Miriam Müller
University Lecturer Egyptian Archaeology, Art and Material Culture
- Name
- Dr. M. Müller
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4859
- m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4326-7130
Miriam Müller is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
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Miriam Müller is a university lecturer in Egyptian archaeology, art and material culture at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies and especially interested in the spatial organization of domestic architecture in the pharaonic period and its social implications. She is working on aspects of the formation of identity at the household level, in particular through ancestor cults, and with a focus on the borderlands of the Egyptian empire. Here she explores the mixing and mingling of different cultures on the periphery of the Egyptian state.
Miriam received her PhD from the University of Vienna where she worked on the material from the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s excavations in Tell el-Dab'a in the Eastern Nile Delta. On the basis of the documentation and finds of a residential area she explored the field of household archaeology and its benefits for Egyptian archaeology. Miriam is the editor of the conference proceedings “Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches”. Her research on a neighborhood of the ancient city of Avaris was published as a volume of the Tell el-Dabca excavation series.
Within her research Miriam has worked on settlements from different time periods, from core and periphery of the Egyptian empire. She has participated in excavations in Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Austria and Germany and is the co-director of the Material Culture field school at Saqqara (together with Sarah Schrader/Archaeology).
Prior to her appointment at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Miriam was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Adjacent to her role as lecturer she is also currently holding the post of director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO).
University Lecturer Egyptian Archaeology, Art and Material Culture
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES Egyptologie
- Müller M. (2024), Household and Family in Pharaonic Egypt. In: Tobias L. Kienlin (Ed.), Household Practices and Houses : Current Approaches from Archaeology and the Sciences. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie no. 399. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH. 175-190.
- Müller M. (2023), Tell el-Dabʿa XIV.2: Das Stadtviertel F/I in Tell el-Dab'a/Auaris – multikulturelles Leben in einer Stadt des späten Mittleren Reiches und der Zweiten Zwischenzeit no. 41. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press.
- Müller M. (2023), Greco-Roman Households in Egypt from the Pharaonic Perspective. In: Barrett C.E. & Carrington J. (Eds.), Households in context: dwelling in ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Cornell University Press. 323-331.
- Müller M. (2022), Household or workshop production: socio-economic strategies at Avaris. Sigl J. (Ed.), Daily life in Ancient Egyptian settlements. Symposium "Daily Life in Ancient Egyptian Settlements" 27 March 2019 - 27 March 2019. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 75-92.
- Müller M. (2022), Sidder Grove in the Delta: a perspective on Heqanakht’s domestic setting. In: Lehner M., Štubnová Nigrelli S. & Almansa-Villatoro M.V. (Eds.), In the House of Heqanakht. Text and context in Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of James P. Allen. Leiden: Brill. 108-121.
- Müller M. (2021), Houses, Housing, Household Formation, Pharaonic Egypt. In: Potts D.T., Neelis J., Mcintosh R.J. & Harkness E. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa.
- Del Vesco P., Greco C., Müller M., Staring N.T.B., Weiss L.V., Gasperini V., Rossi C., Salvador A., Scheers A.J., Schrader S.A. & Warner N. (2019), Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara. A Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season, Rivista del Museo Egizio 3: 1-25.
- Müller M. (2019), Appropriation of Territory through Migrant Ritual Practices in Egypt’s Eastern Delta. In: Staring N., Twiston Davies H. & Weiss L. (Eds.), Perspectives on Lived Religion. Practices, Transmission, Landscape. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 27-38.
- Müller M. (2019), Mariette, François Auguste Ferdinand. In: Helmer C., McKenzie S.L., Römer T., Schröter J., Walfish B.D. & Ziolkowski E.J. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
- Müller M. (2018), Foundation deposits and strategies of place-making at Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris, Near Eastern Archaeology 81(3): 182-190.
- Müller M. (Ed.) (2015), Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches no. 10. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
- Müller M. (2015), Modelling Household Identity in a Multi-ethnic Society, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 30(1): 102-112.
- Müller M. (2015), New Approaches to the Study of Households in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt. In: Grajetzki W. & Miniaci G. (Eds.), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1500 BC). London: Golden House Publications. 237-255.
- Müller M. (2015), Introduction. In: Müller M. (Ed.), Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. xii-xlii.
- Müller M. (2015), Late Middle Kingdom Society in a Neighborhood of Tell el‐Dab'a/Avaris. In: Müller M. (Ed.), Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 339-370.
- Müller M. (2014), Deir el-Medina in the Dark – the Amarna Period in the History of the Village: Workmen Moving to Akhetaten?. In: Toivari-Viitala J., Vartiainen T. & Uvanto S. (Eds.), Deir el-Medina Studies. Helsinki: Multiprint Vantaa. 156-168.
- Müller M. (2014), Feasts for the Dead and Ancestor Veneration in Egyptian Tradition. In: Rimmer-Herrmann V. & Schloen J.D. (Eds.), Remembrance of Me. Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. 75-84.
- Müller M. (2012), Das altägyptische Wohnhaus: Interaktion als Vergleichsmoment?. In: Rödel-Braune C. & Waschke C. (Eds.), Orte des Geschehens. Interaktionsräume als konstitutive Elemente der antiken Stadt. Berlin: LIT-Verlag. 244-263.
- Müller M. (2011), An Elite Quarter of Avaris/Tell el-Dab'a. In: Horn M., Kramer J., Soliman D., Staring N., Hoven C. van den & Weiss L. (Eds.), Current Research in Egyptology XI. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 105-115.