Tina Hobel

Studies in Ancient History (BA 2012, MA 2019) and Classical Archaeology (BA 2014) at the University of Vienna. In 2016 Erasmus+ stay at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During my studies I participated in several fieldwork projects in Austria, Turkey, Romania and Egypt and worked as a cultural mediator. Since 2022 PhD student at the Doctoral School for Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Research interests

Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology, Coptic archaeology, Funeral Practices, Monastic Landscape

Current research project

The monastic necropolis of the Theban monastery of Paulos (Deir el-Bachît). Grave architecture and burial traditions between Late Antiquity and Early Islam.

The study of burial culture in Ancient Egypt, especially in the Pharaonic period, has a long tradition. Scholarly treatises on independent Christian grave forms and burial customs in Late Antiquity and the early Islamic period are still rare. The often well-preserved graves have been excavated in many cases (at least partially), but not always scientifically studied and evaluated. My dissertation project focuses on the well-documented necropolis of the monastery of Paulos in western Thebes and its development in the context of the local sacred topography.

AGCA (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie)
Verein zur Förderung der Christlichen Archäologie Österreichs

2025-: PhD representative for the Executive Board of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies
2025-: Student representative in the Student Union (ÖH) at the University of Vienna

2020-2022: lecture series FORVM ANTIKE (member of the organisational team)
2016-2024: Journal TYCHE - Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik (member of the editorial team)