Melanie Wasmuth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3479152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Wasmuth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasmuth |
| SIGNATURE | WASMUTH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4206-9367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades. However, discussions of the social implications of kingship and queenship, comparisons of the gender roles, and their study across several empires remain rare. The paper at hand takes the unprecedented step of such a comparative analysis by tracing a specific detail of royal i…
Ahatabu and her Stela (ÄM 7707)
This article is the third in a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History , “Social Biographies of the Ancient World.” This article uses Bourdieusian Field Theory to examine the ancient biography of an Egyptian woman named Ahatabu ( Egyptian ꜢḫtꜢbw / Aramaic ’Aḥatabu ) attested in the mortuary stela Berlin ÄM 7707. It presents her funerary habitus’ use of multiple cultural traditions in Persian Egypt. Sketching the stela’s place within sever…
Social Biographies of the Ancient World. Studying Ahatabu, Jonathan, and Babatha through a Bourdieusian Approach
This article is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History , “Social Biographies of the Ancient World.” It sketches out an outline of Ancient Near Eastern social structures by utilizing sociological concepts first developed by Pierre Bourdieu. It is our contention that the concepts of field, capital, habitus , and the interplay between theory and practice facilitate the analysis of social structures under first millenni…
The Instruction of a Man for His Son in Finland (O. SES 23)
This short article is the publication of a hieratic ostracon (O. SES 23) from the Ramesside Period in the collection of the Finnish Egyptological Society that preserves parts of the title, the exordium, and the first paragraph of The Instruction of a Man for His Son. The provenance and the exact acquisition history of the ostracon are unknown, but indirect evidence suggests that it derives from Deir el-Medina and was acquired in Luxor by the late…
The Egypto-Aramaean Stela of Ahatabu (Berlin ÄM 7707)
The mortuary stela of a woman named Ahatabu, found in the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, is a uniquely customized artefact that gives insight into the multicultural environment of Achaemenid Egypt (526–332 BCE). The woman and her family seem to have lived in Marea in the western Delta, possibly in a garrison complex. The stela contains two inscriptions, one written in Egyptian hieroglyphic script and the other in Aramaic. The stela design draws on …
A Stranger in the House
The paper exemplifies how the modern semantic field of 'alterity' can be turned into a fruitful research approach for ancient Near Eastern Studies and where 'deviance' would be situated in such an approach. I ask how modern terms and concepts that intentionally or unconsciously enter our modern interpretation of ancient sources can be instrumentalised for countering historiographical 'othering.' The key idea is to turn the modern terms and underl…
Persika in der Repräsentation der ägyptischen Elite
Egyptian elite representation in the Twenty-seventh Dynasty features a number of statues with Persian honour awards. The following paragraphs discuss the socio-cultural significance of displaying Persian jewellery in the statues of Udjahorresnet in the Musei Vaticani, of Ptahhotep in the Brooklyn Museum, and of a man of unknown name in the Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. The context of these persika will be contrasted to those in the tomb reliefs of Peto…
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Persika in der Repräsentation der ägyptischen Elite
Egyptian elite representation in the Twenty-seventh Dynasty features a number of statues with Persian honour awards. The following paragraphs discuss the socio-cultural significance of displaying Persian jewellery in the statues of Udjahorresnet in the Musei Vaticani, of Ptahhotep in the Brooklyn Museum, and of a man of unknown name in the Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. The context of these persika will be contrasted to those in the tomb reliefs of Peto…
The Egypto-Aramaean Stela of Ahatabu (Berlin ÄM 7707)
The mortuary stela of a woman named Ahatabu, found in the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, is a uniquely customized artefact that gives insight into the multicultural environment of Achaemenid Egypt (526–332 BCE). The woman and her family seem to have lived in Marea in the western Delta, possibly in a garrison complex. The stela contains two inscriptions, one written in Egyptian hieroglyphic script and the other in Aramaic. The stela design draws on …
A Stranger in the House
The paper exemplifies how the modern semantic field of 'alterity' can be turned into a fruitful research approach for ancient Near Eastern Studies and where 'deviance' would be situated in such an approach. I ask how modern terms and concepts that intentionally or unconsciously enter our modern interpretation of ancient sources can be instrumentalised for countering historiographical 'othering.' The key idea is to turn the modern terms and underl…
Ahatabu and her Stela (ÄM 7707)
This article is the third in a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History , “Social Biographies of the Ancient World.” This article uses Bourdieusian Field Theory to examine the ancient biography of an Egyptian woman named Ahatabu ( Egyptian ꜢḫtꜢbw / Aramaic ’Aḥatabu ) attested in the mortuary stela Berlin ÄM 7707. It presents her funerary habitus’ use of multiple cultural traditions in Persian Egypt. Sketching the stela’s place within sever…
Social Biographies of the Ancient World. Studying Ahatabu, Jonathan, and Babatha through a Bourdieusian Approach
This article is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History , “Social Biographies of the Ancient World.” It sketches out an outline of Ancient Near Eastern social structures by utilizing sociological concepts first developed by Pierre Bourdieu. It is our contention that the concepts of field, capital, habitus , and the interplay between theory and practice facilitate the analysis of social structures under first millenni…
The Instruction of a Man for His Son in Finland (O. SES 23)
This short article is the publication of a hieratic ostracon (O. SES 23) from the Ramesside Period in the collection of the Finnish Egyptological Society that preserves parts of the title, the exordium, and the first paragraph of The Instruction of a Man for His Son. The provenance and the exact acquisition history of the ostracon are unknown, but indirect evidence suggests that it derives from Deir el-Medina and was acquired in Luxor by the late…
Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades. However, discussions of the social implications of kingship and queenship, comparisons of the gender roles, and their study across several empires remain rare. The paper at hand takes the unprecedented step of such a comparative analysis by tracing a specific detail of royal i…
Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)