Ancient Egyptian Museum and Private collections Research Papers (original) (raw)

Pour la première fois, les planches lithographiques connues à ce jour que Jean-Jacques Rifaud (1786-1852) a consacrées à l’Égypte sont publiées dans leur intégralité. Au cours de son long séjour en Égypte (près de treize ans), sûr de lui,... more

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- Botany, Zoology, Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology

A Case Study of the Middle Kingdom Standard Class Coffin: The Coffin of Yi at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Hilo Sugita, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Middle Kingdom coffins store much information about the coffin owners. This time period saw a rapid, new development in coffin decorations. Rectangular coffins began to have horizontal and vertical inscription bands on the exterior walls, which create canonical, yet distinctive patterns assigned to certain regions and/or time periods. Not only the provenance and the time period but also the socio-economic status of coffin owners can be deduced. Although a coffin was an expensive commodity, not only the royal and the elite, but also lower status individuals wished to own such funerary equipment in order to better prepare for the afterlife. Those who could afford them acquired the most desirable coffin they could. Depending on the individual’s socioeconomic status, the quality of coffin could vary. The proposed poster would showcase a study of a non-royal coffin from the Middle Kingdom, A.1287-2 in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The coffin was donated by a developer to the museum in 1928 as part of the Janss Collection. For the past decades, unfortunately, the coffin had been lost track of, and was recently re-discovered by the museum curators. Due to the poor documentation and inadequate study, little has been known about this previously forgotten coffin. For its investigation, the major studies by Harco Willems on what-he-called ‘standard class’ coffins as well as the methods developed by Kathlyn Cooney in her studies of socio-economic values of ancient Egyptian funerary arts are greatly utilized. By examining the coffin from the following perspectives – provenance, time period, choice of texts, and socio-economic status reflected in the qualities of wood, carpentry, paint and color, draftsmanship, and hieroglyphic inscriptions – we can draw conclusions about the identity of its former owner. It is suggested that the coffin belongs to a woman named Yi, who lived in the early to mid Twelfth Dynasty. Although the inscriptions are poorly written and show unusual patterns, including the choice of deities mentioned in the texts, her coffin itself is well-constructed and made of expensive imported cedar. The owner of A.1287-2, Yi, was possibly a wealthy woman from the upper middle class.
A draft of the paper on which this poster is based is here: https://www.academia.edu/19716788/A_Case_Study_of_the_Middle_Kingdom_Standard_Class_Coffin_The_Coffin_of_Yi_at_the_Natural_History_Museum_of_Los_Angeles_County

- by Hilo Sugita and +1
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- Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian Museum and Private collections, Egyptian Coffins, Middle Kingdom Coffins (Egyptology)

Desde que el emperador Maximiliano desembarcó de la fragata SMS Novara en el puerto de Veracruz, el 28 de mayo de 1864, consideró que México contaba con todos los elementos necesarios para estar a la par con las grandes potencias internacionales en los campos de las ciencias y las artes; por esta razón emprendió acciones para fortalecer las instituciones culturales del país. Uno de sus más ambiciosos proyectos fue trasladar las obras del Museo Nacional Mexicano del edificio de la Real y Pontifica Universidad al inmueble de la antigua Casa de Moneda para crear el Museo Público de Historia Natural, Arqueología e Historia. Para el emperador el museo era una poderosa herramienta para reafirmar la identidad nacional y transmitir los ideales del Segundo Imperio Mexicano; muestra de ello fue su afán en implementar medidas para que las colecciones arqueológicas del museo se incrementasen. Con este propósito financió varias expediciones al interior del país, pero su voluntad ilustrada y universalista no se restringía tan sólo al plano local; ya que también pretendió dotar al insigne museo de la calle de Moneda N. 13 con una colección de más de 1,200 obras del antiguo Egipto, la cual arribó a Veracruz, en el año de 1867, pero debido a la infortunada situación política del momento nunca pudo desembarcar. En este artículo expongo algunos de los más interesantes hechos de esta historia -que aún no ha sido suficientemente estudiada- y reviso el papel que tuvo la naciente egiptología en el ámbito intelectual de la época, con el fin de comprender el contexto en el que se desarrolló el interés de Maximiliano por la arqueología mexicana; el cual ayudó a la consolidación de una de las instituciones culturales más importantes del país.

Entries for 10 Egyptian objects from Museum August Kestner, Hannover / Germany (Cat. I.9 - I.17), and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden / The Netherlands (Cat. I.8) in the beautiful publication (Schriftenreihe des Landesmuseums Natur und Mensch, Heft 63) accompanying the cross-cultural exhibition "Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident" at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg / Germany (22 February - 1 June 2009). - For the relevant essay, see differendt PDF. - Egyptian stories in which animals act like humans are known from written sources only as late as the 2nd century AD (e.g. the famous Demotic papyrus Leiden AMS 75 - was part of the exhibition!). However, similar stories existed in Pharaonic Egypt for thousands of years. Proof are animal stories of which only "pictorial versions" are preserved (e.g. the "other side" of the famous pornographical papyrus Turin 55001 or numerous ostraca). Particularely fascinating in this respect is the purely "pictorial story" at Antikenmuseum Basel (Ae 1081) painted on stuccoed linnen from the New Kingdom (c. 1200 BC), which therefore is the focus of the essay. The text of this fairly complex animal story can unfortunaltely not be reconstructed. The existence of this purely pictorial story shows well that fables existed in Pharonic Egypt for millenia, however, only in oral transmission which - when not written down at one point AND also preserved - got lost ... likely forever. - (in German)

"Kestner-Museum - Museum August Kestner: Over 125 Years of a Museum's Timeline" (with participation of: Andrea Basse, Eva Gläser, Thorsten Henke, Anne Viola Siebert and Simone Vogt) - A version of this article also appeared in the book: Christian E. Loeben, "Kestner-Museum - 125 Jahre - Museum August Kestner", published by the museum's Friends' Society "Antike & Gegenwart e.V." at the occassion of the 125th anniversary of (nowadays) Museum August Kestner in Hannover / Germany (pages 65-77) - see PDF under "Books". - (in German)

Catalogue of the special exhibition "Mein Kestner - Museumsbesucher und ihr Lieblingsstück" (My Kestner(-Museum) - Visitors of the Museum and their favorite objects) at Kestner-Museum (now: Museum August Kestner) in Hannover / Germany (14 September - 17 December 2006). - The 37 Egyptian objects / entries are on the following pages: 10-11, 13, 20-21, 22, 23, 24-25, 26-27, 28-29/198/242-243, 32-33, 38-39, 70-71, 74-75, 77, 88-89, 94-95/102-103, 110-111, 120-121/148, 129/160-161/230, 134-135/182, 139, 142-143, 146-147, 154-155, 156-157, 158-159, 160-161, 174-175, 190-191,192-193, 199, 200-201, 224-225, 231, 240-241, 250-251, 260-261, 264-265, 272-273, 274-275. Please consult the concordance on p. 281. - (in German)

"Delicacies from Cairo! The Egyptian Collection of the Pastry Shop and Coffee House Owner Achille Groppi (1890-1949)" edited together with André Wiese (Antikenmuseum Basel) - Catalogue of the exhibition with the same title at Museum August Kestner, Hannover / Germany (23 January - 4 May 2008) and at Antikenmuseum Basel / Switzerland (15 October 2008 - 15 March 2009); with contributions by Laetitia Delaloye, Didier Devauchelle, Jasmin El-Sonbati, Christine Insley Green and photos of Andreas F. Voegelin (Basel) und Claudia Wiens (Cairo).

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egypt, History of Egyptology

Sumptuous catalogue of the breathtaking exhibition at Cercle de Lorraine, Brussels / Belgium in June 2012, curated by Jacques Billen of "Harmakhis Archeologie" - Contributions and object entries by Christian E. Loeben are on the following pages: 18-23 (extensive history of the Egyptian Collection at Museum August Kestner, Hannover / Germany), 48-49, 62-63, 69, 70-71, 74-75, 76, 77, 78-79, 84-85, 90-97, 119, 124, 171, 188, 205 (15 object entries), of which the following are notable: p. 70-71 "FACE OF QUEEN NEFERTITI" is the first time made identification of a small quarzite head to belong to a shabti figure of the famous Egyptian Queen Nefertiti previously falsly attributed to her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten (Dynasty 18, 1353-1336 BC). This new identification has in the meantime been confirmed (e.g. by the Egyptologist Christian Bayer, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim); p. 90-97 "DOUBLE 'SHABTI ON BIER' OF THE PRINCES KHAEMWASE AND RAMESSU, SONS OF RAMESSES II" discusses this fabulous object and compares it to a "shabti on bier" of the prince Thutmose, son of Amenhotep III (Berlin Egyptian Museum, acq. no. VÄGM 117-96).

Catalogue of the exhibition "Lost! Die Ägypten-Sammlung und ihre (Kriegs-)Verluste" (Lost! The Egyptian Collection and it's (war) losses) at Museum August Kestner (21 July through 6 November 2011) containing an entire list of the "lost" objects of the Egyptian Collection in Hannover. The book is divided into three parts: "Gaining objects" (how the Egyptian Collection was gathered), "Lost" (how the POST-war losses happened) and a catalogue of all "lost" objects arranged by the the periods of their entry into the museum.

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, War Studies, History of Egyptology

Museums have been filling their shelves with Egyptian artifacts for over 200 years. Every institution wanted
to have a little piece of the Orient in them. The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb bought a small, but very peculiar collection from the family of Franz Koller in 1868. Over 2200 items of original Egyptian origin now reside in Zagreb. The permanent exhibit includes bronze statuttes of gods, scarabs, papyri, several mummies, shabtis figures and many more. Its history in the museum is very long, as is the research that was conducted
on it. From the first director Šime Ljubic to the present-day curator Igor Uranic the collection has fascinated
and attracted all sorts of visitors, including scientists, and is a valuable jewel in the Zagreb Museum.

En el corazón del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, a espaldas del Palacio Nacional, en el N. 13 de la calle de Moneda, se encuentra un majestuoso edificio (ver figura 1) que otrora fuera la sede de la Casa de Moneda del Virreinato de la Nueva España y que ahora es el Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC); institución sobresaliente en Latinoamérica por contar con una de las colecciones de bienes culturales, provenientes de distintos puntos del orbe, más ricas y variadas de México. En este sentido, las obras del Egipto faraónico son parte importante de este museo y su discurso. En este artículo presento -en forma sucinta- el análisis formal, epigráfico e iconográfico de una de las obras emblemáticas de esta colección: un relieve con el praenomen de Senusert I, segundo faraón de la dinastía XII del Reino Medio, con el objetivo de esclarecer -en la medida de lo posible- el origen de esta pieza y su posible relación con algunos monumentos y obras similares. Asimismo, busco crear una reflexión sobre las problemáticas que conlleva la investigación de obras del Egipto faraónico cuyo contexto arqueológico se desconoce y que se encuentran resguardadas en varios museos alrededor del mundo.

- by Gerardo P. Taber and +1
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Approximately 5000 Egyptian artifacts (dated until the Arab conquest in 642 AD) are housed in Croatia. Most of these can be found in museums but various objects are housed in private collections. This presents these collections and shortly discusses them, giving information on for instance the historical backgrounds as well as the scientific value.

Popular report on the multi-disciplinary project "ArtModel: Egyptian Models" with Egyptology (Egyptian collections in Hannover and Hildesheim), Art History (Fachhochschule Wismar) and Informatics (University of Kiel). For a shorter article in English see: "KunstModell - Researching Ancient Egyptian Works of Art and Models", in:
CIPEG e-News 14, 2020 (also here on Academia.edu). - (in German)

- by Christian E. Loeben and +1
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- Model Theory, Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian Museum and Private collections, Egyptian Collection

23 object entries for the sumptuous publication accompanying the exhibition "Ramses. Göttlicher Herrscher am Nil" (Ramesses. Devine Ruler on the Nile) at Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe / Germany (17 December 2016 – 18 June 2017). - Cat. nos.: 37, 39, 61, 104, 113, 129-131, 133-134, 139, 149, 160-164, 171-174, 249, 252 - (in German)
Text at the back of the book:
Den Göttern erwählt, vom Volk verehrt - Ramses II. gilt als der mächtigste Pharao Ägyptens. 66 Jahre, so lange wie kein anderer, herrschte er über das Land am Nil. Während seiner Regierungszeit im 13. Jahrhundert v. Chr. führte Ramses II. Ägypten zu kultureller Blüte und wirtschaftlichem Reichtum. Kein anderer Pharao hinterließ so viele Bauwerke und Statuen wie Ramses, der mit dem Beinamen "der Große" in die Geschichte des alten Ägypten einging. Der reich bebilderte Begleitband zur Ausstellung umfasst neben Texten zu den ausgestellten Objekten vertiefende Beiträge internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren über die zentralen Themen der Geschichte Ägyptens im Zeitalter des großen Pharaos. Er bietet Einblicke in das damalige Gesellschaftssystem, die umfangreiche Baupolitik Ramses' II. und das Verhältnis Ägyptens zu seinen Nachbarstaaten. Dabei werden auch die Feldzüge gegen die Hethiter mit der berühmten Schlacht von Kadesch sowie der sich daran anschließende erste paritätische Friedensvertrag der Weltgeschichte eingehend thematisiert.

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Ramesses II

Gunnar Sperveslage, Köln Titelbild Rahmen mit Objekten der Antikensammlung von Charles Schoeller, Montierung um 1900. (Foto: Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Bonn / Ayla Schwarz) Der vorliegende Band enthält die Textfassung des im Internet veröffentlichten Werkes. Die aus dem Format PDF gedruckte Textfassung entspricht der im Internet unter oben angegebener der Adresse abrufbaren Originalfassung. Bei Zitierung der Arbeit ist bitte immer die URL der Originalfassung anzugeben (zum Zitieren von Internetpublikationen allgemein siehe das Vorwort von IBAES I). Empfohlene Zitierweise: Martin Fitzenreiter: Allerhand Kleinigkeiten, IBAES 20, Internetfassung: URL: http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/nilus/net-publications/ibaes20, Berlin, 2018, Printfassung: GHP, London, 2018 Alle Rechte beim Autor. v Allerhand Kleinigkeiten Allerhand Kleinigkeiten: seinen wissenschaftlichen Freunden und Bekannten zu seinem 70. Geburtstage am 5. Oktober 1933 überreicht -so überschrieb Ludwig Borchardt eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen, die zu publizieren vor allem ein Geschenk an sich selbst war. In einem Alter, in dem man die körperlichen und geistigen Kräfte schwinden sieht, wächst das Bedürfnis, eine gewisse Ordnung in das Leben zu bringen. Dazu zählt, allerlei Schriften zu sichten, die sich im Laufe der Jahre angesammelt haben und aus diesen oder jenen Gründen nicht veröffentlicht wurden. Sei es, dass ein geplanter Sammelband nie erscheinen wird, dass der Text der peer review nicht standgehalten hatte oder dass er sonst keinen Platz in einer geeigneten Publikation fand. Zu solcherart Kleinigkeiten zählen auch Vorträge, die, einst gehalten, es dann doch nicht zur Reife einer konturierten Erkenntnis gebracht haben, aber doch Gedanken enthalten mögen, die in den Papierkorb zu entsorgen schade wäre. Am Ende mag es einfach das Bedürfnis gewesen sein, den Schreibtisch endlich einmal aufzuräumen, dass ich die hier versammelten Beiträge zusammengestellt habe.

- by Martin Fitzenreiter
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- Egyptology, Museology, History of Archaeology, Appropriation

"Perfect Addition: From the private collection into the collector's museum - The head of an Egyptian lion-goddess at Museum August Kestner, Hannover" (Germany) - Contribution in: LIBER AMICORUM - Claus Pelling zum 90. Geburtstag (editors: Thomas Finkenauer, Alfred Nordheim), Tübingen 2022, pp. 157-176. Publishing the exquisitly worked head from a composite statuette made from rare (and therefore precious) obsidian. One of the main results of the investigation: the lioness is shown with human eyes! (in German)

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Obsidian

Questo è un vero pdf, in cui è possibile cercare singole parole.

The most of Croatian Oriental and Ancient Egyptian collections were found during the 19th and early 20th century. Currently in Croatian museum and private collections great number of Ancient Egyptian antiquities are kept. The number can be estimated between four and five thousand. The biggest and the best known collection is kept in the Archaeological museum in Zagreb (ex-National museum). It was found in the early 1860’s from the great number of private collectors, noblemen, noble families, wealthy citizens etc. (e.g. Mihael Barić, Franjo Jordan, Josip Forz Kožalić, Juraj Haulik, Gustav Koritić …). Other museums also have the great number of Ancient Egyptian artefacts which were mostly donated to those institutions by local Maecenas and merchants who travelled to Egypt and Orient (e.g. Ivo Nordeli, brothers Amerling, noble family Pasthory-Varady etc.). In this paper author will give short overview of genesis of these collections with known details of their donators. The whole subject is part of my long study of the Ancient Egyptian collections in Croatian museum and private collections which started in 1999.

In this article authors will study and analyze the group of shabtis from the collection of the Museum of Oriental Civilizations in Zolochiv, Lviv region (Ukraine). The origin of these artifacts is uncertain. At least three of them came to the museum from the private collections (Lubomirski, Pininski). We cannot be sure if they were bought in Egypt or somewhere else.

This is an extract of the official catalogue of 500 items belonging to the Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo, Italy edited by this institution and Fondazione Cariparo. The Egyptian collection holds among the most important items: five Old Kingdom blocks, five epigraphic stelae (Middle-Kingdom till Graeco-Roman Period), two parts of cartonnage and parts of coffins, a funerary mask, a wooden Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, the famous Iahmes Sapair's ushabti case. Moreover, the museum dispays an important collection of shabtis, several amulets, bronze figurines, figured reliefs with Bes, three rare Osirian reliquaries and two mummies.

From 21 June to 6 November 2011, the Museum August Kestner Hannover showed the special exhibition “Lost! Die Ägypten-Sammlung und ihre (Kriegs-)Verluste,” which was organized in close cooperation with the Stadtarchiv Hannover (the main archive of the City of Hannover). The exhibition and its catalogue intended to introduce the public to 734 ancient Egyptian objects, about one third of the hold-ings at that time, that had been missing from the museum since World War II. These objects were lost immediately after World War II, when the storage facili-ties for Hannover’s art holdings were plundered.

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Egyptology, Museum Studies, Museum, Museum Ethics

En el corazón del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, a espaldas del Palacio Nacional, en el N. 13 de la calle de Moneda, se encuentra un majestuoso edificio que otrora fuera la sede de la Casa de Moneda del Virreinato de la Nueva España y que ahora es el Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC); institución sobresaliente en Latinoamérica por contar con una de las colecciones de bienes culturales, provenientes de distintos puntos del orbe, más ricas y variadas de México. En este sentido, las obras del Egipto faraónico son parte importante de este museo y su discurso. En este artículo presentamos -en forma sucinta- el análisis formal, epigráfico e interpretación de una de las obras de esta colección: un contrapeso de un collar menat conmemorativo del heb-sed del faraón Psamético I, segundo rey de la dinastía XXVI del Período Tardío o Baja Época (c. 722-332 a.C.) del antiguo Egipto.

- by Gerardo P. Taber and +1
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology

"Power / Powerlessness - Patterns of Civilizations" - Publication (144 pages) in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at Museum August Kestner, Hannover (24 February - 24 July 2016). - Egyptological entries by Christian E.... more

This article was originally prepared to document the work of the SSEA/SÉÉA project In Search of Ancient Egypt in Canada with the collection of Egyptian artefacts held by the University of Winnipeg, beginning in 2008. It was printed in a slightly shorter version in the Newsletter of the SSEA, Spring 2011 (SSEA Newsletter 2010-2011 #2). The longer version presented here has been revised to include more recently uncovered archival information regarding the somewhat elusive A.E. Hetherington, uncovered by Prof. Val McKinley of the University of Winnipeg. The published version of the SSEA Newsletter article will also be uploaded at academia.edu

- by Mark Trumpour and +1
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- Egyptology, History of Egyptology, Ancient Egypt, Hatshepsut

"UNBELIEVABLE: The exhibition in Hannover 'O Isis and Osiris (- Egypt's Myths and Freemasonry)' wins a GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2019" - Report on the exceptional award for the exhibition "O Isis und Osiris - Ägyptens Mysterien und die Freimaurerei" at Museum August Kestner, Hannover / Germany (31 August 2017 - 25 February 2018, extended due to immense success until 24 June 2018), designed by the young designer Sebastian Moock (Hannover). Please note: The accompanying book (same German title as exhibition) edited by Florian Ebeling und Christian E. Loeben with 28 contributions on 519 pages has appeared in a second corrected edition in 2018 - see: www.freimaurerei-und-aegypten.de - (in German)

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Egyptology, Freemasonry, Research into Freemasonry, History of Freemasonry

This paper presents the results of the international project called

"'Good Demon Bes - Protector God of the Egyptians' - Special Exhibition 5 November 2020 through 11 April 2021 at Museum August Kestner, Hannover" - Announcing the special exhibition at Museum August Kestner in Hannover / Germany; with many photos of the installation of the exhibition at its first venue at Allard Pierson, Amsterdam / The Netherlands (18 October 2019 - 8 March 2020, extended due to the pndemic till 30 August 2020). For the exhibition in Hannover, also with many photos of the exhibition see Christian E. Loeben: "'Good Demon Bes - Protector God of the Egyptians' - Impressions of an exhibisition which nobody was allowed to see", in: aMun 62, 2021 (also available on Academia.edu) - (in German)

"'Good Demon Bes - Protector God of the Egyptians' - Impressions of a Family-Exhibition which Nobody was Allowed to See" - Review of the special exhibition at Museum August Kestner in Hannover / Germany (4 November 2020 - 11 April 2021) which - fully installed - remained inaccessible for the public during its entire duration due to the pandemic; with many photos of the attractive installation of the exhibition. For the exhibition at its first venue at Allard Pierson, Amsterdam / The Netherlands (18 October 2019 - 8 March 2020, extended due to the pandemic till 30 August 2020) - again with many photos of the installation of the exhibition - see Christian E. Loeben: "'Good Demon Bes - Protector God of the Egyptians' - Special Exhibition 5 November 2020 through 11 April 2021 at Museum August Kestner, Hannover", in: aMun 61, 2020 (also available on Academia.edu) - (in German)

- by Christian E. Loeben
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian demonology

"125 Years of Kestner-Museum: The Path Towards the First Municiple Museum in Hannover and its First 20 Years under Director Carl Schuchhardt" - A version of this article also appeared in the book: Christian E. Loeben, "Kestner-Museum - 125 Jahre - Museum August Kestner", published by the museum's Friends' Society "Antike & Gegenwart e.V." at the occassion of the 125th anniversary of (nowadays) Museum August Kestner in Hannover / Germany (pages 9-40) - see PDF under "Books". - (in German)

Exhibition catalogue "Treasures of the Citizens" Hannover: Museum August Kestner (12 September 2013 - 3 March 2014), chapter and object entires by C. E. Loeben in "Anhang: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung / Fritz-Behrens-Stiftung" (p.... more

- by Sergej Ivanov and +1
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Third Intermediate Period, Bab el-Gusus

Présentation générale ; 78 musées répertoriés, avec index des donateurs et collectionneurs.

Some thirty Egyptian objects were housed in the Accademia Etrusca at Cortona (Arezzo) since the XVIII century; in the years 1891-1896 an important Egyptian collection was realized by one of the notables of Cortona, Mons. Guido Corbelli, Apostolic Delegate for Arabia and Egypt. He was able to collect more than four hundred objects, part of them on the advice of Ernesto Schiaparelli, the first Director of the Egyptian Museum in Florence (1884) and from 1894 of the Turin Museum.
History of the antiquities expeditions and description of a Second Intermediate Period stela now lost (stolen in 1981).

One of the smaller but in the same time one of the most interesting Egyptian collections in Croatia is placed in Varaždin. Originally the collection was in the 19th century in the possession of the noble family Pasthory-Varady. In 1920's these artefacts came in the possession of the Museum of the City of Varaždin.
There are six artefacts in the collection: one clay cup from late Badari or Naqada I period, one limestone funeral stele of Mery-Mery who was «military scribe, of the Lord of two lands» and «overseer of domain» of Sitamun, the daughter of Amenhotep III, and whole set of four canopic jars from 26th Saite dynasty (reign of Psamtek I). The authors analyse the artefacts from the Museum of the City of Varaždin (history of the collection; basic information of the objects: inventory numbers, material, dimensions, bibliography; description, transliteration and translation with 6 color plates).

- by Mladen Tomorad and +1
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- Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian Museum and Private collections

Die Geschichte der heute im Ägyptischen Museum der Universität untergebrachten Bonner Sammlung von Aegyptiaca geht in ihren Anfängen zwar in Gestalt einzelner Objekte bis in die erste Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zurück , doch ist ihr systematischer Aufbau untrennbar mit dem Namen Alfred Wiedemann verbunden. Wiedemann, 1856 in Berlin geboren, habilitierte 1883 in Bonn und wurde dort 1891 zum außerordentlichen Professor ernannt. 1897 wurde ihm der neu eingerichtete Lehrstuhl für Ägyptologie übertragen (nach denjenigen in Berlin, Göttingen und Leipzig erst der vierte in Deutschland), doch seine Ernennung zum ordentlichen Professor fand erst 1920 statt, vier Jahre vor seiner Emeritierung. Bis zur Berufung seines Nachfolgers Hans Bonnet (1887–1972) im Jahre 1928 führte er jedoch die Verwaltung des Lehrstuhls weiter.

- by Frank Förster
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- Egyptology, Museum Studies, History of Museums, History of Egyptology

The present paper investigates an unusual and hitherto unrecognized group of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures. Through the study of four rare specimens here presented (first section), a typological analysis of such group is carried out (second... more

In Croatia are more than 4.030 Egyptian artefacts in 20 museums and an unknown number in private collections. The basic aim of the project 'Croato-Aegyptica Electronica' (CAE) is to select relevant material presenting the Egyptian cultural heritage in Croatia both in institutions and private collections. The project's scientific research part 5.

"'For Eternity! Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels' - Review onto an Exhibition in Times of the Pandemic" - On the special exhibition at Museum August Kestner in Hannover / Germany (25 June - 27 September 2020) with many photos of the installation of the exhibition designed by Sebastian Moock (Hannover) which won a "Special Mention" at the prestigious "German Design Award" 2021. - (in German)