Ass.-Prof. i. R. Dr. Irmgard Hein

Projects

2022 – present

Project: Karnak East – Cooperation Ägypt. Altertümerverwaltung.

2013 – present

Project: "Karnak Nord - les dépots et mobilier du trésor de Thoutmosis Ier", Cooperation IFAO/Cairo and Egyptian antiquities authorities. www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/operations/op17223/

2018-2021

ÖNB Jubiläumsfonds Project: 17916. Project leader. “Digitale Analyse und Visualisierung der Deltaresidenz der 18. Dynastie aus Tell el-Daba/Ägypten“.

         December 2018-December 2020 (2 years). Raised funds: 125.000.—

2006 – 2009

FWF P 18908 – N19. Project leader. The Plain White Wares of Late Bronze Age Cyprus - A Multidisciplinary Approach in Archaeological Methods (in collaboration with the Department of Lithospheres/University of Vienna and with VIAS). Raised funds: 138.850.-- € (three years).

1999 – 2011

FWF - S 1412, Director of the Special Research program SCIEM 2000,  Project Cyprus.  Director of 7 subprojects. 3 studies published, 2 conferences organized, 4 studies in final stage for publication. Raised funds: 636 122.-- €.

2002-2004

Jubiläumsfonds Projekt 8562: "Nordzypern im Wandel, von der Agrargemeinschaft zur Industriegesellschaft. Eine sozio-ökonomische Untersuchung am Friedhofsmaterial von Lapithos"

Archaeological Fieldwork

2022 – present

Karnak East, head of the mission, cooperation with the Egyptian Antiquities Auhorities

2013 – present

Head of the Archive Mission at Karnak North. Nine seasons, project by the IFAO (IFAO, Le Caire), in cooperation with the University of Vienna.

2015 – present

Cooperation partner of the Austrian Archaeological Institute

1988 – 2009

Tell el-Dabca, Egypt; cooperation with the Austrian Archaeological Institute, field director, instructor, documentation of objects and finds.

2009

Spanish Mission in Thebes, TT 11, tomb of Djehuty

2007 – 2008

British Museum mission at El-Kab,  tomb of Sobeknacht.

2007

Geomagnetic survey at Karnak-North, Univ. of Cambridge.

2007

Hierakonpolis, (ARCE Mission)

1993/94,1995/96, 2002 – 2005

Karnak North, the Treasury of Thutmosis I., IFAO (Institut francais d’archéologie orientale)

2000

Deir el-Bahari, Polish Mission at the Hatshepsut temple.

1992

EES Survey to Memphis.

Organised Conferences/ Workshops/ Exhibitions

2019

Organizer of the Workshop: Archaeological Finds and Analytical Methods. December 12-13th, Natural History Museum Vienna.

2016

Coorganizer of the SÄK (Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz), University of Vienna July 15-17^th 2016.

2012

One day Workshop:  Dams, Developments and Discourses in Sudan.  Thursday 22^nd of November.  (Cooperation:  Department of Archaeology and Forum for African Studies, University Uppsala and the Nordic Africa Institute).

International Workshop: The Pyramids: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, 31^st of May-1^st of June 2012. University of Uppsala.  (Collaboration Dept. of Archaeology and Dept. of Theology)

2011

Organization of the EMAC 2011 Conference (European Meeting of Ancients Ceramics), September  30^th -  October 1^st 2011, Vienna, Austria  (http://emac2011.univie.ac.at/), Cooperation of VIAS with the Museum of Natural History Vienna,  and the Department for Lithospheres, Univ. Vienna. 

Sweden, Uppsala:  Documentary exhibition about the work of the SJE in Nubia, “Rescue Nubia: 1961-1964; 50-years Anniversary of the Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia.” (September 2^nd – Dezember 2011).

Organization of the “NUBIAN DAY”, 12^th of November, Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala, with invited Speakers.

2008

Workshop: Regionalism in the Middle and Late Cypriot Periods, (2^nd Millenium B.C.), at the IVth International Cyprological Congress held at Nicosia from 29 April – 3 May 2008.

2005

Presentation of Archaeological methods at the Austrian Science Week for VIAS.

2004

Organization of the conference “The Lustrous-wheel-made-Wares of LB Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean”. ÖAW Wien.

1993/94

Organization of the exhibition: "Pharaonen und Fremde" (Pharaohs and Foreigners). 6.9. - 25.10.1994, Volkshalle des Wiener Rathauses.

1992

Organization of the exhibition "25 Years of Research. Excavations in Tell el-Dabca, Ancient Avaris" by the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo held at the Egyptian Museum Cairo.

Session chairs

2019

15th EMAC, Barcelona, session: Provenance and Networking. (15.-18. 9. 2019)

Workshop: archaeological finds &analytical methods (December 12^th-13^th, Vienna, Natural history Museum)

2018

ÖAI-Vienna: Archaeometry in Historical Archaeology. Kick off Workshop. 11.6.2018

2017

14^th EMAC Bordeaux, Session: Provenance and Network. (6^th-9^th of September)

2016

10^th ICAANE Vienna, Archaeology of Religion and Ritual. 25^th -29^th of April

2015

13^th EMAC Athens, September 24-26^th, Session: from pottery technologies to trade

2015

YEC - Congress of Young Egyptologists, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

2013

12^th EMAC 19-21 September, 2013 Padua, Session: Technology and Provenance.

2012

International Workshop: The Pyramids: Between Life and Death, 31^st of May-1^st of June 2012. Uppsala.

Selected Publications (2016-present)

For a complete list see the entry in u:cris

Editorialship

prepared for print:

Hein, I., (ed.), Potters Art in Red and Black: The Cypriot Bichrome Wheelmade Ware.  3 volumes (1600 pages text). With contributions by M. Artzy, C. Bergoffen, L. Crewe, M.H. Gates, M. Lindblom, H. Charaf, J.Y. Monchambert, R. Stidsing, E. Kozal, Y. Salmon.

Hein, I. Schauer, M., Hein, A., Kibaroglu, G.M., Molera, J., Polymeris G., and Pradell, T., Ceramic Analysis in the laboratory, Cam elements (in press).

2016

Hein, I., Billing, N., Meyer-Dietrich, E. (eds.), The Pyramids : between Life and Death. Proceedings of a workshop, held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 31^st of May - 1^st of June 2012. University of Uppsala. BOREAS 39.

Contributions to Scientific Journals/Publications

submitted for print

Hein, Irmgard, Comment on the Bichrome Wheel-made Ware juglet from Dendera. BCE 33. 

Hein, Irmgard, Bichrome decorated pottery in New Kingdom Egypt.

2024

Hein, Irmgard, Cabaj, Joanna and Haidegger, Alexander, “Karnak-Nord (2023)” [Note of archaeological project], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [Online], Egypt, Online since 01 May 2024, connection on 13 June 2024. URL: https://journals.openedition.org/baefe/10887.

Hein, Irmgard, What ‘Ezbet Helmi tells us about the East Mediterranean and Chronology, Actes de colloques, Chronos. Stratigraphic analysis, Pottery Seriation and Radiocarbon Dating in Mediterranean Chronology. aegis 26, Louvain, 2024, 84–115. 

2023

Hein, Irmgard, Rainer Pauer et Gerda Esche, « Karnak-Nord (2022) » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Égypte, mis en ligne le 01 juin 2023, consulté le 19 décembre 2023. DOI : doi.org/10.4000/baefe.8791.

Hein, Irmgard & Müller, Sandra, Modelling the Eighteenth Dynasty delta residence at ‘Ezbet Helmi (eastern Nile Delta) – the small platform F and its surroundings. Problems and hypotheses, 2021, in: Susanna Moser, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska, Jadwiga Iwaszczuk, Carlo Ruo Redda (Eds.), Ancient Egypt 2021, Perspectives of Research, Travaux de l’Institut des Cultures méditerranéenne et orientales de l’academie Polonaise des Sciences, tome 14. Warsaw – Wiesbaden 2023, 37-48 (Harrassowitz). ISBN 978-83-964024-5-5.

Hein, Irmgard & Müller, Sandra, Digital Documentation and Visualisation of the 18th Dynasty Delta Residence at ʿEzbet Helmi (Eastern Nile Delta), in: Ola el-Aguizy, Burt Kasparian (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, ICE XII, 3rd–8th November 2019, Cairo, Egypt, Volume I, Bibliothèque général 71, 143 -150.

2021

Hein, Irmgard & Müller, Sandra, Modelling the 18^th Dynasty delta residence at ‘Ezbet Helmi, (eastern Nile Delta) – the small platform F and surrounding. Proceedings of the 9^th European Conference of Egyptologists, submitted December 31, 2021. Book of abstracts, p. 24.

Hein, Irmgard, « Karnak Nord » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Égypte, mis en ligne le 30 mai 2021, consulté le 10 mai 2021. URL :  https://doi.org/10.4000/baefe.2814

Hein, Irmgard, Birgit Bühler, Maria Ivanova-Bieg, Günther-Karl Kunst, Mathias Mehofer, Gabriele Scharrer-Liska, Wolfgang Lobisser, Wolfgang Neubauer, and Immo Trinks. VIAS – the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science.  IANSA, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 12(1), 93-103. 2021. Published: February 23, 2021. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2021.1.6.

Hein, Irmgard, Digital documentation methods, in: Hein, Irmgard, Birgit Bühler, Maria Ivanova-Bieg, Günther-Karl Kunst, Mathias Mehofer, Gabriele Scharrer-Liska, Wolfgang Lobisser, Wolfgang Neubauer, and Immo Trinks. VIAS – the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science. IANSA, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 12(1), 96-97. 2021. Published: February 23, 2021. DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2021.1.6.

Hein, Irmgard, and Hutter, Kristina, Erinnerungsorte der Ägyptologie in Wien. Zwischen Wissenschaft, Weltgeschichte und kultureller Imagination. In:  M. Klemun, H. Szemethy, H.D. und F. Blakolmer (Hrsgr.), Science Tracing. Spuren und Zeichen im öffentlichen Raum. Kulturhistorisches Wissen der Universität Wien. 25 – 42. Böhlau Verlag Wien. 

2020

Hein, Irmgard, « Karnak-Nord – Storerooms » BAEFE [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Égypte, mis en ligne le 01 novembre 2020, URL : https://journals.openedition.org/baefe/1158.

Hein, Irmgard, Painted Pots from Pharaoh’s Palace. In: A.R. Warfe, J.C.R. Gill, C.R. Hamilton, A.J. Pettman, D.A. Stewart (eds), Dust, Demons and Pots. Studies in Honour of Colin A. Hope. OLA 289; 257-268. 12 pages. Incl. 2 tables, 3 figures. https://www.peetersleuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042941366&series_number_str=289&lang=en

Hein, Irmgard, and Müller, Sandra, Digital analysis and visualization of the 18th Dynasty delta residence at Tell el-Dab'a, Egypt. [online]. VIAS. University Vienna. First online July 2020.  https://vias.univie.ac.at/projekte/aktuell/tell-el-daba/

2019

Hein, Irmgard, Kapitel VII.F, Bichrom bemalte Waren, und Kapitel VII.G White Painted Waren und Imitationen; in: JANA HELMBOLD-DOYÉ - ANNE SEILER (Hrsgr), Die Keramik aus dem Friedhof S/SA von Aniba (Unternubien). Mit Beiträgen von Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, Irmgard Hein, Felix Höflmayer, Birgit Schiller. 11 Seiten Text, 7 Fototafeln, 5 SW Tafeln. De Gruyter Verlag (Berlin). 376-388.

2018

Hein, Irmgard, Second Thoughts on Cypriot Pottery and First Appearances, in: The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt:  Problems and Priorities of Current Research. Proceedings of the Workshop of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the  Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vienna, July 4 – 5, 2014, I. Forstner-Müller – N. Moeller (eds.)¸ Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, Heft 17, 125 – 142.

Blakolmer, Fritz & Hein, Irmgard, A ‘Special Procession’ in Minoan Crete as a Ritual of Rulership? A view from Egypt, in : Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25–29 April 2016, Vienna. Edited by B. Horejs, C. Schwall, V. Müller, M. Luciani, M. Ritter, M. Giudetti, R.B. Salisbury, F. Höflmayer and T. Bürge.  Vol. 1.  Archaeology of Religion and Ritual. Harrassowitz. 196-208.

2017

Hein, Irmgard, Rojas-Dominguez, Alfonso, Ornelas, Manuel, D'Ercole, Giulia, Peloschek, Lisa, Automated classification of archaeological ceramic materials by means of texture measures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.12.032

2016

Hein Irmgard, Billing, Nils, Meyer-Dietrich, erika, Introduction in: The pyramids: beween Life and Death. Proceedings of a workshop, held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 31^st of May - 1^st of June 2012. Ed. by I. Hein, N. Billing and E. Meyer-Dietrich; University of Uppsala. BOREAS 3. 7-10.

Radio

2020

Hein Irmgard,  Königin und Herrin des Hauses: Frauen im Alten Ägypten, Radiosendung, Betrifft : Geschichte, January 20th-24th,  ORF Ö1, Österreich.