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RONALDO GUILHERME GURGEL PEREIRA

FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa · CHAM - Centre for the Humanities

https://researchid.co/gurgelpereira
@fcsh.unl.pt

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

Biography

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 Hist...

Grants / Consultancy

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...

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