Lectures
New gleanings from Deir el-Medina, from the IFAO Archive – Pierre Grandet
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From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, April 23 at 6 PM, in collaboration with ACME (Amici e Collaboratori del Museo Egizio) we will host a lecture held by Pierre Grandet.
Since its inception in 1905 by Ernesto Schaiaparelli, the excavation of the village of Deir el-Medina, especially from 1918 until today by the IFAO (French Institute of oriental archaeology in Cairo), has produced a wealth of ostraca (ca 20 000), written in hieratic on slab of limestione or shards of pottery. About half this number (the other being literary and figurative ostraca), documents in every way conceivable the life and work of the settlers of the village : a community of workmen, commissionned by the Kings of the New Kingdom, to excavate and decorate the royal and princely tombs of the Valley of the Kings and of the Queens. The lecturer, being entrusted by the IFAO to publish these documents (six volume published), aims to offer a view of some interesting facts that can be glained from this archive and enrich our knowledge of the everyday life in Ancient Egypt.
Pierre Grandet is born in 1954. He obtained his doctorate in egyptology at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Paris IV) in 1984, with a traduction and commentary of the Papyrus Harris 1 of the British Museum, published in 1994 by the IFAO with a volume of Glossary in 1999, He obtained his Habilitation à diriger des recherches in 1999. He has teached History, Civilization and Egyptian Language at the Kheops Institute in Paris between 1986 and 2023, at the Université Catholique de l’Ouest at Angiers between 1987 and 2010, at the Université of Poitiers between 2010 and 2011, and at the University of Lille in 2015-2016 ans 2019-2020. He has also teachhedhieratic at the École pratique des Hautes-Études, IVe Section, between 2004 and 2010. He retired in 2023, but pursues since a teaching activity as a member of the Collective Kheops. Since 1997, he is been entrusted to publish the hieratic non-literary ostraca of the IFAO and has published as yet six volumes of them. He has also prepared since 2006 for the Musée du Louvre the publication of the ostraca of the former Varille Collection, currently in the press. He his the author of various articles and books reflecting his researches in his other centers of interest, like the history of Ramesside Egypt.
The lecture will take place in our Conference Room*, admission is free with a reservation on Eventbrite. Click HERE to book your place.
The lecture will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's YouTube channel.
Since its inception in 1905 by Ernesto Schaiaparelli, the excavation of the village of Deir el-Medina, especially from 1918 until today by the IFAO (French Institute of oriental archaeology in Cairo), has produced a wealth of ostraca (ca 20 000), written in hieratic on slab of limestione or shards of pottery. About half this number (the other being literary and figurative ostraca), documents in every way conceivable the life and work of the settlers of the village : a community of workmen, commissionned by the Kings of the New Kingdom, to excavate and decorate the royal and princely tombs of the Valley of the Kings and of the Queens. The lecturer, being entrusted by the IFAO to publish these documents (six volume published), aims to offer a view of some interesting facts that can be glained from this archive and enrich our knowledge of the everyday life in Ancient Egypt.
Pierre Grandet is born in 1954. He obtained his doctorate in egyptology at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Paris IV) in 1984, with a traduction and commentary of the Papyrus Harris 1 of the British Museum, published in 1994 by the IFAO with a volume of Glossary in 1999, He obtained his Habilitation à diriger des recherches in 1999. He has teached History, Civilization and Egyptian Language at the Kheops Institute in Paris between 1986 and 2023, at the Université Catholique de l’Ouest at Angiers between 1987 and 2010, at the Université of Poitiers between 2010 and 2011, and at the University of Lille in 2015-2016 ans 2019-2020. He has also teachhedhieratic at the École pratique des Hautes-Études, IVe Section, between 2004 and 2010. He retired in 2023, but pursues since a teaching activity as a member of the Collective Kheops. Since 1997, he is been entrusted to publish the hieratic non-literary ostraca of the IFAO and has published as yet six volumes of them. He has also prepared since 2006 for the Musée du Louvre the publication of the ostraca of the former Varille Collection, currently in the press. He his the author of various articles and books reflecting his researches in his other centers of interest, like the history of Ramesside Egypt.
The lecture will take place in our Conference Room*, admission is free with a reservation on Eventbrite. Click HERE to book your place.
The lecture will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's YouTube channel.
info@museitorino.it
011 44 06 903
From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
