Kathrin Gabler
Kathrin Gabler is a German Egyptologist. She is the current professor of Egyptology at the University of Mainz, a German U15 research university, and a specialist on Deir el-Medina prosopography, Hieratic script, and Egyptian archaeology.[1][2][3]
Education and academic career
[edit]Kathrin Gabler received her Magister Artium degree at the University of Munich in 2010. She obtained her doctoral degree at the same university in 2016 after a stay at Leiden University.[1] After that she taught Egyptology at the University of Munich, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Basel,[4], and the University of Copenhagen.[1] In Basel Gabler participated in the Crossing Boundaries project[2] on the written material from Deir el-Medina. In 2023–2024 she worked at the Cairo Division of the German Archaeological Institute.[1][3] In July 2024 Kathrin Gabler assumed the full professorship at the University of Mainz, succeeding Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen as the chair of Egyptology.[1]
Kathrin Gabler was a founding member and an original member of the governing board of the German Association of Egyptology (Verband der Ägyptologie).[5]
Field work
[edit]Kathrin Gabler has participated in diverse field projects in Egypt, including the British Museum epigraphic and conservation survey at Elkab and Hagr Edfu, the German excavations at the Deir el-Bakhit monastery.[1][6] Since 2024, she works at the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III in Kom el-Hettân.[1] As of 2024 Gabler is the manager of the German House in Luxor .[7] Since 2020, Kathrin Gabler is the director of excavations and restoration works at the Theban tomb TT217.[8][9]
Research
[edit]In her monograph, based on PhD dissertation, Gabler examined the service personnel at Deir el-Medina, tracing the data on individual occupations and establishing the patterns of social mobility within this group.[10] The lists of documents for the service personnel compiled in the course of the work are available in open access as part of the Deir el-Medina database.[11] According to Anne Austin, Gabler's book significantly advances the understading of service professionals at Deir el-Medina.[12] Gabler further published over 20 research papers, publishing new textual material and studying different aspects of life at Deir el-Medina and beyond.
Selected publications
[edit]- Gabler, Kathrin (2018). Who’s who around Deir el-Medina. Untersuchungen zur Organisation, Prosopographie und Entwicklung des Versorgungspersonals für die Arbeitersiedlung und das Tal der Könige. Egyptologische Uitgaven. Vol. 31. Peeters. ISBN 978-90-6258-231-0.
- Gabler, Kathrin (2018). "Can I stay or must I go? Relations between the Deir el-Medina community and their service personnel". In Dorn, Andreas; Polis, Stéphane (eds.). Outside the Box. Selected papers from the conference "Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact". Presses Universitaires de Liège. pp. 157–189. ISBN 978-2-87562-166-5.
- Gabler, Kathrin (2018). "Methods of Identification Among the Deir el-Medina Workmen and their Service Personnel: The Use of Names, Titles, Patronyms and Identity Marks in Administrative Texts from Deir el-Medina". In Haring, B. J. J.; van der Moezel, K. V. J.; Soliman, D. M. (eds.). Decoding Signs of Identity. Egyptian Workmen's Marks in Archaeological, Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Perspective. Peeters. pp. 191–218. ISBN 9789042937055.
- Gabler, Kathrin; Salmas, Anne-Claire (2022). ""Make yourself at home": some "house biographies" from Deir el-Medina, with a special focus on the domestic (and funerary) spaces of Sennedjem's family". In Töpfer, Susanne; Del Vesco, Paolo; Poole, Federico (eds.). Deir el-Medina: through the kaleidoscope. Proceedings of the international workshop, Turin 8th-10th October 2018. Museo Egizio. pp. 75–141. ISBN 9788857018300.
- Gabler, Kathrin (2017). "Stele Turin CGT 50057 (= Cat. 1514) im ikonografischen und prosopografischen Kontext Deir el-Medines: nb.t-pr Mw.t(-m-wjꜣ) (vi) im Spannungsfeld der Mächte der Taweret und des Seth?". Rivista del Museo Egizio. 1. doi:10.29353/rime.2017.892.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler". The University of Mainz. 2024-09-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03.
- ^ a b "Kathrin Gabler – Crossing Boundaries". 2024-08-22. Archived from the original on 2024-08-22.
- ^ a b "DAI - Dr. Kathrin Gabler". German Archaeological Institute. 2024-08-22. Archived from the original on 2024-08-22.
- ^ "Dr. Kathrin Gabler". University of Basel. 2022-12-18. Archived from the original on 2022-12-18.
- ^ "Wir über uns". Verband der Ägyptologie. 2024-09-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03.
- ^ Kathrin Gabler (2024-08-22). "About me". Archived from the original on 2024-08-22.
- ^ "Verband der Ägyptologie. Newsletter #4" (PDF). Verband der Ägyptologie. June 2024. p. 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-08-22.
- ^ "TT 217 – The Tomb of the Sculptor Ipuy in Context (personal webpage)". 2024-09-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03.
- ^ "TT 217 - The Tomb of the Sculptor Ipuy in Context (University of Basel webpage)". University of Basel. 2024-03-03. Archived from the original on 2024-03-03.
- ^ Gabler, Kathrin (2018). Who’s who around Deir el-Medina. Untersuchungen zur Organisation, Prosopographie und Entwicklung des Versorgungspersonals für die Arbeitersiedlung und das Tal der Könige. Egyptologische Uitgaven. Vol. 31. Peeters. ISBN 978-90-6258-231-0.
- ^ "smd.t lists / document lists for the service personnel of Deir el-Medina". The Deir el-Medina Database, Leiden. 2024-09-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03.
- ^ Austin, Anne (2020). "Gabler, Kathrin: Who's Who around Deir El-Medina. Untersuchungen zur Organisation, Prosopographie und Entwicklung des Versorgungspersonals für die Arbeitersiedlung und das Tal der Könige". Orientalitische Literaturzeitung. 115 (1): 27–29. doi:10.1515/olzg-2020-0005.
Further reading
[edit]- "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler". The University of Mainz. 2024-09-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-03.
- Crossing Boundaries – Dr. Kathrin Gabler, Stephan M. Unter on YouTube
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