RONALDO GUILHERME GURGEL PEREIRA

Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira is the author of the first grammar of Middle Egyptian in Portuguese. His interest for the Phoenician language made him a student at the "École of Langues Anciennes de Sorbonne Université" (ELASU). His docent activities include also Hieratic, ancient Egyptian History, ancient Greek History, and many other contents to undergraduate and graduate students. He also supervised PhD and MA dissertations in Portugal and Brazil. He deals with Iron Age glyptic, namely, Egyptian/Orientalizing scarab amulets of Phoenician and Greek contexts. This study rendered him two fellowships. The first one was an Onassis Fellowship, where he studied Greek Aegyptiaca from Archaic Rhodian sanctuaries. The next one was a Scholar in Residence fellowship at CAARI (Cyprus-American Archaeological Research Institute), in Nicosia. During this fellowship, he analised Phoenician typologies of steatite scarab seals from Cyprus Archaic I and II.

EDUCATION

Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira is a Historian (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Archaelogist (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). He also holds a PhD in Egyptology (Universität Basel). He was a FCT Post-Doctoral fellow at CHAM-FCSH Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Onassis fellow at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean (Rhodes), and CAARI Scholar in Residence (Nicosia). Since 2019 he is a research fellow at CHAM-FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he studies Phoenician and Greek aegyptiaca in Portugal, and teaches contents related to Egyptology, ancient Greek History, and Phoenician-Punic epigraphy.
Recently, Dr. Pereira became director of the archaeological project "Akragas - The Quarter of Gate II" in an institutional agreement with the Parco Archeologico della Valle dei Templi, Agrigento, Sicily.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Egyptology: Linguistics, Iron Age Egypt, Aegyptiaca, Greeks in Egypt

Iron Age Mediterranean: Archaeology, Phoenician-Punic Epigraphy, Phoenician-Punic Expansion, Greek Colonization

Glyptic (Iron Age): Egyptian/Egyptianizing scarab seals/amulets

Publications

2022 - Pereira, R. G. G. Gemas Mágicas Romanas e Identidade Cultural no Mediterrâneo Antigo. In: Fronteiras - Revista Catarinense de História. 40, p. 54-82 DOIs: URLs:

2022 - Pereira, R. G. G., La splendeur des dieux: quatre études iconographiques sur l’hellénisme égyptienIn: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2022, p. online

2021 – Pereira, R. G. G. Co-Autor (with Maria Helena Trindade Lopes) and translator. The Gynecological Papyrus Kahun. London: IntechOpen. (Preface by Pascal Vernus). ISBN: 978-1-83969-428-8

2020 – Pereira, R. G. G. “New perspectives on aegyptiaca in Portugal: on Egyptianizing scarabs”. In: Pereira, R. G. G., et al. (Eds) – Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Egyptologists (CeCe 8) Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 193 – 200. ISBN: 978-3-447-11458-5

2019 – Pereira, R. G. G.“A Presença Fenícia no Sudoeste Ibérico: Interações culturais, ‘mediterranização’ e reformulação de identidades nos séculos VIII-V a.C.” In: Passos, M. C. K. (Hélade, v. 5, n. 2) Dossier: Fenícios. Niterói, pp. 152 – 168. ISSN: 1518–2541. DOI:

GRANT DETAILS

July 2021 CAARI Scholar in Residence Fellowship
Iron Age Steatite Scarabs from Cyprus: A study on typology and iconography considering the so-called “Tyrian Group” Scarabs (8th – 5th centuries BCE)
CAARI – Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia

2019 – 2025: Research Fellowship
A Database for the Aegyptiaca from the Iberian SW: Colonial Encounters and the Mediterraneanization of the Atlantic Iberian Societies (9th- 6th centuries BC)
CHAM, FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon - DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0023

January – July 2018: 23rd Onassis Fellowships Program for International Scholars
A Study on Scarabs from the Rhodian Aegyptiaca (7th- 5th centuries BC)
University of the Aegean – Department of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes

2012 – 2017: Post-Doctoral Fellow: CHAM – FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
O Renascimento Saíta em Coleções Ibéricas – Integração de coleções egípcias, em Portugal e Espanha, num corpus documental ibérico sobre o Egito da Época Baixa (664 – 332 a.C.)
CHAM, FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon - BPD – FCT 2011/ J538688O2R1Y

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, or ACADEMIC BENEFITS

International partnership - GTHA- ANPUH - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Online cours of Middle Egyptian Grammar (in Portuguese)

Introdução ao Egípcio Clássico -
Egípcio Clássico Avançado –