Conference, Association “hioglyphes”, Marseille, 8 June 2005

former unitarian pastor, Ralph Waldo Emerson treats proche-Oriental Antiquity as a corpus of texts (the biblique canon); in his view, it was part of a hermeneutical survey, inextricably linked to a thorough reflection on the nature and challenges of writing and reading. Inherited from Christian theo...

Deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs is not the miraculous achievement of one isolated genius, but rather the result of a long quest which covered several centuries and involved many scholars. Its origin dates back to the rediscovery of Antiquity during the Renaissance. Each one of these figures success...

During the modern era, the funeral of the hispanic monarchs were conceived as ceremonies serving the image of power. Their role was even more important in the American fields, territories never visited by a King of Spain of his life. However, at the time of their death, it was common to represent th...

peer reviewed Se plonger dans la correspondance, les manuscrits et les publications de Jean-François Champollion deux cents ans après le déchiffrement de l’écriture hiéroglyphique ne manque pas d’éveiller chez l’égyptologue contemporain une admiration teintée d’incrédulité : en une dizaine d’années...

This study aims to analyse the process of integrating Greeks into the Egyptian army and administration in the light of the political situation of the Saitian period. Greeks, such as Pédôn or Psammetique son of Théoklès, played a key role in the formation of the new pharaonic monarchy, even because o...

Voilà 150 years old that a group of French and British savers erupted into the mystery of the Kakadian language, a semitic language with cuneiform writing. Its decryption has provided access to much of the ancient documentation in the Middle East, where it has been used for more than two and a half...

One of the most regrettable misunderstandings of Egyptian people, from its beginnings to the present day, concerns Egypt’s and the sea’s relations. Claude Vandersleyen was able to show, following Alessandra Nibbi, that these relations were very limited, since the term by which Egyptians, believed, r...

Cote Americain 34 Acicient, Title Two pages of a book of Catholic priers, in hierglyphes of the Indians micmac de Terre-Neuve. Other title (s) Type Date Nineteenth century micmac Support Paper Importance Paper A sheet Dimensions 390 x 150 mm Demi-binding Presentation of Historical Content of Conserv...

This commentary edition of the French version of Andreas Friedrich’s emblems offers the modern reader, emblem after emblem, the keys to reading these images, as well as the lutherian background of their moral speech. This astonishing image book gradually leads to the appropriation of an image code a...

The decryption of hioglyphs by Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) is, according to Markus Messling, the author of this book, an essential moment for the European philology of the nineteenth century and for the political, intellectual and colonial environment that sees it. This is the starting poi...

we propose to revise the coding of ancient Egyptian, which is based on a standard called “Coding Manual” (1988) which does not meet current needs in the creation of hi-glyphic corpus. An analysis of the 60 000 graphics in the Ramsès corpus allows us to make two specific proposals concerning, on the...

These tens of thousands of narrow lines on yellowish paper. These straight and hanged entries, with the P and F legs escaping from the lines and striking the reader’s eye. These patient hours to decipher, in front of the screen or seated at the reading table, are such important winter glyphes. Satis...

Mendelssohn devotes the second part of his Jerusalem to an apology of Judaism. Having argued that the ‘natural religion’ shared by all men is sufficient to achieve eternal congratulation, Judaism (and indeed all the other defined religions) may appear to be unnecessary or outdated. A thesis that has...

The peculiarity called “dissimilation graphique” is recurrent in Egyptian writing systems, particularly during Old Kingdom (Dyn. III-VI, ca. 2700-2150 BC). At this time, plurality (grammatical and lexical) is indicated by the threefold of semograms, signs that have a semantic value and allow to unde...

The four open books of the National Library of France, the ‘hanging gardens’ of the Humboldt University in Berlin, the transparency of the Sendai media library in Japan, the winter walls of the new library in Alexandria: over the last twenty years, libraries have been inspiring their designers to gi...

History of research and knowledge point. Following the discovery at this location of the most western winter inclusion, 800 km west of the Nile, there is no longer any doubt about the existence of close relations between the populations of the Libyque Desert and those of the Nile, but one of the out...

The material culture of Ugaritic civilisation comprises a large number of imported Egyptian works and local (or regional) artistic productions showing Egyptian influence. Ougarit has delivered one of the most important corpus of ægyptiaca du Levant, including pieces bearing the names of the Modern a...

'p’bbThe discovery of pharaonic civilisation: the biggest adventure of our time! ‘/bb’/p’pbC is at the Renaissance that Europeans rediscover old Egypt. In a scent of sand and water, dark remains reveal to the rare travellers an open-cast museum, a fascinating world where deaths and lives, humans and...

The study presented here aims to show how the Jesuit father Athanase Kircher (1602-1680) has been able to offer translations of winter glyphic texts. Rejecting any link between writing and language, Kircher interpreted the hioglyphs as a collection of symbols which were to be decipher. In his quest,...

The aim of this study is to show the process Father Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. Rejecting any link between script and language, Kircher would interpret hieroglyphs as a collection of symbols whose meanings were to be discovered. In his quest, he reli...

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In this article, which accompanies the translation of the memory ueber die Buchstabenschrift und ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Sprachbau de Humboldt, I will start by locating this text in Humboldt’s work and among other contemporaneous work on writing. I will then focus on the theoretical dimension of...

During the romantic period, analogy is needed as a means of both poetic expression and knowledge. Through the study by three authors (Fourier, Toussenel and Baudelaire), this article explores one of the most singular avatars of this analogue paradigm: that of ‘passional analogies’, with no sensitive...