Contact

Email: charlotte.dietrich(at)oeaw.ac.at

Telephone: +43 1 51581-6155

Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2 | 1010 Vienna

Biographical sketch

Undergraduate studies of Egyptology, Assyriology and Communication and Media Science at the University of Leipzig; BA-thesis »Words of Near Eastern origin in the New Kingdom lexicon«. Graduate studies in Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, University of Leiden and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo; MA-thesis »Horse-riding and riders in the New Kingdom«. Scholarship for studies and the »Exposéstipendium« of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) (2015–2019; 2019–2020). Since 2020 Praedoc of the ERC Starting Grant »Challenging Time(s): A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology«, subproject: 4 New Kingdom.

Research Projects

• »Challenging Time(s): A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology«

Research interests

• Epigraphy (digital drawing, palaeography, art history)
• Egyptian philology
• Cursive script (Hieratic, Abnormal Hieratic, Demotic)
• Linguistic and cultural contacts
• Egyptian history and chronology (esp. of the New Kingdom)
• Dating criteria

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