Elena Panaite
I am a scholar specialized in Egyptology, with a research focus on the contacts between Ancient Egypt and its neighbors and the region of Thebes. My PhD dissertation, titled “The Representation of the ‘Libyans’ in Pharaonic Culture from the Protodynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom”, explored the relations to Libyan groups in ancient Egyptian sources (Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier, France). I am particularly interested in questions of ethnic identity and representations of foreigners, as well as people and monuments from Karnak and Deir el-Medina.
Currently, I am the DAI Luxor Scholarship Holder, with a project dedicated to the study of a Ramesside stela from Deir el-Medina. Previously, I worked on the Karnak Project database, an online corpus of Karnak’s monuments and objects. I was responsible for analyzing and structuring the textual documentation from the temples of Karnak, encoding and translating hieroglyphic texts, bibliographic and photographic referencing and indexing Egyptian vocabulary. In Cairo, I held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship IFAO/PCMA where my research centered on cultural exchanges and interactions between Ancient Egyptians and surrounding populations. As part of this work, I organized an international conference in Cairo and edited its proceedings (forthc.). I have experience in archival sciences, having worked at the Archives and Collections Department at the IFAO. My role was to catalogue historical documents according to the Archival international standards (ISAD-G), and identify handwritten, graphic, and photographic materials from the 19th and 20th centuries. My expertise extends to archaeological fieldwork, having participated in excavations across various sites in France, covering periods from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
In Karnak, I am in charge of the “Epigraphic study of the west face of the 2nd pylon” project, in collaboration with the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Temples of Karnak (CFEETK – UAR 3172 CNRS – MoTA/SCA). The project aims to study the loose blocks and fragments that composed the Ramesside decoration of the western face of the 2nd pylon in the temple of Amun-Ra.
Currently, I am the DAI Luxor Scholarship Holder, with a project dedicated to the study of a Ramesside stela from Deir el-Medina. Previously, I worked on the Karnak Project database, an online corpus of Karnak’s monuments and objects. I was responsible for analyzing and structuring the textual documentation from the temples of Karnak, encoding and translating hieroglyphic texts, bibliographic and photographic referencing and indexing Egyptian vocabulary. In Cairo, I held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship IFAO/PCMA where my research centered on cultural exchanges and interactions between Ancient Egyptians and surrounding populations. As part of this work, I organized an international conference in Cairo and edited its proceedings (forthc.). I have experience in archival sciences, having worked at the Archives and Collections Department at the IFAO. My role was to catalogue historical documents according to the Archival international standards (ISAD-G), and identify handwritten, graphic, and photographic materials from the 19th and 20th centuries. My expertise extends to archaeological fieldwork, having participated in excavations across various sites in France, covering periods from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
In Karnak, I am in charge of the “Epigraphic study of the west face of the 2nd pylon” project, in collaboration with the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Temples of Karnak (CFEETK – UAR 3172 CNRS – MoTA/SCA). The project aims to study the loose blocks and fragments that composed the Ramesside decoration of the western face of the 2nd pylon in the temple of Amun-Ra.
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"I am a PhD student in Egyptology and I am doing my research on the image of the Libyans in the Egyptian iconography from the Protodynastic to the Middle Kingdom, and more specifically on the Tehenu and Tjemhu people. Thus, Libyans from the New Kingdom are excluded of my study but having a quick look at them may contribute to my research and bring some new and useful things. The Tehenu seem to play a particular role in the Egyptian representations eversince the Old Kingdom (thinking of the ‘Libyan family’) and the presence of this gesture in the New Kingdom is nothing less than curious. Therefore, this poster is a work in progress and I still have to look for more reliefs that may have not yet been brought to my attention. The investigation just started"
Près d’un demi-siècle après la dernière version actualisée publiée de la Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings de Bertha Porter et Rosalind Moss consacrée aux temples thébains, ce nouvel inventaire de la décoration des temples de Karnak permet d’inclure l’abondante bibliographie parue depuis, dont les nombreux projets archéologiques et épigraphiques conduits par le Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak depuis sa création en 1967 (15 volumes des Cahiers de Karnak, plus d’une vingtaine de monographies et des centaines d’articles).
Les premières versions de l’Inventaire des monuments, objets, scènes et inscriptions des temples de Karnak sont diffusées, avec une date de version, au format PdF depuis les sites internet du Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak (MAE/USR 3172 du CNRS) et de l’équipe d’égyptologie de l’université de Montpellier (UMR 5140 du CNRS).
Quels que soit l’époque et le lieu, ces minorités sont toujours définies par rapport à un groupe majoritaire au sein duquel, ou à côté duquel, elles évoluent.
Les auteurs de ce numéro ont choisi d’aborder ces minorités à travers différentes approches, qui ne peuvent évidemment pas recouvrir toutes les questions concernant les minorités dans les civilisations antiques en raison du caractère extrêmement vaste de ce sujet. Néanmoins, la variété (dans le temps, au sein des civilisations, dans les aspects de la thématique) reste le choix qui préside à la réalisation de chaque tome de cette revue. Vous aurez donc l’occasion de découvrir la perception des Nubiens dans la pensée égyptienne, la présence des Gaulois dans l’armée ptolémaïque, la place de grands aristocrates païens dans l’entourage impérial romain, chrétien, du IVe siècle de notre ère, les Amazones entre mythe et réalité, et des femmes grecques ayant reçu des honneurs particuliers dans leur cité à l’époque impériale.
Comme dans chaque numéro de cette revue, une section Varia vient compléter cet ouvrage. Elle emmènera le lecteur dans l’Athènes classique, sur les traces des sacrifices religieux d’animaux, ainsi qu’en Etrurie, à la rencontre des démons de l’au-delà Charun et Vanth. Quant à la bibliographie thématique, elle est consacrée à l’athéisme dans le monde grec classique et hellénistique.