La ligne et le cadre. Les moyens d’expression du texte et de l’image comparés dans la relation de la « Sortie de Min » à Medinet Habou

Knowing the means of expression of the sources used by the historian is an essential condition to his work, because it only can enable him to apprehend their contents without letting himself trap by their form. The comparison between them of the textual relation and the visual relation of the “Going out of Min”, both engraved in the temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu, by being coordinated to each other, allows their means of expression to be apprehended. Traditionally presented like incompatible, they prove to be in fact very compatible, as soon as their respective means of expression are identified: the line for the text and the frame for the image.