Prof. dr. O.E. (Olaf) Kaper
- Professor
- Egyptology
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2041 |
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| E-Mail: | o.e.kaper@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES Egyptologie |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 2.08b |
| Personal Homepage: | www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/staff/kaperoe.html |
Fields of interest
My fields of interest centre on Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Greek and Roman Periods, particularly in the fields of Egyptian religion, iconography, and cultural history. My particular specialisation is the study of the cultural history and the religious landscape of the Dakhleh Oasis. Based on extensive fieldwork since 1988 in five decorated temple sites, this study combines archaeological, textual, historical, religious and pictorial data to address questions of cultural change, particularly in Greco-Roman times.
NWO project
Symbolizing Identity: Identity marks and their relation to writing in New Kingdom Egypt
CV
Education
- PhD in Egyptology, University of Groningen (1997)
- Doctoraal in de Egyptische taal en letterkunde, Leiden University (1988)
- Kandidaat in de Egyptische taal en letterkunde, Leiden University (1984)
Employment, principal appointments
- Full Professor of Egyptology, Leiden University (since 2005)
- Directeur d'étude invité at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (2005)
- Lecturer in Egyptology, Leiden University (2003-2005)
- Lecturer in Egyptology, Monash University, Melbourne (2001-2002)
- Postdoc researcher for the Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, at the Humboldt University, Berlin (1999-2001)
- Assistant Director for Egyptology, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (1994-1996; 2003-2004)
- PhD researcher, Catholic University of Louvain (1993-1994)
- Visiting Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne (1991-1992)
- Egyptologist at the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo (1989-1990)
Key publications
A list of publications (PDF) between 1987 and 2004 appears at the bottom of this page.
Authored monographs
The Egyptian God Tutu: A Study of the Sphinx-God and Master of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 119, Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2003.
Temples and gods in Roman Dakhleh: Studies in the indigenous cults of an Egyptian oasis, PhD thesis Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, privately published 1997.
Edited volumes Broekman, G.P.F. & Demarée, R.J. & Kaper, O.E. (Eds.) (2009), The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties.Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007. Leiden/Leuven: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten / Peeters.
Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and early-Byzantine Periods: Proceedings of a colloquium held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo, 9-12 December 1996, ed. by O.E. Kaper, CNWS Publications 71, Leiden 1998.
Articles
2010 A Governor of Dakhleh Oasis in the Early Middle Kingdom. In: Woods, A., McFarlane, A., Binder, S. (eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society, Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, Volume I, Supplément aus annales du service des antiquités de l'Egypte 38, pp. 219-245. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt. Together with C.A. Hope
2010 Galba's Cartouches at Ain Birbiyeh. In: Lembke, K., Minas-Nerpel, M., Pfeiffer, S. (eds.), Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 41, pp. 181-201. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
2006 A Donation Stela in the Name of Takeloth III from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis, Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux 39 (2006), pp. 19-37, together with R.J. Demarée.
2002 ‘Policing the Desert: Old Kingdom activity around the Dakhleh oasis’, together with H.O. Willems and with an appendix by M.A. McDonald, in: R. Friedman (eds), Egyptand Nubia: Gifts of the desert, London, pp. 79-94.
2002 ‘Queen Nefertari and the Frog: On an amphibious element in the vignette to BD 94’, The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 13, pp. 109-126.
2002 ‘Pharaonic-Style Decoration in the Mammisi at Ismant el-Kharab: New insights after the 1996-1997 field season’, in: C.A. Hope and G.E. Bowen (eds), Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary reports of the 1994-1995 to 1998-1999 field seasons, Oxford and Oakville, pp. 217-223.
2001 ‘Local Perceptions of the Fertility of the Dakhleh Oasis in the Roman Period’ in: C.A. Marlow and A.J. Mills (eds), The Oasis Papers 1: The Proceedings of the First Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 6, Oxford, pp. 70-79.
1999 ‘Dipinti on the Temenos Wall at Deir el-Haggar (Dakhla Oasis)’, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire 99, pp. 233-258, together with K.A. Worp.
1995 ‘The Astronomical Ceiling of Deir el-Haggar in the Dakhleh Oasis’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81, p. 175-195.
Teaching
- Cultural history of the Greek and Roman Periods
- Egyptian religion and religious texts
- Egyptian archaeology
- Ptolemaic hieroglyphs
Archaeological fieldwork in Egypt
- Egyptologist/epigrapher of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, directed by A.J. Mills, 1988 to present
- Director of the Kellis Mammisi Project, 2004 to present
- Associate Director of the excavations of New York University at Amheida, directed by R.S Bagnall, 2005 to present
Selected administrative appointments and service to the profession
- Head of the School of Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), 2008 to present
- Director of the Institute TCMO (Talen en Culturen van het Midden Oosten), 2006-2008
- Member, Curatorium van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden, 2007 to present
- Chair, Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 2008 to present
- Head of the Department of Egyptology, Leiden University, 2005 to present
- Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, 2003 to present
2011
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Kaper, O.E. & Hope, C.A. (2011)
Egyptian Interest in the Oases in the New Kingdom and a New Stela for Seth from Mut el-Kharab. In: Collier, M. & Snape, S. (Eds.), Ramesside Studies in Honour of K.A. Kitchen, pp. 219-236. Bolton: Rutherford Press.
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Kaper, O.E. (2011)
Tempel an der "Rückseite der Oase": Aktuelle Grabungen decken eine ganze Kultlandschaft auf. Antike Welt, 2 (2011), pp. 15-19.
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Kaper, O.E. & Bettles, E. (2011)
The Divine Potters of Kellis. In: Aston, D., Bader, B., Gallorini, C., Nicholson, P., Buckingham, S. (Eds.), Under the Potter's Tree: Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), 204. , pp. 215-251. Leuven: Peeters.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2010
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Kaper, O.E. & Hope, C.A. (2010)
A Governor of Dakhleh Oasis in the Early Middle Kingdom. In: Woods, A., McFarlane, A., Binder, S. (Eds.), Egyptian Culture and Society, Studies in Honour of Naguib Kanawati, Volume I (Supplément aus annales du service des antiquités de l'Egypte), 38. , pp. 219-245. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt.
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Kaper, O.E. (2010)
A Kemyt Ostracon from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis. Bulletin de l'Institut Français Archéologie Orientale, 110, pp. 115-126.
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Kaper, O.E. (2010)
De lampenboom: Gebruik en betekenis van verlichting in het oude Egypte. Ta-Mery Jaarlijks magazine voor de vrienden van het oude Egypte, 3, pp. 81-89.
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Kaper, O.E. (2010)
Galba's Cartouches at Ain Birbiyeh. In: Lembke, K., Minas-Nerpel, M., Pfeiffer, S. (Eds.), Tradition and Transformation: Egypt under Roman Rule (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East), 41. , pp. 181-201. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
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Kaper, O.E. (2010)
Isis in Roman Dakhleh: Goddess of the Village, the Province, and the Country. In: Bricault, L. & Versluys, M.J. (Eds.), Isis on the Nile, Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: Michel Malaise in honorem (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World), 171. , pp. 149-180. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2009
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Kaper, O.E. (2009)
A Fragment from the Osiris Chapels at Dendera in Bristol. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 41, pp. 31-45.
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Kaper, O.E. (2009)
Amonnacht: een god gemaakt voor de oase Dachla. Ta-Mery Jaarlijks magazine voor de vrienden van het oude Egypte, 2, pp. 13-18.
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Kaper, O.E. (2009)
Epigraphic Evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis in the Libyan Period. In Broekman, G.P.F., Demarée, R.J., Kaper, O.E. (Eds.) The Libyan Period in Egypt, Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 (pp. 149-159).
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Haring, B.J.J. & Kaper, O.E. (Eds.) (2009)
Pictograms or Pseudo Script? Non-textual identity marks in practical use in Ancient Egypt and elsewhere. Proceedings of a Conference in Leiden, 19-20 December 2006. Leiden/Leuven: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten/Peeters.
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Kaper, O.E. (2009)
Restoring Wall Paintings of the Temple of Tutu. Egyptian Archaeology, 35, pp. 3-7.
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Kaper, O.E. (2009)
Soldier's Identity Marks of the Old Kingdom in the Western Desert. In Haring, B.J.J., Kaper, O.E., Zoest, C.H., van (Eds.) Pictograms or Pseudo Script? Non-textual identity marks in practical use in Ancient Egypt and elsewhere. Proceedings of a Conference in Leiden, 19-20 December 2006 Vol. 25 (pp. 169-178). Leiden and Leuven: NINO and Peeters.
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Broekman, G.P.F. & Demarée, R.J. & Kaper, O.E. (Eds.) (2009)
The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties. Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007. Leiden/Leuven: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten / Peeters.
(Book editorial)
2008
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Kaper, O.E. (2008)
'...En je trommelt maar op je buik: Ritme en recitatie in het oude Egypte. Ta-Mery Jaarlijks magazine voor de vrienden van het oude Egypte, 1, pp. 2-12.
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Kaper, O.E. (2008)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Le tombeau de Pétosiris]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXV, pp. 382-384.
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Hope, C.A. & Bowen, G.E. & Dolling, W. & Healey, E. & Kaper, O.E. & Milner, J. (2008)
The Excavations at Mut el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis in 2008. Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, 19, pp. 49-71.
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Kaper, O.E. (2008)
The Libyan Period in Egypt. Egyptian Archaeology, 32, pp. 38-39.
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Broekman, G.P.F. & Demarée, R.J. & Kaper, O.E. (2008)
The Numbering of the Kings called Shoshenq. Göttinger Miszellen: Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion, 216, pp. 9-10.
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Schijns, W. & Kaper, O.E. & Kila, J. (2008)
Vernacular Mud Brick Architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt and the Design of the Dakhleh Oasis Training and Archaeological Conservation Centre. (Dakhleh Oasis Project Monographs, 10). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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2007
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Kaper, O.E. (2007)
Astronomie en astrologie in het oude Egypte. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 53 (2-3), pp. 70-83.
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2006
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Kaper, O.E. & Demarée, R.J. (2006)
A Donation Stela in the Name of Takeloth III from Amheida, Dakhleh Oasis. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 39, pp. 19-37.
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Kaper, O.E. (2006)
A new temple for Thoth in the Dakhleh Oasis. Egyptian Archaeology, 29, pp. 12-14.
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Kaper, O.E. (2006)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Gods and men in Egypt 3000 BCE to 395 CE, Ithaca/London 2004, translated from the French by David Lorton]. In: Palarch
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Bagnall, R.S. & Davoli, P. & Kaper, O.E. (2006)
La notizia del mese: Amheida, il più grande città romana nell'oasi di Dakhla. Pharaon Magazine. Alla scoperta dell'antico Egitto, II (9/10), pp. 6-17.
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Bagnall, R.S. & Davoli, P. & Kaper, O.E. & Whitehouse, H. (2006)
Roman Amheida: Excavating A Town in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. MINERVA: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, 17 (6), pp. 26-29.
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Kaper, O.E. & Zoest, C., van (2006)
Treasures of the Dakhleh Oasis. Cairo: Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo.
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Kaper, O.E. (2006)
object beschrijvingen. In: Warmenbol, E. (Ed.), Sfinx: De wachters van EgypteBrussel: ING België en Mercatorfonds.
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2005
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Kaper, O.E. (2005)
Katalognummern 188-199. In: Beck, H., Bol, P.C., Bückling, M. (Eds.), Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührung, pp. 611-619. Tübingen/Berlijn: Wasmuth Verlag.
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Kaper, O.E. (2005)
La religion égyptienne dans l'oasis de Dakhla. Annuaire de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des sciences religieuses. Résumé des conférences et travaux, 113, pp. 135-139.
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Kaper, O.E. (2005)
Synkretistische Götterbilder in hellenistische und römischer Zeit. In: Beck, H., Bol, P.C., Bückling, M. (Eds.), Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührung, pp. 305-309. Tübingen/Berlijn: Wasmuth Verlag.
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2004
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Kaper, O.E. & Mills, A.J. (2004)
'Ain el-Gazzareen: Developments in the Old Kingdom settlement. In Bowen, G.E. & Hope, C.A. (Eds.) The Oasis Papers III: The Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (pp. 123-129). Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books.
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Kaper, O.E. (2004)
Mithras im ptolemäischen Ägypten. In Bol, P.C., Kaminski, G., Maderna, C. (Eds.) Fremdheit - Eigenheit: Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom, Austausch und Verständnis (pp. 557-564). Stuttgart: Offizin Chr. Scheufele.
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Kaper, O.E. (2004)
The Decoration of North Tomb 1. In Bowen, G.E. & Hope, C.A. (Eds.) The Oasis Papers III: The Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (pp. 323-330). Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books.
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Kaper, O.E. (2004)
The god Tutu at Kellis: On two stelae found at Ismant el-Kharab in 2000. In Bowen, G.E. & Hope, C.A. (Eds.) The Oasis Papers III: The Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (pp. 311-321). Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Worp, K.A. & Kaper, O.E. (1999)
Greek Dipinti on the Temenos Wall at Deir el-Haggar (Dakhleh Oasis). Bulletin de l'Institut Français Archéologie Orientale, 99, pp. 233-258.
(Article)
1995
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Worp, K.A. & Kaper, O.E. (1995)
A Bronze representing Tapsais of Kellis. Revue d'Egyptologie, 46, pp. 107-118.
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