L'invention du monument historique dans le contexte cosmopolite égyptien (1870-1890)

2014

Postface of: E. Salah el-Banna [en collaboration avec St. Pasquali], Le voyage à Héliopolis. Descriptions des vestiges pharaoniques et des traditions associées depuis Hérodote jusqu'à l'Expédition d'Égypte, RAPH 36, Le Caire, 2014, p. 177-183

Bonaparte en Égypte : feux et lumières, 2008

2018

1994

The Egyptian conceptions of the origin of the world are studied through the most ancient written sources of the pharaonic civilization, the Pyramid Texts from the Old Kingdom and the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom. The relevant passages are translated and classified according to the main stages of the creative process: the phase of the preexistence, the transition towards existence with the self-creation of the god Atum, the creation of the principal components of the universe through different means, and the phase of the maintenance of the creator’s work. Atum is the only creator god attested before the New Kingdom; other important deities are subordinate to him and attend to the propagation of the principle of life. The conceptions of cosmogony never form a coherent account but rather present themselves as independent mythical images. The myth appears as an essentially non-narrative structure which functions as a huge complex of knowledge that can become meaningful in severa...

Collombert, Ph.; Lefèvre, D.; Polis, S.; Winand, J. (eds.) Aere perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l’honneur de Pascal Vernus. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 242. Louvain. P. 17-41, 2016

Kom el-Khamasin is a little necropolis dated to the end of the Old Kingdom and the beginning of the First Intermediate Period and located in South Saqqara, approximately 3 km. west from the pyramid of Djedkara Izezi. The site is isolated and far away from any other building or burial area in the Memphite necropolis and this makes it particularly vulnerable. In 1999 it has been the object of a violent sacking which has destroyed it to a large extent. Ten years after this fact, in 2009, some inscribed limestone block fragments undoubtedly coming from Kom el-Khamasin appeared in some galleries of antiquities in Madrid and Barcelona. The palaeography and the contents of the inscriptions make it clear that they come from the tomb of the “greatest of the directors of craftsmen” Imephor-Impy, the most important known character buried in this cemetery. These inscriptions allow us to know better the peculiar career of this mysterious high official.

2010

L’architecte Patroclos M. Campanakis (1858-1929) naquit a Korthi dans l’ile d’Andros. Apres avoir suivi le cursus de deux ans a l’Ecole des arts a Athenes, il paracheva ses etudes « par de frequents passages » a Paris, tres probablement en qualite d’auditeur libre. Dans les annees 1885, il s’installa a Constantinople, a l’instar de son frere aine, Ioannis, « medecin de renom a Constantinople » et medecin personnel du khedive. Encore jeune, il participa a Athenes a la premiere exposition artistique du Parnasse (1885) puis a la quatrieme exposition artistique « Olympia » (1888) ou il fut prime.A Constantinople, il concut de nombreux bâtiments publics et prives, entre autres : l’eglise de Saint-Georges Karoupis, a Antigone (1897), les ambassades d’Espagne et de Belgique (1900) et le bâtiment de la Banque d’Athenes a Galata, a l’emplacement de l’actuel Minerva Han.Cependant, c’est dans ses participations aux grands concours internationaux que la personnalite de l’architecte et ses œuvre...

Les cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2017

L'orientalisme architectural entre imaginaires et savoirs, 2009