Hélène Cuvigny, , is a French papyrologist, specializing in the eastern Egyptian desert in Roman times.
Biography As part of a research project for the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo, she was entrusted in 1994 with the exploration of the Roman garrisons network marking out the paths connecting Qift (formerly 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 at the Paris-Sorbonne University.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).
In 1995, she was appointed a member of the scientific council of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. She served on 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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External links Hélène Cuvigny on data.bnf.fr Qu'apprend-on des tessons de poteries? Pourquoi les textes sur ostraca trouvés dans les forts romains du désert de Bérénice n'en disent-ils pas davantage sur le commerce érythréen ? (video) Selection of texts Institut de papyrologie de la Sorbonne