Marie Peterková Hlouchová is a postdoctoral researcher in the KREAS (Creativity and adaptability as conditions for the success of Europe in an interrelated world), Faculty of Arts, Charles University, project, and a researcher at the Czech Institute of Egyptology FA CU, and also the executive editor of the journal Prague Egyptological Studies. She graduated in Egyptology and History (M.A. programme) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, where she also finished the doctoral study programme. Since the year 2014, she has attended a number of inland as well as external international conferences, and she also coorganized the conference Current Research in Egyptology in Prague (2018).
Between 2018 and 2021, she was a member and the chair of the Permanent Committee of the Current Research in Egyptology conferences. Moreover, she has experience in field excavations from Egypt and Sudan. She focuses on the Old Kingdom religion and wooden coffins, as well as on the wooden coffins from the First Millennium BC found at Abusir.
Between 2017–2019, she participated in the project “The Rise and Development of the Solar Cult and Architecture in Third Millennium BC Egypt” (GA ČR, reg. no. 17-10799S). In 2013, she obtained an internal research grant of the FA CU: “Božstva se slunečními aspekty v době Staré říše/The gods with solar aspects during the Old Kingdom”.
In this project, she focuses on the wooden coffins and their socio-economic implications and on the religious significance of the burial containers.
Věra Nováková is a Ph.D. candidate at the CIE FA CU working in the archive of the CIE. Her thesis deals with the development of the Egyptian household during the Old Kingdom. Her previous research interest concerns ancient Egyptian stone sarcophagi and canopic jars of the Third Millennium BC, with a focus on their overall chronological development during the Old Kingdom and socio-economic importance.
Since 2018, she has participated in the Czech archaeological mission at Abusir and in the Egyptian mission at South Saqqara. Together with M. Bardoňová, she obtained a research grant for “Patronát jako základ společenské struktury a hospodářských vztahů Staré a Střední říše?/Did patronage play an important role in the ancient Egyptian social structure and economic relations (Old Kingdom – end of the Middle Kingdom)?” (GAUK 114815), and she also participated in GA ČR, No. 16-07210S: “Complex network methods applied to ancient Egypt data in the Old Kingdom (2700–2180 BC)”.
Her role in the project is to focus on the stone sarcophagi, reed coffins, socio-economic networks of the containers’ owners/producers and the distribution within selected households in the centre and provinces.
Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer specialises in wood and its economic, artistic and social networks in ancient Egypt. Formerly, she was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at University College London (2016–2018), a research associate at the ArScAN laboratory (CNRS-UMR 7041), a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jaén.
She is currently a member of the MORTEXVAR project directed by C. Gracia Zamacona (University of Alcalá de Henares) and member of the RIIPOA Network (www.riipoa.com) as coordinator of the axis dedicated to materiality. Combining knowledge of Egyptology and Archaeobotany, she collaborates as wood specialists with several international archaeological missions in Egypt: Qubbet el-Hawa (Qubbet el-Hawa Project, University of Jaén), Elephantine (Swiss Institute in Cairo), Deir el-Medina (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo = IFAO), where she leads a team of researchers specialised in the study of wooden furniture, and the Royal Necropolis of the Western Wadis (University of Cambridge). She was principal investigator of two projects (2016–2019) funded by the European Commission and IFAO. She is currently principal investigator of one research program at IFAO in collaboration with several international scientific partners (Museo Egizio, Turin, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, University College of London, University of Pisa).
In the project, she will concentrate on the wood analysis, technological aspects and prophylactic aspects of wooden coffins.
Dominika Uhrová is a Ph.D. candidate of Egyptology at the FA CU. Her diploma thesis was “Offering Tables from the T.g-Area of Djedkare’s Pyramid Complex: Evidence on personal cult in the monument of Queen Setibhor”. In her Ph.D. thesis, she focuses on the decorated burial chambers from the period of the Old Kingdom at the Memphite necropolis and their socio-economic implications.
In the present project, she deals with the pottery coffins and with the decoration of the wooden coffins.