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Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel

Specialist Subjects: Egyptology: Egyptian languages, especially Graeco-Roman hieroglyphic temple texts and Demotic; political and religious history of Egypt, particularly of the Ptolemaic and the Roman periods. Supervisory Research Areas: The political and religious history of Egypt, primarily of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods; ancient Egyptian texts (mainly Graeco-Roman hieroglyphic texts and demotic) and their analysis.

I am a Reader in Egyptology at Swansea University. I earned my Magister Artium in Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at Trier University (Germany) and subsequently completed a Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.) research degree in Egyptology at Oxford University before returning to Trier University, first with a Lectureship, then with an Assistant professorship (Hochschulassistentin) in Egyptology. At Trier University, I completed the Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) and the Habilitation (Dr. habil.) before moving to Swansea in autumn 2006. I was previously an Alexander von Humboldt-scholar at Oxford University and a visiting professor at Ain Shams University, Cairo. I serve on the Board of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society since December 2010.

Current research

I am interested in the political and religious history of Egypt, particularly of the Ptolemaic and the Roman periods, with a current focus on the (self-) presentation of the Hellenistic and Roman pharaoh. In working on these themes, I make use of texts, images, archaeological data, and theoretical approaches. My specific interests also lie in the Egyptian temples of the Graeco-Roman period and in the edition and analysis of Graeco-Roman hieroglyphic and demotic texts.

Principal archaeological and field research

I am currently involved in two field projects in Egypt: I am the principal investigator of the international research project ‘The textual and iconographic programme of the temple of Isis at Shanhur’ in collaboration with Professor Harco Willems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. I am also a member of the Hildesheim mission to Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt), responsible for the edition of hieroglyphic and demotic texts.

Principal publications

Monographs
2010 (co-edited with K. Lembke and S. Pfeiffer) Tradition and Transformation. Egypt under Roman Rule. Proceedings of the International Conference, Hildesheim, 3–6 July 2008. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 41 (Leiden & Boston: Brill).
2009 (co-authored with F. Hoffmann and S. Pfeiffer) Die dreisprachige Stele des C. Cornelius Gallus. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beiheft 9 (Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter).
2006 Der Gott Chepri. Untersuchungen zu Schrift­zeug­nis­sen und ikono­gra­phi­schen Quellen vom Alten Reich bis in grie­chisch-römische Zeit. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 154 (Leu­ven: Peeters).
2003 (co-authored with G. Sigmund) Eine Ägypterin in Trier: Die ägyptische Mumie und der Sarg im Rhei­nischen Landesmuseum Trier. Ägyptologische und medizinische Unter­suchungen. Schrif­ten­reihe des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier 26 (Trier: Rheinisches Landes­museum).
2000 Die hieroglyphischen Ahnenreihen der ptolemäischen Könige. Ein Vergleich mit den Titeln der eponymen Priester in den griechischen und demotischen Papyri, Aegyp­tia­ca Tre­verensia 9 (Mainz: Philipp v. Zabern).
1994 (co-edited with J. Zeidler) Aspekte Spätägyptischer Kultur, Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag. Aegyptiaca Treverensia 7 (Mainz: Philipp v. Zabern).
Edited volumes
Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule’, Hildesheim, 3–6 July 2008. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden and New York: Brill. In press. [with K. Lembke and Stefan Pfeiffer]
Aspekte Spätägyptischer Kultur: Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag, Aegyptiaca Treverensia: Trierer Studien zum griechischen-römischen Ägypten 7, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1994. [with Jürgen Zeidler]
Book chapters and journal articles
2012 ‘Egyptian temples of Roman Egypt’. In: C. Riggs (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in press.
2012 ‘Koregentschaft und Thronfolge: Legitimation ptolemäischer Machtstrukturen in den ägyptischen Tempeln der Ptolemärzeit’. In W. Held et al. (eds.), Orient und Okzident – Antagonismus oder Konstrukt?. Marburger Forschungen zur Archäologie, in press.
2011 ‘Augustus, Prinzeps und Pharao zwischen politischer Realität und ideo­lo­gischem Anspruch’. In G. Moosbauer and R. Wiegels (eds.), Fines imperii, imperium sine fine? Roman frontier and occupation policies in the early Principate, Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption 14 (Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH), 131–42.
2011 ‘Cleopatra II and III: The queens of Ptolemy VI and VIII as guarantor of kingship and rivals for power’. In A. Jördens and J.F. Quack (eds.), Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äußerem Druck. Die Zeit Ptolemaios’ VI. bis VIII. Internationales Symposion Heidelberg 16.–19. 9. 2007. Philippika 45 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), 58–76.
2010 (co-authored with S. Pfeiffer) ‘Establishing Roman Rule in Egypt: The Trilingual Stela of C. Cornelius Gallus from Philae’. In K. Lembke et al. (eds.), Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule.  Proceedings of the International Conference, Hildesheim, Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, 3–6 July 2008. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East (Leiden: Brill), 265–98.
2008  ‘Das ptolemäische Ägypten’. In: Der große Plötz – Enzyklopädie der Weltge­schichte, 35. Auflage (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber), pp. 333–7.
2008 ‘Das römische Ägypten’. In: Der große Plötz – Enzyklopädie der Welt­ge­schichte, 35. Auflage (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber), pp. 337–40.
2007 “A demotic inscribed icosahedron from the Dakhleh Oasis”. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93, 137–48.
2006 ‘Die ptolemäischen Sokar-Osiris-Mumien. Neue Erkenntnisse zum ägyptischen Dynastie­kult der Ptolemäer’. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäolo­gischen Instituts Kairo 62, 197–215, Pl. 36–42.
2006 ‘Die hieroglyphische Inschrift im Klinengrab’. In Katja Lembke, “Grie­chisch-römisch oder ägyptisch? Neue und alte Entdeckungen in der Oase Siwa”. Studien zur Alt­ägyptischen Kultur 34, 319–31.
2005 ‘Ein bislang unbekannter käferbekrönter Königskopf der Spätzeit’. In M. Eldamaty and K. Daoud (eds.), Studies in Honour of Mohamed Saleh, Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum 2, 97–103.
2005 ‘Macht und Ohnmacht einer ptolemäischen Königin’. Archiv für Papyrusforschung 51, 127–54.
2002 ‘Käfer krönen Köpfe. Zum Skarabäus in der Plastik des Neuen Reiches’. In: M. Eldamaty (ed.), Egyptian Mu­se­um Collections Around the World. Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, vol. II (Cairo: SCA Cairo & American University Press in Cairo Press), 811–23.
2002 (co-authored with G. Sigmund) ‘The Trier Mummy Paï-es-tjau-em-aui-nu: Radiologic and Histo­logic Findings’. Euro­pean Radiology 12/7, 1854–62.
2000 (co-authored with G. Sigmund) ‘Der Sarg und die Mumie der Paï-es-tjau-em-aui-nu in der Sammlung der Gesellschaft für nützliche Forschungen’. Antiquitates Trevirenses. Beiträge zur Ge­schich­te der Trierer Altertumskunde und der Gesel­lschaft für nützliche Forschun­gen. Fest­schrift zur 200-Jahr-Feier der Gesellschaft für nützliche Forschungen, Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 40, 255–302.
1999 (co-authored with K. Hallof) ‘Eine griechisch-demotische Inschrift aus Samos’. Archiv für Papyrusforschung 45, 26–31.
1998 (co-authored with S. Albersmeier) ‘Ein Weihrelief für die vergöttlichte Arsinoe II. Phil­adelphos’. In: W. Clarysse et al. (eds.), Egyptian Religion – The Last Thousand Years. Studies De­di­cated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 84 (Leu­ven: Peeters), 3–29.
1997 ‘Die Dekorationstätigkeit von Ptolemaios VI. Philometor und Ptolemaios VIII. Euergetes II. an ägyptischen Tempeln, Teil 2.’ Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 28, 87–121.
1996 ‘Kein eponymer Priester. Zu P. Oxy. XIV 1723 descr.’. Archiv für Papyrusforschung 42, 139–42.
1996 ‘Die Dekorationstätigkeit von Ptolemaios VI. Philometor und Ptolemaios VIII. Euergetes II. an ägyptischen Tempeln, Teil 1’. Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 27, 51–78.
1995 ‘Die Kanephoros.  Aspekte des Ptolemäischen Dynastiekults’. In Henri Melaerts (ed.), Le culte du souverain dans l' Égypte ptolémaïque au IIIe siècle avant notre ère. Actes du colloque international, Bruxelles 10 mai 1995. Studia Hellenistica 34 (Leuven: Peeters), 43–60.
1994 ‘Die Pithom-Stele. Chronologische Bemerkungen zur frühen Ptolemäerzeit’. In: Martina Minas and Jürgen Zeidler (eds.), Aspekte Spätägyptischer Kultur, Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag, Aegyptiaca Treverensia 7 (Mainz: Philipp von Za­bern), 203–12.

International conference and workshop organisation

2011 ‘Octavian as Pharaoh: His (Self-) Presentation and the Egyptian Kingship Ideology’. Invited paper at the international conference ‘The Many faces of a Hellenistic King’, Durham University (11–12 November 2011).

2011 ‘Egyptian Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period’. Invited guest lecture at Macquarie University, Sydney/ Australia (1 October 2011).

2011 ‘Egyptian temples of the fourth century BC’. Invited paper at the international conference “Ptolemy I Soter and the Transformation of Egypt 404–282¿BC”, Macquarie University, Sydney/ Australia (28–30 September 2011).

2011 ‘Climbing the pole – Texts from the temple of Isis at Shanhur’. Paper at the 5th Ptolemaic Summer Workshop, Oostduinkerek/Belgium (6–9 September 2011).

2011 ‘Kaiser Klaudius und das “Klettern fuer Min”. Ein Ritual aus dem Tempel der Isis aus Shanhur’. Invited lecture at the University of Würzburg/ Germany (5 May 2011).

2011 ‘Hieroglyphic Texts from the temple of Isis at Shanhur’. Paper at the third AELT (Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts), Swansea (22 January 2011).

2010 ‘Augustus, Princeps and Pharaoh between ideology and political reality’. Invited guest lecture at the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver/ Canada (29 March 2010).

2010 ‘Romaios Kaisaros–Octavian as Pharaoh’. Invited guest lecture at the Department of Ancient History and Classics, University of Waterloo, Ontario/ Canada (23 March 201.

2010 ‘The Ptolemaic Queens in Egyptian Temple Reliefs: Guarantors of Kingship or Rivals for Power?’. Invited guest lecture for the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Toronto/Canada (19 March 2010).

2010 ‘Establishing Roman Rule in Egypt’. Invited guest lecture at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Toronto University, Toronto/Canada (18 March 2010).

2010 ‘Khepri in the Royal Iconography of the New Kingdom’. Invited guest lecture at the Egypt Center Swansea (17 February 2010).

2009 Die ägyptischen Tempel im frükaiserzeitlichen Ägypten. Invited paper at the international conference „Fines imperii - imperium sine fine?“, University of Osnabrück/ Germany and Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (14–18 September 2009).

2009 ‘Die magischen Kiesel aus dem Grab des Padikem in Tuna el-Gebel’. Invited lecture at the University of Münster/Germany (14 January 2009).

2008 ‘Ptolemaic Queens in Egyptian Temple Reliefs: Intercultural Reflections of Political Authority, or Religious Imperatives?’, Paper at the  “Xth International Congress of Egyptologists”, Rhodes (22–29 May 2008).

2008 ‘Die römische Herrschaftsinstallation in Ägypten: Die dreisprachige Stele des C. Cor­ne­lius Gallus aus Philae“. Paper at the international conference “Tradition and Trans­formation. Egypt under Roman Rule”, Hildesheim/ Germany, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Mu­se­um (3–6 July 2008).

2008 ‘Tradition und Innovation: Reflektion und Legitimation ptolemäischer Machtstrukturen in den äyptischen Tempeln’. Invited paper at the international conference “Orient und Ok­zid­ent — Antagonismus oder Konstrukt”, University of Würzburg/ Germany (10–13 April 2008).

2008 ‘Establishing Roman Rule in Egypt: The Trilingual Stela of C. Cornelius Gallus from Philae’. Paper at the international conference “Gaius Cornelius Gallus: Poet and Politician”, Swansea University (1–2 March 2008).

2007 ‘Cleopatra II and III: The queens of Ptolemy VI and VIII as guarantor of kingship and rivals for power’. Invited paper at the international conference “Die Zeit Ptolemaios’ VI. und VIII.: Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äußerem Druck”, University of Heidelberg/Germany (17–19 September 2007).

2007 ‘Die römische Herrschaftsinstallation in Ägypten: Die dreisprachige Stele des C. Cornelius Gallus’. Invited lecture at the Free University Berlin/ Germany (18 Juni 2007).

2006 ‘Der demotische Ikosaeder aus der Oase Dakhla’. Paper at the 5th Demotic workshop, the Free University Berlin/ Germany (27–31 August 2006).

2006  ‘Policy and Propaganda: The Egyptian Temple Building and Decoration Activities of Roman Emperors’. Invited paper at the international conference ‘Rome in Egypt. Roman Temples for Egyptian Gods’, University of Pisa/ Italy (12 June 2006).

2006 ‘Between the Egyptian and Graeco-Macedonian Worlds: Ptolemaic Sokar-Osiris Mummies’. Invited guest lecture at the Department of Near Eastern Lan­guages and Civilizations, Yale University/ USA (12 April 2006).

Research Project (December 2009–December 2012):

       Funding awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 35,000) ‘The textual and iconographic programme of the temple of Isis at Shanhur’, in collaboration with Professor Harco Willems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/ Belgium, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities/ Egypt.

Research Fellowship (September 2008 to August 2009):

       A­warded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 30,000) for sabbatical leave for the project: ‘Politics and propaganda: the building and decoration activity of the Roman emperors at Egyptian temples’.

Conference Grant (2008):

       Awarded by the Deutsche Forshungsgemeinschaft, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the Schafhausen Stiftung Hildesheim (£ 15,000) for the Conference: “Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule”, Hildesheim, 3-6 July 2008, jointly awarded and organized with Dr. Katja Lembke (Hildesheim/Hannover) and Professor Dr. Stefan Pfeiffer (Chemnitz University).

Conference Grant (2008):

       Awarded by the British Academy (£ 1,337) and the Classical Association (£ 465) for the Conference: "Gaius Cornelius Gallus: Poet and Politician", Swansea University, 1-2 March 2008, jointly awarded and organized with Dr. Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, Swansea University.

Overseas Conference Grant (2008):

       Awarded by the British Academy (£ 300) for the 10th International Congress of Egyptology, Rhodes, 22–29 May 2008.

Research and travel grant (2007/8):

       Awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 7,000) for epigraphic surveys in Egypt (Graeco-Roman temple inscriptions).

Publication Grant (2006):

       Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation/ Germany (8,000 £) for the publication of the book: Der Gott Chepri. Unter­suchungen zu Schrift­zeugnis­sen und ikono­gra­phi­schen Quel­len vom Alten Reich bis in grie­chisch-römische Zeit. Orientalia Lovaniensia Ana­lecta 154 (Leu­ven: Peeters 2006).

Research fellowship (October 2005 to September 2006):

       Awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 30,000) at the Department of Egyptology, Trier University (research project: “Politics and propaganda: The building and decoration activity of the Roman emperors at Egyptian temples”.).

Research fellowship (March to October 2002):

       Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/ Germany, Feodor Lynen programme (£ 22,500) at the University of Oxford while being on sabbatical from the Assistant Professorship at Trier University/Germany.

Prize for the PhD thesis (2000):

       Awarded by the University of Trier/ Germany (£1,500 £).

Principal research awards, fellowships, and prizes

Research Project (December 2009–December 2012):

Funding awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 35,000) ‘The textual and iconographic programme of the temple of Isis at Shanhur’, in collaboration with Professor Harco Willems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/ Belgium, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities/ Egypt.

Research Fellowship (September 2008 to August 2009):

A­warded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 30,000) for sabbatical leave for the project: ‘Politics and propaganda: the building and decoration activity of the Roman emperors at Egyptian temples’.

Conference Grant (2008):

Awarded by the Deutsche Forshungsgemeinschaft, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the Schafhausen Stiftung Hildesheim (£ 15,000) for the Conference: “Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule”, Hildesheim, 3-6 July 2008, jointly awarded and organized with Dr. Katja Lembke (Hildesheim/Hannover) and Professor Dr. Stefan Pfeiffer (Chemnitz University).

Conference Grant (2008):

Awarded by the British Academy (£ 1,337) and the Classical Association (£ 465) for the Conference: "Gaius Cornelius Gallus: Poet and Politician", Swansea University, 1-2 March 2008, jointly awarded and organized with Dr. Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, Swansea University.

Overseas Conference Grant (2008):

Awarded by the British Academy (£ 300) for the 10th International Congress of Egyptology, Rhodes, 22–29 May 2008.

Research and travel grant (2007/8):

Awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 7,000) for epigraphic surveys in Egypt (Graeco-Roman temple inscriptions).

Publication Grant (2006):

Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation/ Germany (8,000 £) for the publication of the book: Der Gott Chepri. Unter­suchungen zu Schrift­zeugnis­sen und ikono­gra­phi­schen Quel­len vom Alten Reich bis in grie­chisch-römische Zeit. Orientalia Lovaniensia Ana­lecta 154 (Leu­ven: Peeters 2006).

Research fellowship (October 2005 to September 2006):

Awarded by the Gerda Henkel-Foundation/ Germany (£ 30,000) at the Department of Egyptology, Trier University (research project: “Politics and propaganda: The building and decoration activity of the Roman emperors at Egyptian temples”.).

Research fellowship (March to October 2002):

Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/ Germany, Feodor Lynen programme (£ 22,500) at the University of Oxford while being on sabbatical from the Assistant Professorship at Trier University/Germany.

Prize for the PhD thesis (2000):

  Awarded by the University of Trier/ Germany (£1,500 £).

General Information

MA (Trier), M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr. phil. (Trier), Dr. habil. and venia legendi (Trier): Privatdozentin (PD)

College of Arts and Humanities: History & Classics
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) +44 (0)1792 295188
FAX: +44 (0) +44 (0)1792 295746
E-MAIL: m.minas-nerpel@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:

CLE 112/225 Egyptian language 1.

CLE 113/226 Egyptian Language 2.

CLE 221 Egyptian Language 3.

CLE 215 Funerary Art and Artefacts.

CLE 222 Egyptian Language 4.

CLE 316 Egyptology BA Dissertation.

CLE 3160 Research folder for dissertations and museum projects in Egyptology.

CLE 318 Town and Country

CLE 321 Egyptian Language 5.

CLE 323 New Kingdom Literature.

CLE 331 Egyptian Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period.

CLE 334 Alexandria. Multicultural Metropolis of the Ancient World.

Graduate:

CL-M 30 Understanding Ancient Egyptian Culture (contributed).

CL-M 36 Egyptology MA Dissertation.

CL-M 34 Graeco-Roman Egypt.

CL-M 67 Texts and Narratives in Graeco-Roman Egypt.