Irene Forstner-Müller
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.
Head Cairo Branch
Irene Forstner-Müller
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.
Head Cairo Branch
- Senior Research Associate
- RG »Archaeology in Egypt and Sudan«
- +20 2 273 623 56
- irene.forstner-mueller(at)oeaw.ac.at
- 6A, Ismail Mohammed Street, Apt. 62 Zamalek | Cairo, Egypt
Biographical sketch
Degrees in Egyptology and a combination of classes from the University of Vienna. 1999 to 2002 researcher within the SCIEM-2000-project, collaborator in the project »Stratigraphié comparée«. 2001 to 2002 research assistant at the Department of Egyptology, stand-in for maternity leave. Since 2002, scientific employee at the OeAI Cairo Branch; since 2009, director of the Branch as well as director of the excavations in Tell el-Dab’a.
Research Projects
Research interests
- Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period
- Landscape archaeology
- Egypt and its relationship to the Near East in the 2nd millennium BCE
- Egypt and its borders
Publications
- King Khyan and Avaris - Some Considerations concerning Khyan Seal Impressions from Area R/III at Tell el-Dabʿa. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Reali, Chiara; Forstner-Müller, Irene (Editor) et al.
The Hyksos ruler Khayan and the early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research. 2018. p. 91-124 (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des ÖAI 16). - Nubian Pottery in Aswan. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Rose, Pamela; Forstner-Müller, Irene (Editor) et al.
Nubian pottery from Egyptian cultural contexts of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom, Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Cairo, 1-12 December 2010. 2012. p. 59-82 (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des ÖAI). - Nubian Pottery at Avaris in the Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom: Some remarks. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Rose, Pamela; Forstner-Müller, Irene (Editor) et al.
Nubian pottery from Egyptian cultural contexts of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom, Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Cairo, 1-12 December 2010. 2012. p. 181-212 (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des ÖAI). - Continuity and Discontinuity- Attempting to establish the Beginning of the Hyksos Period at Tell el-Dab’a. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Bietak, Manfred (Editor in Series); Hunger, Hermann (Editor in Series).
The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC (vol. II); Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000-Euro Conference, Haindorf, 2nd of May – 7th of May 2001. 2003. p. 23-34 (Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 4).
- Center and Periphery. Some Remarks on the Delta during the Ramesside Period. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Rummel, Ute (Editor); alii, et (Editor).
The Ramesside Period in Egypt, Studies in Cultural and Historical Processes of the 19th and 20th Dynasties. Berlin/Boston, 2018. p. 103-112 (SDAIK). - Wahrnehmung und Rekonstruktion von antiker Landschaft. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Müller, Wolfgang; Beck, Susanne (Editor) et al.
Gebauter Raum: Architektur – Landschaft – Mensch. Beiträge des fünften Münchner Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie (MAJA 5). 12.12. bis 14.12.2014. Wiesbaden, 2016. (Göttinger Orientforschungen IV. Reihe Ägypten 62). - Ägyptische Archäologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. Tradition, Standard, Status und Ausblick. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Müller, Wolfgang; alii, Alexandra Verbovsek et (Editor).
Methodik und Didaktik in der Ägyptologie. Herausforderungen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Paradigmenwechsels in den Altertumswissenschaften. 2011. p. 205-216. - Tombs and burial customs at Tell el-Dab‘a during the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Maree, M (Editor).
The Second Intermediate Period (Thirteenth- Seventeenth Dynasties). Current Research, Future Prospects. 2010. p. 127-138 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 192). - Die Entstehung des Hyksosstaates. Versuch einer sozioarchäologischen Modellbildung anhand der materiellen Kultur Tell-el Dab’as. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Czerny, Ernst (Editor); Hein, Irmgard (Editor) et al.
Timelines, Festschrift Manfred Bietak. 2006. p. 93-102 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). - Discovery of a New Palatial Complex in Tell el-Dab’a in the Delta: Geophysical Survey and Preliminary Archaeological Verification. / Bietak, Manfred; Herbich, Tomasz; Hawass, Z (Editor) et al.
The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt, essays in Honor of David B. O’Connor. Kairo, 2006. p. 119-126. - Tombs and Burial Customs at Tell el-Dab'a in Area A/II at the End of the MBIIA Period (Stratum F). / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Bietak, Manfred (Editor).
The Middle Bronze Age in the Levant. Proceedings of an International Middle Bronze Age Conference on MBIIA Ceramic Material in Vienna 24th-26th of January 2001. 2002. p. 163-184. - The Beginning of the Hyksos Period at Tell el-Dab’a: A Subtle Change in Material Culture. / Bietak, Manfred; Forstner-Müller, Irene; Mlinar, Christa et al.
Contributions to the Archaeology and History of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of Paul Aström. 2001. p. 171-181. - Ein rituelles Mahl und die Aufgabe eines Palastes. / Forstner-Müller, Irene; Bietak, Manfred; Kohbach, M (Editor) et al.
Festschrift für Hermann HungeFestschrift für Hermann Hunger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern. 2007. p. 211-34 (Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes).
- Nubian Pottery from Egyptian Cultural Contexts of the Middle and Early New Kingdom. Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Cairo, 1-12 December 2010. / Forstner-Müller, Irene (Editor); Rose, Pamela (Editor); Institut, Österreichisches Archäologisches (Editor in Series).
Wien, 2012. (ErghÖJh 13).