Ricarda Gericke

Research Fellow

Contact information

ricarda.gericke@pharmazie 1 Roter Graben 10
35032 Marburg
R|07 Institutsgebäude

Organizational unit

Philipps-Universität Marburg Pharmazie (Fb16) Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie und Medizin

  • Research interest

    Mummification and burial practices in Ancient Egypt

    Archaeology and cultural studies of Ancient Egypt

    Dealer networks and collection contexts of egyptian objects in Germany

    Provenance research

  • Academic curriculum vitae

    since July 2024
    Research assistant in the AESOH project and PhD candidate, Philipps University Marburg
    Dissertation project on Egypt-related human remains

    2021–2024
    Student assistant for research data management in the Heliopolis Project with multiple excavation participations in Cairo, Egypt

    2022
    Intern in the Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

    2020–2021
    Student assistant in the DFG project "Preliminary work on a grammar of hieroglyphic documents of the 18th Dynasty - Royal Stelae up to Amenophis III"

    2019–2023
    Master's degree in Egyptology at the University of Leipzig,
    Master's thesis entitled: "Dummy canopic jars - A temporary special form of canopic jars. Observations on the meaning and use of visceral vessels from the Third Intermediate Period onwards"
    (original title: "Scheinkanopen - Eine temporäre Sonderform der Kanopen. Beobachtungen zu Bedeutung und Verwendung von Eingeweidegefäßen ab der Dritten Zwischenzeit")

    2019
    Excavation assistant at Arcontor Projekt GmbH

    2018
    Teaching excavation at the University of Göttingen's Prehistory and Early History Department in Watenstedt at the Hünenburg

    2017–2018
    Student assistant for the project "Papal documents of the Middle and High Middle Ages", Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

    2016–2019
    Bachelor's degree in Egyptology and Coptology as well as History at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

  • Publications

    Poster

    Gericke, Ricarda / Pommerening, Tanja: A cross-collection case study of Egypt-related human remains. 55th Permanent Egyptology Conference, 28-30 June 2024, Hamm.

    Talks

    Lecture at the 12th Steindorff Day on 10.11.2022, Egyptological Institute of the University of Leipzig.
    Title: "Objects from private collections - A search for clues to the acquisition, fate and significance of Wedel's dummy canopic jars"
    (original title: "Objekte aus Privatbesitz - Eine Spurensuche zu Erwerb, Schicksal und Bedeutung der Wedel'schen Scheinkanopen")

  • Current offices and memberships

    2020–2023
    Founder and speaker of the student representation for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Leipzig University 

  • Scholarships and awards

    2018
    Recipient of the Lower Saxony State Scholarship 

Status of information: September 2024

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