing house (“Mammisi”) of Edfu, a temple building whose decorations have the mystery of the birth of a child of the gods as their main theme. The Mammisi is located in Upper Egypt, about 100 km south of Luxor, and belongs to the temple district of the temple of Horus at Edfu. Both the large main temple of Edfu, dedicated to the falcon god Horus-Behedeti, and the smaller Mammisi, which is located in front of the Horus temple, date to the time of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt.

The hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Mammisis of Edfu were published by Emile Chassinat in 1939, together with most of the pictorial representations, but both a complete translation and evaluation of the inscriptions and an analysis of the decorative program of the Mammisis have not yet been undertaken.

The main goal of the project is therefore to create a translation and philological analysis of all the inscriptions of the Mammisi of Edfu, for which the scenes will be taken into account as well. However, the research project will not be limited to an annotated translation and analysis of the scenes, but will also analyse the mammisi from a phenomenological perspective. Among other things, the theological and religious backgrounds will be highlighted, the epigraphy, intertextuality and the transfer of knowledge will be included, and the architecture and the archaeological environment as well as the general cultural-historical developments will be taken into account.

Because Chassinat’s publication occasionally contains mistakes, all the reliefs will be reassessed with the help of photographs and on-site research. Selected scenes and architectural forms will be successively re-recorded in drawings. The corrections and the results of the analysis of the texts will be incorporated into a publication, which will be published as a printed book at the end of the project.

With the completion of the project, all inscriptions of the Mammisi will be presented for the first time in an annotated translation and comprehensive analysis. The publication will provide a secure basis, not only for future research on the Mammisis, but also on the religion of Greco-Roman Egypt.

The team

Apl. Prof. Dr. Dagmar Budde (project leader)

Dr. Uwe Bartels (Freelance employee)

Jessica Kertmann M. A. (Graduate assistant from 08.2017-06.2018; 03.2021-07.2021)

Rebecca Marhöfer B. A. (Graduate assistant from 01.-12.2016)

cooperations

Dr. Ruth Brech (Hamburg)

Dr. Sylvie Cauville (Paris)

Dr. Åke Engsheden (Uppsala)

Dr. Erika Fischer (Mainz)

Dr. Ivan Guermeur (Montpellier)

Dr. Giuseppina Lenzo (Lausanne)

Dr. Youssef Mohamed (Mainz)

Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg)

Dr. Mohamed Gamal Rashed (Cairo)

Prof. Dr. Martin Andreas Stadler (Würzburg)

Prof. Dr. Günter Vittmann (Würzburg)

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Edfu Project, Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Dieter Kurth; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Waitkus)

Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, “Ancient Egyptian Cursive Writings” (Prof. Dr. Ursula Verhoeven)

Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, “Structures and transformations of the vocabulary of the Egyptian language” (Dr. Peter Dils; Dr. Lutz Popko)

Funding
DFG

Archaeology in Luxor

Since 2021, a team led by Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler has been researching the tomb of Ipuy (TT217) in Deir el-Medina. As part of the “Mission d’étude et de conservation Deir el-Médina” (Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire), the tomb, which is located on the upper terrace of the western necropolis, is being re-examined.

The complex consists of a courtyard, from which at least one shaft leads into an underground structure, and ten chambers cut into the rock. Built in the early reign of Ramses II (1279-1250 BC) and later reused (several times), the tomb is particularly known for its colorful murals in the chapel. These murals depict scenes from everyday life – from carpenters and gardeners to fishermen and washermen. Several of these depictions are unprecedented or have very few parallels in the 3000-year history of ancient Egypt.

Although the tomb has already been examined by earlier scholars, such as Norman de Garis Davies and Bernard Bruyère, there is still a lack of complete scientific documentation of the complex. The aim of the project is to close this gap through a complete re-examination and documentation of TT 217. The results will be published in a series of publications covering both the architectural development as well as epigraphic and iconographic analyses of the paintings.

The project serves as the basis for the development of the open access research platform called “ResearchSpace Deir el-Medina”. This platform enables the collection, documentation, analysis, and publication of complex data from Deir el-Medina within one single tool.

The team

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler (project leader)

cooperations

Mission d’étude et de conservation Deir el-Médina(https://www.ifao.egnet.net/archeologie/deir-el-medina/), IFAO

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo

The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project, directed by Kathrin Gabler and Hourig Sourouzian, aims to preserve the important remains of the temple of Amenhotep III, which has been destroyed by an earthquake in antiquity, used as a quarry and abandoned. Over 25 years of salvage archaeology and the re-erection of monuments have considerably revived important parts of the temple and enriched our understanding of this reign.

Material culture

The results of the long-term project “The Ancient Egyptian Necropolis of Asyut: Documentation and Interpretation” have been published in the publication series “The Asyut Project (TAP)”, in German or English, and partly also in Arabic. The 19 volumes already published cover a wide range of topics and issues: History of research, travel reports, various types of objects and features from different periods, ethnological and zooarchaeological investigations, palaeography, analyses of texts and decorative elements as well as tomb publications. The series will be continued with the results from follow-up projects on Asyut, in particular at the FU Berlin.

The publishers are J. Kahl, M. El-Khadragy, A. Kilian and U. Verhoeven. https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/series_412.ahtml.

Preliminary reports on the annual campaigns are published regularly in the “Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK)”. In addition, all participants have published articles in various international contexts, see for example: https://www.aegyptologie.uni-mainz.de/publikationenpublications/.

Teaching

Im Sommersemester 2026 startet das neue vom Gutenberg Lehr-Kolleg geförderte Projekt „LEARN-AB – Learning Environment for Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian“ (SoSe 2026). Unter der Leitung von Dr. Monika Zöller-Engelhardt (Ägyptologie) und Univ.-Prof. Dr. Doris Prechel (Altorientalistik) entsteht erstmals eine gemeinsame digitale Lehr-Lernumgebung für Ägyptisch und Babylonisch.

Ziel des Projekts ist es, die Vermittlung von Hieroglyphen und Mittelägyptisch sowie Keilschrift und Babylonisch durch eine interdisziplinäre, forschungs- und projektorientierte Lernumgebung im LMS Moodle nachhaltig zu unterstützen. In Kooperation mit dem Ancient Sciences Innovation Lab (ASIL) werden innovative digitale Bausteine erarbeitet, die Präsenz- und Hybridlehre ergänzen und selbstgesteuertes Lernen fördern.

Die Entwicklung erfolgt mit fortgeschrittenen Studierenden: Im Sinne des Konzepts „von Studierenden für Studierende“ gestalten sie die Module aktiv mit, erwerben digitale und wissenschaftliche Kompetenzen und wirken an einer adaptierbaren und nachhaltigen Infrastruktur für die Altertumswissenschaften mit.

Für weitere Informationen und eine Anmeldung zu Seminar und Praktikum „Alte Sprachen und Schriften innovativ lehren“ kontaktieren Sie gern die Projektleiterinnen unter: zoellem@uni-mainz.de oder prechel@uni-mainz.de.

The Ancient Sciences Innovation Lab (ASIL) project is transforming a traditional lecture room and foyer at Hegelstraße 59 at the JGU Mainz into a modern spatial laboratory. Interdisciplinary ancient studies teaching and learning settings are transformed in an innovative and hybrid way: The combination of modern didactics with future-oriented technical equipment creates a unique learning, teaching, research, and meeting space. The project, which is funded by the Stifterverband and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation until January 2025, is now being continued as an initiative by employees of the IAW.

The main objectives of ASIL are:

Establish student-centered innovative learning and teaching environments
Preparing students of ancient cultures even better for future challenges of the VUCA world (a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)
Focusing on digital training in ancient studies
Integrating digital tools into teaching (project- and research-oriented)
Developing hybrid teaching-learning concepts in the room laboratory
Creating learning, teaching, research, and meeting spaces

Find out more on our homepage and our blog or feel free to contact us:

Contact: Dr. Monika Zöller-Engelhardt, project leader, asil@uni-mainz.de or zoellem@uni-mainz.de

Completed:

2022: ILIN-TOMICH, Alexander, Egyptian name scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and chronology of production; publiziert:in Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 16, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023.

2013: BUDDE, Dagmar, Das Götterkind im Tempel, in der Stadt und im Weltgebäude. Eine Studie zu drei Kultobjekten der Hathor von Dendera und zur Theologie der Kindgötter im griechisch-römischen Ägypten, publiziert in: Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 55, Darmstadt/Mainz 2011.

Topics of current PhD theses (working titles):

From Commission to Use: An Iconographic, Stylistic, Palaeographic, and Prosopographic Analysis of Objects of Religious Practice from Deir el-Medina (Louis-Philippe BAZELIER/K. Gabler (Mainz))

Conzeptualizing Changing Landscapes: The View from Old Kingdom Egypt (Nicky van de BEEK/K. Gabler (Mainz) and T. Pommerening (Marburg))

Untersuchungen zum Hieratisch der 18. Dynastie. Untersuchungen zur Schrift von Dipinti und Briefen auf Papyrus (Svenja A. GÜLDEN/U. Verhoeven (Mainz))

Food Production and Supply in Workers´ Villages of Egypt and Nubia: A Digital Humanities Approach (Sarah KLASSE/K. Gabler (Mainz) and A. Hodgkinson (Berlin))

Untersuchung zu Konzepten vom Feuer im Alten Ägypten (Jessica KNEBEL/T. Pommerening (Marburg) and K. Gabler (Mainz))

Untersuchungen zur kursivhieroglyphischen Schrift des Mittleren Reiches (Tobias KONRAD/U. Verhoeven)

Untersuchungen zu den Graffiti des thebanischen Westgebirges (Tabitha KRAUS/U. Verhoeven)

Tempel B 200 im religiösen und kultischen Umfeld des Gebel Barkal/Sudan (Rosemarie MISPAGEL/U. Verhoeven)

Rang und Gunst. Zur Struktur der Hofgesellschaft der frühen Ramessidenzeit (Christine RAEDLER/U. Verhoeven)

Completed PhDs (with thesis title or published version):

2024: SPECK, Sonja, Ursprünge und Entwicklung altägyptischer Körperkonzepte in prä- und proto/frühdynastischer anthropomorpher Plastik (T. Pommerening, completed: November 2024)

2024: IBRAHIM, Yossra, Lights of Eternity: Investigating Concepts, Tradition, and Innovation in the Ancient Egyptian Celestial Diagrams (T. Pommerening, completed: November 2024)

2024: RUSSELL, Johnny, Towards a Historical Contextualisation of Ancient Egyptian Perspectives of the Inner Body, Sickness, and Healing (PhD at Leiden University, primary supervisor O. Kaper and secondary supervisor (Betreuung im GRK 1876): T. Pommerening (Marburg))

2023: PABST, Rebekka, Der tote Körper. Untersuchungen zu Konzepten vom Leichnam im Alten Ägypten (T. Pommerening; completed: September 2023)

2023: KLISCHE, Agnes, Das Separationsmotiv. Ikonographisch-ikonologische Vergleichsstudie zu den Darstellungen eines anthropomorphen Weltbildes von der 21. bis zur 30. Dynastie (U. Verhoeven; completed: August 2023)

2023: GARZÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Judit, Archäologisch-philologisch-ethnohistorische Studie über grundlegende Aspekte des Penis, seine Symbolik und Bedeutung im Alten Ägypten (T. Pommerening; completed: March 2023)

2020: GERHARDS, Simone: Konzepte von Müdigkeit und Schlaf im Alten Ägypten (U. Verhoeven; completed: July 2020), published as: Konzepte von Müdigkeit und Schlaf im Alten Ägypten, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) Beihefte 23, Hamburg 2021.

2020: HOHNECK, Heimo, Naoi – Königliche Steindenkmäler in den Tempeln Ägyptens. Vom Alten Reich bis zum Ende der pharaonischen Ära, 3 Bde. (U. Verhoeven; completed: Februar 2020). Bd. 1-2 published online in Gutenberg Open Science, Mainz 2020 as: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5369

2018: FLEUREN, Imke, Concepts of non-indigenous animals in ancient Egypt (T. Pommerening; completed: June 2018); published online in Gutenberg Open Science, Mainz 2022 as: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6864.

2018: KRUCK, Elisabeth, Beigabe und Abbild – Elemente und Konzepte ungestörter Bestattungen aus Saqqara und Abusir (U. Verhoeven/D. Polz; completed: Juni 2018). Bd. 1-3 published online in Gutenberg Open Science, Mainz 2022 as: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6914.

2017: ALTMANN-WENDLING, Victoria, MondSymbolik – MondWissen. Lunare Konzepte in den ägyptischen Tempeln griechisch-römischer Zeit (PhD of the Universität Tübingen, primary supervisor Christian Leitz; secondary supervisor T. Pommerening; completed: Juli 2017); published as: MondSymbolik – MondWissen. Lunare Konzepte in den ägyptischen Tempeln griechisch-römischer Zeit, Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion 22, Wiesbaden 2019.

2017: KILIAN, Andrea, Untersuchungen zur Keramik Mittelägyptens (U. Verhoeven/J. Kahl; completed: Juli 2017); published as: Untersuchungen zur Keramik der Ersten Zwischenzeit und des frühen Mittleren Reiches aus Assiut/Mittelägypten, The Asyut Project 12, Wiesbaden 2019.

2016: GRÄßLER, Nadine, Konzepte des Auges im alten Ägypten (T. Pommerening; completed: October 2016); published as: Konzepte des Auges im alten Ägypten, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Beihefte 20, Hamburg 2017.

2016: GERKE, Sonja, Hirtenbilder – Untersuchungen zur kulturimmanenten Sicht auf eine altägyptische Personengruppe (T. Pommerening; completed: September 2016); published as: Sonja GUTH, Hirtenbilder. Untersuchungen zur kulturimmanenten Sicht auf eine altägyptische Personengruppe, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Beihefte 21, Hamburg 2018.

2014: ZÖLLER-ENGELHARDT, Monika, Sprachwandelprozesse altägyptischer Sprachstufen aus typologischer Sicht (U. Verhoeven; Completed: November 2014); published as: Sprachwandelprozesse im Ägyptischen. Eine funktional-typologische Analyse vom Alt- zum Neuägyptischen, Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 72, Wiesbaden 2016.

2012: MOHAMMED, Yussuf, Die Göttin Nebet-hut (Nephthys) bis zum Ende des Neuen Reiches (U. Verhoeven; completed: February 2012); published as: Youssef AHMED-MOHAMED, Die Göttin Nephthys (Nebethut). Entstehung und Entwicklung einer ägyptischen Gottesvorstellung bis zum Ende des Neuen Reiches Berichte aus der Kulturwissenschaft D77, Aachen 2016.

2009: FEIERABEND, Birgit, Biene & Honig. Eine kulturhistorische Studie anhand schriftlicher und bildlicher Quellen (U. Verhoeven; completed: May 2009); published as: Biene und Honig im pharaonischen Ägypten: Eine Studie anhand schriftlicher und bildlicher Quellen, Mainz 2014 (ArchiMeD).

2009: BUSCH, Angela, Form und Dekor altägyptischer Kastenmöbel und Zylinderkästchen mit Fächereinteilung von der 18. bis zur 26. Dynastie (U. Verhoeven; completed: May 2009); published as: Altägyptische Kastenmöbel und Zylinderkästchen mit Fächereinteilung. Form und Dekor von der 18. bis 26. Dynastie, Beiträge zum Alten Ägypten 3, Basel 2010.

2009: WEISS, Katja (geb. Weitz), Ägyptische Tier- und Götterbronzen aus Unterägypten. Untersuchungen zu Typus, Ikonographie und Funktion sowie deren Bedeutung innerhalb der Kulturkontakte zu Griechenland (U. Verhoeven; completed: February 2009); published as: Ägypten und das Alte Testament 81, Wiesbaden 2012.

2008: PRELL, Silvia, Die Werkstätten der Streitwagengarnison von Qantir-Piramesse (U. Verhoeven; completed: July 2008); published as: Einblicke in die Werkstätten der Residenz. Die Stein- und Metallwerkzeuge des Grabungsplatzes Q1; erschienen in der Reihe: Forschungen in der Ramsesstadt 8, Hildesheim 2011.

2007: BACH-BERKHAHN, Verena, Untersuchungen zum Pantheon des Abydos-Tempels Sethos‘ I. (R. Gundlach; completed: June 2007); Pflichtexemplare eingereicht: Juni 2017.

2007: DRESBACH, Guido, Zur Verwaltung in der 20. Dynastie: das Wesirat (R. Gundlach; completed: March 2007); published as: Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft 9, Wiesbaden 2012.

2005: KONRAD, Kirsten, Architektur und Theologie. Pharaonische Tempelterminologie unter Berücksichtigung königsideologischer Aspekte (R. Gundlach; completed: May 2005); published as: Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft 5, Wiesbaden 2006.

2004: SANDRI, Sandra, Har-pa-chered (Harpokrates). Die Genese eines ägyptischen Götterkindes (U. Verhoeven; completed: December 2004); published as: Orientalia Lovaniensia Aegypti 151, Leuven 2006.

2003: WENZEL (now: FRAGATA), Diana, Die Konstruktion der „Kleopatra“ im Film. Eine Königin Ägyptens als Sinnbild für orientalische Kultur; erschienen in der Reihe: Filmstudien 33, Remscheid 2005 (U. Verhoeven; completed: July 2003).

2001: BRÖCKELMANN, Dirk, Die Abydosfahrt in den altägyptischen Privatgräbern. Eine ikonographische Untersuchung ihrer Darstellung bis zum Ende der 18. Dynastie (R. Gundlach; completed: December 2001); in preparation to be published in Monumenta Aegyptiaca.

2000: ROCHHOLZ, Matthias, Schöpfung, Feindvernichtung, Regeneration. Untersuchung zum Symbolgehalt der machtgeladenen Zahl 7 im alten Ägypten (R. Gundlach; completed: November 2000); published as: ÄUAT 56, Wiesbaden 2002.

1999: KLUG, Andrea, Königliche Stelen in der Zeit von Ahmose bis Amenophis III (R. Gundlach; completed: January 1999); published as: Monumenta Aegyptiaca VIII, Brussels 2002.

1998: KÖTHEN-WELPOT, Sabine, Theogonie und Genealogie im Pantheon der Pyramidentexte (R. Gundlach; completed: December 1998); published as: Habelts Dissertationsdrucke, Reihe Ägyptologie 6, Bonn 2003.

1998: THIEM, Andrea-Christina, Speos von Gebel es-Silsileh. Analyse der architektonischen und ikonographischen Konzeption im Rahmen des politischen und legitimatorischen Programmes der Nachamarnazeit (R. Gundlach; completed: Dez 1998); published as: ÄUAT 47/1-2, Wiesbaden 2000.

1998: ROTH, Silke, Die Königsmütter des Alten Ägypten von der Frühzeit bis zum Ende der 12. Dynastie; (R. Gundlach; completed: January 1998); published as: ÄUAT 46, Wiesbaden 2001.

1997: VOGEL, Carola, Ägyptische Festungen und Garnisonen bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches; (R. Gundlach; completed: December 1997); published as: HÄB 46, Hildesheim 2004.

1997: HIRSCH, Eileen, Kultpolitik und Tempelbauprogramme der 12. Dynastie: Untersuchungen zu den Göttertempeln im Alten Ägypten (R. Gundlach; completed: Juli 1997); published as: Achet – Schriften zur Ägyptologie A 3, Berlin 2004.

1995: REICHE, Christina, Ein hymnischer Text in den Gräbern des Hwy3, Ich-ms und Mry-Rc in El-Amarna. Text und Textsorte, Textanalyse und Textinterpretation – ein „soziokommunikativer“ Ansatz (R. Gundlach; completed: December 1995); published as: GOF IV/35, Wiesbaden 1998.

1994: STOCKFISCH, Dagmar, Untersuchungen zum Totenkult des ägyptischen Königs im Alten Reich. Die Dekoration der königlichen Totenkultanlagen, 2 Bde. (R. Gundlach; completed: December 1994); published: Hamburg 2003.

1990: HARTMANN, Hartwig, Necheb und Nechbet. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kultortes Elkab; (5 microfiches) (R. Gundlach; completed: February 1990); published as: Deutsche Hochschulschriften 822, Hänsel-Hohenhausen 1993.

1989: SCHADE-BUSCH, Mechthild, Zur Königsideologie Amenophis‘ III. Analyse der Phraseologie historischer Texte der Voramarnazeit (R. Gundlach; completed: December 1989); published as: HÄB 35, Hildesheim 1992.

ZAUZICH, Karl-Theodor, Die ägyptische Schreibertradition in Aufbau, Sprache und Schrift der demotischen Kaufverträge aus ptolemäischer Zeit; erschienen in der Reihe: Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 19, Wiesbaden 1968.

RUDNITZKY, Günther, Die Aussage über das „Auge des Horus“. Eine altägyptische Art geistiger Äußerung nach dem Zeugnis des Alten Reiches; erschienen in der Reihe: Analacta Aegyptiaca 5, Kopenhagen 1956.

Ongoing Master’s

Lange, Stefan, Schriftzeichengestaltung als Ausdruck von Wertschätzung? – Eine paläographische Studie auf Basis von Dokumenten des Nekropolenschreibers Thutmose aus der 20. Dynastie (Supervisor: K. van der Moezel)

Completed Master’s

2025: IVANOV, Lara, Die Vorlagentradition der Szenen des Schattens im 2. Jt. v. Chr. aus Theben-West: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Darstellungen und Texte auf Grabwänden und Totenbuchpapyri (2025/K. Gabler)

2025: LANGWIESER, Sandra, Die Besitzer monochromer Gräber in Deir el-Medina: Diskussion ihrer Stilentscheidung mit Einbeziehung einer prosopographischen Untersuchung ihrer Gemeinsamkeiten (2025/K. Gabler)

2022: SIESENOP, Pascal, Die « nécropole des grands prêtres d’Héliopolis » des späten 3. Jahrtausends – Untersuchungen anhand der Grabungsbefunde des Jahres 1916 (July 2022/U. Verhoeven)

2022: STERN, Svenja, Untersuchungen zu den Gefäßzeichen im Papyrus Ebers (March 2022/T. Pommerening)

2022: SHAKER, Mostafa, Die ägyptischen Pyramiden in Schriftzeugnissen von Muslimen in der Zeit von 642 bis 1517 n. Chr. (March 2022/U. Verhoeven)

2020: BREIL, Leonie, Die Isched-Baum-Szenen in Tempeln der 18.-23. Dynastie: Eine Typologie der Text- und Bildelemente (August 2020/T. Pommerening)

2019: STEINHARDT, Isabel, Rekonstruktion eines prosopographischen Profils in Dahschur während des Mittleren Reiches anhand der Funde aus dem Taltempel der Knickpyramide (October 2019/U. Verhoeven)

2019: MARHÖFER, Rebecca, Untersuchungen zum Totenbuch-Papyrus BM EA 74125 im Umfeld der textlichen und paläographischen Parallelen im Zeitraum 1700-1500 v. Chr. (November 2019/U. Verhoeven)

2019: ZOGBAUM, Peggy, Der Löwe in den Oasen Ägyptens. Eine Untersuchung zur Ikonographie von Löwendarstellungen und ihrem Kontext anhand ausgewählter Quellen (August 2019/D. Budde)

2019: KRAUS, Tabitha, Untersuchungen zur Zeichenkategorie [VÖGEL] im Hieratischen anhand der Papyri Berlin P. 3022-5 im synchronen und diachronen Vergleich (May 2019/U. Verhoeven); partly published: Standardisierung und Variation: eine Analyse zur Graphetik der Zeichenkategorie [VOGEL] in den hieratischen Papyri Berlin P. 3022–5 (Hieratic Studies Online 3), Mainz 2022.

2019: GARZÓN RODRIGUEZ, Judit: Der Sarg Ramses‘ II. – Eine archäologische, philologische und kulturgeschichtliche Betrachtung (April 2019/T. Pommerening)

2019: KNEBEL, Jessica, Das Wortfeld [Feuer] im Alten Ägypten. Untersuchung zu ausgewählten Lexemen bis zum Anfang des Neuen Reiches (March 2019/U. Verhoeven)

2017: PABST, Rebekka, Untersuchungen zur Konzeptionalisierung von Fleisch (jwf) im Alten Ägypten (July 2017/T. Pommerening)

2015: JACOBY, Dana, Zur Identität des sogenannten Sonnenvolkes (hnmm.t) (December 2015/T. Pommerening)

2014: JESKE, Ann-Kathrin, Der spätbronzezeitliche (LB II) Torkomplex auf dem Tel Yafo. Rekonstruktion auf der Basis einer Typologie altägyptischer Tore (September 2014/T. Pommerening)
Published as: Jeske, Ann-Kathrin, Tortypologie befestigter Anlagen – Erarbeitung anhand altägyptischer Tore des Mittleren bis Neuen Reiches, in: Ägypten und Levante 28, 2018, 235-257.

Completed Bachelor’s

2026: SEIWERT, Lucia, Die journalistische Aufbereitung der jüngeren Rückgabeforderungen um die Büste der Nofretete (2026/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2026: DRUSENHEIMER, Laura, Eine Analyse der ägyptischen Motive der Beuroner Schule anhand von Beispielen in der Abteikirche St. Hildegard in Rüdesheim (2026/K. Gabler)

2025: KOCH, Denise Nicole, Sprachwandel und Hieratisch in ausgewählten Briefen des Mittleren Reiches. Eine Analyse des Einflusses von Sprachwandelphänomenen auf das hieratische Schriftbild am Beispiel des definiten Artikels in den Heqanacht Briefen und den Semna Despatches (2025/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2025: TOTZKE, Ricarda, Die sogenannte „Anubis“-Darstellung in der Grabkapelle von TT217. Eine vergleichende, ikonographische Untersuchung der zweidimensionalen Darstellung des Gottes Anubis in königlichen und privaten Gräbern der 19. Dynastie in Theben-West (June 2025/K. Gabler)

2025: FORRER, Lisanne Alessia, Semantische Klassifikation im Alten Ägypten. Eine Analyse des Schweinedeterminativs (E12) (March 2025/K. Gabler)

2024: DURAN NAVARRO, D., Children of the Moon: Family Names of the Ahmosids and the Development of Personal Names with the Element ‚Iah‘ (August 2024/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2022: LANGWIESER, Sandra, Die sog. „Bes-Pantheos“-Statuette RPM 49. Analyse und Interpretation (September 2022/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2022: IVANOV, Lara Isabelle, Die sogenannte schwarze Sonne in Darstellungen privater Gräber im Neuen Reich in Theben – Betrachtungen zu Ikonographie und Kontext (July 2022/S. Gerhards)

2021: GABELMANN-KREUTZ, Heinrich, Fische als Schmuckmotiv im Mittleren Reich (October 2021/U. Verhoeven)

2021: ÖZTÜRK, Mahsa, Das „Ledermenit“ REM L 051/0350. Betrachtungen zu Ikonographie, Inschrift und Bedeutung (September 2021/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2020: NÄTHER, Judith Viviane, Zur Symbolik und Bedeutung des Pektorals Kairo JE 61884 (April 2020/A. Ilin-Tomich)

2019: WINDRICH, Julia, Die sitzende Kindgott-Bronze RPM Hildesheim 29 (jetzt REM Mannheim): Ikonographische Elemente, Parallelen und Bedeutung (December 2019/U. Verhoeven)

2019: STERN, Svenja, Neuedition und Diskussion der Stele ÄM 7294 (November 2019/T. Pommerening)

2019: NOLANDT, Lena, Konstruktionstechnische und typologische Aspekte des Uschebti-Kastens des Amenemope aus den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (Leihgabe des RPM Hildesheim 5418) (September 2019/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2019: SIESENOP, Pascal, Der Anbau im Norden der Mastaba S 3505: Eine Totenkultanlage? (August 2019/T. Pommerening)

2019: SINAN, Lea, Die sogenannten Spitzmaussärge aus den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim – Versuch einer Rekontextualisierung (August 2019/T. Pommerening)

2018: EL HARROUDI, Nadine, Der spätägyptische Bronzespiegel BM 51067 im Kontext einer ikonographischen und philologischen Analyse (March 2018/T. Pommerening)

2017: KLEMM, Lisa, Typologische und funktionale Aspekte von sog. „Seelenhäusern“ am Beispiel von REM Nr. 2.643 (October 2017/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2017: KOPF, Pauline, Drei Neujahrsflaschen aus dem RPM Hildesheim (Inv.Nr. 6414, 227, 293) (March 2017/S. Sandri)

2016: STEINHARDT, Isabel, Die altägyptische Statuette Hildesheim RPM 5521: Aspekte der Fasstrommel und ihrer Musiker im 2. Jt. v. Chr. (July 2016/U. Verhoeven)

2016: ZOGBAUM, Peggy, Das dekorierte Straußenei-Gefäß JE 98774. Eine Betrachtung im Kontext von Straußenei-Funden des nordafrikanischen, vorderasiatischen und mediterranen Raumes (April 2016/T. Pommerening)

2016: PAULY, Vanessa, Die Statuette Berlin ÄM 17021 – Eine Konzeption der Wissensvermittlung auf drei Ebenen (April 2016/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2016: KNEBEL, Jessica, Neith und die Krokodile (March 2016/S. Sandri)

2015: KRAUS, Tabitha, Kein Canide: Ausgewählte Aspekte zu selten belegten Darstellungsweisen des Anubis (November 2015/S. Sandri)

2015: MARHÖFER, Rebecca, Zur Statuette des Kronprinzen Thutmosis auf der Totenbahre (Berlin, VÄGM 1997/117) (November 2015/T. Pommerening)

2015: RHODE, Christian, Die Stele Berlin ÄM 1638 – ein typisches Beispiel für eine Privatstele aus der Zeit Thutmosis‘ III.? (November 2015/T. Pommerening)

2015: GLOWINSKI, Victoria, Wer war Semenchkare? Eine Diskussion ausgewählter ägyptischer Belege zur möglichen Identifikation mit Nofretete (September 2015/M. Zöller-Engelhardt)

2015: GROH, Jasmin, Das Bes-Gefäß ÄM 22620 – Ikonographie, Klassifizierung und möglicher Gebrauch (February 2015/T. Pommerening)

2014: NEU, Olga, Armschutz Thutmosis‘ IV. (ÄM 21685) – Untersuchungen zur Ikonographie und Funktion (September 2014/T. Pommerening)

2014: BUCHHOLZ-STOMPE, Karin, Die Stele des Wennechu [Berlin, ÄM 31291] (July 2014/T. Pommerening)

2014: PABST, Rebekka, Das Attentat auf Amenemhet I. (April 2014/T. Pommerening)

2013: JACOBY, Dana, Die Stele des Sehetepibre-Anch (Leiden, AP21) (August 2013/T. Pommerening)

2013: SIGINC, Huriye, Der Istanbuler „Theodosius Obelisk“ aus ägyptologischer Sicht (August 2013/T. Pommerening)

2012: BREIL, Leonie, Das Grab des Hesire in der ägyptologischen Forschungsgeschichte (December 2012/T. Pommerening)

Library

Since 1 November 2025, the administration of the Egyptology Departmental Library has been transferred to the Central Library. The collection can be accessed via the Mainz University Library’s online catalogue. The Egyptology Library is a reference library. Facilities for digital research, scanning and photocopying are available on site.

Until the end of 2025, the Egyptology Library was managed by Dr Monika Zöller-Engelhardt (Head of Egyptology), who remains available as the contact person for subject-specific enquiries. Contact: zoellem@uni-mainz.de

Main opening hours: Mon to Fri, 10.00–18.00

Location: Hegelstraße 59, 55122 Mainz, 1st floor, on the right

The glass slides of the Egyptology library collection has largely been digitised and is accessible to university members and visiting researchers via the image database. If you have any questions, please contact Dr Monika Zöller-Engelhardt: zoellem@uni-mainz.de

Egyptological study collection Jungnickel

The Egyptological Study Collection of the Institute for Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is part of the university collection and currently comprises over 50 certified plaster casts, some of which are large-scale, that were created and painted after ancient Egyptian originals. The reliefs, stelae, statuettes, vessels, amulets, and small-scale sculptures in the collection span the period from approximately 2,500 to 200 B.C. The collection focuses on the Old Kingdom (tomb relief depicting poultry farming, statue of a scribe), royal sculptures from the New Kingdom (Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Sethi I), and animal- or human-shaped divine figures from the Late Period.

Most of the casts originate from the plaster foundry of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and were largely financed, thanks to the Friends of Egyptology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz e.V., through donations from Ulrike Jungnickel.

The purpose of the collection is to familiarize students and interested members of the public with the scholarly approach to three-dimensional objects and original hieroglyphic texts. The first catalog of the Egyptological study collection provides an overview.

Contact: Dr. Monika Zöller-Engelhardt, zoellem@uni-mainz.de

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