Karin Sowada

Research Outputs

Research output per year 1993 1994 2006 2014 2020 2021 2022

• 30 Article
• 19 Chapter
• 3 Book
• 3 Conference proceeding contribution
• 5 More
  • 2 Exhibition Catalogue
  • 1 Edited Book/Anthology
  • 1 Other chapter contribution
  • 1 Data set/Database

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2022

  The characterisation of ceramic production from the central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age

  Badreshany, K., Sowada, K., Ownby, M., Jean, M., De Vreeze, M., McClymont, A. & Philip, G., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 41, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., 103309.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Byblos 100%
  • Ceramic Production 83%
  • Egypt 58%
  • Egyptians 51%
  • Characterization 45%
• 2021

  Early Bronze Age exchange patterns between Egypt and the Levant: a view from First Dynasty Abu Rawash

  Sowada, K., Ownby, M. F., Smythe, J., Marchand, S. & Tristant, Y., 7 Sep 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Agypten und Levante. 31

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Jug 100%
  • Early Bronze Age 86%
  • Egypt 71%
  • Old Kingdom 66%
  • Dynasty 65%

• Multidisciplinary discovery of ancient restoration using a rare mud carapace on a mummified individual from late New Kingdom Egypt

  Sowada, K., Power, R. K., Jacobsen, G., Murphy, T., McClymont, A., Bertuch, F., Jenkinson, A., Carruthers, J. & Magnussen, J., 3 Feb 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 2, p. 1-17 17 p., e0245247.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Animal Shells 100%
  • Egypt 69%
  • Restoration 56%
  • radiocarbon dating 49%
  • Linen 44%
  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Petrography of Combed jars from Giza

  Sowada, K. & Ownby, M., 17 Jul 2021

  Research output: Non-traditional research output › Data set/Database

  • Petrography 100%
  • Open access 73%
  • Websites 48%

• The origin of imported jars from 6th dynasty Abusir: New light on Early Bronze Age Egyptian-Levantine relations

  Sowada, K., Ownby, M. & Bárta, M., Nov 2021, In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 386, p. 221-236 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Abusir 100%
  • Jar 71%
  • Early Bronze Age 70%
  • Dynasty 53%
  • Egyptians 51%
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  Aegyptiaca from the Acropolis of Tel Yarmuth

  Sowada, K., 2020, Fouilles de Tel Yarmouth (1980-2009): rapport final: volume 1: les fouilles sur l'Acropole. Jasmin, M. & de Miroschedji, P. (eds.). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, USA: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, p. 415-419 5 p. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies; no. Supplement 56).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Acropolis 100%
  • Bronze 74%
  • Egyptians 67%
  • Early Bronze Age 46%
  • Israel 39%

• Chronology

  Cohen, S. & Sowada, K., 14 Sep 2020, (Accepted/In press) Oxford Handbook on Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible. Tower Hollis, S. (ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Chronology 100%
  • Egypt 31%
  • Dating Techniques 30%
  • Encompassing 17%
  • Clarity 17%

• Computerised Tomography (CT) scans of a mummified male head from the Ptolemaic period

  Sowada, K. & Davey, J., 2020, Guardian of ancient Egypt: studies in honor of Zahi Hawass. Kamrin, J., Bárta, M., Ikram, S., Lehner, M. & Megahed, M. (eds.). Prague: Charles University in Prague, Vol. 3. p. 1511-1526 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Computerized Tomography 100%
  • Ptolemaic Period 91%
  • Mummification 88%
  • Beeswax 47%
  • Head 44%

• Egypt in the Fourth to Third Millennium BC

  Sowada, K., 27 Feb 2020, (Accepted/In press) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Third Millennium BC 100%
  • Foreigners 71%
  • Egyptians 62%
  • Egypt 61%
  • Millennium 59%

• Evidence for King Hezekiah

  Sowada, K., 2 Mar 2020, CASE Quarterly, 56, p. 26-27 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  Open Access

  • Iconography 97%
  • Egyptians 93%
  • Names 62%

• Foreign trade and Heit el-Ghurab

  Sowada, K., Jul 2020, AERAgram, 20, 2, p. 22-23 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  • workers' settlement 100%
  • foreign trade 71%

• Perspectives on Egypt in the Southern Levant in light of the High Early Bronze Age Chronology

  Sowada, K., 2020, New horizons in the study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant. Richard, S. (ed.). University Park, Pennsylvania, USA: Eisenbrauns, p. 149-168 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Southern Levant 100%
  • Chronology 97%
  • Early Bronze Age 86%
  • Egypt 61%
  • Radiocarbon 61%

• The petrography of imported Levantine Combed vessels from early Old Kingdom Giza

  Sowada, K., Ownby, M. & Wodzińska, A., 2020, In: Levant. 52, 1-2, p. 197-214 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Petrography 100%
  • Southern Levant 79%
  • Old Kingdom 78%
  • petrography 60%
  • workers' settlement 51%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  12 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Living in the tombs: monastic life near the Valley of the Kings

  Sowada, K., 2019, Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation Bulletin, 60, p. 9-12 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  • Theban Tomb 100%
  • Monastic Life 76%
  • Tombs 53%
  • Late Antique 30%
  • Monks 27%

• The Combed Jar as a Trade 'Brand' of the Early Bronze Age

  Sowada, K. & Ownby, M. F., 9 Oct 2019, (Accepted/In press) In: Bulletin d'Archeologie et d'Architecture Libanaises (BAAL). 19

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Jar 100%
  • Early Bronze Age 99%
  • Thin Section Petrography 48%
  • Trace Element Analysis 48%
  • Egypt 47%

• The origins of silver and the bracelets of Queen Hetepheres

  Sowada, K., 2019, CACHE Matters E-Zine, 2019, p. 16 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  • Queen Mother 100%
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts 98%
  • Bracelets 87%
  • Scientific Analysis 80%
  • Builders 63%
• 2018

  Fake till you make it: an imitation combed jar from Old Kingdom Giza

  Sowada, K., 2018, Bulletin de liaison de la céramique Égyptienne. Marchand, S. (ed.). Cairo: Institut Francais d’archeologie orientale, Vol. 28. p. 117-122 6 p. 4. (Bulletin de la céramique égyptienne (BCE); vol. 28).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Old Kingdom 100%
  • Jar 88%
  • Imitation 76%
  • Egyptians 42%
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts 37%

• Hidden exports: a likely Early Bronze Age exchange in Egyptian cattle to the Levant

  Sowada, K., 21 Jun 2018, In: Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. 26, p. 71-78 8 p., 6.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Early Bronze Age 100%
  • Cattle 84%
  • Southern Levant 77%
  • Egyptians 72%
  • Egypt 71%

• Stone Vessels

  Sowada, K., 2018, Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Interregional Vol. II: Artefacts. Lebeau, M. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols, p. 245-276 32 p. (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Stone Vessels 100%
  • Southern Mesopotamia 32%
  • Crete 24%
  • Mesopotamia 23%
  • Ideology 21%
• 2017

  Ceramics from the main burial apartments of Theban Tomb 148 (20th Dynasty)

  Sowada, K., 2017, Bulletin de liaison de la céramique Égyptienne. Marchand, S. (ed.). Cairo: Institut Francais d’archeologie orientale, Vol. 27. p. 63-80 18 p. (Bulletin de la céramique égyptienne (BCE)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Theban Tomb 100%
  • Apartment 64%
  • Burial 52%
  • Dynasty 51%
  • Egyptology 40%

• Two Iron Age IA amphoriskoi from southern Canaan in a Twentieth Dynasty Theban Tomb

  Sowada, K. & Wimmer, S. J., 2017, The Cultural Manifestations of Religious Experience: studies in honour of Boyo G. Ockinga. Di Biase-Dyson, C. & Donovan, L. (eds.). Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, p. 71-83 13 p. (Ägypten und Altes Testament; vol. 85).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Theban Tomb 100%
  • Canaan 78%
  • Iron Age 59%
  • Dynasty 51%
  • Egypt 48%
• 2015

  Archaeology and the Bible: a cautious relationship

  Sowada, K., 2015, In: CASE Quarterly. 42, p. 4-8 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Bible 100%
  • Archaeology 42%
  • Archaeological Record 33%
  • Interaction 16%
• 2014

  Chronological synchronisms between Egypt and the Central Levant during the third millennium BC

  Sowada, K., 2 Apr 2014, (Accepted/In press) Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Regional Vol.: Central Levant. Thalmann, J-P. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols, (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Third Millennium BC 100%
  • Chronology 96%
  • Egypt 61%
  • Western Asia 49%
  • Radiocarbon 45%

• Levantine "combed ware"

  Thalmann, J-P. & Sowada, K., 2014, Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Interregional Vol. I: Ceramics. Lebeau, M. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols, p. 355-378 24 p. (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • commodity exchange 100%
  • Egypt 61%
  • technical language 56%

• Never the twain shall meet? Synchronising Egyptian and Levantine chronologies in the 3rd millennium BC

  Sowada, K., 2014, Egypt and the southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age. Höflmayer, F. & Eichmann, R. (eds.). Rahden, Westphalia, Germany: Verlag Marie Leidorf, p. 293-300 8 p. (Orient-Archäologie; vol. 31).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Report on a project to synchronize Egyptian and Levantine chronologies of the third millennium BCE

  Sowada, K., 2014, In: Journal of ancient Egyptian interconnections. 6, 4, p. 55-57 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Chronology 100%
  • Egyptians 64%
  • Millennium 61%
  • Ancient Near East 45%
  • Bronze 35%
• 2013

  Chronological synchronisms between Egypt and the Southern Levant during the third millennium BC

  Sowada, K., 21 Apr 2013, (Accepted/In press) Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Regional Vol.: Southern Levant. de Miroschedji, P. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols, (ARCANE).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Third Millennium BC 100%
  • Southern Levant 99%
  • Chronology 96%
  • Radiocarbon 91%
  • Egypt 61%

• Evidence for late third millenium weather events from Six Dynasty tomb at Saqqara

  Sowada, K., 2013, In: Studia Quaternaria. 30, 2, p. 69-74 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • weather 100%
  • cemetery 91%
  • silt 62%
  • excavation 61%
  • rainfall 45%
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Ceramics from New Kingdom tombs at Dra Abu el-Naga seasons 1990-2005

  Sowada, K. N., 2012, Bulletin de liaison du Groupe international d'étude de la céramique égyptienne. Marchand, S. (ed.). Le Caire: Institut Francais d’archeologie orientale, p. 185-194 10 p. (Bulletin de liaison de la céramique égyptienne).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Mortuary landscapes and social change in the Teti Cemetery at Saqqara

  Sowada, K., 2012, Ancient Memphis, 'Enduring is the Perfection': proceedings of the international conference held at Macquarie University, Sydney, on August 14-15, 2008. Evans, L. (ed.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 5-6 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

  • cemetery 100%
  • funeral 87%
  • local population 85%
  • inhabitant 72%
  • anthropology 65%

• The Pottery

  Sowada, K., 31 Oct 2012, (Accepted/In press) Theban Tomb 148: The Tomb of Amenemope. Oxford: Australian Centre for Egyptology ; Aris & Phillips, Vol. 2.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Theban Tomb 100%
  • Pottery 87%
  • Southern Levant 39%
  • Late Period 31%
  • Reuse 31%
• 2011

  An Egyptian imitation of an imported two-handled jar from the Levant

  Sowada, K., 2011, Under the Potter’s Tree: Studies on Ancient Egypt presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday. Aston, D., Bader, B., Gallorini, C., Nicholson, P. & Buckingham, S. (eds.). Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA: Peeters, p. 885–892 9 p. 42. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; no. 204).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Jar 100%
  • Imitation 86%
  • Egyptians 72%
  • Pottery 42%
  • Old Kingdom 37%

• Who's that lying in my coffin? An imposter exposed by 14C dating

  Sowada, K., Jacobsen, G. E., Bertuch, F., Palmer, T. & Jenkinson, A., 2011, In: Radiocarbon. 53, 2, p. 221-228 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • 14C Dating 100%
  • Coffin 77%
  • Mummies 76%
  • museum 64%
  • dating 47%
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Forgotten Cemetery F at Abydos and burial practices of the late Old Kingdom

  Sowada, K. N., 2010, Egyptian culture and society: studies in honour of Naguib Kanawati. Woods, A., McFarlane, A. & Binder, S. (eds.). Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities Egypt, Vol. 2. p. 219-232 14 p. 17. (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte; no. 38).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Abydos 100%
  • Old Kingdom 91%
  • Burial Practices 88%
  • Cemetery 65%
  • Burial Goods 21%

• The Date of a mummified head in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney

  Sowada, K. N., Jacobsen, G., Bertuch, F. & Jenkinson, A., 2010, In: Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. 21, p. 115-122 8 p., 7.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Ptolemaic Period 100%
  • Mummification 96%
  • Radiocarbon 86%
• 2009

  A Coffin of imported conifer wood from Saite Period Saqqara

  Chiou, D. & Sowada, K. N., 2009, In: Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. 20, p. 27-36 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Old Kingdom: an archaeological perspective

  Sowada, K. N. & Grave, P., 2009, Fribourg: Academic Press. 295 p. (Orbis biblicus et orientalis; vol. 237)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Old Kingdom 100%
  • Eastern Mediterranean 82%
  • Dynasty 66%
  • Egypt 62%
  • Archaeology 48%
• 2008

  Torso of an Egyptian Goddess

  Sowada, K., 2008, Corroboree: 25 years of cooperation between Egyptians and Australians in the field of Egyptology. Smythe, J. (ed.). Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

  • Torso 100%
  • Goddess 76%
  • Egyptians 64%
  • Cairo 41%
  • Statue 35%
• 2006

  Egyptian art in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney

  Sowada, K. N. (ed.) & Ockinga, B. G. (ed.), 2006, Sydney, NSW: Mediarch, University of Sydney.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology

  • Egyptian Art 100%

• From Pella to Petra: an Australian perspective on Jordan

  Sowada, K. N. & Lovell, J. L., 2006, Athar Newsletter, 8, p. 19-22 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  • archaeology 100%
  • Jordan 99%
  • museum 87%

• Report on the excavation and the finds

  Sowada, K. N., 2006, The Teti cemetery at Saqqara : vol. III. The tomb of Inumin. Kanawati, N. (ed.). Warminster, England: Aris and Phillips, p. 55-76 22 p. (The Australian Centre for Egyptology).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Tombs 100%
  • Burial 96%
  • Excavation 87%
  • Saqqara 81%
  • Burial Chamber 77%

• Sir Charles Nicholson: an Early Scholar-Traveller in Egypt

  Sowada, K., 2006, Egyptian Art in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney. Sowada, K. N. & Ockinga, B. G. (eds.). Sydney: Meditarch Publishing, University of Sydney, p. 1-13 14 p. 1

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  File

  • Egyptian Antiquities 100%
  • Newness 84%
  • Ancient Egypt 75%
  • Western Civilization 73%
  • Donation 67%
  433 Downloads (Pure)
• 2005

  An interloper revealed: DNA analysis and the identification of an Egyptian mummy

  Sowada, K., Matheson, C., Spigelman, A. & Spigelman, M., 2005, In: Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology. 16, p. 101-116 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • DNA Analysis 100%
  • genetic test 89%
  • Mummies 84%
  • museum 64%
  • Egyptians 60%

• King Tut's wandering penis

  Sowada, K., 2005, Cosmos, 1, 1, p. 38-39 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
• 2004

  Amenemone the Chief Goldsmith: a New Kingdom tomb in the Teti Cemetery at Saqqara

  Ockinga, B., Sowada, K., van Dijk, J., Spigelman, M., Thompson, E., Wilkins, H., Victor, N. & Jansen-Winkeln, K., 2004, Oxford, England: Aris and Phillips. (Reports (Australian Centre for Egyptology); vol. 22)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Saqqara 100%
  • Pottery 99%
  • New Kingdom 84%
  • Stratigraphy 81%
  • Reuse 70%

• Treasures of the Nicholson Museum

  Potts, D. T. (ed.), Sowada, K. N. (ed.) & Workman, R. J., 2004, Sydney: The Nicholson Museum. 120 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Exhibition Catalogue

  Open Access

  • Egyptian Collection 100%
  • Treasure 59%
• 2003

  Ancient voices, modern echoes: theatre in the Greek world

  Green, J. R., Muecke, F., Sowada, K. N., Turner, M. & Bachmann, E., 2003, Sydney: The Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney. 83 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Exhibition Catalogue

  • Greek World 100%
  • Statuary 53%
  • Cyprus 49%

• Preliminary report on the University of Sydney's eighteenth and nineteenth seasons of excavations at Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) in 1996/97

  Bourke, S., Sparks, R., McClaren, B., Sowada, K., Mairs, L., Meadows, J., Hikade, T. & Reade, W., 2003, In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 47, p. 335-388 54 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Jordan 100%
  • animal 74%
• 2000

  Egyptian Palettes in EB II and EB III Canaan

  Sowada, K., 2000, Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Rome, May 18th-23rd 1998. Matthiae, P., Enea, A., Peyronel, L. & Pinnock, F. (eds.). Rome: Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", p. 1527-1536 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

  • Canaan 100%
  • Palette 87%
  • Egyptians 63%
  • Southern Levant 50%
  • Dynasty 33%
• 1999

  Black-topped ware in early dynastic contexts

  Sowada, K. N., 1999, In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 85, p. 85-102 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review