Paola Buzi
I am Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at Sapienza University and Honorary Professor of Egyptology and Coptology at Hamburg University.
I graduated from Sapienza University in 1995 with a thesis on Coptic Language and Literature. In 2002 I obtained a PhD in Egyptology from the same University, with a dissertation entitled “Titles and Authors in the Coptic Literature”. I have worked as a fixed term lecturer (“assegnista di ricerca”) in the Department of Archaeology of Bologna for five years and from January 2010 on behalf of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen at Hamburg University cataloguing the Coptic manuscripts preserved in the German collections.
I sit on the Board of the International Association of Coptic Studies (IACS) and I am a member of both International Associations of Egyptologists and the Academia Ambrosiana.
I am PI of the ERC Advanced Project "PAThs - Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage".
I try to combine religious, historical, literary and codicological interests with archaeological activities and Egyptological reserach. I have taken part in several excavation campaigns in Italy and in Egypt. Since 2002 I have been a member of the Archaeological Mission in Bakchias (Fayyum) and co-director of the same mission since 2008. I am also vice-director of the Italo-Egyptian Conservation Mission at the Coptic monastery of Abba Nefer (Manqabad, Asyut). I am scientific collaborator of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterati (Rome, Hamburg) and a member of the Italian Institute for Egyptian Culture (IICE).
Among my most important scientific collaborations the following should be listed: 1) co-Leader of Team 4 (Cataloguing) in the “Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies” (COMSt) project, financed by the European Science Foundation; 2) collaboration with the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen for the “Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland” project; 3) collaboration with the Hiob Ludolf Centre and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University.
My publications range from Coptic literature to codicology and from archaeology to the history of Coptic and Egyptological studies.
I am PI of the project "PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage" funded by an ERC Advanced Grant 2015.
I graduated from Sapienza University in 1995 with a thesis on Coptic Language and Literature. In 2002 I obtained a PhD in Egyptology from the same University, with a dissertation entitled “Titles and Authors in the Coptic Literature”. I have worked as a fixed term lecturer (“assegnista di ricerca”) in the Department of Archaeology of Bologna for five years and from January 2010 on behalf of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen at Hamburg University cataloguing the Coptic manuscripts preserved in the German collections.
I sit on the Board of the International Association of Coptic Studies (IACS) and I am a member of both International Associations of Egyptologists and the Academia Ambrosiana.
I am PI of the ERC Advanced Project "PAThs - Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage".
I try to combine religious, historical, literary and codicological interests with archaeological activities and Egyptological reserach. I have taken part in several excavation campaigns in Italy and in Egypt. Since 2002 I have been a member of the Archaeological Mission in Bakchias (Fayyum) and co-director of the same mission since 2008. I am also vice-director of the Italo-Egyptian Conservation Mission at the Coptic monastery of Abba Nefer (Manqabad, Asyut). I am scientific collaborator of the Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterati (Rome, Hamburg) and a member of the Italian Institute for Egyptian Culture (IICE).
Among my most important scientific collaborations the following should be listed: 1) co-Leader of Team 4 (Cataloguing) in the “Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies” (COMSt) project, financed by the European Science Foundation; 2) collaboration with the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen for the “Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland” project; 3) collaboration with the Hiob Ludolf Centre and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University.
My publications range from Coptic literature to codicology and from archaeology to the history of Coptic and Egyptological studies.
I am PI of the project "PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage" funded by an ERC Advanced Grant 2015.
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This volume, edited by Paola Buzi and Tito Orlandi, aims to guide readers – both specialists in this field and those who are simply interested in the cultural phenomena of Christian Egypt – through the Museo Egizio’s collection of Coptic literary manuscripts, particularly the papyrus codices from This (the well-known “capital” of the Protodynastic Period, located not far from Abydos), which the museum acquired in the 1820s from Bernardino Drovetti.
The volume is divided into two sections. The first section outlines the history of studies of these Coptic manuscripts since they reached Turin, their literary content, and their place in the broader context of Coptic literary production (Paola Buzi and Tito Orlandi). While the papyrus codices from This (Nathan Carlig) are the focus of this volume, there is also a chapter dedicated to a parchment codex of unknown provenance and biblical content, which Drovetti also purchased in Egypt (Francesco Valerio). Lastly, the bookbindings housed in the papyrus storeroom which are very likely detached from the papyrus codices, are analysed for the first time herein (Eliana Dal Sasso).
The second section is of a more technical nature and contains a detailed codicological description of the bookbindings (Eliana Dal Sasso) and papyrus codices, which led to the reconsideration of the codicological units’ composition in some cases (Nathan Carlig).
The content of both sections of the volume is based on accurate autoptical analysis and, in some cases, archaeometric measurements of the inks, in addition to the necessary literary and historical reflection.
This volume is one of the scientific outcomes of the ERC Advanced Grant PAThs–“Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination, and Storage”, 3 funded by the European Research Council, Horizon 2020 programme, project no. 687567, hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma and directed by Paola Buzi (paths.uniroma1.it), and of the CMCL enterprise – “Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari” – founded and directed by Tito Orlandi (cmcl.it).
“Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context (‘PAThs’)”.
his contemporaries, Zoëga’s scholarly legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the
end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1809): At the Dawn of
Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings,
sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.
Docenti e studenti porteranno le loro testimonainze e risponderanno alle domande degli interessati.
L'incontro si rivolge prevalentemente (ma non esclusivamente) ai laureandi di Triennale che desiderano orientarsi in vista del biennio successivo.
The final goal is to develop a critical methodology and a practical approach to scientific research in the field of Egyptology.
Specific Goal of the Edition 2019-2020 ("La pratica della scrittura in Egitto: form, funzioni, contesti")
This year, the course will propose an in-depth analysis of the forms and uses of ancient Egyptian writing through a diachronic perspective (from the origins to the later contaminations/rielaborations of the system) and a number of integrated approaches (philological, archaeological, cultural-historical). The main goal is to illustrate the variety of forms, the multiplicity of functions, the complexity of contexts of use of the system, providing the student
scripts (hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic, Ptolemaic hieroglyphs) in relation to the main textual categories, the material supports, and the social-cultural contexts of writing practice.
The wide chronological range will allow the student to appreciate the synchronic specificities and the diachronic transformation of the script(s), refining her/his historical sensibility and critical skills in examination of the texts. The practical sessions will allow her/him to directly approach original objects and documents, learning to assess their manifest material dimension. Finally, the frontal classes will guide her/him in framing the sources in their historical and cultural background.
The final goal is to make the student independent before the issues raised by the different Egyptian
writing forms, rigorous in the methodological choices, critical in the interpretation of the data.
For the provisional programme please see: https://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/users/paola-buzi
PAThs takes an original and pluridisciplinary approach, combining philology, codicology, archaeology and digital humanities, in order to explore the process of production, copying, usage, dissemination, and storage of Coptic works in relation to the concrete geographical contexts of origin of both the texts themselves and their related writing supports.
On the occasion of the third international conference of the project, the digital Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature will be launched.
More details at: http://paths.uniroma1.it/
Roma La Sapienza.
Particular attention will be devoted to the develpment of Coptic Literature, to its “literary genres” and to the geography of Coptic manuscript production. Practical exercises will include analytical description of Coptic manuscripts.
The school is open to students and scholars of all disciplines, but some degree of knowledge of Christian Orient (not necessarily Coptic) as well as experience of study and/or research dealing with one of the oriental traditions is expected. Basic knowledge of the Coptic language is an appreciated prerequisite.
The class will be taught by internationally acknowledged specialists on the topics of Literature, Bible, Manuscript Tradition, Coptic Church etc.
For more details see:
https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_coptic2018.html
maṣāḥǝft (Academy of Sciences and Humanities Hamburg), TraCES (ERC Advanced Grant) and
Transmission of Knowledge in the Red Sea Area (Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg), all at
Universität Hamburg, in co-sponsorship with the PAThs project (ERC Advanced Grant) of Sapienza
Università di Roma, and in cooperation with the projects CMCL (Hamburg and Rome), Syriaca.
org, IslHornAfr (ERC Advanced Grant, Copenhagen) and Ethiopian Manuscripts Archives
(IRHT, Paris).
The aim of the workshop is to have an informal exchange of practices and outcomes and to discuss
among a group of interested parties the following points:
• interactions between projects of digitisation of catalogues of manuscripts from the Christian
Orient
• alignment of authority lists practices for Clavis identifiers, ancient places and ancient people
• standards for the reuse of primary canonical texts
• exploitation of common metadata standards for further outputs
• future development perspectives for digital resources in the field
• further points of common interest emerging during the presentations.
A round of presentations of aspects of each project’s efforts will take place, with a specific focus
on one point of common discussion, followed by a forum of open discussion in each of 3 sessions
about (1) ancient places, (2) literary works and (3) manuscripts.
Odeion, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Sapienza Università di Roma
- Ciclo di conferenze del Corso di Alta Formazione in Egittologia
Aula Partenone, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Sapienza Università di Roma - Ciclo di conferenze del Corso di Alta Formazione in Egittologia
Odeion, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Sapienza Università di Roma - Ciclo di conferenze del Corso di Alta Formazione in Egittologia
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Aula Partenone
venerdì 15 dicembre, ore 17.00
Such a task will be accomplished through both the topographical-functional analysis and the creation of an exhaustive digital catalogue of the temples and heathen shrines converted into places of Christian worship (basilicas, churches, monasteries, hermitages) designated to book production and preservation (libraries and scriptoria), besides, obviously, the cultural function.
Thus, “Sacri lapides” could be seen as the theoretical precondition as well as the archaeological follow-up inspection of the ERC project “PAThs”, the aim of which is to provide a representation of the geography of Coptic literary production by means of a thematically and chronologically searchable digital atlas.
Like the project “PAThs”, “Sacri lapides” has a twofold trait (archaeological and historic-philological), but, compared to that, it will be mainly focused on the architectural and planimetric features, by tangibly defining how and where Coptic Egypt was inserting its “knowledge places”.
They are therefore two complementary projects, which enrich each other, mutually integrating their respective outcomes.
“Sacri lapides” appears as a fully groundbreaking proposal, a complete exploration and a methodical consideration of the processes of physical permutation of the sacred space being totally lacking. In fact, the scholars who study the final period of Egyptian history until now have devoted themselves to the ideological-religious phenomena, overlooking (apart from some particular cases, which were in any case connected to regional ranges) an attentive analysis of the archaeological contexts and of the physical spaces. Thus, the future team would be composed, in equal proportion, of Egyptologists and Classical archaeologists.
The general catalogue (main product) will be accompanied by a series of likely innovative tools (by-products): 1) a survey of the historical and literary sources related to the setting up of Christian institutions within heathen temples, 2) a catalogue of the items of the temple décor bearing traces of reuse in Christian period, 3) an annotated survey of the Late-Dynastic devotional inscriptions, exhibiting an overwritten Christian text, 4) a survey of the Greek and Coptic literary sources dovetailing with the archaeological evidence.
Each of the aforesaid items will constitute not only a valuable research product, but also a substantial tool for future proposals.
Besides the traditional publications, the outcomes of the proposal will be conveyed through a specific website hosting the edition of the whole catalogue. Such data will be also inserted into the digital atlas of the Coptic literature realized by the ERC project “PAThs”, completing its contents within a thorough synergy between both proposals.
Intervengono: M.G. Biga, P. Buzi, G. Corbellini
Sapienza Università di Roma
Odeion
12 giugno ore 17.00
e nelle altre tradizioni scrittorie del mondo mediterraneo, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 299, Roma 2016
Qui è consultabile il bando:
http://www.uniroma1.it/didattica/corsiformazione/egittologia-dalla-formazione-alla-ricerca
La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 20 gennaio 2017.
L’obiettivo del Corso di Alta Formazione è fornire strumenti, metodi e competenze utili ad affrontare in autonomia una ricerca egittologica, preparando alla stesura di un progetto di ricerca di dottorato o di un progetto finanziabile da istituzioni nazionali ed internazionali e alla realizzazione di articoli scientifici.
Le competenze di base acquisite durante il percorso di laurea verranno messe a frutto, formando i frequentanti alla produzione di una ricerca indipendente.
Si forniranno inoltre gli strumenti per la progettazione di un’esposizione di soggetto egittologico.
I frequentanti saranno attivamente coinvolti, anche attraverso la lettura e l’esposizione di materiale scientifico fornito durante il Corso e attività di ricerca da effettuare in autonomia.
Il Corso di Alta Formazione è rivolto a soggetti interessati a sviluppare una concreta professionalità nel campo dell’Egittologia o di discipline affini (Storia e Archeologia del Vicino Oriente, Antichità Nubiane, ecc.).
Il Corso di Alta Formazione è rivolto a laureati di I livello, laureati Specialistici o Magistrali ovvero laureati di ordinamento precedenti al D.M 509/99.
1. Scansione, elaborazione digitale e catalogazione di piante e immagini pertinenti allo studio di siti faraonici sottoposti a processi di rioccupazione, riuso e trasformazione in età tardo-antica (caso studio: Tebe Ovest)
2. Elaborazione digitale e archiviazione del materiale fotografico relativo alle missioni di ricognizione topografica di siti archeologici dell'Egitto tardo-antico condotte dal gruppo di ricerca PAThs (aree indagate: Tebe Ovest; Delta)
PAThs. Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage
Although the Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature is still under construction, the "Paths" group considers important to share already its "philosophy" so that, when ready, users are aware of how it has been conceived.
For this reason, the "PAThs" Mission Statement will be continuously updated as soon as new "products" are ready and new methodological and scientific reflections have been carried out.
È stato pubblicato il bando per il III ciclo del Corso di Alta Formazione (CAF) in "Egittologia: dalla formazione alla ricerca": https://www.uniroma1.it/it/offerta-formativa/corso-di-alta-formazione/2024/egittologia-dallaformazione-alla-ricerca
La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 30 marzo 2024.
La locandina è qui allegata.
Tutte le informazioni, così come il programma (in costante aggiornamento), sono disponibili al seguente link: http://centreforlateantiquity.saras.uniroma1.it/wordpress/index.php/advanced-course/