Research
General data
2009 - 2013 | Project MeKeTRE (Middle Kingdom Tomb Relief Evolution) – FWF Project number P 21571. |
2013 - 2018 | Project From Object to Icon – FWF Project number P 25958. |
February 2019 | Official start of the project Painted for Eternity – FWF Project number P31390. |
Conferences/Meetings/Workshops
May 31st – June 4th 2010 | International Workshop ABUSIR AND SAQQARA IN THE YEAR 2010, organized by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Prague Presentation of the project, title of the given paper: "Looking back on the Old Kingdom with critical eye – The MeKeTRE Project" (Andrea Kahlbacher) |
July 6th – July 8th 2010 | Conference Informatique et Égyptologie 2010 at the University of Liège, Belgium. Presentation of the project's technical part. Title of the paper: "The MeKeTREpository - A Collaborative Web Database for Middle Kingdom Scene Descriptions" (Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer, Niko Popitsch) |
Sept. 7th – Sept. 9th 2011 | I-SEMANTICS 2011, Graz, Poster presentation: "Exploring Structural Differences in Thesauri for SKOS-based Applications" (Helmut Nagy, Tassilo Pellegrini, Christian Mader) |
Sept. 26th – Sept. 28th 2011 | Conference TPDL 2011 Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Padua. Title of the paper: "The MEKETREpository - Middle Kingdom Tomb and Artwork Descriptions on the Web" (Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer, Niko Popitsch) |
Sept. 29th 2011 | NKOS Workshop 2011, Berlin. Title of the paper: "Quality Criteria for Controlled Web Vocabularies" (Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer) |
Dec. 2nd – Dec. 4th 2011 | Münchner Arbeitskreis Junge Ägyptologie (MAJA) II, Ägyptologisches Institut, München. Title of the paper: "Kultstelle in Bewegung. Position und Bedeutung der Scheintür, Statue und der dazugehörigen Dekoration in den Felsgräbern von Meir und Beni Hassan im Mittleren Reich" (Lubica Hudáková, Andrea Kahlbacher) |
Mar. 27th – Mar. 30th 2012 | Conference Current research in Egyptology XIII, University of Birmingham. Title of the paper: "Innovative strength of Middle Kingdom tomb decoration - The Meketre Project" (Lubica Hudáková) |
May 27th – May 31st 2012 | PhD symposium of ESWC2012, Heraklion (Greece). Poster presentation: "Quality Assurance in Collaboratively Created Web Vocabularies" (Christian Mader) |
Sept. 22nd – Sept. 25th 2012 | Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists: Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt. Sofia, Bulgaria. Title of the paper: "Bon Appétit! Tradition and Innovation in the Offering Table Scene of the Old and Middle Kingdom" (Andrea Kahlbacher) |
Feb. 6th – Feb. 8th 2013 |
Conference (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt, University of Liège, Belgium. Title of the paper: "Middle Kingdom transformations of an Old Kingdom artistic tradition – the mAA-scene" (Lubica Hudáková) |
Mar. 19th – Mar. 22nd 2013 |
Conference Current research in Egyptology XIV, University of Cambridge. Title of the paper: "The menu, please! Individualism vs. Standardization of the Funerary Repast Scenes" (Andrea Kahlbacher) |
Apr. 26th 2013 | Workshop Strategien der Visualisierung in den Geisteswissenschaften: Probleme und Chancen, University of Vienna. Title of the paper: "Das MeKeTRE Project – eine Bilddatenbank in der Ägyptologie" (Andrea Kahlbacher, Christian Mader) |
May 3rd 2013 | MeKeTRE Study Day - Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Medienraum (2nd floor). The publication is free to download. |
Sept. 4th – Sept. 6th 2013 | Conference I-SEMANTICS 2013, Graz. Title of the paper: "Perception and Relevance of Quality Issues in Web Vocabularies" (Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer) |
Apr. 9th – Apr. 12th 2014 |
Conference Current research in Egyptology XV, London. Poster presentation: "From Object to Icon: Visual Reflections on and the Designations of Material Culture in the Reliefs and Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs" (Lubica Hudáková) |
Dec. 12th – Dec. 14th 2014 |
Münchner Arbeitskreis Junge Ägyptologie (MAJA) V, Institut für Ägyptologie, München. Title of the paper: "Totenverkörperungen Gedanken zu Bedeutungswandel und Darstellungsformen vom Alten bis zum Mittleren Reich" (Uta Siffert) |
Apr. 15th – Apr. 18th 2015 | Conference Current research in Egyptology XVI, Oxford. Title of the paper: "The Material Culture of the Egyptian Funeral and the Decorative Programme in the Middle Kingdom Tombs. A Case Study of Mummy Shaped Representations of the Deceased" (Uta Siffert) |
June. 2nd – June 7th 2015 | CECE7 - VIIth European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2015: Perspectives of research, Zagreb. Title of the paper: "The sunshade after the Old Kingdom – female attribute with Hathoric connotation?" (Lubica Hudáková) |
Aug. 23rd – Aug. 30th 2015 | ICE 11 - XIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence. Title of the paper: "Crowd sourcing in Egyptology – Images and Annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs" (Peter Kalchgruber, Lubica Hudáková) |
Aug. 23rd – Aug. 30th 2015 | ICE 11 - XIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence. Title of the poster presentation: "From Object to Icon. Visual Reflections on and the Designations of Material Culture in the Reliefs and Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs" (Lubica Hudáková, Claus Jurman, Uta Siffert) |
Sept. 15th – Sept. 19th 2015 | 5th International Congress for Young Egyptologists (ICYE), Vienna. Title of the poster presentation: "From Object to Icon. Visual Reflections on and the Designations of Material Culture in the Reliefs and Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs" (Lubica Hudáková, Claus Jurman, Uta Siffert) |
Nov. 4th – Nov. 6th 2015 | Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond, Leipzig. Title of the poster presentation: "From Object to Icon. Visual Reflections on and the Designations of Material Culture in the Reliefs and Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs" (Lubica Hudáková, Claus Jurman, Uta Siffert) |
Oct. 29th 2015 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Title of the presentation: "Meketre and beyond" (Lubica Hudáková, Claus Jurman, Uta Siffert) |
Apr. 07th – Apr. 09th 2016 | International Conference: "Ancient Egyptian Coffins – Past, Present, Future", Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge. Title of paper: "Middle Kingdom mummy shaped coffins: investigating meaning and function" (Uta Siffert) |
June 23rd – June 24th 2016 | International Conference "Voices, images, and artefacts of ancient craftsmen/women. Encountering the material producers of Middle Bronze Age Egypt (2000–1500 BC)" Title of paper: "To show and to designate: attitudes towards representing craftsmanship and material culture in Middle Kingdom elite tombs" (Claus Jurman) |
July 15th – July 17th 2016 | 48. Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz: "Ägyptologie. Heute. Zur Zukunft der Vergangenheit", title of paper: "Crowd Sourcing in der Ägyptologie – ein kleiner Klick für Sie, ein großes Online-Archiv für alle" (Claus Jurman, Uta Siffert) |
June 30th 2017 | International Meketre Study Day: "Art-facts and Artefacts. Visualising the Material World in Middle Kingdom Egypt", in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. |
June 30th 2017 | International Meketre Study Day: "Art-facts and Artefacts. Visualising the Material World in Middle Kingdom Egypt", Title of the paper: "Gardening at Deir el-Bersha in the Middle Kingdom: a unique representation of Cucurbitaceae cultivation" (Lubica Hudáková) |
Mar. 26th – Mar. 27th 2019 | International conference in Florence (CAMNES): "Rethinking Osiris", Title of the paper: "Osiris – the mummy par excellence?" (Uta Siffert) |
June 3rd 2019 | Abendvortragsreihe am Institut für Ägyptologie, Title of the paper: "Frauen im Fokus. Kunst(volle)Welt der Grabdekoration im Mittleren Reich." (Lubica Hudáková) |
May 17th 2019 | Forschungsfest des Instituts für Ägyptologie/Universität Wien, Title oft he paper: "Gemalt für die Ewigkeit – Die Dekoration der Särge des Mittleren Reiches aus Beni Hassan. Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie." (Lubica Hudáková, Uta Siffert) |
June 20th – June 22nd 2019 | International Conference "Terra Incognita. Archaeological Fieldwork in Asyut and Middle Egypt"; FU Berlin; Title of the paper: "Gemalt für die Ewigkeit – Die Dekoration der Särge des Mittleren Reiches aus Beni Hassan. Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie." (Uta Siffert) |
Interviews
Aug. 27th 2012 | Interview for uni:view - the online journal of the University of Vienna: Ägyptologie – Geschichten aus den Totenstädten. |
Nov. 9th 2012 | Interview for the radio OE1 (ORF, Austria), programme: Dimensionen - Die Welt der Wissenschaft, topic: The Project MeKeTRE. |
May 23th 2015 |
Interview for the newspaper Die Presse (Austria), topic: Bier und Brot auf Grabanlagen.
http://diepresse.com/home/science/dissertation/4737745/Bier-und-Brot-auf-Grabanlagen. http://diepresse.com/home/science/dissertation/4737745/Bier-und-Brot-auf-Grabanlagen |
July 20th 2020 | Interview for uni:view - the online journal of the University of Vienna (Markus Steiner): Gemalt für die Ewigkeit. (Peter Jánosi, Uta Siffert) |
Publications
2010 | Slides from the presentation of the MEKETREpository at the Informatique et Égyptologie 2010 conference. To download them, click here. You might also download the paper. Zelenková, L., The Royal Kilt in Non-Royal Iconography? The Tomb Owner Fowling and Spear-Fishing in the Old and Middle Kingdom, in: BACE 21 (2010), pp. 141 – 166. download |
2011 | Mader, Ch. and Haslhofer, B. and Popitsch, N., The MEKETREpository - Middle Kingdom Tomb and Artwork Descriptions on the Web, in: Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011), Berlin, pp. 465 – 468. download Nagy, H., Pellegrini, T. and Mader, Ch., Exploring structural differences in thesauri for SKOS-based applications, in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, I-SEMANTICS 2011, Graz. download Mader, Ch. and Haslhofer, B., Quality Criteria for Controlled Web Vocabularies, in: NKOS Workshop 2011, Berlin. download Kahlbacher, A., Bilder für das Jenseits. Das MeKeTRE-Projekt, in: Sokar, das ägyptische Pyramidenzeitalter 23 (2011), pp. 78 – 83. Kahlbacher, A. and Zelenková, L., The MeKeTRE Project & An Example of a Theme Type in the Old and Middle Kingdom: Manufacture of Nets, in: Bárta, M., Coppens, F. and Krejčí, J. (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010: Volume II, Prague 2011, pp. 465 – 482. Kahlbacher, A., Raumfunktion und Dekorationsprogramm der Felsgräber des Alten und Mittleren Reiches. Eine vergleichende Studie zu den Nekropolen von El Berscheh, Scheich Said, Meir und Quseir el Amarna, MA thesis, Vienna. download |
2012 | Mader, Ch., Quality Assurance in Collaboratively Created Web Vocabularies, in: PhD Symposium ESWC2012, Heraklion/Greece. download Mader, Ch., Finding Quality Issues in SKOS Vocabularies, in: Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012), Cyprus. download |
2013 | Hudáková, L., Innovative Power of Middle Kingdom Tomb Decoration as reflected in the scenes of grain processing, bread-making and brewing, in: R. Gundacker, J. Budka and G. Pieke (eds.), Florilegium Aegyptiacum. Eine wissenschaftliche Blütenlese von Schülern und Freunden für Helmut Satzinger zum 75. Geburtstag am 21. Jänner 2013, Göttinger Miszellen Beiheft 14, Göttingen, pp. 159 – 188. Kahlbacher, A. and Zelenková Hudáková, L., Kultstelle in Bewegung. Position und Bedeutung der Scheintür, Statue und zugehöriger Dekoration in den Felsgräbern von Meir und Beni Hasan im Mittleren Reich, in: Neunert, G., Gabler, K. and Verbovsek, A. (eds.), Nekropolen: Grab-Bild-Ritual. Beiträge des zweiten Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (MAJA 2), 2. bis 4.12.2011, Göttinger Orientforschungen, IV. Reihe Ägypten 54, München, pp. 89 – 112. Mader, Ch., Haslhofer, B. and Popitsch, N., The MEKETREpository. A Collaborative Web Database for Middle Kingdom Scene Descriptions, in: Polis, S. and Winand, J. (eds.), Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology, Liège, pp. 121 – 128. Kahlbacher, A., Bon Appétit! Bread and Reed in the Funerary Repast Imagery of the Old and Middle Kingdom, in: BACE 24 (2013). Hudáková, L., The Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials – Studies in Iconography, Content and Status, PhD thesis, Vienna. Mader, Ch. and Suominen, O., Assessing and Improving the Quality of SKOS Vocabularies, in: Journal on Data Semantics 2, 2013. download |
2016 | Hudáková, L., Jánosi, P. and Kahlbacher, A. (eds.), Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art. Proceedings of the MeKeTRE Study Day held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (3rd May 2013), Middle Kingdom Studies 4, GHP, London, 2016. download Hudáková, L., ‘Dying’ and mourning between the Old and Middle Kingdom – some peculiar scenes from Thebes, el-Moalla, and Gebelein, in: Hudáková, L., Jánosi, P. and Kahlbacher, A. (eds.), Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art. Proceedings of the MeKeTRE Study Day held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (3rd May 2013), Middle Kingdom Studies 4, GHP, London, 2016, pp. 47 – 63. Kahlbacher, A., The Menu Please! Individualism vs. standardization in funerary repast scenes from the Early Dynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom, in: Hudáková, L., Jánosi, P. and Kahlbacher, A. (eds.), Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art. Proceedings of the MeKeTRE Study Day held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (3rd May 2013), Middle Kingdom Studies 4, GHP, London, 2016, pp. 65 – 81. Hudáková, L., Gardening at Deir el-Bersha in the Middle Kingdom – unique representation of cultivating Cucurbitaceae, in: Ägypten und Levante 26 (2016), pp. 313 – 327. Hudáková, L., Jurman, C., Siffert, U., From Object to Icon. Visual Reflections on and the Designations of Material Culture in the Reliefs and Paintings of Middle Kingdom Tombs, in: Monica Berti/Franziska Naether (Hg.), Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond, Leipzig, 04. – 06.11.2015. Online publication Siffert, U., Alles nur Schall und Rauch? Zur Benennung und Bedeutung von Mumien aus dem Alten und Mittleren Reich, in: Sokar 32 (2016), pp. 66 – 79. Siffert, U., Toten(ver)körper(ungen). Gedanken zu Bedeutungswandel und Darstellungsformen in der Ersten Zwischenzeit und dem Mittleren Reich, in: Susanne Beck, Burkhard Backes, I-Ting Liao, Henrike Simon, Alexandra Verbovsek (Hg.), Gebauter Raum: Architektur-Landschaft-Mensch. Beiträge des fünften Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (MAJA 5), 12. bis 14.12.2014, Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe Ägypten 62, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 181 – 192. |
2017 | Hudáková, L., The sunshade after the Old Kingdom – female attribute with Hathoric connotation?, in: M. Tomorad and J. Popielska-Grzybowska (eds.), Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research. Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists (2nd–7th June, 2015, Zagreb – Croatia), Archaeopress Egyptology 18, Oxford, 2017, pp. 161 – 173. Open Access Hudáková, L., Middle Kingdom transformations of an Old Kingdom artistic tradition – the mAA-theme, in: T. Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt. Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Liège, 6th-8th February 2013, Collection Ægyptiaca Leodiensia 10, Presses Universitaires de Liège, Liège, pp. 371 – 394. Hudáková, L., and Kalchgruber, P., Crowdsourcing in Egyptology – images and annotations of Middle Kingdom private tombs, in: G. Rosati and M. C. Guidotti (eds.), Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists: Florence Egyptian Museum Florence, 23–30 August 2015, Archaeopress Egyptology 19, Oxford, pp. 303–307. |
2018 | Jurman, C., To show and to designate: attitudes towards representing craftsmanship and material culture in Middle Kingdom elite tombs, in: G. Miniaci, J. C. Moreno Garcia, St. Quirke, A. Stauder (eds.), The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt: voices, images and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC, Leiden, pp. 101–116. Hudáková, L., Some aspects of Middle Kingdom agriculture – Basketry Products and their Utilisation as Represented in Art, in: P. Jánosi and H. Vymazalová (eds.), The Art of Describing: The World of Tomb Decoration as Visual Culture of the Old Kingdom. Studies in Honour of Yvonne Harpur, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague, pp. 181-214. Hudáková, L. Jánosi, P., Jurman, C. and U. Siffert (eds.), Art-facts and Artefacts: Visualising the Material World in Middle Kingdom Egypt, Middle Kingdom Studies 8, London: Golden House Publications. |
2019 | Siffert, U., Middle Kingdom Mummy Shaped Coffins: Investigating Meaning and Function, in: H. Strudwick and J. Dawson (eds.), "Ancient Egyptian Coffin: Past – Present – Future", Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge, 07. – 09. April 2016, Oxbow Books, pp. 22-29. Hudáková, L., "Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials. Studies in Iconography", Harvard Egyptological Studies, Bd. 6. doi:10.1163/9789004395824 |
2020 | 2020 Siffert, U., "Die Särge des Mittleren Reiches aus Beni Hassan: Gemalt für die Ewigkeit – oder doch eher verlost, verschenkt und dann vergessen?", in: aMun. Magazin für die Freunde Ägyptischer Museen und Sammlungen, Ausgabe 1/2020, Heft Nr. 60, pp.14–19. |