Profile

Professional career

• 10/2018 - 03/2021
  Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology,University College Oxford
• 10/2017 - 06/2018
  Junior Curator at the Papyrus Collection of the Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy; for the Turin Papyrus Online Platform
• 10/2016 - 09/2017
  Research assistant ‘Tale of Sinuhe’ Project, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
• 11/2011 - 05/2012
  Graduate assistant in the Papyrology Department of the University of Trier; Conservation of papyri

Education

• 10/2013 - 03/2017
  DPhil-student Oriental Studies (Egyptology), Merton College, University of Oxford; supervisor Prof M. Smith; 21.07.2017: DPhil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford; title of the DPhil thesis: ‘The Hieratic Ritual Books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the late 4th century BC’
• 10/2010 - 07/2011
  Master of Studies in Oriental Studies, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford; 14.07.2011: ‘Master of Studies’ at the University of Oxford; title of the MSt thesis: ‘Studies on the Book of Protecting the Neshmet-Bark’
• 04/2005 - 05/2010
  Study of Egyptology (main subject), Classical Archaeology (1st subsidiary subject) and Papyrology (2nd subsidiary subject) at the University of Trier; 07.05.2010: Magister Artium at the University of Trier; title of the M.A. thesis: ‘Untersuchungen zu den Fährmannsprüchen des Totenbuches (Tb 98–99)’

My research focuses on ancient Egyptian religion and magic, in particular funerary and ritual texts. I aim to contextualise their production and use, especially by the identification of individual scribes and priestly families, and their social milieu. I specialise in hieratic, the cursive writing form of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and I also work on the ancient Egyptian language with a specific focus on its later phases in the Late and Graeco-Roman Periods, i.e. Demotic—designating both the later phase of the language and its cursive writing form—and the hieroglyphic writings inscribed on temple walls of the Ptolemaic Period.

My habilitation project entitled ‘The Khoiak Festival: A Glimpse into Ancient Egyptian Festival Practice’ includes the study and publication of several major sources connected to the Khoiak festival, such as the famous Dendera Khoiak Inscription and the texts preserved on P. Louvre N. 3176 (S). It is intended to enrich our knowledge of this major ancient Egyptian festival.

Publications in preparation:

Gill, A.-K.: The Khoiak Festival. A Glimpse into Ancient Egyptian Festival Practice, habilitation project University of Leipzig, in preparation.

Gill, A.-K.: The Amduat Papyrus of Nesmin (P. Royal Collection Trust RCIN 1145259–66), in preparation.

• Of Parts and Pieces: Reassembling papyri and linen objects in US libraries

  Gill, Ann-Katrin

  Duration: 09/2023 – ongoing

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Ägyptologie
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more projects

• Gill, A.-K.; Smith, M. J.

  Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The Spells of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162

  Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 2023.

  ISBN: 978-3-11-107983-7
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• Gill, A.-K.

  Of Parts and Pieces: Unearthing and reassembling religious papyri and linen objects in US libraries

  The Martlet. 2021. pp. 20–21.
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• Gill, A.-K.

  The Funerary Papyrus of Paanufa in the Huntington Library, California (HM 46671)

  Revue d'Egyptologie. 2023. pp. 19–46.
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• Gill, A.-K.; Smith, M. J.

  Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024.
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• Ägyptologie

  Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in ancient Egypt

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/04/2020

  External participating organisations: University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

  Involved persons: Gill, Ann-Katrin; Smith, Mark J.
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