De l'usage des classificateurs dans les textes funéraires. L'exemple des toponymes Jskn, Ndj.t et Ghs.tj dans les Textes des Pyramides et les Textes des Sarcophages

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This paper comes from a project dealing with classification in Egyptian funerary texts. Three examples are studied, with a common-point justifying their choice: they are toponyms. More, they all are connected to the Osirian myth, namely the death and post mortem regeneration of the god.The major aim was to analyse the various writings of these names, with a focus on their classifiers and the information they give about their place in the Egyptian mind. Because of the jointly presence of “earthly” and “celestial” classifiers, it was particularly interesting to study the excerpts where they appear in order to understand what could have been the reasons that led scribes to classify this way the considered toponyms.The results show that toponyms were treated as common names and could be accompanied by a range of classifiers including these places in several realms at the same time, both in the sky and under it, in everyday life as well as in hereafter.This study is important for me because it is one of my first (and main) publications after Ph.D. defense. More, its topic and conclusions are fully inscribed in the specialities I’m interested in: philology and classifier studies.