Curriculum Vitae

Elsbeth Margreet van der Wilt

Current position

2019–current Manager at KPMG Germany (Berlin office).

Education:

2008–2014 DPhil Archaeology, Oxford University
The place of lead in an Egyptian port city in the Late Period

2000 – 2008 MA Egyptology, Leiden University

Courses and internships:
2016 American Numismatic Society, New York, Graduate Summer Seminar

Eight-week programme, under direction of Dr P.A. van Alfen 2002 Internship at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (3 months)

Fieldwork:

2009–2011 Maritime Museum,Alexandria storerooms, 4 seasons, data-collection for thesis, facilitated by Franck Goddio

2006–2008 Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP)–assistant-epigrapher to Prof. O.E. Kaper, for the Ain Birbiyeh temple (A.J. Mills) and the Amheida temple (Prof. R.S. Bagnall), 3 seasons

2005 Dutch mission in the New Kingdom Necropolis at Saqqara – epigraphic training by Prof. M.J. Raven and Dr R. van Walsem, University of Leiden

Publications:

Book:

In progress The weights of Thonis-Heracleion [working title]; for the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph series

Edited book:

2013 with J. Martínez Jiménez (eds), Tough Times: The Archaeology of Crisis and Recovery. Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and 2011. BAR Series no. 2478. Oxford, Archaeopress.

Peer-reviewed articles:

2022 Ritual versus mercantile, or ritual and mercantile? Temple treasury weights from Egypt and some thoughts on the connection between the ritual landscape and trade. In: Constructing, Remaking and Dismantling Sacred Landscapes in Lower Egypt from the Late Dynastic to the Early Medieval Period, D.J. Robinson and F. Goddio (eds). Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph 11. Oxford: 111–121.

2019 Marketplaces in Egypt in the first millennium BC: Locating an elusive mode of exchange. In: Weights and marketplaces: The phenomenology of places of exchange in a diachronic and multi-cultural perspective, L. Rahmstorf and E. Stratford (eds). Weight and Value 1. Göttingen: 227-243.

2019 Defining the foundation deposit in the Late and Ptolemaic periods; co-authored with Sanda Heinz. In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 105(2): 227-241.

2019 Ten lead buckets from Thonis-Heracleion: Dating and ritual practice. In: British Museum Studies for Ancient Egypt and Sudan 25.

2015 The weights in Thonis-Heracleion: An overview of the corpus and the implications of their spatial distribution for questions about trade and exchange. In: Heracleion in Context—Studies in the topography and material culture of Egypt's North-Western Delta, D.J. Robinson and F. Goddio (eds). Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph 8. Oxford: 157–168.

2014 Large lead containers from Egypt: Metal storage vessels? In: Anatolica XL: 219–231.

2010 Lead Weights and Ingots from Heracleion-Thonis: An Illustration of Egyptian Trade Relations with the Aegean. In: Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25–27 September 2009, Budapest, A. Hudecz and M. Petrik (eds). Oxford, Archaeopress.

Popular scientific articles and chapters:

2017 Thonis–Heracleion: Materiele cultuur aan de grens [Thonis– Heracleion: Material culture at the border]. In: Mehen 2016/17: 210– 25.

2016 Bronze Caches: Caches of the Sacred Animal Necropolis. In: Egyptian Archaeology 49: 43–6.

Book reviews:

2010 Bibliotheca Orientalis LXVII 1/2: 68-70; review of M. Cody, Egyptian Art. Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. Oxford University Press, 2004.

2009 Bibliotheca Orientalis LXVI 1/2: 119-22; review of G. Hölbl, Altägypten im Römischen Reich. Der römische Pharao und seine Tempel III. Heiligtümer und religiöses Leben in den ägyptischen Wüsten und Oasen. Philipp von Zabern, 2005.

2006 Bibliotheca Orientalis LXIII 1/2 (2006): 92-95; review of G. Hölbl, Altägypten im Römischen Reich. Der römische Pharao und seine Tempel II. Die Tempel des römischen Nubien. Philipp von Zabern, 2004.

Teaching experience:

2016–2017 WintersemesterattheFreieUniversitätBerlin,Lecturer Archaeology Module III: From the New Kingdom until the Romans: Egyptian archaeology in the first millennium BCE.

2014–2015 TutorattheEgyptExplorationSociety,London Middle Egyptian III (8 classes);

Middle Egyptian II (8 classes);
Middle Egyptian grammar refresher day-school;
and Introductory Middle Egyptian course (8 classes)

Tutor for MPhils and undergraduates in the course Egyptian History and Civilization for students in Oriental Studies, and Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Oxford, on the following topics:
1) role of the environment and state formation; 2) pyramids; 3) collapse of the Old Kingdom; 4) archaism in art history; 5) Egyptian temples

2013 Tutor for MPhils and undergraduates in the course Egyptian History and Civilization for students in Oriental Studies, and Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Oxford, for topics see above

2011 Tutor for undergraduates in the course Egyptian Art and Architecture, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, on decorative arts and Egyptian temples

2010 Lecturer Egyptian Art and Architecture, Undergraduate/MA/MPhil course, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford on decorative arts and Egyptian temples

Prior work experience:

2016–2017 DahlemResearchSchoolPOINTPostdoctoralFellowattheFreie Universität Berlin (until mid-February 2018)

Long-distance trade, monetization, marketplaces, and sanctuaries in the fourth century BC: Negotiating change in Egypt during the Achaemenid-Hellenistic transition

2015 project officer at Research Services, University of Oxford (6 months)

2014–2016 honorary research associate at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (24 months)

2014–2015 part-time faculty assistant in the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (12 months)

2014 part-time administrative assistant in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (7 months)

2011–2014 student-porter at Linacre College, Oxford (36months)

2008 full-time secretary in the personnel department of the Humanities faculty, Leiden University (6 months)

2006–2007 editorial assistant (part-time, 12months) Journal of Economic and Social History

2004–2007 assistantat ‘Studiepunt’, an information point for the Humanities Faculty, University of Leiden (part-time)

2004 – 2006 editorial assistant Bibliotheca Orientalis (part-time, 36 months)

2004 – 2006 guide at the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden

Organisational experience:

2010–2011 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) president, incl. organisation of GAO conference.

2009–2010 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) vice-president, incl. co- organisation GAO conference.

2004–2008 Friends of Saqqara Foundation, supporting Dutch archaeological work in Saqqara, Egypt; incl. organisation of study days:

2007 – 2008 vice-president

2005 – 2006 secretary

2004–2005 President, Advisory committee to the board of the Institute of the Middle East (incl. Egypt and ancient Near East).

2002–2003 Student-member of the board of Department of the Ancient Near East.

Awards and scholarships:

2016 EES grant with Sanda Heinz (Dartmouth) for archival work on North Saqqara Animal Necropolis archives held at the Egypt Exploration Society, London

2008–2012 Hiltischolarship2008–2012(all fees + maintenance)

Invited papers and conference papers:

2018 December: Université catholique de Louvain, invitation to speak on Egyptian metrology at the third Pondera Online Workshop in Louvain-la-Neuve.

2018 6 November: 51. Neuen Forschungen Berlin, Marktplätze in Ägypten im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.

2018 June: invitation to speak at colloquium on the occasion of the 90thbirthday of Prof. H.S. Smith, excavator of the North Saqqara Animal Necropolis.

2017 December 5: University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (TORS), invited lecture Finding market places in Egypt during first millennium BC.

2017 November 21: Leiden University, invited lecture for the Egyptology centre: Finding market places in Egypt during first millennium BC: Hiding in plain sight?

2017 October 19–21: Georg-August-Universität of Göttingen, Weights and marketplaces: The phenomenology of places of exchange in a diachronic and multi-cultural perspective conference.

2017 May 12–3: Freie Universität Berlin, (Mortuary) Temple – Monastery – Mortmain Property (waqf): The Economic Organisation of Religious Institutions in Egypt Workshop: Weighing in at the temple.

2017 March 2: University of Edinburgh, Guest lecture at Bachelor seminar series Maritime Archaeology: Thonis-Heracleion and long-distance trade in the Late and Ptolemaic Egypt.

2017 February 17–18: Universität Zürich, Religious landscapes of Egypt Conference, co-authored paper with Sanda Heinz: Caches and foundation deposits in the Late and Ptolemaic periods.

2017 January 3: Freie Universität Berlin, Ringvorlesung 2016/17 Frühe Ökonomien und modernes Wirtschaftsdenken: Political change— Economic change: The Achaemenid–Hellenistic transition in Egypt.

2016 November 18–21: Freie Universität Berlin, Workshop Economic Growth in Antiquity: Metal Usage and Economic Growth in Pre- Ptolemaic Egypt.

2016 July 13: New York, Egyptological Society of New York: Pots and Weights: Building a picture of trade in Thonis-Heracleion.

2016 March: Freie Universität Berlin, informal seminar: Trade and weights at Thonis-Heracleion.

2015 October 29–31: Orléans, Coins and texts: The monetary economy of Egypt, from the Persians until the beginning of Islam conference,Small transactions: On the role of the small and light weights from Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt.

2015 August 23–30: Florence, 11th International Congress of Egyptologists: Lead objects from Thonis-Heracleion: Dating and context.

2015 April 24–26: Houston, Annual meeting of the American Research Centre in Egypt (ARCE): A weighted perspective from Thonis- Heracleion.

2014 February: University of Oxford, Maritime Worlds seminar: Nautical Processions and temple terraces: The evidence from Thonis-Heracleion.

2014 January: London, study-day at the Egypt Exploration Society: Egypt Underwater: An exploration of Egypt’s Maritime Heritage.

2013 May: Oxford, Egyptology and Ancient Near East Postgraduate Seminar: From the bottom of the canal: Lead in Thonis-Heracleion.

2013 March: Oxford, Heracleion in Context conference: Exchange: Weights from Thonis-Heracleion.

2013 January: Exeter, departmental research seminar: Looking for a date: Lead containers from Thonis-Heracleion.

2012 January: Philadelphia, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting: A new perspective on Greek-Egyptian relations: Lead objects from Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt.

2011 December: London, British Museum Naukratis workshop: Lead containers: Work-in-progress.

2011 March: Strasbourg, Questions metallurgiques research seminar: Trade and trade relations at Heracleion-Thonis: The evidence from the lead weights and ingots.

2011 January: University of Oxford, Continuing Education study day: Trade and trade relations at Heracleion-Thonis: The evidence from the lead weights and ingots.

2010 June: London, British Museum Naukratis workshop: Lead objects from Thonis-Heracleion.

2009 September: Budapest, International Congress of Young Egyptologists: Lead weights and ingots from Heracleion-Thonis: An illustration of Egyptian trade relations with the Eastern Mediterranean.