Personal details
2021-2024: Project leader and research assistant in the project Ancient Egyptian Titles in Official and Familial Contexts, 2055-1352 BC at the Department of Egyptology of the IAW at JGU Mainz
2022: Habilitation in Egyptology at the JGU Mainz. Title of the habilitation thesis: Egyptian name scarabs from the 12th to the 15th dynasty: Geography and chronology of production
2017-2021: Project leader and research assistant in the project Reshaping and Variability in the Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Personal Names 2055-1550 BC at the Department of Egyptology of the IAW at JGU Mainz
2015-2017: Visiting researcher at the Egyptology Department of the IAW at JGU Mainz (Humboldt Fellowship)
2012-2017: Research Associate at the Department of History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2007-2011: Doctoral studies at the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow University; Degree: kandidat istoriceskich nauk (Candidate of Historical Sciences; equivalent to a doctoral degree in Germany); Topic of doctoral thesis: The peculiarities of the administrative system in Ancient Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom and the 2nd Intermediate Period (based on private memorial monuments) (in Russian)
2002-2007: Studied at the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow University. Field of study: History of Antiquity (includes Egyptology). Degree: istorik, prepodavatel istorii (historian and history teacher)
2021–2024: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung: Altägyptische Titel in amtlichen und familiären Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr.
2017–2021: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung: Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr.
2015-2017: Research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Department of Egyptology of the IAW at JGU Mainz (project title: Regional Diversity in Ancient Egypt, 1900-1500 BC)
2013–2015: Research grant for young scientists, funded by the Russian Foundation for the Humanities
Stelea
Offering tables
Scarabs
Personal names
Administration
Regional Differences
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
18. Dynasty
Publications
Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty: Geography and Chronology of Production (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 16), Wiesbaden 2023. Review, D. Stefanović, in AJA 128 (2024), E055–056).
From Workshop to Sanctuary: the Production of Late Middle Kingdom Memorial Stelae (MKS 6), London 2017.
with Gerhards, S., Gräßler, N., Gülden, S. A., Kertmann, J., Kilian, A., Konrad, T., van der Moezel, K., Zöller-Engelhardt, M. (Hgg.), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden. Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven , Heidelberg 2023.
The Vizier Ankhu and the Dual Vizierate in the Late Middle Kingdom, JEH 14 (2021), 145–169.
The Governor’s Court in Late Middle Kingdom Antaeopolis, RdE 68 (2017–2018), 61–78.
Ikonografische Datierungskriterien für Privatopfertafeln der 12. Dynastie, SAK 47 (2018), 57–87.
Mögliche Dialektmerkmale in den Personennamen des Mittleren Reiches, ZÄS 145 (2018), 136–148.
Female Titles Specific to Southern Upper Egypt in the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period, BACE 26 (2018), 19–36.
Theban Administration in the Late Middle Kingdom, ZÄS 142 (2015), 120–153
The Theban Kingdom of Dynasty 16: its Rise, Administration and Politics, JEH 7 (2014), 143–193.
with Sokolova, M., Twelve notes on Ipuwer, ChronEg 88 (2013), 261–272.
Late Middle Kingdom Stelae Workshops at Thebes, GöttMisz 234 (2012), 69–84.
A Twelfth Dynasty Stela Workshop Possibly from Saqqara, JEA 97 (2011), 117–126.
Changes in the ḥtp-dj-nsw Formula in the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period, ZÄS 138 (2011), 20–34.
Two Notes on Middle Kingdom Annals, LingAeg 18 (2010), 119–129.
with Boschloos, V., Beyond the Most Obviously Interesting: Aims and Methods in Documenting and Processing Scarabs, in: Kilian, A., Pruß, A., Zöller-Engelhardt, M. (Hgg.), Excavating the Extra-Ordinary 2: Challenges & Merits of Working with Small Finds. Proceedings of the International Workshop at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 25–26 November 2022, Heidelberg 2024, 125–132.
Aufwärter der Bier- und Brotkammer Sa-ii und Eje, ihre Verwandtschaft und Berufsstand, in: Gerhards, S., Gräßler, N., Gülden, S. A., Ilin-Tomich, A., Kertmann, J., Kilian, A., Konrad, T., van der Moezel, K., Zöller-Engelhardt, M., (Hgg.), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden: Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven, Heidelberg 2023, 180–199.
Minor Contributions to Middle Kingdom Prosopography, in: G. Miniaci, W. Grajetzki (Hgg.), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt III: Contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources, III, London 2022, 207–216.
Royal Court on a Visit to Thebes: Palace Officials and Local Hosts in Papyrus Boulaq 18, in: I. Arkhipov, G. Chambon, N. Ziegler (Hgg.), Pratiques administratives et comptables au Proche-Orient à l’âge du Bronze (Publications de l’Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France 4) Leuven 2021, 159–167.
Centralized and Local Production, Adaptation, and Imitation Twelfth Dynasty Offering Tables, in: G. Miniaci, C. Moreno García, S. Quirke, A. Stauder (Hgg.), The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt: Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC, Leiden 2018, 81–100.
Regional Administration in Late Middle Kingdom Egypt, in: M. Tomorad, J. Popielska-Grzybowska (Hgg.), Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists 2nd–7th June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia, Oxford 2017, 307–318.
King Seankhibra and the Middle Kingdom Appeal to the Living, in: G. Miniaci, W. Grajetzki (Hgg.), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC): Contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources, I, London 2015, 145–168.
Persons and names of the Middle Kingdom and the early New Kingdom. Online database, openly accessible data set: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1411391 (letzte Version: 2024)
with Konrad, T., Bibliography of Egyptological Databases and Datasets. Online bibliography, description and openly accessible data set: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10691756
Glücksbringer, in: Zorn, O. (Hg.), Ägypten ganz nah: 150 Begegnungen mit der Kultur Altägyptens, Regensburg 2023, 140–156.
Second Intermediate Period, in: Grajetzki, W., Wendrich, W. (Hgg.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles 2016.
Review:
W. Grajetzki, D. Stefanović, Dossiers of Ancient Egyptians – the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: Addition to Franke’s ‘Personendaten‘ (GHP Egyptology 19), London 2012, BiOr 71 (2014), 139–145.
with T. Shmakov, R. Landgráfová, It is my good Name that you Should Remember: Egyptian Biographical Texts on Middle Kingdom Stelae, Prague 2011, BiOr 71 (2014), 738–743.
Digital Tools:
Transliteration to Unicode Converter (converts Egyptological transcription to Unicode).
Egyptological museum search (facilitates the search for inventory numbers in online museum catalogs).
OEB to Zotero (simplifies the inclusion of bibliographic entries from the Online Egyptological Bibliography in reference management programs).
umschriftpy (Python package for handling Egyptological transcription).
Activities
2021–2024: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung: Altägyptische Titel in amtlichen und familiären Kontexten, 2055-1352 v. Chr.
2017–2021: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung: Umformung und Variabilität im Korpus altägyptischer Personennamen 2055–1550 v. Chr.
2015–2017: Research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Department of Egyptology of the Institute of Classical Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (project title: Regional Diversity in Ancient Egypt, 1900-1500 BC)
2013–2015: Research grant for young scientists, funded by the Russian Foundation for the Humanities
