Swiss Doctoral Course 2015 Ancient Egyptian Networks November 28th - Delémont
Le premier prophète d'Osiris Ounennéfer et son réseau Apports de la Social Network Analysis à l'étude du Nouvel Empire
VINCENT CHOLLIER PhD Student - Université Lumière Lyon 2 HiSoMA – UMR 5189 © Vincent Chollier 2015 PhD Thesis: Administrer les cultes provinciaux au Nouvel Empire : stratégies sociales et territoriales
Supervisor: Pr. Laure Pantalacci Since September 2012
Aims at studying relationships of the Upper Egyptian provincial priesthood.
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Available documentation
Stela of Satepihu, Overseer of priests of Banquet scene in the tomb of PaheryThinis Elkab Cairo Egyptian Museum, inv. CG 34080 Statue of Wennefer and his father Mery, both High Priest of Osiris Cairo Egyptian Museum, inv. JE 35257
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Athens Eg. 106 Cairo CG 34505 Louvre A 66
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Issues dealing with Egyptian genealogies
The group statue of Imeneminet, “Chief of police” Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. 1069 © Vincent Chollier with courtesy of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Trying to reconstruct Imeneminet’s genealogical tree…
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Benefits of the SNA
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Database
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Database
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Actor E Actor D
Ywy Actor F Actor C
Actor A Mery Hat Actor G Wennefer
Actor B Bwia Tiy Mayanwy Actor I Zone 1 Actor J Wyay Ta Qeny Zone 2
Zone 3 The snowball sampling method.
© Vincent Chollier 2015 © Vincent Chollier 2015 Gathering data for the egonetwork of Wennefer.
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Imeneminet’s 2-mode network. First type of nodes: documents (green) Second type of nodes: people (blue and pink)
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Imeneminet’s 2-mode network after conversion in 1-mode.
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Norman de Garis DAVIES, Seven Private Tombs at Kurnah, London, 1948, pl. 11
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Norman de Garis DAVIES, Seven Private Tombs at Kurnah, London, 1948, pl. 33
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Screenshot of the table of links in FileMaker Pro.
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Gephi: node importation.
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Gephi: node importation.
© Vincent Chollier 2015
© Vincent Chollier 2015
British Museum EA 712 Images source: www.britishmuseum.org
© Vincent Chollier 2015
Cairo Egyptian Museum JE 35257
© Vincent Chollier 2015
Louvre A 66
Cairo Egyptian Museum CG 34505
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Dynamical graph
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Dynamical graph
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Centrality measures
Small networks Low density Measures : Degree Closeness centrality Betweenness centrality
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Egonetwork of Wennefer with a depth of 3
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Id Label Closeness Centrality
34 Wennefer son of Mery 0.625
43 Minmose son of Hori 0.47297297
36 Mery son of Hat 0.42168675
Closeness centrality = average distance separating one individual to the other © Vincent Chollier 2015 Id Label Betweenness Centrality
34 Wennefer son of Mery 0.86722689
43 Minmose son of Hori 0.32605042
74 Rahotep B (vizier) 0.11680672
Betweenness centrality Actors with high betweenness score are the ones whom depends the connection of two or more parts of the network. Suppressing these individuals, these subgroups are not connected anymore or not as well as before. © Vincent Chollier 2015 Egonetwork of Wennefer in its maximum extension
Closeness Betweenness Id Label Centrality Centrality
62 Imeneminet 0.3375 0.683950617 Minmose son of 43 Hori 0.346153846 0.582098765 Wennefer son of 34 Mery 0.310344828 0.52037037
44 Hori (GPOn) 0.343220339 0.505555556
74 Rahotep B (vizier) 0.276450512 0.206944444 © Vincent Chollier 2015 Egypt cities connected according to the network of Wennefer
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Conclusions
• First degree reading: • A ỉr=n B + A ms=n C • A ḥmt.f B C • A sn n ḥmt=f E
A • Second degree reading
E D • Third degree reading
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Conclusions
Statue of Minmose son of Hori, High Priest of Onuris Cairo Egyptian Museum, inv. CG 1203
© Vincent Chollier 2015 Thank you for your attention ! [email protected] http://www.hisoma.mom.fr/annuaire/chollier-vincent https://univ-lyon2.academia.edu/VincentChollier
© Vincent Chollier 2015