Mgr. Renata Landgráfová, Ph.D.

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Academia

 

Renata Landgráfová partook at courses in comparative linguistics at Harvard University, USA and in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. She graduated in Egyptology and linguistics-phonetics at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. Between 2002 and 2004 she studied in the PhD. programme at the Egyptological seminar of the University of Basel in Switzerland. In 2008 she defended her PhD thesis on Topic-Focus articulation in the biographical inscriptions of the Middle Kingdom. Since 2008 she is a regular member of the Czech archaeological mission at Abusir. Currently, her main research focus is the translation and interpretation of the religious texts from the shaft tombs of the Saite-Persian period.

Education, scholarships

  • 1994 courses in historical linguistics and archeology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • 1995-1996 study of Egyptology and ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
  • 1996-2001 undergraduate studies of Egyptology and linguistics-phonetics at the CU FA (MA Thesis Fragments of faience inlays from the funerary temple of King Raneferef)
  • 2000-2001 government stipend at the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University (Egypt)
  • 2001-2007 PhD studies at the CU FA, Egyptology
  • 2002-2004 studies at the PhD programme of the Egyptological seminar of the University of Basel, Switzerland
  • leden 2008 defense of dissertation thesis Topic-Focus Articulation in the Biographical Texts and Letters of the Middle Kingdom (Dynasties 11 and 12)
  • říjen 2008 – září 2010 Freie Universität Berlin, Graduiertenkolleg Schriftbildlichkeit, Postdoc
  • leden – březen 2012 Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Mellon-Fellow
  • 2014 – přednášející, HU Berlin, Autobiographien des Mittleren Reiches
  • 2014 – Excellenz-cluster TOPOI, Research area C-1, Deixis and Frames of Reference, senior-fellow

Selected bibliography

Monographs:

  • Renata Landgráfová – Ladislav Bareš – Diana Míčková, The shaft tomb of Menekhibnekau II: the texts.[Abusir XXIX], Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2022.
  • Miroslav Bárta – Jiří Janák – Renata Landgráfová (eds.), Sluneční králové. Katalog / Kings of the Sun. Catalogue, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2021.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Hana Navrátilová (ed.), Sex and the Golden Goddess II: World of the Love Songs. Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2015.
  • It is My Good Name that You Should Remember. Egyptian Biographical texts on Middle Kingdom Stelae. Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague,  2011.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Hana Navrátilová, Sex and the Golden Goddess I: Ancient Egyptian Love Songs in Context. Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague,  2009.
  • Písně Zlaté bohyně. Milostná poezie starého Egypta, Praha, SET OUT 2007.
  • Faience Inlays from the Funerary Temple of King Raneferef – Raneferef’s Substitute Decoration Programme. [Abusir XIV], Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 2006.

Articles:

  • Jiří Janák – Renata Landgráfová, “Snakes and Serpentine Beings in Egyptian Mythology of the Late Period as Attested in the Shaft Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir” in: D. Zhang Cziráková – M. Bucková – V. Verešová (eds.), The Role of Animals and Mythological Creatures on Global Cultures, Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 2022: 9-23.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Diana Míčková “Better safe than sorry: Spells for countering evil magic from the tomb of Iufaa” in F. Coppens, J. Janák, K. Smoláriková (eds.), Knowledge and Memory. Festschrift in honour of Ladislav Bareš,
    Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 2022: 293-310.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Jiří Janák, “A Handbook of a Kherep-Selket from the Tomb of Iufaa: The Book of Primeval Snakes”, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 148/2, 2021, 180-206.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Jiří Janák – Diana Míčková, “Iufaa as a sun priest and his false window: going forth into daylight at the eastern horizon”, in: Bárta, Miroslav – Coppens, Filip – Krejčí, Jaromír (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts 2021, 323-332.
  • Renata Landgráfová – Diana Míčková, “Secrets of the laboratory (jz). The mummification ritual on the southern wall of the burial chamber of Iufaa at Abusir”, in: Bárta, Miroslav – Coppens, Filip – Krejčí, Jaromír (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts 2021, 359-369.
  • “Self-Presentation in the Eleventh Dynasty”, in: Hussein Bassir (ed.), Living Forever: Self-presentation in Ancient Egypt, Cairo: the AUC Press 2019, 89-104.
  • “No imagined worlds, no imagined achievements. Veracity Statements in Twelfth Dynasty auto/biographies with military-like topic”, in: G. Miniaci, M. Betro, S. Quirke (eds.): Company of Images: Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1500 BC) Proceedings of the International Conference of the EPOCHS Project held 18th-20th September 2014 at UCL, London (OLA 262), London 2017.
  • „Breaches of Cooperative Rules: Metaphors and Parody in ancient Egyptian love songs“, in: Don your wig for a happy hour: Proceedings of the conference on sex and gender in ancient Egypt, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales 2008.
  • Jiří Janák – Renata Landgráfová, „Wooden fragments with some chapters of the Book of the Dead belonging to Neferibreseneb Nekau“, in: Totenbuch–Forschungen: Gesammelte Beitraege des 2. Internationalen Totenbuch–Symposiums, Bonn 25.–29. September 2005, (Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 11), 2007.

Complete bibliography can be found here.

Last updated 10.7.2023

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