The materiality of ancient Egypt: objects and museums #872688

The artifacts housed in museums wield undeniable power, embodying complex and multifaceted histories encompassing their creation, use, modification, reuse, abandonment, rediscovery, analysis, interpretation, display, and reception.

The essays collected in this volume, presented to prof. Marilina Betrò, interweave the many stories concealed within museum objects and the archives of the collections that currently safeguard them.

This fosters an ongoing conversation between ancient materials, texts, religious beliefs, and modern scholarship and interpretation.


– Introduction
Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, Cristina Alù
– La collezione egizia del Marchese Malaspina a Pavia, la visita di J.-F. Champollion, lo ‘Stabilimento’ di Belle Arti
Clelia Mora
– The story of restoration of the Egyptian Department, and few surprise
Elisabeth Delange
– University Museum Systems. Exploring the Historical Evolution and Management Practices in Italy and Pisa
Chiara Tarantino
– Digital Egypt: Technological Advances in Musealization and the Frontier of Metaverses
Nevio Danelon
– Reconstructing the biography of the Predynastic fishtails
Mona Akmal M. Ahmed
– The Palermo Stone: history, digital epigraphy and museology
Massimiliano Nuzzolo
– The tomb of Ipiankhu and the recording of Middle Kingdom coffins in Egyptology
Wolfram Grajetzki
– The diagonal star table fragment P. 4084 at the Museo Egizio
Enrico Ferraris
– Loret, Lortet et les Onguents des Princesses de Dahchour
Laure Pantalacci
– As told by things. A story told by a cosmetic box
Stefania Pignattari
– Stele del sacerdote-wab Djehuti a Torino
Gloria Rosati
– A jar for a woman. A painted pottery vase from Gebelein
Federica Facchetti
– A Ramesside foundation deposit from the Valley of the Kings at the ‘Museo Egizio’ in Florence
Anna Consonni
– Ramesses VIII and X at Pi-Ramesse?
Henning Franzmeier
– L’Enveloppe de Momie en Cartonnage d’Hérib – Musée du Louvre E 13018 (AF 13029)
Patricia Rigault-Déon
– Shabtis of ỉm.y-ḫnt wp-nṯr.wy priests from the collection of Giuseppe Acerbi
Alessandro Galli
– Demotic Papyrus Archives in the Museo Egizio – Past, Present and Future Research(ers)
Susanne Töpfer
– Une stèle hiéroglyphico-démotique du Sérapéum de Memphis (Louvre IM 3345)
Didier Devauchelle
– Retour sur la « tombe de style gréco-égyptien » de Tôd
Christophe Thiers
– The ḳrsw coffin of Tapeny
Christian Greco