Agnès Cabrol (2 July 1964 in

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– January 2007 in

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) was a French Egyptologist.

Life and work

Born in Provence, Agnès Cabrol encountered Egyptology in her reading and quickly dreamed of devoting her life to it. She graduated from the Ecole du Louvre in 1987, having studied under Christiane Ziegler,

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, and

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. After graduation from the University of Paris IV, she went on an expedition in 1991 of the Theban region of the

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of Egypt, under the direction Professor

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. For the Franco-Egyptian Centre for the Study of

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(CFEETK), she collected epigraphic data and made numerous archaeological observations. She also examined the Tomb of Khabekhenet with

. Broadening her field of investigation to ancient processional rites, she then tried to reconstruct the liturgical context, the routes, the navigations and the modes of circulation of the processions in the Theban region. On this subject, she first defended a DEA in 1992, then a thesis in 1995 at the University of Lille- III, under the direction of

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. On the advice of Professor Jan Quaegebeur, she published ''The Processional Ways of Thebes'' in the series Orientalia Loviensia Analecta, in 2001, thanks to Professor Harco Willems, Jan Quaegebeur's successor in Louvain. Gillam notes the work that Cabrol contributed to in the understanding of the temples of the New Kingdom, and her attention to political and religious symbolism. Cabrol obtained a PhD from the University of Lille III in 1995, under the direction of Professor Dominique Valbelle and remained there to lecture and founded two associations "Papyrus" and "Vasco de Gama" associations in Lille. Cabrol curated the exhibition: ''Tombs of the Nile, funerary treasures of Nubia'', which was held at

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in Villeneuve d'Ascq in 1998. Cabrol became an expert on Thebes, and was the author of numerous books and papers, notably ''Amenhotep III: le Magnifique'' (2000), ''Les voies procesionelles de Thèbes'' (2001), and ''Regards sur l'orientalisme et l'égyptologie'' (2006). In 2003, Cabrol was appointed lecturer in Lille although she was already ill. She died in her village of

(Vaucluse) on 7 January 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrol, Agnes French Egyptologists 1964 births 2007 deaths Writers from Avignon French women archaeologists 20th-century French archaeologists 21st-century French archaeologists French women historians 20th-century French women writers