Team

Sabine Laemmel

Archaeologist and Ceramologist

Has worked with Franck Goddio since 2022.

Sabine studied Classical Archaeology and Egyptology at the University of Geneva before completing her doctoral thesis in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Oxford in 2002. She has participated in numerous archaeological excavations and surveys in several countries of the eastern and central Mediterranean, before focusing on the study of ancient Egyptian ceramics. Since then, Sabine has been working as a free-lance pottery specialist with a number of research institutions at a great variety of sites of different periods, including the pyramid sites of Giza and Saqqara, several New Kingdom and Late Period Theban tombs, the settlement of Buto in the western Delta, and Amara-West in Sudan.

Sabine joined Franck’s team in 2022 as a pottery specialist. Once a short bout of sea sickness overcome after her first arrival on board Princess Duda, life on the water during the missions became a real but pleasant journey of discovery for her. “The IEASM’s excavation missions are unique in many respects, not least because of their watery environment. I am very fortunate to be part of this adventure! As ceramologists, we don’t only use pottery as a dating tool, but also as means to address questions of trade and exchange, production and consumption of material goods, cultural influences, and, potentially, movement of people. The richness of the material from the IEASM’s sites is remarkable and often very different from that of other places I have worked at, reflecting the truly cosmopolitan nature of both Thonis-Heracleion in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods and Alexandria from the Ptolemaic dynasties through to the Roman Empire.”