Filip Coppens, Ph.D. 
15.12.2015
Filip Coppens graduated in archaeology and egyptology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He was a member and deputy field-director of the Belgian Archaeological and Epigraphical Mission to Shanhur (1995-2000) before joining the Czech Institute of Egyptology in 2001. He is interested in all aspects of the history and religion of Egypt in the Late and Ptolemaic and Roman period and specialises in the temples of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and the Ptolemaic language. He is a member of the Foundation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth and Egyptologica Vlaanderen.
Selected publications in the pdf format are available in the personal profile of Filip Coppens at Academia edu.
Education
1989-1993: M.A. in Archaeology, KU Leuven, Belgium (M.A. thesis: [/i]The Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom. An Architectural Study[/i])
1993-1995: M.A. in Egyptology, KU Leuven, Belgium (M.A. thesis: Egyptian Temples of the Roman Period in the Thebais)
2004-2008: Ph.D. in Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague(Ph.D. dissertation: The Complex of Wabet and Court in Temples of the Thirtieth Dynasty and Ptolemaic and Roman Period)
Selected bibliography:
Monographs:
- Filip Coppens, The Wabet. Tradition and Innovation in Temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman Period, Prague 2007.
- Hana Vymazalová and Filip Coppens, Moudrost svitků boha Thovta. Vědecké poznání za vlády faraonů, Praha 2011.
- Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens and Jaromír Krejčí (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010 I/II, Prague 2011.
- Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens, Hana Vymazalová et al., Abusir XIX. Tomb of Hetepi (AS 20), Tombs AS 33–35, and AS 50–53, Prague 2010.
- Ladislav Bareš, Filip Coppens and Květa Smoláriková (eds.), Egypt in Transition. Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE, Prague 2010.
- Filip Coppens and Květa Smoláriková, Abusir XX. Lesser Late Period Tombs at Abusir. The Tomb of Padihor and the Anonymous Tomb R3, Prague 2009.
- Miroslav Bárta, Filip Coppens and Jaromír Krejčí (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2005. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Prague (June 27– July 5, 2005), Prague 2006.
- Harco Willems, Filip Coppens and Marleen De Meyer, The Temple of Shanhûr I. The Sanctuary, the Wabet, and the Gates of the Central Hall and the Great Vestibule (1-98), (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 124), Leuven 2003.
- Filip Coppens (ed.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001. Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September 25th – 27th 2001), Archiv Orientální 70.3 (2002), 261-425.
Articles:
- “Designing the Sacred in early Ptolemaic times: A Continuum of Concepts”, in E. Frood – R. Raja (eds.), Redefining the Sacred: Religious Architecture and Text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC – AD 300, (Contextualising the Sacred I), Turnhout 2012. [v tisku]
- and Hana Vymazalová – Jiří Janák, “The Fifth Dynasty ‘Sun Temples’ in a Broader Context”, in M. Bárta – F. Coppens – J. Krejčí (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010 I, Prague 2011, 430-442.
- and Hana Vymazalová, “Statues and Rituals for Khentkaus II. A reconsideration of some papyrus fragments from the Queen’s funerary complex”, in M. Bárta – F. Coppens – J. Krejčí (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010 II, Prague 2011, 335-350.
- and Hana Vymazalová, “Medicine, Mathematics and Magic united in a scene from the Temple of Kom Ombo (KO 950)”, Anthropologie – International Journal of the Science of Man, Brno 2011, 9-13.
- and Jiří Janák, “Blood in Ancient Egyptian Religion”, in J. Pešek – F. Wiesemann (eds.), Blut. Perspektiven in Medizin, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, (Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte im östlichen Europa 38), Essen 2011, 19-26.
- and Jana Mynářová, “Prostration before God and Pharaoh”, in Callender, V. G. – Bareš, L. – Bárta, M. – Janák, J. – Krejčí, J. (eds.), Times, Signs and Pyramids. Studies in Honour of Miroslav Verner on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Prague 2011, 283–295
- “Funerary Practices in Ptolemaic and Roman Temples. A Case–Study of the Complex of Wabet and Court”, in H. Györy (ed.), Aegyptus et Pannonia IV. Acta Symposii anno 2006, Budapest 2011, 13–37
- “Linen, Unguents and Pectorals. Instruments of Regeneration in Ptolemaic and Roman Temples”, in M. Dolinska – H. Beinlich (eds.), 8th Egyptological Tempeltagung. Interconnections between Temples, (Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft Früher Hochkulturen 3,3), Wiesbaden 2010, 39-55.
- and Hana Vymazalová, “Long Live the King! Notes on the Renewal of Divine Kingship in the Temple”, in L. Bareš – F. Coppens – K. Smoláriková (eds.), Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE, Prague 2010, 73-102.
- “Temple Festivals of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods”, in J. Dieleman – W. Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles 2009. (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cd7q9mn).
- and Hana Vymazalová, “The Clothing Rite in the Royal Temples of Abusir”, in P. Maříková–Vlčková – J. Mynářová – M. Tomášek (eds.), My Things Changed Things. Social Development and Cultural Exchange in Prehistory, Antiquity, and Middle Ages, Prague 2009, 64-73.
Complete bibliography can be found here.
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