At the court of the god. Religious organization and court mechanisms in Egypt in the I^stmillennium BC.

International colloquium organized by the Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt Chair of the Collège de France, with the support of The Hugot Foundation.

This colloquium is the third part of the Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt chair's work on the court and courtiers. Following lectures on the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and the New Kingdom, the focus here is on the I^stmillennium BC period and the links between royal and divine courts. In Pharaonic civilization, the model of the " court society " can be applied both to earthly royalty and to the world of the divine, whose various sources show that it borrowed its mode of organization and hierarchization from that of the pharaoh's court. Through the conception of the " god-king ", which became preeminent in late Egypt, the temple's hierarchical system and its rites found new and often more explicit expressions.

The aim of this scientific meeting is to shed light on these phenomena by taking several angles of approach : firstly, by characterizing the Pharaonic " court society " itself, through its mechanisms and historical evolutions in the I^stmillennium B.CC. ; secondly, by showing how the court model was projected onto the divine world and the religious organization that served it ; and thirdly, by illuminating the interpretation of Egyptian sources by what emerges from other civilizations and other types of sources, in this case from the biblical and Chinese worlds.