Diana Míčková, Czech Egyptological Institute, Charles University, Prague

Diana Míčková
Doctoral Research Fellow
Egyptology

Czech Institute of Egyptology
Faculty of Arts
Charles University
nám. Jana Palacha 2
116 38 Prague 1
Czech Republic
diana.mickova@ff.cuni.cz

About

Diana Míčková is an Egyptologist and currently a collaborator of the project Alchemies of Scent at the Department of Ancient and Medieval Thought Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is also a member and PhD candidate at the Czech Institute of Egyptology and PhD student at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies of Charles University in Prague. Her work focuses mostly on translation and analysis of religious texts from the Saite-Persian shaft tombs at Abusir and she regularly participates on archaeological expeditions at Abusir under the Czech Institute of Egyptology. She also teaches Egyptian language and literature at the Charles University in Prague.

She publishes on ancient Egyptian religious texts, magic and rituals, Egyptian literature and on the ancient art of memory. She is co-author, with Renata Landgráfová, of the forthcoming volumes on the texts from the tombs of Menekhibnekau and Iufaa at Abusir, she is also co-author of the book of new Czech translation of the Middle Egyptian stories and open-access database of their interlinear glossing (together with Dorotea Wollnerová). The project is online here.

At Alchemies of Scent, she is collaborating on the project’s lexicon of Egyptian perfumery texts based particularly on the analysis of texts from the Laboratory of Edfu.

Recent Publications

  • “Secrets of the Laboratory (jz) – The mummification ritual on the southern wall of the burial chamber of Iufaa at Abusir.” With Renata Landgráfová. In Bárta, M., Coppens. F., Krejčí, J. (eds.). Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020, 2021, 349–359.

  • “Iufaa as a sun priest and his false window. Going forth into daylight at the eastern horizon.” With Renata Landgráfová and Jiří Janák. In Bárta, M., Coppens. F., Krejčí, J. (eds.). Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020, 2021, 323–332.

  • “Purification of the Whopper – Royal Purification Ritual in the Shaft Tomb of Iufaa at Abusir.” With Renata Landgráfová. In Coppens, F., Vymazalová, H. (eds.). XI. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung:The Discourse between Tomb and Temple, Wiesbaden, 2021, 183–208.

  • Poslyš vyprávění z časů tvých otců: Příběhy ze starého Egypta. With Dorotea Wollnerová. Academia, 2019. Winner of the Jan Palach Award 2020.

  • “The curious case of priest Iufaa: Preliminary remarks on texts on the inner side of the outer sarcophagus.” In: Current Research in Egyptology 2017: proceedings of eighteenth annual symposium, Access Archaeopress series, 2018, 116–125.