Meet the editors

Maria Helena Trindade Lopes is a full professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, where she coordinates the master's in Egyptology. She is also a researcher at the university's Center of Humanities (CHAM), where she directs the group "Representations, Discourses, Materialities and Uses of the Past." She is the author and editor of 20 scientific books and

has published more than 120 book chapters and articles in national and foreign academic journals and in the proceedings of scientific meetings. She has organized and participated in several international congresses and was the director of the first and only Portuguese archaeological project in Egypt (Apriés Palace, Memphis/Kom Tuman). She was awarded the Medal of Grand Officer of Public Instruction in 2003.

Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel Pereira is a historian at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, an archaeologist at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and an Egyptologist at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is a research fellow in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a researcher at the university's Center of Humanities (CHAM), where he is part of the "Representa-

tions, Discourses, Materialities and Uses of the Past" group. He teaches subjects on Phoenician/Punic epigraphy, the history of ancient Greece, and Egyptology. He is also the author of the first Middle Egyptian Grammar in Portuguese. He received an Onassis fellowship from the University of the Aegean, Greece in 2018 and a CAARI Scholar in Residence fellowship in 2021. He is currently the director of the project "Akragas: The Quarter of Gate II," which is the first Portuguese archaeological project dedicated to Greek and Punic-Hellenistic contexts.

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**Section 3** Linguistics **129 Chapter 7 131** Perspective Chapter: Bάλτοi – The Reception of Western Asian Colors-Cardinal Points System along the Boundaries of the Hellenic Oikumene *by Moreno Bonda*
