Objetivo The aim of this project is to write a cultural history of 4000 years, localized on Elephantine Island in Egypt.Elephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island in the river Nile on the southern borderof Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested over such a long period of time. Its inhabitantsform a multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious community that left us vast amounts of written sourcesdetailing their everyday lives from the Old Kingdom to beyond the Arab Conquest. Today, several thousandpapyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more than 60 institutions across Europe andbeyond. Their texts are written in different languages and scripts, including Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic,Aramaic, Greek, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts are still unpublished and unstudied. The greatchallenge of this project is to use this material to answer three key questions covering:1) Multiculturalism and identity between assimilation and segregation,2) Organization of family and society,3) Development of religions (Polytheism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam).Thus, access needs to be gained to these texts, making them publicly available in an open access onlinedatabase. Links are to be identified between papyrus fragments from different collections and aninternational ‘papyrus puzzle’ will be undertaken, incorporating cutting-edge methods from digitalhumanities, physics and mathematics (e.g. for the virtual unfolding of papyri). Using this database withmedical, religious, legal, administrative, even literary texts, the micro-history of the everyday life of the localand global (i.e. ‘glocal’) community of Elephantine will be studied within its socio-cultural setting in Egyptand beyond. It will be linked back to macro-historical questions and benefit from newly-introducedmethodologies of global history: Elephantine can thus be used as a case study and a model for the past,present and future. Ámbito científico humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistory Programa(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Tema(s) ERC-StG-2014 - ERC Starting Grant Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2014-STG Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-STG - Starting Grant Institución de acogida STIFTUNG PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ Aportación neta de la UEn € 1 500 000,00 Dirección VON DER HEYDT STRASSE 16-18 10785 Berlin Alemania Ver en el mapa Región Berlin Berlin Berlin Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 1 500 000,00 Beneficiarios (1) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación neta de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo STIFTUNG PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ Alemania Aportación neta de la UEn € 1 500 000,00 Dirección VON DER HEYDT STRASSE 16-18 10785 Berlin Ver en el mapa Región Berlin Berlin Berlin Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Participación en los programas de I+D de la UE Opens in new window Red de colaboración de HORIZON Opens in new window Coste total € 1 500 000,00
