Catalogue of Late and Ptolemaic Period Anthropoid Sarcophagi in the Grand Egyptian Museum

Grand Egyptian Museum — Catalogue Général Vol. 1

Christian Leitz
Zeinab Mahrous
Tarek Tawfik

This joint publication project of Cairo University and the University of Tübingen scholars uses modern technologies, including electronic drawing boa

English edition
03 March 2020
228 pp.
159 b&w photos, 24 color photos, 277 drawings
20.6 x 29.7cm
ISBN 9789776420366
For sale worldwide

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This joint publication project of Cairo University and the University of Tübingen scholars uses modern technologies, including electronic drawing boards, photo merging, and 3-D modeling, to catalogue the late anthropoid sarcophagi housed in Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum. Most of this collection was previously known only from the entries in M.-L. Buhl’s The Late Egyptian Anthropoid Stone Sarcophagi (Copenhagen, 1959). This catalogue draws on the efforts of eight team members, each chapter prepared by a joint Egyptian–German team, with the drawings made by the Egyptians and the translations provided by the Germans. The Egyptian Museum photographer Ahmed Amin provided the teams with hundreds of photographs, which were later merged together with the help of Adobe Photoshop. The hieroglyphic texts were composed by JSesh. This, the first catalogue of the Grand Egyptian Museum, was made possible through financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Christian Leitz

Christian  Leitz has been the director of the Institute of Egyptology at Tübingen University since 2004.

Zeinab Mahrous

Zeinab  Mahrous is professor of Egyptology at Cairo University.

Tarek Tawfik

Tarek  Tawfik is associate professor of Egyptology at Cairo University and former director general of the Grand Egyptian Museum Project.
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