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Le Premier Prophète D'osiris Ounennéfer Et Son Réseau Apports De La Social Network Analysis À L'étude Du Nouvel Empire 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 .
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