Dendara métropole

Le chantier « Dendara métropole » vise à étudier les divers aspects du temple d’Hathor dans son environnement, en portant les investigations sur l’étude architecturale des monuments ainsi que sur l’exploration archéologique des quartiers d’habitations et des cimetières. Outre la poursuite des travaux sur l’architecture monumentale, sur les secteurs associés aux fondations de Montouhotep II et sur la nécropole de l’Ancien Empire, la campagne 2019 a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives de recherche..

Espace rituel et polysensorialité.L’exemple du temple d’Hathor à Dendara

International audienceThe pronaos of Hathor’s temple in Dendara offers good opportunities of studying sensoriality. Designed as an architectural entity, this space was open to the population during ritual feasts, unlike the naos that was reserved for the community of priests. Jubilations, music, dances, drunkenness, etc., such collective demonstrations strongly appealing to the senses, were regularly held in this place. The sensory impact/ of the pronaos can today be measured by the cross examination of its construction and its parietal decoration (hieroglyphic texts and iconography). The excellent state of conservation of this room allows an almost exhaustive study. Considering the pronaos as a multi-sensory place, this paper aims at presenting the archaeo-acoustic project developed in collaboration with IRCAM (Institute for Research and Acoustic Coordination / Music), Archéotransfert (CNRS), and IFAO (research program "Soundscapes and Urban Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean"). Following a multifaceted approach and renewed methodology, this project seeks to measure the sound reverberation of this room, and to proceed to the study of the vocabulary and images (including musicians) related to the senses that are present in the texts and decoration of the pronaos. If some works in Egyptology have been focusing on senses for the last decades, this is the first time that senses would be the subject of a study that aims at understanding their role in a ritual and festive context, and that intends to make a proper mapping of senses in a ritual space

La musique à Deir el-Médina : vestiges d’instruments et iconographie du temple ptolémaïque d’Hathor

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Espace rituel et polysensorialité.L’exemple du temple d’Hathor à Dendara

International audienceThe pronaos of Hathor’s temple in Dendara offers good opportunities of studying sensoriality. Designed as an architectural entity, this space was open to the population during ritual feasts, unlike the naos that was reserved for the community of priests. Jubilations, music, dances, drunkenness, etc., such collective demonstrations strongly appealing to the senses, were regularly held in this place. The sensory impact/ of the pronaos can today be measured by the cross examination of its construction and its parietal decoration (hieroglyphic texts and iconography). The excellent state of conservation of this room allows an almost exhaustive study. Considering the pronaos as a multi-sensory place, this paper aims at presenting the archaeo-acoustic project developed in collaboration with IRCAM (Institute for Research and Acoustic Coordination / Music), Archéotransfert (CNRS), and IFAO (research program "Soundscapes and Urban Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean"). Following a multifaceted approach and renewed methodology, this project seeks to measure the sound reverberation of this room, and to proceed to the study of the vocabulary and images (including musicians) related to the senses that are present in the texts and decoration of the pronaos. If some works in Egyptology have been focusing on senses for the last decades, this is the first time that senses would be the subject of a study that aims at understanding their role in a ritual and festive context, and that intends to make a proper mapping of senses in a ritual space

Espace rituel et polysensorialité.L’exemple du temple d’Hathor à Dendara

International audienceThe pronaos of Hathor’s temple in Dendara offers good opportunities of studying sensoriality. Designed as an architectural entity, this space was open to the population during ritual feasts, unlike the naos that was reserved for the community of priests. Jubilations, music, dances, drunkenness, etc., such collective demonstrations strongly appealing to the senses, were regularly held in this place. The sensory impact/ of the pronaos can today be measured by the cross examination of its construction and its parietal decoration (hieroglyphic texts and iconography). The excellent state of conservation of this room allows an almost exhaustive study. Considering the pronaos as a multi-sensory place, this paper aims at presenting the archaeo-acoustic project developed in collaboration with IRCAM (Institute for Research and Acoustic Coordination / Music), Archéotransfert (CNRS), and IFAO (research program "Soundscapes and Urban Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean"). Following a multifaceted approach and renewed methodology, this project seeks to measure the sound reverberation of this room, and to proceed to the study of the vocabulary and images (including musicians) related to the senses that are present in the texts and decoration of the pronaos. If some works in Egyptology have been focusing on senses for the last decades, this is the first time that senses would be the subject of a study that aims at understanding their role in a ritual and festive context, and that intends to make a proper mapping of senses in a ritual space

Sound Studies and Visual Studies applied to Ancient Egypt

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Espace rituel et polysensorialité.L’exemple du temple d’Hathor à Dendara

International audienceThe pronaos of Hathor’s temple in Dendara offers good opportunities of studying sensoriality. Designed as an architectural entity, this space was open to the population during ritual feasts, unlike the naos that was reserved for the community of priests. Jubilations, music, dances, drunkenness, etc., such collective demonstrations strongly appealing to the senses, were regularly held in this place. The sensory impact/ of the pronaos can today be measured by the cross examination of its construction and its parietal decoration (hieroglyphic texts and iconography). The excellent state of conservation of this room allows an almost exhaustive study. Considering the pronaos as a multi-sensory place, this paper aims at presenting the archaeo-acoustic project developed in collaboration with IRCAM (Institute for Research and Acoustic Coordination / Music), Archéotransfert (CNRS), and IFAO (research program "Soundscapes and Urban Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean"). Following a multifaceted approach and renewed methodology, this project seeks to measure the sound reverberation of this room, and to proceed to the study of the vocabulary and images (including musicians) related to the senses that are present in the texts and decoration of the pronaos. If some works in Egyptology have been focusing on senses for the last decades, this is the first time that senses would be the subject of a study that aims at understanding their role in a ritual and festive context, and that intends to make a proper mapping of senses in a ritual space