La collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Mariano Cinque

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-234-2

La collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: Volume II. Trascrizione e note degli appunti del ‘Catalogo dei Monumenti Egiziani di Georg Zoëga

Authors

Mariano Cinque

University of Naples L'Orientale

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-0262

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-234-2

Keywords:

MANN, Egyptian Collection, catalogues, unpublished manuscripts, Georg Zoëga

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studi Africanistici - Egyptological Series

Pages: 278

Language: Italiana

NBN:

Abstract: “L'antichità istessa ebbe la sua antichità, e l'antichità egizia può a ragion chiamarsi l'antichità delle antichità”. With these words by Bernardo Quaranta, in 1822 Giovambattista Finati concludes his preface of the first printed catalogue of the Egyptian Collection of the Real Museo Borbonico. Two hundred years after his birth, through the critical study of large archive documentation - scattered among the cities of Naples, Velletri and Copenhagen - the history of the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples from a collection, inventory and museographic point of view, is reconstructed for the first time. Volume I tells the complex history of the formation of the collection and its various acquisitions, as well as the life of the finds both inside and outside the Neapolitan museum; collects and analyzes the numerous inventory and attribution mistakes and gives new life to scattered or decomposed finds through ancient descriptions, synoptic tables and inventory sequences. Of fundamental importance for rewriting the history of the entire collection has been, above all, the manuscript of Georg Zoëga (dated back to 1784). It is the first catalogue of Stefano Borgia's collection in Velletri, whose transcription (volume II) represents an indispensable tool to restore memory and historical dignity to the Egyptian collection of the Museum Borgianum.

The volumes are part of a PhD thesis in the Ancient Near East at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", completed in June 2016.

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Author Biography

Mariano Cinque, University of Naples L'Orientale

Stefania Mainieri completed her PhD research at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (UniOr) on the Egyptian Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN). She was also one of the curators of the new permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection at the MANN, which opened in 2016.

Since 2014 she has been an external collaborator of the MANN, a curator of temporary and permanent exhibitions, expertise and cataloguer of Egyptian finds. Since 2015 she had been working alongside the chair of Egyptology at UniOr as Teaching Assistant (until 2021) and she is a member of the Italian-Egyptian Archaeological Expedition at Manqabad – Abba Nefer Monastery (Asyut-Egypt).

Specialized in museography, Egyptian funerary archaeology and coffins, since 2018 is part of the Vatican Coffin Project - an International Team Project for the study of the Third Intermediate coffins.

She is presently a Researcher at The Museo Egizio di Torino and Visiting Associate Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles for a research project on “yellow coffins” named Faces Revealed and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 895130.