Hélène Cuvigny

Hélène Cuvigny, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, is a French papyrologist, specialist of the eastern Egyptian desert in Roman times.

Biography

As part of a research project of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo, she was entrusted in 1994 the exploration of the Roman garrisons network marking out the paths connecting Qift (former Coptos), on the Nile, to the ports of Qusayr al-Qadîm (Myos Hormos) and Berenice on the Red Sea.

She is responsible for the research program "Ostracon of the eastern desert" within the Institute of Papyrology of the Paris-Sorbonne University.[1]

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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References

  1. This institute (EA 2558), founded in 1920 by Pierre Jouguet, works in collaboration with the papyrology section of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS).
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