Prix Gaston Maspero (1987) Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989) Commander of the Palmes académiques Officer of the ordre national du Mérite Knight of the Légion d'honneur Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (2006). Member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (2016). Foreign Associate of the Deutsches archäologisches Instituts, Berlin (1995).