Deconstructing Early Christian Metanarratives: Fourth-Century Egyptian Christianity in the Light of Material Evidence

Project Information

DEChriM

Grant agreement ID: 819368

DOI

10.3030/819368

Project closed

EC signature date 19 February 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 718 980,00

EU contribution

€ 1 718 980,00

Coordinated by

MF VITENSKAPELIG HOYSKOLE
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Some Pieces of a Fourth-Century Monastic Archive of Coptic and Greek Ostraca and Wooden Tablets from Dayr Muṣṭafā Kāšif

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Florence Lemaire, Matthias Müller
Published in: Analecta papyrologica, Issue 39, 2025, Page(s) 91-121, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

The 2021 excavation season at Dayr Muṣṭafā Kāšif (Kharga Oasis)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Rhiannon Williams, Basem Gehad, Mara Elefante
Published in: Analecta papyrologica, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 149-182, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

The 2022 and 2023 Field Seasons at Dayr Muṣṭafā Kāšif (Kharga Oasis)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Mara Elefante, Rhiannon Williams, Basem Gehad
Published in: Analecta papyrologica, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 189-248, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

Trois stèles funéraires chrétiennes de Bilād al-Rūm, Sīwa (IVe-Ve s.)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Valérie Schram
Published in: Analecta Papyrologica, Issue 34, 2022, Page(s) 29-59, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

Intra-Ecclesial Interments and the Notion of ‘Privilege’ in Early Christianity

Author(s): Rhiannon Williams
Published in: Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Issue 125, 2025, Page(s) https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/125/17/, ISSN 2429-2869
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

The 2021 Excavation Season at Šams al-Dīn (Kharga Oasis)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Rhiannon Williams, Basem Gehad, Mara Elefante, Romain David, Nicolas Morand
Published in: Analecta Papyrologica, Issue 36/2, 2023, Page(s) 149-202, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

A Preliminary Archaeological Survey Along the Darb al-Ġubbārī Caravan Road

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Romain David, Paweł Polkowski
Published in: Analecta Papyrologica, Issue 40, 2025, ISSN 1122-2336
Publisher: Sicania University Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Archéologie de la religion dans l’oasis de Kharga aux époques romaine et byzantine – Douch (2022)

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger, Issue 2023, 2023, ISSN 2732-687X
Publisher: Écoles françaises à l’étranger
DOI: 10.4000/baefe.9181

Culture matérielle du christianisme égyptien : les déserts Occidental et Oriental

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Rhiannon Williams, Zulema Barahona Mendieta, Valérie Schram
Published in: Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger, Issue 2021, 2021, ISSN 2732-687X
Publisher: Écoles françaises à l’étranger
DOI: 10.4000/baefe.2849

The 2024 Excavation Season in the Cemetery of Ayn Khalil at Dush, Kharga Oasis

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Mara Elefante, Mariam Adel, Shenali Boange, Hani Shalash
Published in: Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger, 2025, ISSN 2732-687X
Publisher: Réseau des Écoles françaises à l'étranger

Monographic books (4)

Les ostraca grecs de Douch. Fascicule VI (640-860)

Author(s): Florence Lemaire
Published in: Documents de fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2027
Publisher: Institut français d’archéologie orientale

Le IVe siècle en Égypte vu par la céramique

Author(s): Romain David
Published in: Cahiers de la céramique égyptienne, 2027
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

Bagawat: Inscriptions pariétales et graffites coptes et copto-grecs

Author(s): Gérard Roquet, Victor Ghica
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-2-7247-1093-9
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

Coptic Ostraca from the 1976–1993 Excavations at Dūš (O.DouchCopt. 1–61) and from ʿAyn al-Wāqifa (O.WaqfaCopt. 1–6)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Matthias Müller, Florence Lemaire
Published in: Documents de fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2027
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

Other (2)

South Kharga Oasis Survey (SKOS) Database

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Thierry Gonon
Published in: 2019
Publisher: MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt (4CARE)

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Valérie Schram, Matthias Müller, Rhiannon Williams, Mary Jane Cuyler, Sofia Heim, Julie Monchamp, Håkon Teigen
Published in: 2019
Publisher: MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Conference proceedings (6)

The Frontier that Wasn’t: The Roman Spider-Web Defence System in Egypt’s Western Desert

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Brepols

3D visualisation of fourth-century Christian monuments and archaeological sites of Egypt

Author(s): Victor Ghica, Mohammed Abdelaziz
Published in: Ancient Egypt, New Technology 2, 2026
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” – Edizioni

Add Entry – Edit Artefact – Search Database: Ancient Material Evidence and the Future of Transdisciplinary Data Repositories in the Digital Sphere using the Example of the 4CARE Database [Poster]

Author(s): Victoria Gioia Désirée Landau
Published in: Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo

Absolute dates of fourth-century Christian monuments from the oasis of Kharga and preliminary chronological modelling of church construction in fourth-century Egypt

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology, Belgrade 2024, 2026
Publisher: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: Proceedings of the Twelfth Internation Congress of Coptic Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, 11-16 July 2022, 2026
Publisher: Brepols

Christian archaeology in Kharga Oasis: Recent fieldwork

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: The Oasis Papers 10: The Land Where the Sun Goes Down - the Archaeology of Egypt's Western Desert. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, 2025
Publisher: Archaeopress

Book chapters (3)

Ganub Qasr el-Aguz (Bahariya Oasis)

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: French Archaeology in Egypt. Research, Cooperation, Innovation, 2020, Page(s) 164-167, ISBN 9782724707731
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

Ganoub Qasr el-Agouz (oasis de Bahariya)

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: Archéologie française en Égypte. Recherche, coopération, innovation, 2019, Page(s) 236-241, ISBN 978-2-7247-0763-2
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale

جنوب قصر العجوز الواحات البَحريَّة

Author(s): Victor Ghica
Published in: الحفائِر الفِرنسية في مِصر, 2020, Page(s) 164-167, ISBN 978-2-7247-0772-4
Publisher: Institut français d'archéologie orientale