Steffie van Gompel earned her PhD in Egyptology and Papyrology at Leiden University in 2025, and further holds a Research Master in Egyptology and Bachelor’s degree in Assyriology from the same university. Her primary research interests lie with legal documents and daily life in ancient and Ptolemaic Egypt, and family and social structure and historical demography in ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East.
Her other long-term interests include papyrology, the early dynastic period in Egypt, Old Kingdom Elite Tombs, global historical family structures, and archaeological and palaeographic illustration.
As NINO Visiting Research Fellow, she will continue her research into family structure and Egyptian (legal) documents, while preparing the publication of her dissertation Marriage Traditions and the Stem Family in Ancient Egypt. A Study of Marriage Contracts, Social Structure and Family Life, and related articles.
Select publications
- Forthcoming: Dissertation monograph.
- ‘Chapter 12 Egyptian names’, in: C. Waerzeggers – M. M. Gross (eds), Personal names in cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE): An Introduction (Cambridge, 2024).
- ‘When dad says no: paternal authority and control in the context of Egyptian men’s first marriages’, in: A. Loktionov (ed.), Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium, Archaeopress Egyptology Ser. 47 (Cambridge, 2023).
- ‘Paying off the lease’ – a new demotic document from the RMO’, in: J. V. Stolk – G. A. J. C. van Loon (eds), Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca. Some people love their friends even when they are far away. Festschrift in Honour of Francisca A. J. Hoogendijk. P. L. Bat. 37 (Leiden – Boston, 2021).
- F. A. J. Hoogendijk – S.M.T. van Gompel (eds), The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt, P. L. Bat. 35 (Leiden – Boston, 2018).
- S. M. T. van Gompel – P. Hogenboom, ‘P. Louvre E 7859: an abnormal hieratic challenge’, in: K. Donker van Heel – F. A. J. Hoogendijk – C. J. Martin (eds), Hieratic, Demotic and Greek studies and text editions: of making many books there is no end. Festschrift in honour of Sven P. Vleeming, P. L. Bat. 34 (Leiden – Boston, 2018).
