Digging for Ancient Egypt and Egyptology in the Archives
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Presentazione
Modern Egyptology encompasses more than just archaeological excavations, the study of antiquities, and bibliographic research. It also relies on the invaluable insights gleaned from manuscripts left by travelers, collectors, and scholars of the past.
Archives, libraries, and museums preserve a boundless heritage of documents essential for reconstructing the history of ancient Egypt and the evolution of the discipline itself.
This volume, presented to prof. Marilina Betrò, contains articles exploring previously unpublished letters, notes, diaries, and research materials from the 17th to the first decades of the 20th century, offering precious insights into historical evidence that might otherwise have been lost.
– Introduction
Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, Cristina Alù
– Tra ideogrammi e geroglifici: la lingua primigenia nella China Illustrata di Athanasius Kircher e nel dibattito coevo
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
– “Ne mancagli altro se non che un poco di Naso”: il danneggiamento del volto della
Sfinge di Giza in un manoscritto inedito da Modena (1743)
Mattia Mancini
– Vitaliano Donati e la Iside di Coptos
Beppe Moiso
– “The Discoveries I Had Been Fortunate Enough to Make in This Country”: Six Unpublished Letters from Giovanni B. Belzoni to William J. Bankes (1817-19)
Daniele Salvoldi
– I primi anni di vita del Museo Egizio di Torino: Giulio Cordero di San Quintino
Tommaso Montonati
– Giuseppe Acerbi, Jean François Champollion, and Ippolito Rosellini: A Relationship of Esteem in the Name of Hieroglyphics, Pharaohs, and Dynasties
Daniela Picchi
– A case of identity? Demetrios Papandriopulos and Giovanni d’Athanasi
John H. Taylor
– La figura del Padre barnabita Luigi Maria Ungarelli dallo studio del Fondo Ungarelli conservato a San Carlo ai Catinari
Mario Cappozzo
– La Spedizione Romana in Egitto (1840-1841) alla luce di nuovi documenti di archivio
Alessia Amenta
– The Torlonia Obelisks: Neo-hieroglyphic Rhetoric for Rome’s New Elites
Luigi Prada
– Ernesto Schiaparelli a Tebe. Documenti inediti sul primo viaggio in Egitto (1884-1885) dell’egittologo piemontese
Paolo Del Vesco
– Digging up the Origins: The Predynastic Collection of the Museo Egizio (Turin, Italy)
Federica Ugliano
– Rudolf Dvořák (1860-1920) and his Crucial Role in establishing Czech Egyptology
Ladislav Bareš
– I reperti da el-Hibeh nel Museo Egizio di Firenze: alcuni documenti inediti dagli archivi
Maria Cristina Guidotti
Presentazione
Modern Egyptology encompasses more than just archaeological excavations, the study of antiquities, and bibliographic research. It also relies on the invaluable insights gleaned from manuscripts left by travelers, collectors, and scholars of the past.
Archives, libraries, and museums preserve a boundless heritage of documents essential for reconstructing the history of ancient Egypt and the evolution of the discipline itself.
This volume, presented to prof. Marilina Betrò, contains articles exploring previously unpublished letters, notes, diaries, and research materials from the 17th to the first decades of the 20th century, offering precious insights into historical evidence that might otherwise have been lost.
– Introduction
Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, Cristina Alù
– Tra ideogrammi e geroglifici: la lingua primigenia nella China Illustrata di Athanasius Kircher e nel dibattito coevo
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
– “Ne mancagli altro se non che un poco di Naso”: il danneggiamento del volto della
Sfinge di Giza in un manoscritto inedito da Modena (1743)
Mattia Mancini
– Vitaliano Donati e la Iside di Coptos
Beppe Moiso
– “The Discoveries I Had Been Fortunate Enough to Make in This Country”: Six Unpublished Letters from Giovanni B. Belzoni to William J. Bankes (1817-19)
Daniele Salvoldi
– I primi anni di vita del Museo Egizio di Torino: Giulio Cordero di San Quintino
Tommaso Montonati
– Giuseppe Acerbi, Jean François Champollion, and Ippolito Rosellini: A Relationship of Esteem in the Name of Hieroglyphics, Pharaohs, and Dynasties
Daniela Picchi
– A case of identity? Demetrios Papandriopulos and Giovanni d’Athanasi
John H. Taylor
– La figura del Padre barnabita Luigi Maria Ungarelli dallo studio del Fondo Ungarelli conservato a San Carlo ai Catinari
Mario Cappozzo
– La Spedizione Romana in Egitto (1840-1841) alla luce di nuovi documenti di archivio
Alessia Amenta
– The Torlonia Obelisks: Neo-hieroglyphic Rhetoric for Rome’s New Elites
Luigi Prada
– Ernesto Schiaparelli a Tebe. Documenti inediti sul primo viaggio in Egitto (1884-1885) dell’egittologo piemontese
Paolo Del Vesco
– Digging up the Origins: The Predynastic Collection of the Museo Egizio (Turin, Italy)
Federica Ugliano
– Rudolf Dvořák (1860-1920) and his Crucial Role in establishing Czech Egyptology
Ladislav Bareš
– I reperti da el-Hibeh nel Museo Egizio di Firenze: alcuni documenti inediti dagli archivi
Maria Cristina Guidotti
Cristina Alù
Cristina Alù (PhD 2021, Università di Pisa - Universität zu Köln; Post-doc 2022-23, Università di Pisa) è borsista post-dottorale presso l’Institut français d'archéologie orientale e il Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology al Cairo, con un progetto sulla socializzazione del deserto orientale.
Gianluca Miniaci
Gianluca Miniaci è ricercatore senior di Egittologia all'Università di Pisa. Dal 2013 dirige la missione archeologica a Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Medio Egitto). E' direttore di due serie scientifiche "Middle Kingdom Studies" (Golden House Publications) e "Ancient Egypt in Context" (Cambridge University Press) ed ha al suo attivo quattro monografie e oltre 70 contributi scientifici.
Mattia Mancini
Mattia Mancini is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pisa dealing with archival research, the history of Egyptology and the formation of Egyptian collections. He is a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Dra Abu el-Naga and the Ahhotep Project. He is also managing editor of the journal Egitto e Vicino Oriente.
Christian Greco
Christian Greco has been the director of the Museo Egizio since 2014. He curated many exhibitions in several countries. He is also teaching courses of Material Culture of Ancient Egypt and Museology at many national universities and at the New York University in Abu Dhabi. He has been co-director of the Italian-Dutch archaeological mission at Saqqara since 2011.
Paolo Del Vesco
Paolo Del Vesco is a curator and archaeologist at the Museo Egizio, with excavation experience in Italy, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Sudan. Since 2015, he has been involved in the museum’s archaeological missions in Saqqara and Deir el-Medina, in addition to contributing to the design of gallery displays and the development of temporary exhibitions.
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