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Motte Aurore

Département des sciences de l'antiquité

Egyptologie

Mondes anciens

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ORCID
0000-0002-0349-7222
Main Referenced Co-authors
Sojic, Nathalie  (6)
Carlig, Nathan  (2)
Geoga, Margaret (2)
Jurjens, Judith (2)
Lescuyer, Guillaume  (2)
Main Referenced Keywords
Reden und Rufe (15); speech captions (14); Kémyt (7); scribal practices (7); hieratic (6);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Mondes anciens - ULiège (17)
UR Mondes Anciens (11)
Brown University (1)
Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Classical & oriental studies (53)
Languages & linguistics (8)

Publications (total 58)

The most downloaded
627 downloads
Motte, A. (26 August 2015). "Reden und Rufe": are they kingly patterns? [Poster presentation]. XIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, Italy. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/185289

The most cited

5 citations (Scopus®)

Motte, A. (2017). A (re)investigation of Middle Kingdom speech captions in wrestling scenes. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 103 (1), 53-70. doi:10.1177/0307513317714410 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/213949

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Motte, A. (2018). Les Reden und Rufe dans les tombes privées de l’Ancien Empire à la Basse Époque : Édition et commentaire philologique [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/225658

Master dissertations

Motte, A. (2013). Les discours des travailleurs dans les tombes privées de la Première Période Intermédiaire et du Moyen Empire [Master’s dissertation, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/162565

Publications

Books

Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Almansa-Villatoro, M. V., & Motte, A. (Eds.). (2026). (Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt:Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004724235
Peer reviewed

Geoga, M., Motte, A., & Jurjens, J. (Eds.). (2025). Looking beyond the Text: New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004723405
Peer reviewed

Carlig, N., Lescuyer, G., Motte, A., & Sojic, N. (Eds.). (2020). Signes dans les textes, Continuités et ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine, Actes du colloque international de Liège (2-4 juin 2016). Liège, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Liège.
Peer reviewed

Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Motte, A. (May 2024). Learning Through Practice: On How Kemyt Contributed to Crafting and Transmitting Scribal Knowledge. Zeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 151 (1), 18. doi:10.1515/zaes-2022-0005
Peer reviewed

Motte, A., & Navratilova, H. (2022). A pyramid casing stone with the opening passage of Kemyt – Dahshur, pyramid precinct of Senwosret III. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, 51, 179-189.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2021). Un appel à la vigilance dans les scènes de vie quotidienne. Revue d'Egyptologie, 71. doi:10.2143/RE.71.0.3290678
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2021). Une paratextualité émergente dans les tombes privées. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 57, 197-223. doi:10.5913/jarce.57.2021.a009
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Motte, A. (2020). À propos de quelques tournures interrogatives et constructions associées dans les légendes discursives ('Reden und Rufe') des tombes privées. Lingua Aegyptia, 28.
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Motte, A. (2018). Reden und Rufe, a neglected genre? Towards a definition of the speech captions in private tombs. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 117, 293-317.
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Motte, A. (2017). A (re)investigation of Middle Kingdom speech captions in wrestling scenes. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 103 (1), 53-70. doi:10.1177/0307513317714410
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Articles in proceedings

Motte, A. (2022). Kemit, writing-boards, and palaeographic studies. In S. Gülden, T. Konrad, ... U. Verhoeven, Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen (pp. 337-379). Franz Steiner Verlag. doi:10.25358/openscience-9267
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2019). How to give something as a present to the tomb owner in Old Kingdom daily-life scenes. EDAL: Egyptian and Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries, VI, 312-321.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2018). Observations on the Reden und Rufe in the workmen’s tombs of Deir el-Medina. In S. Polis & A. Dorn, Outside the box, selected papers from the conference "Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact", Liège, 27–29 October 2014 (pp. 365-381). PULg.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2017). Reden und Rufe, are they kingly patterns? A first step towards an explanation about the origin(s) of speech captions in "daily life" scenes in private tombs. In G. Rosati & M. C. Guidotti, Proceedings of the ICE XI, Florence, 23-30 August 2015 (pp. 724). Oxford, United Kingdom: Archeopress.
Peer reviewed

Book chapters

Motte, A. (in press). L'ostracon hiératique littéraire 3913 (OL 3913), une prière personnelle singulière sur le modèle d’une composition hymnique. In A. Gasse & F. Albert (Eds.), CaHiers 2-3, actes des 2e et 3e Académies hiératiques (pp. 1 - x+14). Le Caire, Egypt: IFAO.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (in press). L'ostracon hiératique littéraire 285 (OL 285), un témoin supplémentaire de l'hymne au soleil levant. In A. Gasse & F. Albert (Eds.), CaHiers 2-3, actes des 2e et 3e Académies hiératiques (pp. 1 - x+9). Le Caire, Egypt: IFAO.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2026). Solidarity Politeness in Old Kingdom Speech Captions. In A. Motte & V. Almansa Villatoro (Eds.), (Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt: Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity (pp. 59-96). Brill Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789004724235_005
Peer reviewed

Almansa-Villatoro, M. V., & Motte, A. (2026). Ancient Egyptian Politeness throughout the Ages: Approaches, Questions, and Results. In A. Motte & V. Almansa Villatoro, (Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt: Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity. Brill Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789004724235_002
Peer reviewed

Geoga, M., Motte, A., & Jurjens, J. (2025). Introduction. In Looking beyond the Text (pp. 1-8). BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004723405_002
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (2023). Lorsque la linguistique et l’art s’en(tre)mêle, le cas des Reden und Rufe. In S. Gerhards, N. Gräßler, S. Gülden, A. Ilin-Tomich, J. Kertmann, A. Kilian, T. Konrad, K. van der Moezel, ... M. Zöller-Engelhardt, Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden. Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven (pp. 433-455). Heidelberg, Germany: Propylaeum.
Editorial reviewed

Motte, A. (2023). More 'Reden und Rufe'? In V. Almansa-Villatoro, M. Lehner, ... S. Štubňová Nigrelli (Eds.), In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies Presented in Honor of James P. Allen (pp. 312-325). Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004459533_022
Peer reviewed

Motte, A., & Ritter, V. (2023). Un nouveau témoin ramesside de la Kémyt : O. UC 31953 et O. IFAO OL 6666. In B. Davies, Dispatches from Deir el-Medina (pp. 177-192). wallasey, United Kingdom: Abercromby Press.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A., & Neven, L. (2022). Les écritures en Egypte ancienne. In J. Winand (Ed.), Les hiéroglyphes avant Champollion: Depuis l’Antiquité classique jusqu’à l'expédition d'Egypte (pp. 11-35). PULg.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A., & Sojic, N. (2022). 43. Les marques paratextuelles. In S. Polis (Ed.), Guide des écritures de l’Égypte ancienne. IFAO.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A., & Sojic, N. (2020). Paratextual signs in the New Kingdom medico-magical texts. In N. Carlig, G. Lescuyer, A. Motte, ... N. Sojic, Signes dans les textes, Continuités et ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine, Actes du colloque international de Liège (2-4 juin 2016) (pp. 57-94). Liège, Belgium: PULg.
Peer reviewed

Contributions to encyclopedias and dictionaries

Sojic, N., & Motte, A. (2023). 43. Paratextual Marks. In S. Polis, Guide to the Writing Systems of Ancient Egypt (pp. 248–249). Le Caire, Egypt: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.
Peer reviewed

Prefaces, postfaces, glossaries

Motte, A., Lescuyer, G., Carlig, N., & Sojic, N. (2020). Avant-propos. In N. Carlig, G. Lescuyer, A. Motte, ... N. Sojic (Eds.), Signes dans les textes, Continuités et ruptures des pratiques scribales en Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine, Actes du colloque international de Liège (2-4 juin 2016) (pp. 7-9). Liège, Belgium: Presses Unviersitaires de Liège.
Peer reviewed

Unpublished conferences and communications

Communications to congresses and symposiums

Motte, A. (26 April 2025). Mental and Emotional Experience in Large-Sized Ostraca Writing: A Focus on the Book of Kemyt [Paper presentation]. ARCE Annual Meeting 2025 (the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt), San Francisco, United States - California.
Peer reviewed

Motte, A. (08 October 2024). Anatomy of a Project – the Recontextualization of the Book of Kemyt [Paper presentation]. The First Hieratic Colloquium: Different Approaches and Methodologies Applied in the Hieratic Studies, Le Caire, Egypt.
Editorial reviewed

Motte, A. (10 November 2023). Creativity, innovation, and tradition in the speech captions of the mid-Eighteenth-Dynasty Theban tombs [Paper presentation]. TEXTUAL PRODUCTION AND TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION IN THE EIGHTEENTH-DYNASTY THEBAN NECROPOLIS, Liège, Belgium.
Editorial reviewed

Motte, A. (24 September 2023). Is there punctuation in ancient Egyptian? [Paper presentation]. Comparative Punctuation Worldwide, Regensburg, Germany.
Editorial reviewed

Motte, A. (10 December 2021). (Im-)Politeness Strategies and Formulas in the “Reden und Rufe” [Paper presentation]. ASOR Annual Meeting 2021.

Motte, A. (April 2020). Songs, speeches, and captions in Ancient Egyptian Tombs [Paper presentation]. ARCE 2020 Annual Meeting Virtual Conference.

Motte, A. (December 2019). The Kemyt-book, a relevant study-case for a better understanding of New Kingdom cursive scripts? [Paper presentation]. "Binsen"-Weisheiten IV: Hieratic of the New Kingdom.

Motte, A. (November 2019). The Kemyt: towards a contextualized view of an ancient Egyptian literary letter [Paper presentation]. 12th International Conference of Egyptologists - Cairo.

Motte, A. (June 2018). Speaking as an Ancient Egyptian [Paper presentation]. Current Research in Egyptology 2018 (Prague), Prague, Czechia.

Motte, A. (04 July 2017). For your ka! How to give something as a present to the tomb owner? [Paper presentation]. 7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference.

Motte, A., & Sojic, N. (02 June 2016). Paratextual signs in the medico-magical texts of the New Kingdom [Paper presentation]. Signes dans les textes: recherches sur les continuités et les ruptures des pratiques scribales en Egypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine.

Motte, A. (05 May 2016). Investigations around an unrecognized genre: case study on speech captions in private tombs [Paper presentation]. XVIIth Current Research in Egyptology, Cracovie, Poland.

Motte, A., & Winand, J. (18 February 2016). Second argument realization in Earlier Egyptian [Paper presentation]. Crossroads V - whence and whither ? Egyptian-Coptic linguistics in comparative perspectives.

Conferences in universities or research centers

Motte, A. (12 March 2025). Le livre de la Kémyt et les spécificités de son écriture au Nouvel Empire (1550-1070 av. J.-C.) [Paper presentation]. séminaires de recherche du département des sciences de l'Antiquité, Liège, Belgium.

Motte, A. (10 December 2022). Quelques réflexions sur la Kémyt [Paper presentation]. Journée du Groupe de contact FNRS Égyptologie, Belgium.

Motte, A. (04 March 2022). Behaviour(s) of lower status individuals in Old Kingdom Egypt [Paper presentation]. Historical Politeness Network virtual lecture series.

Motte, A. (January 2021). The Kemyt-book, a work in progress [Paper presentation]. Kolloquium für Examenskandidatinnen und -kandaditen.

Motte, A. (19 September 2019). The Reden und Rufe in daily-life scenes in private tombs from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period [Paper presentation]. Tuesday lunch seminar.

Motte, A. (16 February 2017). Étudier un genre littéraire en Égypte Ancienne : approche(s) et méthode [Paper presentation]. Séminaire Synoikismos.

Motte, A., & Polis, S. (08 February 2017). Le Projet Ramsès. Explorer la langue des pharaons au XXIe siècle [Paper presentation]. Deux siècles au service des Sciences humaines. Contribution(s) de l'Université de Liège (1817-2017), Liège, Belgium.

Posters

Motte, A. (July 2021). Der Paratext der Kemit [Poster presentation]. 52. Ständige Ägyptolog*innen-Konferenz. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5167346

Motte, A. (November 2020). The Kemyt: towards a contextualized view of an ancient Egyptian literary letter (poster) [Poster presentation]. Virtual Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2020.

Motte, A. (23 October 2015). Qu'est-ce qu'un "discours des travailleurs" ? Mise en évidence d'un genre littéraire et résultats préliminaires [Poster presentation]. Journée des doctorants 2015.

Motte, A. (26 August 2015). "Reden und Rufe": are they kingly patterns? [Poster presentation]. XIth International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, Italy.

Motte, A. (October 2014). The so-called Daily Life Scenes in the XIXth Dynasty and the Workers' Speeches : TT 212, TT 217, TT 266 [Poster presentation]. Deir el-Medina and the Theban Necropolis in Contact: Describing the interactions within and outside the community of workmen, Liège, Belgium.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Motte, A. (2025). Le scribe Hay à Bruxelles [Paper presentation]. COLLOQUE ÉGYPTOLOGIE BELGE.

Motte, A. (2022). Hieroglyphen zwischen Text und Bild [Paper presentation]. Champollion-Tag. 200 Jahre seit seiner Entzifferung der ägyptischen Hieroglyphen, Mayence, Germany.

Motte, A., & Neven, L. (2022). Le système complexe des hiéroglyphes, entre texte, image et symbole [Paper presentation]. Exposition "Les hiéroglyphes avant Champollion", Liège, Belgium.

Motte, A. (2022). Old Text, New Insights? Egyptian Scribes in the Spotlight [Paper presentation]. Regionalgruppe Rhein-Main; Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer.

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