Project Repository of the ERC Starting Grant “Challenging Time(s)”



The Ruins of Memphis (Lepsius, Denkmäler, 1849, I.1, Bl. 10)


This repository is dedicated to the publications which present the research results of the ERC Starting Grant “Challenging Time(s) – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology” (GA Nr 757951, 2018–2023). In the years to come, publications will be added in due course with the aim to build up a comprehensive collection finally to comprise the entire output of this research project.

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Roman Gundacker
Principal Investigator




This research project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement Number 757951 and has been hosted at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Department of Classical Studies, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

2024

Charlotte Dietrich

Rethinking New Kingdom Coregencies and a Case Study on the Amarna Period

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_757951_Dietrich_CRE_2023

Roman Gundacker

The King’s Purest Joy. Some Remarks on Two Hitherto Neglected Epithets of Queen Nefertiti

doi: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MRE-EB.5.137010

2023

Roman Gundacker

Haremhab und Ar-ma-a-aš. Einige ägyptologisch-sprachwissenschaftliche Bemerkungen.

doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.31.04

Johannes Jüngling, Felix Höflmayer

Early Dynastic/Old Kingdom Egypt and the Early Bronze Age Levant: The History of the 3rd and 4th Dynasties and New Radiocarbon Dates in Dialogue

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_Jüngling_Höflmayer_JAEI_37

Annik Wüthrich

The So-Called Chapitres Supplémentaires (author’s version)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190210007.013.20

2022

Charlotte Dietrich

Ein besonderer basilophorer Name am Beginn des Neuen Reiches

doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.30.03

Roman Gundacker

The Morphological and Graphical Substitution of Ältere Komposita. Etymological Archaism and Contemporaneous Perception as Opposing Principles

doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.30.04

Roman Gundacker

Visitors, Usurpers, and Renovators. Glimpses from the History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03956-0_2

Annik Wüthrich

Some Notes on the Question of Feminine Identity at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Dynasty in the Funerary Literature

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_757951_Wuethrich_Women_Egypt

2021

Roman Gundacker

Indirekte und direkte Evidenz für das Dreisilbengesetz. Überlegungen zur ägyptischen Sprachgeschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Namen Nofretete und Nefertari sowie einer ungewöhnlichen Schreibung des Toponyms Memphis.

doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.29.04

Johannes Jüngling

Hieratische Aktenvermerke

doi: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6202

Annik Wüthrich

Amon, dieu de la ville, dans le chapitre 23 du Livre des Morts

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_A.Wuethrich_Amon_dieu_de_la_ville_dans_le_chapitre_23_du_Livre_des_Morts

Annik Wüthrich

L’expression de la filiation à la XXIe dynastie : reflet d’une réalité historique ou simple effet de mode ? L’exemple du Livre des Morts

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_A.Wuethrich_L_expression_de_la_filiation_a_la_XXIe_dynastie:_reflet_d_une_realit_historique_ou_simple_effet_de_mode_L_exemple_du_Livre_des_Morts

Annik Wüthrich

« Pour qui me prenez-vous? » Autoprésentation féminine à la période libyenne

doi: https://doi.org/10.54641/journals/bseg.2021.e636

Annik Wüthrich

The Copenhagen Wooden Stela AAd6 from the National Museum of Denmark: An unusual Testimony of the 22nd Dynasty

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_The_Copenhagen_Wooden_Stela_AAd6_from_the_National_Museum_of_Denmark_An_unusual_Testimony_of_the_22nd_Dynasty

2020

Roman Gundacker

Zur Lesung des Eigennamens des dritten und fünften Königs der VI. Dynastie

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_R.Gundacker_Zur_Lesung_des_Eigennamens_des_dritten_und_fuenften_Koenigs_der_VI._Dynastie

2019

Roman Gundacker

Ist ḥśjw-mw „Wasserzauber“ ein ‚Älteres Kompositum‘? Untersuchungen zu einem terminus technicus der ägyptischen lingua magica

doi: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.27.05

Roman Gundacker

Manetho

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_R._Gundacker_Manetho

2018

Roman Gundacker

The Descent of Kawab and Hetepheres II

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_R._Gundacker_The_Descent_of_Kawab_and_Hetepheres_II

Roman Gundacker

The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty according to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_R._Gundacker_The_names_of_the_kings_of_the_Fifth_Dynasty