Linda Chapon

Équipe Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne (ASM – UMR 5140, université de Montpellier 3)
The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Project, Luxor
2024 White Levy Publication Program Grant Co-recipient with Hourig Sourouzian
L Chapon

Study of the wall reliefs and other decorated architectural elements of the temple of Amenhotep III (c. 1382-1344 BC) in Kom el-Hettan (Luxor, Egypt)

Dr. Linda Chapon is an Egyptologist and Archaeologist. She has a degree in History and a Master’s in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology. She specialized in Egyptology at the Institute of Egyptology of Tübingen (Germany) and holds a PhD in history and arts (University of Granada, Spain). She obtained a doctoral grant funded by Santander Universidades from an agreement between the ‘Thutmosis III Temple Project’, directed by Myriam Seco Alvarez, and the University of Tübingen. Her PhD research focused on the sandstone fragments belonging to the wall reliefs of the temple of ‘millions of years’ of Thutmosis III in western Thebes called Henket-ankh.

She got a postdoctoral DAAD Short Term grant at the Institute of Egyptology of Tübingen (2020) and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (2022-2024) funded by European Union Horizon 2020 at the Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 (France) with the project ‘DecoProg: Royal ideology and legitimacy at the beginning of New Kingdom: The function and decorative program of temples of millions of years’. She is currently a scientific collaborator of the Équipe Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne (ASM – UMR 5140, université de Montpellier 3).

She has been involved in several research projects in Egypt and Spain since 2010. In Egypt, she has been part of the Thutmosis III Temple Project (2013-2017), the ‘Qubbet el-Hawa Project’ (2012-2013), and the ‘Taposiris Magna Project’ (since 2018). Since 2019, she is a member of the ‘The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Project’ in Luxor, directed by Prof. Dr. Hourig Sourouzian, as an archaeologist and responsible for documentation.

Her research interests primarily focus on the function of ancient Egyptian temples and their decorative and architectural programs, particularly New Kingdom Western Bank monuments. Other interests include the study of human remains and funerary practices and the ancient Egyptian cultural presence in the Iberian Peninsula.