Books by Federico Contardi
Edited Books by Federico Contardi
Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions du colloque international du même nom qui a eu lieu à la ... more Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions du colloque international du même nom qui a eu lieu à la fin du printemps 2017 à Montpellier. Il avait pour objectif d’apporter des éclairages sur plusieurs aspects relatifs à la tradition et à la transmission du rituel en tant que réalité textuelle, y compris dans sa nature matérielle.
Papers by Federico Contardi
Textes réunis et édités par Florence Albert et Frédéric Servajean, Esquisses égyptiennes. Recueil de textes offerts à Annie Gasse par ses collègues et amis, CENiM 32, Montpellier, 2022
Publication de deux ostraca from Deir el Médina avec formules du rituel des offrandes.
Africa in the World, the World in Africa, 2022
The Afrocentric paradigm aims at giving back dignity to the cultures of the continent while clai... more The Afrocentric paradigm aims at giving back dignity to the cultures of the continent while claiming an African identity which has made a powerful contribution to world history. After all, the Egyptian civilisation was considered as a real pan-African civilisation which had a direct influence on all the other African cultures including those of Senegal, Niger and Nigeria which are very far from Egypt geographically.
With this article, I intend to make a small contribution with the aim of establishing how far one can consider the Egyptian civilisation as African, this, while tackling the three following points: 1) the origins of Egyptian civilisation; 2) the relationships between the Egyptian language and the neighbouring tongues; and 3) the perception which the Egyptians had of themselves and of their distinctiveness.
version saïdique du Codex Crosby-Schøyen Ms. 193 et les ses liens avec la version paléo-bohairiqu... more version saïdique du Codex Crosby-Schøyen Ms. 193 et les ses liens avec la version paléo-bohairique du Papyrus Vatican Copte 9
J. F. Quack - D. C. Luft; Schrift und Material. Praktische Verwendung religiöser Text- und Bildträger als Artefakte im Alten Ägypten, 2021
Sh.-W. Hsu, V. P.-M. Laisney, J. Moje (ed.), Ein Kundiger, der in die Gottesworte eingedrungen ist. Festschrift für den Ägyptologen Karl Jansen-Winkeln zum 65. Geburtstag, 2020
Publication of the standing naophorus statue Museo Nazionale Romano inv. 77284 discovered probabl... more Publication of the standing naophorus statue Museo Nazionale Romano inv. 77284 discovered probably in Rome. It comes originally from Sais and dates to the beginning of the Ptolemaic Period.
The naos, with a figure of the goddess Neith, and the back pillar are carved with inscriptions bearing the titles and the name of the owner and his family: Hereferneith, whose parents were Padihorresnet and Tesnakht. The statue gives also the name of his son, Ankh-Psammetich, who dedicated the statue.
Some interesting features concern both the iconography and the inscriptions. As for the iconography it is remarkable that the shrine is hold by the fingertips through a small bar at both sides of the shrine. As for the inscription we note some graphic particularities in addition to other features concerning the titles and the prosopography.
Enim, 2019
Publication of five ushabtis stored in the Museo Archeologico di Udine. With the exception of one... more Publication of five ushabtis stored in the Museo Archeologico di Udine. With the exception of one of them, which dates to the New Kingdom, the others date to the Late Period. The contribution of this study concerns the onomastic thanks to some names seldom attested. Moreover the comparison with some material discovered during excavations allows to replace this material in his archaeological context.
Adamantius 24, 150-164, 2018
G. Rosati, M.C. Guidotti (eds.), Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists Florence Egyptian Museum Florence, 23-30 August 2015, Oxford 2017, pp. 120-123
Three unpublished papyri kept in the Turin Egyptian Museum are presented: pCGT 54041, 54042 and 5... more Three unpublished papyri kept in the Turin Egyptian Museum are presented: pCGT 54041, 54042 and 54043, dating from the 19th-20th dynasty,
and coming from Deir el Medina. These manuscripts are important for many reasons: they are the oldest versions of the Ritual of the Opening of
the mouth written on papyrus, and they present a variety of applications of this ritual which is otherwise attested at a much later time, in the
Graeco-Roman Period. Papyrus CGT 54041 is for the benefit of a private person, called Pay, while pCGT 54042 and pCGT 54043 are for the benefit
of gods, Amun-Ra, and Amun-Ra together with Ptah-Sokar- Osiris respectively.
F. P. Barone, C. Macé, P. A. Ubierna (eds), Philologie, herméneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident Mélanges en hommage à Sever J. Voicu, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 73, Turnhout 2017, 139-159, 2017
An important discovery made by the Polish Archaeological Mission in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna has impro... more An important discovery made by the Polish Archaeological Mission in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna has improved our knowledge of the manuscript tradition of the Canons attributed to Basil of Caesarea: a new Coptic papyrus manuscript has come to light, which at present is preserved in the National Museum of Alexandria, identified as Coptic Ms 1. The Canons were known so far through the following witnesses: a number of Arabic manuscripts, one of which was translated in German by Rie- del, but not edited; a quotation of Canon 1 in a Coptic liturgi- cal manuscript of paper (published by J. Dresher); a number of fragments belonging to different Coptic codices, edited and inedited, and in particular two leaves from a lost papyrus codex coming from Deir Bala’izah (n. 31), with the text of Canon 36 (published by P. E. Kahle); some Chester Beatty leaves (ms 819C, ff. 1-8) from a parchment codex (Canons 48-96) likely deriving from the White Monastery (inedited); the Turin Codex XIII, which is constituted by a good number of fragmentary leaves partially edited by F. Rossi. The aim of this contribution is to discuss the textual value of the dif- ferent witnesses, trying to assess the significance of the new manuscript discovery, with reference to the Arabic tradition. This will be the occasion to provide the unknown text of some passages of this important canonical writing.
in L. Bazin, A. Gasse, F. Servajean (ed.), À l'école des scribes. Les écritures de l'Égypte ancienne, CENIM 15, Montpellier 2016, p. 158-159
in: P. Buzi - A. Camplani - F. Contardi (eds.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, OLA 247, Leuven 2016, p. 979-992
D. Nadali (ed.), Envisioning the Past Through Memories. How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies, London 2016, p. 21-36
in: A.H. Pries (ed.), Die Variation der Tradition. Modalitäten der Ritualadaption im Alten Ägypten. Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 25.-28. November 2012 in Heidelberg, OLA 240, Leuven 2016, p. 47-72
At the present the first known papyri with the daily cult ritual for the god date to the Ramessid... more At the present the first known papyri with the daily cult ritual for the god date to the Ramesside Period.
This paper aims to show that the most ancient manuscripts with this ritual are much older: two papyrus fragments (pUCL 32091C and pUCL 32117F) from Illahun, which date back to the Middle Kingdom.
in: P. Kousoulis - N. Lazaridis (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008, OLA 241, Leuven 2015, pp. 1293-1306
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With this article, I intend to make a small contribution with the aim of establishing how far one can consider the Egyptian civilisation as African, this, while tackling the three following points: 1) the origins of Egyptian civilisation; 2) the relationships between the Egyptian language and the neighbouring tongues; and 3) the perception which the Egyptians had of themselves and of their distinctiveness.
The naos, with a figure of the goddess Neith, and the back pillar are carved with inscriptions bearing the titles and the name of the owner and his family: Hereferneith, whose parents were Padihorresnet and Tesnakht. The statue gives also the name of his son, Ankh-Psammetich, who dedicated the statue.
Some interesting features concern both the iconography and the inscriptions. As for the iconography it is remarkable that the shrine is hold by the fingertips through a small bar at both sides of the shrine. As for the inscription we note some graphic particularities in addition to other features concerning the titles and the prosopography.
and coming from Deir el Medina. These manuscripts are important for many reasons: they are the oldest versions of the Ritual of the Opening of
the mouth written on papyrus, and they present a variety of applications of this ritual which is otherwise attested at a much later time, in the
Graeco-Roman Period. Papyrus CGT 54041 is for the benefit of a private person, called Pay, while pCGT 54042 and pCGT 54043 are for the benefit
of gods, Amun-Ra, and Amun-Ra together with Ptah-Sokar- Osiris respectively.
This paper aims to show that the most ancient manuscripts with this ritual are much older: two papyrus fragments (pUCL 32091C and pUCL 32117F) from Illahun, which date back to the Middle Kingdom.
With this article, I intend to make a small contribution with the aim of establishing how far one can consider the Egyptian civilisation as African, this, while tackling the three following points: 1) the origins of Egyptian civilisation; 2) the relationships between the Egyptian language and the neighbouring tongues; and 3) the perception which the Egyptians had of themselves and of their distinctiveness.
The naos, with a figure of the goddess Neith, and the back pillar are carved with inscriptions bearing the titles and the name of the owner and his family: Hereferneith, whose parents were Padihorresnet and Tesnakht. The statue gives also the name of his son, Ankh-Psammetich, who dedicated the statue.
Some interesting features concern both the iconography and the inscriptions. As for the iconography it is remarkable that the shrine is hold by the fingertips through a small bar at both sides of the shrine. As for the inscription we note some graphic particularities in addition to other features concerning the titles and the prosopography.
and coming from Deir el Medina. These manuscripts are important for many reasons: they are the oldest versions of the Ritual of the Opening of
the mouth written on papyrus, and they present a variety of applications of this ritual which is otherwise attested at a much later time, in the
Graeco-Roman Period. Papyrus CGT 54041 is for the benefit of a private person, called Pay, while pCGT 54042 and pCGT 54043 are for the benefit
of gods, Amun-Ra, and Amun-Ra together with Ptah-Sokar- Osiris respectively.
This paper aims to show that the most ancient manuscripts with this ritual are much older: two papyrus fragments (pUCL 32091C and pUCL 32117F) from Illahun, which date back to the Middle Kingdom.