Workshop Ergaleion 2 : Words, contexts and occurrences

Ergaleion - Papyrological lexicography of material life

Conceived as part of the Ifao program " Realia d'Égypte de l'époque ptolémaïque aux débuts de l'Islam : mots et mobiliers " (dir. P. Ballet, M. Mossakowska, V. Schram), Ergaleion - Outil de lexicographie papyrologique de la vie matérielle is a multilingual database designed to study the lexicon relating to material life in Egypt from the Persian to the early Arab periods, based on papyrological sources.

While one of the main aims of the database is to provide easy access, in the form of an evolving lexicon, to the results of lexicographic work recorded in the " Chronique de lexicographie papyrologique de la vie matérielle " (ed. J.-L. Fournet & S. Russo) published in the Comunicazioni dell'Istituto Papirologico " G. Vitelli ", Ergaleion has also been designed as a tool to facilitate lexicographical research around the vocabulary of realia (artifacts, materials, crafts, products, structures, landscapes, plants or animals) by defining the contexts of attestation of words, by highlighting the evolution of terminology over time, and by comparing the designations of the same reality in the different languages used in Egypt (Greek, Demotic, Aramaic, Coptic) using various visualization tools (chronological friezes and maps). Last but not least, it provides a privileged medium for systematizing the dialogue between philology and archaeology, since it enables us to connect words to the realities they are likely to designate, and to verify the presence of these realities in ancient Egypt through the census of archaeological remains.

As part of the " Realia d'Égypte " program (2022-2027), three axes have been defined as priorities for the database:

Vessels (especially cooking equipment, containers for agricultural practices, perfume vases, receptacles for precious objects), lighting ;
Textile production ;
Plant resources ;

However, Ergaleion is open to a wider range of lexicons relating to all aspects of material life, depending on the interests of associated contributors.

Workshop Ergaleion 2 : Words, contexts and occurrences

After a first workshop (19-20 September 2022) dedicated to the development of Ergaleion's archaeological section, this second workshop will focus on the lexicographical part of the database, around the sections " words ", " occurrences " and " textual contexts ". The aim of the workshop is to bring together potential future users or collaborators of Ergaleion with a view to :

Pinpoint the expectations of the scientific community specializing in papyrological lexicography ;
Make the tool easier to learn ;
Test the structure and vocabularies to discuss any methodological or conceptual problems ;
Reach a common protocol for word registration.

Program

Introduction to Ergaleion

9 h 30 - 10 h 30 - Presentation of the lexicographic part of the Ergaleion database : " Mots, contextes et occurrences ", by Valérie Schram (CNRS, ArScAn)

Session 1 : Registering a word

10 h 30 - 11 h- The example of tarsikarioi, by Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert (U. Copenhagen)

11 h- 11 h 30 - Individual practical workshop : registration of one word per participant

11 h 30 - 12 h- La mise en ligne de la " Chronique de lexicographie " (2022) : avancées et difficultés, by Laura Aguer (Sorbonne université)

12 h - 12 h 30 - How to deal with polysemy and multilingual sources ? The case of τράπεζα by Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France)

Session 2 : Recording occurrences of a word in context

14 h- 14 h 30 - Defining lopas (continued) : after archaeological attestations (Pascale Ballet), papyrological occurrences, by Simona Russo (Vitelli Institute, Florence)

14 h 30 - 15 h - How to deal with lexicons ? The case of the Dioscore d'Aphrodité glossary, by Antonio Ricciardetto (CNRS, Hisoma)

15 h- 16 h- Individual hands-on workshop : registration of one document, one textual unit, one occurrence per participant

16 h 30 - 17 h 30 - Reflections and discussions based on cases recorded by participants