T. Gillen. (2014). Ramesside Registers of Égyptien de Tradition: The Medinet Habu Inscriptions, in: Grossman, et al. (eds.), On Forms and Functions: Studies in Ancient Egyptian Grammar (= Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 15), pp.41-86., 2014
This paper engages the conceptual tool of register to explore the relations between form and func... more This paper engages the conceptual tool of register to explore the relations between form and function in the historical inscriptions of Ramses III at Medinet Habu. In addition to a synchronic characterisation of the registers in use in view of their situational features and according to linguistic, discourse, and material parameters, the paper also offers a discussion of certain situations of formal identity (one form–many functions) and functional identity (many forms–one function) via a phraseological case study. Thus it is a contribution to the study of both the Medinet Habu texts and the heterogeneity of Ramesside égyptien de tradition.
T. Gillen. (2017). Introduction and overview; editor's comments, in: T. Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), pp.7-18., 2017
T. Gillen. (2017). Writing productive traditions: the emergence of the monumental Triumph Scene at Thebes, in T. Gillen (ed.), (Re0productive Traditions in Ancinet Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), pp.511-536, 2017
T. Gillen. (2015). Thematic analysis and the 3rd person plural suffix pronoun in the Medinet Habu historical inscriptions, in: P. Kousoulis (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), 12pp., 2015
S. Polis & J. Winand with the collaboration of T. Gillen. (2013). Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology (Selected papers from the conference Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia IX) Liège, 183pp., 2013
This volume represents the outcome of the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the Internatio... more This volume represents the outcome of the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists Informatique & Égyptologie) held in Liège in 2010 (6-8 July) under the auspices of the Ramses Project. The papers are based on presentations given during this meeting and have been selected in order to cover three main thematic areas of research at the intersection of Egyptology and Information Technology: (1) the construction, management and use of Ancient Egyptian annotated corpora; (2) the problems linked to hieroglyphic encoding; (3) the development of databases in the fields of art history, philology and prosopography. The contributions offer an up-to-date state of the art, discuss the most promising avenues for future research, developments and implementation, and suggest solutions to longstanding issues in the field. Two general trends characterize the projects laid out here: the desire for online accessibility made available to the widest possible audience; and the search for standardization and interoperability. The efforts in these directions are admittedly of paramount importance for the future of Egyptological research in general. Indeed, for the present and increasingly for the future, one cannot overemphasize the (empirical and methodological) impact of a generalized access to structured data of the highest possible quality that can be browsed and exchanged without loss of information.
Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), 2017
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by br... more Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.
The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
This volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by progressive specialisation.
T. Gillen. (2014). Ramesside Registers of Égyptien de Tradition: The Medinet Habu Inscriptions, in: Grossman, et al. (eds.), On Forms and Functions: Studies in Ancient Egyptian Grammar (= Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 15), pp.41-86., 2014
This paper engages the conceptual tool of register to explore the relations between form and func... more This paper engages the conceptual tool of register to explore the relations between form and function in the historical inscriptions of Ramses III at Medinet Habu. In addition to a synchronic characterisation of the registers in use in view of their situational features and according to linguistic, discourse, and material parameters, the paper also offers a discussion of certain situations of formal identity (one form–many functions) and functional identity (many forms–one function) via a phraseological case study. Thus it is a contribution to the study of both the Medinet Habu texts and the heterogeneity of Ramesside égyptien de tradition.
T. Gillen. (2017). Introduction and overview; editor's comments, in: T. Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), pp.7-18., 2017
T. Gillen. (2017). Writing productive traditions: the emergence of the monumental Triumph Scene at Thebes, in T. Gillen (ed.), (Re0productive Traditions in Ancinet Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), pp.511-536, 2017
T. Gillen. (2015). Thematic analysis and the 3rd person plural suffix pronoun in the Medinet Habu historical inscriptions, in: P. Kousoulis (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), 12pp., 2015
S. Polis & J. Winand with the collaboration of T. Gillen. (2013). Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology (Selected papers from the conference Informatique & Égyptologie), Liège, 6-8 July 2010 (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia IX) Liège, 183pp., 2013
This volume represents the outcome of the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the Internatio... more This volume represents the outcome of the meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists Informatique & Égyptologie) held in Liège in 2010 (6-8 July) under the auspices of the Ramses Project. The papers are based on presentations given during this meeting and have been selected in order to cover three main thematic areas of research at the intersection of Egyptology and Information Technology: (1) the construction, management and use of Ancient Egyptian annotated corpora; (2) the problems linked to hieroglyphic encoding; (3) the development of databases in the fields of art history, philology and prosopography. The contributions offer an up-to-date state of the art, discuss the most promising avenues for future research, developments and implementation, and suggest solutions to longstanding issues in the field. Two general trends characterize the projects laid out here: the desire for online accessibility made available to the widest possible audience; and the search for standardization and interoperability. The efforts in these directions are admittedly of paramount importance for the future of Egyptological research in general. Indeed, for the present and increasingly for the future, one cannot overemphasize the (empirical and methodological) impact of a generalized access to structured data of the highest possible quality that can be browsed and exchanged without loss of information.
Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia X), 2017
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by br... more Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.
The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
This volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by progressive specialisation.
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Two general trends characterize the projects laid out here: the desire for online accessibility made available to the widest possible audience; and the search for standardization and interoperability. The efforts in these directions are admittedly of paramount importance for the future of Egyptological research in general. Indeed, for the present and increasingly for the future, one cannot overemphasize the (empirical and methodological) impact of a generalized access to structured data of the highest possible quality that can be browsed and exchanged without loss of information.
are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.
The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
This volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by progressive specialisation.
Two general trends characterize the projects laid out here: the desire for online accessibility made available to the widest possible audience; and the search for standardization and interoperability. The efforts in these directions are admittedly of paramount importance for the future of Egyptological research in general. Indeed, for the present and increasingly for the future, one cannot overemphasize the (empirical and methodological) impact of a generalized access to structured data of the highest possible quality that can be browsed and exchanged without loss of information.
are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.
The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive, and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
This volume represents an interdisciplinary collaboration around a topic of perennial interest, a rarity in a field increasingly fractured by progressive specialisation.