Dr Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska from the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw (CAŚ UW) has been awarded the ‘Antiquity Prize’. She was acknowledged for her 2022 article on the organisation of the work of the ancient Egyptian artists who made the wall reliefs in the Hatshepsut Chapel in Deir el-Bahari.

“Antiquity” is a bimonthly journal published by Cambridge University Press and is one of the leading archaeological journals in the world. 

Dr Stupko-Lubczynska’s article was selected by the journal’s editors and advisory bodies from among some 80 articles on various issues in world archaeology published in 2022. 

Through a meticulous analysis of individual representations, Dr Stupko-Lubczynska demonstrated in it that the artists decorating the temple of Hatshepsut, the Pharaoh’s woman, were organised in workshops that were based on a master-apprentice relationship. 

“The analysis of the organisation of the artists’ workshop allows us to look at Hatshepsut’s shrine as a kind of Sistine Chapel of the ancient world”, says Dr Stupko-Lubczynska.