Hélène Cuvigny, , is a French

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

, specialist of the eastern Egyptian desert in

Roman times In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingd ...

Biography

As part of a research project of the

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes c ...

in Cairo, she was entrusted in 1994 with the exploration of the Roman garrisons network marking out the paths connecting

Qift Qift ( ; ''Keft'' or ''Kebto''; Egyptian Gebtu; ''Coptos'' / ''Koptos''; Roman Justinianopolis) is a city in the Qena Governorate of Egypt about north of Luxor, situated a little south of latitude 26° north, on the east bank of the Nile. In a ...

(formerly

Coptos Qift ( ; ''Keft'' or ''Kebto''; Egyptian Gebtu; ''Coptos'' / ''Koptos''; Roman Justinianopolis) is a city in the Qena Governorate of Egypt about north of Luxor, situated a little south of latitude 26° north, on the east bank of the Nile. In a ...

), on the Nile, to the ports of Qusayr al-Qadîm ( Myos Hormos) and

Berenice Berenice (, ''Bereníkē'') is the Ancient Macedonian form of the Attic Greek name ''Pherenikē'', which means "bearer of victory" . Berenika, priestess of Demeter in Lete ca. 350 BC, is the oldest epigraphical evidence. The Latin variant Veron ...

on the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

. She is responsible for the research program "

Ostracon An ostracon (Greek language, Greek: ''ostrakon'', plural ''ostraka'') is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an archaeology, archaeological or epigraphy, epigraphical context, ''ostraca'' refer ...

of the eastern desert" within the Institute of Papyrology of the

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...

.This institute (EA 2558), founded in 1920 by

Pierre Jouguet Pierre Jouguet (14 May 1869 – 9 July 1949) was a French Egyptologist and classical philologist. In 1890 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtaining his agrégation for grammar in 1893. For three years thereafter he was asso ...

, works in collaboration with the papyrology section of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS). In 1995, she was appointed a member of the scientific council of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. She was part of the "commission to consider the nominations for French member of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale in Cairo" between 1997 and 2000.

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Hélène Cuvigny
on data.bnf.fr
''Qu'apprend-on des tessons de poteries?''

* ttps://cnrs-gif.academia.edu/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8neCuvigny Selection of texts* ttp://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/presentation-4556 Institut de papyrologie de la Sorbonne {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuvigny, Helene 20th-century births Living people Year of birth missing (living people) French papyrologists French archaeologists French women archaeologists Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale