Alexandre Loktionov
- Alexandre Loktionov has been at HSE University since 2021.
Responsibilities
In 2021, I became the first Egyptologist to join the staff of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies at HSE. At present, my main responsibility is launching HSE's new Egyptology programme, which is due to start teaching students in autumn 2022. My main research priority is the study of the evolution of Ancient Egyptian law in the period 2700-1100BCE.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Professional development certificates
Cyber Security Awareness Training (University of Cambridge, 2023)
Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training (University of Cambridge, 2021)
Fire Safety Training (University of Cambridge, 2021)
Anti-Radicalisation Training/Prevent Duty (University of Cambridge, 2021)
Equality and Diversity Training (University of Cambridge, 2020)
First Aid for Fieldwork Training (University of Cambridge, 2015)
Additional work experience
Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC), January 2013 – June 2014
The British Museum (Department of Egypt and Sudan), August 2013
Courses (2023/2024)
- Ancient Egyptian Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Literature and Religion of the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Ancient Egyptian Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Literature and Religion of the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Publications22
- Book Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium / Ed. by A. Loktionov. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2023.
- Chapter Loktionov A. From Class Foes to the Upper Class: Diverse Paths to Fame and Fortune in Soviet Egyptology, in: Addressing Diversity: Inclusive Histories of Egyptology. Muenster : Zaphon, 2023. P. 557-572.
- Chapter Loktionov A. Introduction: Pluralisms of Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt, in: Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium / Ed. by A. Loktionov. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2023. P. 3-7.
- Article Alexandre A. Loktionov. Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt // International Review of Social History. 2023. Vol. 68. No. S31. P. 33-52. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Detecting Conceptual Resilience: the Ancient Egyptian Notion of sDm ('hearing') over 1500 years // Archaeological Review from Cambridge (Великобритания). 2021. Vol. 36. No. 1. P. 175-191. doi
- Chapter Loktionov A. Egyptian Oracles and the Afterlife, in: Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. doi Ch. 3. P. 49-62. doi
- Chapter Loktionov A., Schmidhuber C. Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination, in: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 15-19 July 2013. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. doi Ch. 14. P. 169-176. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Rethinking Pharaonic Government: Constitutional Lessons from Ancient Egypt // The Cambridge journal of law, politics, and art. 2021. Vol. 1. P. 383-386.
- Chapter Loktionov A. The First 'Lawyers'? Judicial Offices, Administration and Legal Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, ca. 2500-1800 BCE, in: Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity. Boston, Leiden : Brill, 2020. doi P. 36-68. doi
- Chapter Loktionov A. A Revolution in Egyptology, or an Egyptology of the Revolution? Changing Perspectives on Ancient Egypt in Russia, in: Towards a History of Egyptology: Proceedings of the Egyptological Section of the 8th ESHS Conference in London, 2018. Münster: Zaphon, 2019. P. 157-170.
- Article Loktionov A. Book Review: Ilan Peled (ed.) - Structures of Power: Law and Gender Across the Ancient Near East and Beyond // Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections. 2019. Vol. 24. P. 78-81. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Commentary: Desert shaped by people, or people shaped by desert? Reflections of an Egyptologist // Archaeological Review from Cambridge. 2019. Vol. 34. No. 1. P. 20-27. doi
- Book Loktionov A. The Development of the Justice System in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom (Doctoral Thesis). Cambridge : , 2019. doi
- Chapter Loktionov A. Tortured, Banished, Forgotten (and frequently Ripped Off)? Experience of Ancient Egyptian Criminal Judgment and its Consequences through the 2nd Millennium BCE, in: Invisible Archaeologies: Hidden Aspects of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019. doi P. 6-16. doi
- Article Loktionov A. An “Egyptianising” Underworld Judging an Assyrian Prince? New Perspectives on VAT 10057 // Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History. 2017. Vol. 3. No. 1. P. 39-56. doi
- Article Loktionov A. May my nose and ears be cut off: Practical and "supra-practical" Aspects of Mutilation in the Egyptian New Kingdom // Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 2017. Vol. 60. No. 3. P. 263-291. doi
- Chapter Loktionov A. Of pilgrims and poets, prisoners and politics: the story of Egyptology in Russia, in: Global Egyptology: Negotiation in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts. L. : Golden House Press, 2017. P. 129-145.
- Article Loktionov A. Thoughts towards a new hypothesis for understanding the legal text in OI 12073 // Göttinger Miszellen. 2017. Vol. 253. P. 89-96. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Importing the law? Possible elements of the Mesopotamian legal tradition in New Kingdom Egypt // BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum (Швейцария). 2016. Vol. 1 doi
- Article Loktionov A. Convicting 'Great Criminals': A New Look at Punishment in the Turin Judicial Papyrus 2015. Vol. 8. P. 103-111. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Kušû: Crocodile after all? // Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires. 2014. Vol. 2014. No. 4. P. 164-167. doi
- Article Loktionov A. Something for everyone: a ritualistic interpretation of Bronze Age burnt mounds from an ethnographic perspective // Post Hole. 2013. Vol. 26. P. 20-33.
Conferences
- 2024Coffins in Context Conference (Кембридж). Presentation: Coffins in court: the place and value of coffins in Ramesside legal documents
- 2023Coronation of Charles III: Continuities and Change (Лондон). Presentation: Monarchy and Royal Rituals in Egypt and Mesopotamia
- University of Leicester Research Seminar (Лестер (Leicester)). Presentation: Laws in Dialogue: New Kingdom Egypt as a Melting Pot of Judicial Traditions
- Egyptian World Seminar Series 2023 (Cambridge) (Кембридж). Presentation: Looking beyond Pharaoh: Legal pluralism and ‘early democracy’ in Ancient Egypt
- 2021Punishment, Labor and the Legitimation of Power (Бонн). Presentation: Regulating Labour Through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt
- 20203rd Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium: Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt (Кембридж). Presentation: Introduction: The many Faces of Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt
- Liverpool Egyptology Seminars (Ливерпуль). Presentation: The Spoken Word and the Changing Face of the Egyptian Judicial Process, c.2700 – 1100BCE
- 2019Egyptian World Seminar Series 2019 (Cambridge) (Кембридж). Presentation: The Poet, the Premier, and the Egyptologist: the Politics of Soviet Fieldwork in Egypt, 1944-1964
- The “Cultural Cold War”: Towards a Theorisation of its Afro-Asian Contexts (Мюнхен). Presentation: The Uses of Egyptology in Cultural Cold Wars: Old Europe, Red Man and the Red Phoenix
- 2018Archaeology as a Diplomatic Tool: Old and New International Players and their Political Interest in Global Archaeology (Гронинген). Presentation: All quiet on the Egyptological front? Political Aims and Outcomes of Soviet Interest in Ancient Egypt, 1943-1963
- 8th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Лондон). Presentation: A Revolution in Egyptology or an Egyptology of the Revolution? Changing perspectives on Ancient Egypt in Russia
- 2016Current Research in Egyptology XVII (Краков). Presentation: 18 years, one jar of fat, and a happy ending: An example of justice from Ancient Egypt
- 1st Berner Altorientalisches Forum (Берн). Presentation: Importing the law? Possible elements of the Mesopotamian legal tradition in New Kingdom Egypt (1549-1064BCE)
Grants
Grant of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK, 2021 –present (Principal Investigator)
Title: The Development of Early Constitutional Thought
The grant is directed at the study of various legal and governmental structures in Egypt and the Near East in the period 2600-1100BCE. The research is being conducted at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. Further information can be found on the websites of UK Research and Innovation (ukri.org) and the University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk).
Employment history
Research experience
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Economy, King's College London (2023 – present)
Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (2019 – present)
Research Fellow, Christ's College, University of Cambridge (2019 – present)
Bye-Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge (2018 – 2019)
PhD Fellow, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (February – August 2017)
Teaching experience
Director of Studies in Archaeology, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge (2023 – present)
Affiliated Lecturer/Supervisor in Egyptian, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge (2015 – present)
Education
PhD in Archaeology (Egyptology) (Robinson College, University of Cambridge, 2019)
MPhil in Egyptology (St. John's College, University of Cambridge, 2015)
BA in Archaeology and Anthropology (Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, 2014)
Outreach websites
Justice in Ancient Egypt (University of Cambridge, 2021): Justice in Ancient Egypt
Egyptian hieroglyphs and grammar for beginners (University of Cambridge, 2021): Egyptology
How to carry out effective public outreach on ancient history topics (University of Cambridge, 2021): Public Engagement