About the Centre

Current Occupation

• Research Associate at the CES RAS;
• Collaborates with the Benaki Museum (Athens), studying the faience collection and all the other (few) Egyptian antiquities, in order to publish them in a complete catalogue; she also collaborates with the National Archaeological Museum of Athens for the re–opening of the Egyptian Collection and the publication of several objects (especially later sarcophagi and inscribed artifacts).

Activities

• Research on the astronomical elements in ancient Egyptian texts;
• Study of various ancient Egyptian artifacts (mainly made of faience);
• Writing and translating archaeological books;
• Preparation of Catalogue Raisonné for the Egyptian faience objects at the Benaki Museum in Athens;
• Editor in chief for several BAR International Series editions;
• Teaching of ancient Egyptian Grammar, Language and History to Greek archaeologists and students of Archaeology;
• Organization and active participation in egyptological and archaeoastronomical sessions at international scientific conferences, colloquia and congresses.

Publications

Author of more than 40 published works, including

• Sappho's Poetry and Ancient Egyptian Love Poems: A Field of Comparative Interpretation, 2// Werbart, B.I. (ed.) Cultural Interactions in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age (3000-500 BCE): Papers from a Session held at the European Association of Archaeologists 6th Annual Meeting in Lisbon 2000 (BAR International Series 985), 2001, p. 67-84.
• Helios et Re: Deux textes anciens vus par une astronome-égyptologue// Tozai 6 (2001), p. 49-72.
• Ancient Egyptian Inscribed Faience Objects from the Benaki Museum in Athens, 1// JNES 612 (2002), p. 81-109.
• Faience Objects of the Ancient Egyptian Collection at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, 1// GM 189 (2002), S. 61-80.
• Two Faience Shabtis from the Egyptian Collection at the Benaki Museum// Mouseio Benaki 2 (2002), p. 19-24.
• The Orientations of the Nine Tholos Tombs at Mycenae// Archaeoastronomy 27 (2002)(suppl. to JHA 32), S. 63-66.
• Some Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Social Life from the Study of the Principal Love Poem’s Ostraca from Deir ’al-Medina// Hawass, Z., & Pinch Brock, L. (eds.) Egyptology at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Egyptologists, Cairo 2000. Cairo–NY, 2003, v. III, p. 281-288.
• Cosmic Space and Archetypal Time: Depictions of the Sky–Goddess Nut in Three Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom and her Relation to the Milky Way// GM 197 (2003), S. 55-72.
• The Stellar Horizon of Khufu: Archaeoastronomy, Egyptology … and Some Imaginary Scenaria// Bickel, S., Loprieno, A. (eds.) Basel Egyptology Prize 1: Junior Research in Egyptian History, Archaeology, and Philology (AH 17), Basel, 2003, p. 55-74.
• Illumination of the Sacrarium in the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, its Astronomical Explanation, and Some Hints on the Possible Stellar Orientation of the Small Temple// Maravelia, A.-A., (ed.) Ad Astra per Aspera et per Ludum: European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin: Papers from a Session, held at the European Association of Archaeologists 8th Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki 2002, Oxford (BAR International Series 1154) 2003, p. 7-29 (in co-authorship with M.A.M. Shaltout).
• ptri.st mi Spdt xay m-HAt rnpt nfrt: Astronomical and Cosmovisional Elements in the Corpus of Ancient Egyptian Love Poems// Lingua Aegyptia 11 (2003), p. 79-112.
• Magic in Ancient Egypt: Metaphysical Quintessence of the Land of Gods, Athens, 2003. [Review of the book is available here]
• The Egyptian Golden Ring with Lapis Lazuli Inscribed Scarab at the Benaki Museum: Was it the Property of a Libyan Pharaoh of Dynasty XXII?// Mouseio Benake 4 (2004), p. 9-14.
• Among the Hidden Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: Searching for Forgotten Mummies, 2// Maravelia, A.-A., (ed.) Modern Trends in European Egyptology: Papers from a Session, held at the European Association of Archaeologists 9th Annual Meeting in ST Petersburg 2003. Oxford (BAR International Series 1448), 2005, p. 7-21.
• Le ciel selon l’Hymne Orphique à Ouranos et selon des textes funéraires égyptiens (PT, CT, BD): une comparaison pràliminaire// AntOr 4 (2005), p. 41-65.
• Les astres dans les textes religieux en Égypte antique et dans les Hymnes Orphiques (Thèse de Doctorat Présentée à l’Université de Limoges), Oxford (BAR International Series 1527), 2006, pp. 640 + xiv. [Review of the book is available here]
• La loi universelle et le temps selon les orphiques et selon les égyptiens// (accepted for oral presentation during the IAE 9th Congress in Grenoble), OLA 150 (2006), p. 1243-1250.

Honors and membership

• Member of the International Association of Egyptologists;
• Member of the European Association of Archaeologists;
• Member of the Société Européene pour l'Astronomie dans la Culture;
• Member of the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC);
• Member of the Hellenic Society for Aesthetics;
• Member of the Hellenic Shooting Society, etc.

See also

• Curriculum Vitae of Dr Amanda-Alice Maravelia [pdf-file, 279 KB]
• Full List of Publications of Dr Amanda-Alice Maravelia [pdf-file, 690 KB]

Contact

E-mail: maravelia@cesras.ru