Pôle de Recherche, d'Interprétationet d'Archéologie Expérimentale
The PRIAE
The PRIAE is dedicated to the study, digital inventory and promotion of the musical and sound heritage of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Its approach is multidisciplinary: breaking down the barriers between disciplines, building bridges between professionals and bringing different skills into dialogue, to move research forward.
Archaeologists, musicologists, metrologists, engineers, craftspeople and musicians work together there, in collaboration with museums, conservation bodies and research laboratories.
The programmes
Projects and operations
The rote-playing donkey and the Merovingian bell of Fleury Abbey.
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3D digitisation of the Morlaix sculpture.
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The Maya instruments of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, studied and reconstructed.
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The Gaulish stele of the lyre-playing bard of Paule, digitised in 3D.
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The church of Notre-Dame de Thines and its musician capital.
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The Concevreux lyre bridge, studied without sampling.
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Audrey Lecorgne, Julian Cuvilliez and François Planet at the Cabinet des médailles of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
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Survey on rope beneath the Musicians' Hall of Puivert Castle.
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The jingling spear from grave 195 at Avicenne.
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The Basilica of Notre-Dame in Beaune and its musician animals.
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The Coriosolite stater from the Trébry hoard, at the Musée de Morlaix.
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Alan Stivell's harp, mission ARC 202.
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The Orpheus bowl of Cologne, studied and digitised in 3D.
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Open data portal
PAN Portal
The PAN Portal maps the sources that tell us about the music and instruments of the past, from Prehistory to the Renaissance. Every object studied by the PRIAE has its record there: what it is, where it is kept, how it was studied, and its 3D model to handle, in open access.
- 978records
- 56objects studied by the PRIAE
- 353D models
Members and collaborators
Audrey LecorgneArchaeomusicologist and president
Julian CuvilliezArchaeomusicologist and director
John KennyArchaeomusicologist
François PlanetDirector of the Cabinet des médailles
Christian RaultOrganologist
Myriam Serck-DewaideArt historian
Marie-Virginie CambrielsMusicologist
Romain VialaPhD in acoustics and mechanics
Lionel DieuArchaeomusicologist
Dominique HollardCurator of the Celtic and Roman coin collections at the BnF
Gisèle ClémentPhD in musicology
Jean-Paul SavignacLinguist
Gaël BourbouzeMetrology engineer
Laureen KeravecPhotographer
Tinaïg Clodoré-TissotArchaeologist
Michel ColleuEthnomusicologist
Arnaud DesfondsArchaeologist
Cyril DumasCurator of the museum of Les Baux-de-Provence
Yves MenezArchaeologist
Élisabeth WernerCultural mediator
Jean-Marc GilletArchaeo-craftsman
Christian DelabosSpecialist in cultural mediation and universal accessibility
Ronan GaugneResearch engineer in computer science
Valérie GourantonProfesseure agrégée
Marie-Pierre PuybaretArchaeo-craftswoman and weaver
Yann Fañch KemenerEthnomusicologist
Juan Ramirez VegaArchaeo-craftsman and instrument maker
Yerko FuenzalidaInstrumentalist
Yann Le RoussicArchaeo-craftsman
Céline KergonanArchaeologist
Franck MathieuArchaeometallurgist
Max BrumbergArchaeo-instrument maker
Laura NovielloArchaeomusicologist
Callum ArmstrongArchaeo-instrument maker
Caleb SimoneHistorian and HellenistIn the press
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