IDNO

P.137904.DAN

Description

View of Egyptian coffins being removed from a tomb as several people look on. In the background one has been opened showing the body inside. In the foreground two men lift another coffin from the tomb. [JE 10/07/2017]

Place

Africa; Egypt

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Marriette-Bey, Auguste

Collector / Expedition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Daniel, Glyn (Prof)

Date

circa 1890s

Collection Name

Daniel Collection

Source

Daniel, Glyn (Prof)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.137853.DAN - N.137938.DAN were found in a brown archive box C930/, which was transferred from the MAA Paper Archives in 2002 by Chris Chippendale.

Bibliographical Reference: MARIETTE-BEY, Auguste (1821-1881). Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte. Paris and Leipzig: H. Welter, 1893. [JD 19/10/2020]

Biographical Information: Auguste Marriette-Bey (1821-1881) was a "French archaeologist and Egyptologist, Mariette-Bey was sent to Egypt by the Louvre in 1850 to obtain Coptic manuscripts for the museum's collections. Failing in this task, he instead led excavations at Saqqara, Giza, and Thebes and rediscovered the Serapeum. Later, as director of ancient monuments in Egypt and curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, he began the enormous task of conserving the antiquities of Egypt and curtailing the wide-spread exportation of cultural objects." [Source: https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/mariette-bey-auguste-1821-1881-voyage-dans-la-haute-egypte-5274218-details.aspx, JD 19/10/2020]