Archaeology of Egypt III - AEA100019

• Title: Archeologie Egypta III
• Guaranteed by: Czech Institute of Egyptology (21-CEGU)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.; Mgr. Zuzana Nevyjelová
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.; Mgr. Zuzana Nevyjelová

Annotation

ARCHAEOLOGY OF EGYPT III
ARCHEOLOGIE EGYPTA III
(AEA100019 / Povinný předmět)



Lecturers
doc. PhDr. Filip Coppens, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zuzana Nevyjelová

Language of instruction: English

Type of attestation: Exam

Schedule: Friday February 20 – Friday March 27 (12 classes/6 weeks; 9.10–10.45, and 10.50–12.25)

Lecture room: C 505

Abstract
The course provides students with a detailed overview of the main characteristics and general development of ancient Egyptian material culture during the Third Intermediate Period, Late Period, and the Ptolemaic and Roman era (ca. 1000 BC – 400 AD), as well as up-to-date theoretical and methodological approaches. The aim of the course is to enable students to orient themselves well in time and space when confronted with Egyptian material culture of this era.

The course focuses on the following topics:
1. Historical setting
a. Third Intermediate Period and Late Period (Zuzana Nevyjelová)
b. Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Filip Coppens)
2. Funerary culture of the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period (Zuzana Nevyjelová)
3. Funerary culture of the Ptolemaic and Roman era (Filip Coppens)
a. General overview
b. Case study of the Theban region
4. Temple development throughout the first millennium BC (Late New Kingdom – Roman imperial times) (Filip Coppens)

Literature
* D. Arnold, Temples of the Last Pharaohs, New York 1999.
* R. S. Bagnall – D.W. Rathbone (eds.), Egypt from Alexander to the Copts. An Archaeological and Historical Guide, London 2004.
* A. K. Bowman, Egypt after the Pharaohs. 332 BC – AD 642. From Alexander to the Arab Conquest, Berkeley 1986.
* A. Dodson – S. Ikram, The Tomb in Ancient Egypt, London 2008.
* R. B. Finnestad, “Temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: Ancient Traditions in New Contexts”, in B. Shafer (ed.), Temples of Ancient Egypt, London–New York 1997, 185–237.
* W. Grajetzki, Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor, London 2003.
* G. Hölbl, Altägypten im römischen Reich. Der römische Pharao und seine Tempel I-III, Mainz 2000–2005.
* S. Ikram – A. Dodson, The Mummy in the Ancient Egypt. Equipping the Dead for Eternity, London 1998.
* C. Riggs (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, Oxford 2012.
* P. Maříková Vlčková – J. Janák – J. Mynářová – K. Smoláriková – C. Nauerth – B. Ostřanský, Hroby, hrobky a pohřebištĕ: starých Egypťanů, Praha 2009.

Last update: Coppens Filip, doc. PhDr. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (12.01.2026)