David Klotz

David Klotz received a joint M.S. and B.S. in both Mathematics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Egyptology) from Yale University in 2003, and completed his PhD in Egyptology at Yale in 2008. For his first book, “Adoration of the Ram: Five Hymns to Amun-Re from Hibis Temple” (2006), he translated several Egyptian hymns from the Persian Period temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis, complete with detailed philological and mythological commentary. His second book, “Caesar in the City of Amun: Egyptian Temple Construction and Theology in Roman Thebes” (2012), surveys the religious landscape of Thebes (modern Luxor) during the Roman Period.
Klotz was previously an ACLS Recent Doctoral Fellow (2008-9), a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (2009-2010), and most recently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Yale University (2010-present). He has worked in the Egyptian Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2003), and has collaborated with numerous museums and collections to publish Late Period inscribed statues and other monuments.
Since 2009, Klotz has directed the Yale Nadura Temple Project, recording the reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions at a Roman Period shrine to the lunar god Khonsu in Kharga Oasis. He has also participated in the Yale Theban Desert Road Survey with John Darnell (Egypt, Western Desert), the Yale White Monastery Documentation Project with Bentley Layton (Sohag), and is currently involved in the Jebel Barkal Project with Timothy Kendall (Sudan).