Les inscriptions rupestres du Ouadi Hammamat I
Écrire en expédition, de l’Ancien à la fin du Moyen Empire
By (author) Vincent Morel
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9782724710588
8.03 x 11.02 inches
Price: $52.00
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In Egypt’s Eastern Desert, the greywacke quarries of Wadi Hammamat preserve a vast corpus of rock inscriptions spanning several millennia. Drawing on recent field surveys, this volume examines key inscriptions from the Old Kingdom through to the end of the Middle Kingdom. It adopts a combined material, visual, and textual perspective that brings to light the spatial dynamics of these carvings, their graphic arrangement, and the intertextual dialogues they establish with each other. Combining landscape archaeology and literary analysis, the book offers a renewed interpretation of these inscriptions, elucidating the social and intellectual worlds that shaped them. The study shows that inscriptions produced during expeditions, while serving as a means of marking presence and asserting control over space, are also embedded within an environment which the act of inscribing itself helps to construct and to sacralize.
Vincent Morel holds a doctorate in Egyptology from the University of Geneva and the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale University. A philologist and historian, he studies the written productions of Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, with a particular interest in the rock inscriptions of the Eastern Desert. His research combines landscape archaeology, anthropology, semiotics, and philology.
- By (author) Vincent Morel
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