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Networking Desert Places & Writing Practices, or How to Write an Early History of Egypt's Central Eastern Desert

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Following my recent research on the Wadi Hammamat epigraphic corpus, this lecture will address the necessity of expanding my landscape laboratory analysis to a broader research project on Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert. My aim is to study both the graphic investments and the human dynamics of circulation, occupation, and physical and mental appropriation of remote spaces through simultaneous integrations of landscape archaeology & anthropology and (visual) semiology & philology. The purpose of this project is to move from individual research to collaborative work and digital humanities; this move becomes necessary when studying a complex corpus in all its diversity (synchronic as well as diachronic) and spatial characteristics. By joining the ERC-funded Desert Networks atlas, the project’s database will network and spatialise the data in order to examine the writing in its spaces and the spaces of writing. To illustrate how some of the central research issues can be addressed, my lecture will focus on several case studies related to specific writing practices, largely exemplified in the Old Kingdom: “inscriptional devices.”
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hal-03689106 , version 1 (06-06-2022)

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Vincent Morel. Networking Desert Places & Writing Practices, or How to Write an Early History of Egypt's Central Eastern Desert. Land of Writing(s) Series, May 2022, Liège, Belgium. ⟨hal-03689106⟩
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