Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential.
The seminar aims to define possible anthropological approaches to the Osirian image, considered within the general framework of a study of the workings of the image, as developed in modern anthropology and applied in recent Egyptological work to the Egyptian image. Based on these current questions, the aim is to analyze documentation from the Pharaonic period through specific case studies, using a scholarly approach from the iconographic, philological, archaeological and historical points of view.
In 2023-2024, the investigation focused on the powers of the Osirian image and, in 2024-2025, on the functioning of the image as a " substitute ". This year, the angle of approach is that of modes of representation (anthropomorphism or not ; frontality ; aspective, etc.) and designation (on the basis of a lexicographical approach) of divine images, concentrating, in certain cases, on circumscribed corpora (Theban tombs ; cosmological representations).