Jean Revez

During a six week field season in May and June of 2011, the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project began to record inscriptions on the columns and abacus blocks of the building. This consisted of detailed collation of earlier records of the abacus blocks made by Ricardo Caminos in the 1950s and systematic photography of all the abaci facets in situ and of those now lying in the block yards. Many of the abaci have palimpsest inscriptions of erased Sety I or early Ramesses II inscriptions replaced by later Ramesses II reliefs. Orthogonal images of a representative sample of abaci facets were made in the block yards and from our scaffolding. Theodolite measurements of abaci facets and wall reliefs were also taken and a successful experiment was made to make a conventional photograph into an orthogonal one using the software program Redresseur. Collation of early sketches of the column scenes by Harold Nelson yielded a wealth of new epigraphic data, including palimpsest inscriptions on some of t...

... | Ayuda. Une stèle commémorant la construction par l'empereur Auguste du mur d'enceinte du temple de Montou-Rè à Médamoud. Autores: Jean Revez; Localización: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, ISSN 0255-0962, Vol. 1, Nº 104, 2004 , pags. ...

Defined as "an auxiliary science to History that studied the inscriptions on enduring substances", the epigraphy calls for very varied methods and disciplines. These all imply a preliminary operation : the survey and the copy of the decors engraved or painted on walls, columns, etc. This stage is essential to understand and to reconstitute the ancient monuments, because cartouche friezes and ritual episodes give information on the date of the temple or on the nature of the activities that took place in the temple. Nowadays, epigraphic surveys are still for the most part done in a traditional handmade fashion, while computer-aided epigraphic surveying is only used for simple tasks, such as drawing the contour of hieroglyphic signs on scanned photographs. The epigraphy of a monument consists of scenes (low-relief) and texts. In the two cases, the hieroglyphic signs engraved are constituted of complex segments and curves, which must be accurately surveyed and recorded. Each h...

Computer Aided Design Research Group GRCAO, Univ ersity of Montreal, F aculty of Architecture, C.P. 6128 succursale Centre-ville, MONTREAL (QC), H3C 3J7, CANADA E-Mail : elise.meyer@umontreal.ca , pierre.grussenmeyer@insa-strasbourg.fr , temy.tidafi@umontreal.ca , parisel@pandore.qc.ca , jean.revez@umontreal.ca Commission V, Working Group V/4 KEY WORDS : Photogrammetry, Archaeology, Cultural Her itage, Surveying, Acquisition, Modelling ABSTRACT : The purpose of this paper is to present a method to carry out a computerized epigraphic survey of inscriptions engraved on colu mns. In fact, the epigraphic survey of Egyptian temples is essential to understand and to reconstitute these ancient monuments, and hieroglyphic engravings of columns are as important as the scen es that appear on walls. Columns often bear cartouche friezes an d ritual episodes that give information on the date of the temp le or on the nature of the activities that took place in its hypos tyle hall. Furthermore, th...

This article deals with the way epigraphic surveys are currently carried out by Egyptologists investigating pharaonic temples, on the one hand, and the theoretical as well as practical knowledge that can be gained by making greater use of CG-aided tools, on the other.

Using the columns inside the Hypostyle Hall in the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak as a case study, this chapter provides a look at both the advantages and the challenges associated with the use of 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and photo rectification in epigraphic work.

article deals with the virtual restitution of a 13 m high column standing initially inside the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Pharaonic temple at Karnak in Egypt. A dozen of the original 134 columns are incomplete and three of them have entirely disappeared. Hundreds of loose drums belonging to those columns are scattered all over the archaeological site; we have been able to identify most of them, making it now possible to rebuild the missing columns. Since these blocks are heavy and very difficult to move around, the decision was made to reconstruct the columns in a virtual environment. In order to do so, we have created a 3D model of the blocks by means of photogrammetric processing, with the help of specific tools that we have developed for this task.

La problematique centrale de ce travail est d'identifier les freres de roi et de definir l'evolution de leur role dans les modalites successorales, depuis la XIe dynastie jusqu'a la XXVe dynastie et la periode napateenne. La premiere partie de la presente these est consacree au corpus des freres de roi. Apres un examen critique des divers moyens employes pour identifier des freres de roi (chapitre 1), ceux-ci sont presentes chronologiquement (chapitres 2-6). Le chapitre 7 est consacre aux mentions de personnages designes metaphoriquement comme > du roi, lorsqu'ils sont mis sur un pied d’egalite avec le pharaon. Dans la deuxieme partie du travail, le role des freres de roi dans les modalites successorales est examine d'apres l'analyse du corpus. Le chapitre 8 traite du role des freres de roi dans les successions fratrilineaires. Les diverses theories avancees par les egyptologues, pour expliquer le role subalterne des freres de roi par rapport a celui joue par les fils de roi, sont soumises a une analyse critique dans le chapitre 9; de nouvelles hypotheses sont egalement proposees. Enfin, la troisieme partie examine l'evolution du role du frere du roi dans les modalites successorales, d'apres la litterature egyptienne et le mythe sethien. Le chapitre 10 traite du sens metaphorique du mot >, lorsqu'il exprime la notion de rivalite dans le contexte particulier d'un litige, notamment au sujet d'une succession. Le chapitre 11 montre comment la deliquescence de la cellule familiale, engendree par la crise monarchique de la premiere periode intermediaire, a forge une image peu flatteuse du frere. La maniere dont le complot trame contre Amenemhat 1er a contribue a assimiler le frere du roi a un traitre, est examinee dans le chapitre 12. Dans le chapitre suivant, un lien etroit est etabli entre le theme central des grandes œuvres litteraires ramessides, c'est-a-dire le conflit entre freres ennemis, et les querelles de succession des rois des XIXe et XXe dynasties. Enfin, le dernier chapitre definit la place du frere du roi dans l'ideologie royale, et montre comment la perception du frere du roi a ete fortement influencee par l'image de Seth en tant que rival d’Horus.

... | Ayuda. Une stèle commémorant la construction par l'empereur Auguste du mur d'enceinte du temple de Montou-Rè à Médamoud. Autores: Jean Revez; Localización: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, ISSN 0255-0962, Vol. 1, Nº 104, 2004 , pags. ...

Ever since JJ Clere1 wrote in the mid-fifties a comparative study about kinship terminology in various Afroasiatic languages including Ancient Egyptian, this field has aroused the interest of a growing number of Egyptologists. G. Robins2 and D. Franke,3 among others,4 have ...

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