Miniaci, Gianluca;
(2022)
The original Inventory List of the Queen Ahhotep ‘Treasure’ from Mariette’s Papers (BIF Paris, Fonds Maspero, Ms. 4052).
Middle Kingdom Studies
, 11
pp. 71-84.
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Abstract
The article aims to present two lists (one in French and another in Arabic) containing the first inventory of the Queen Ahhotep assemblage. The lists are dated to February 25th 1859 and were presumably drafted at the time of the first opening of the coffin after its discovery (in any case before Mariette came into possession of the treasure). Believed to be lost, these two documents are preserved in the archives of the Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France in Paris in the Fonds Maspero. The content of these lists matches closely with the inventory of the queen’s assemblage drafted in the Inventaire de Boulaq/Journal d’Entrée registers in Cairo Museum, with only minor discrepancies. The existence of these two inventory lists constitutes an essential piece of evidence to confirm that the assemblage of Queen Ahhotep as preserved today in the Cairo Museum may faithfully reproduce the original contents of Ahhotep’s coffin.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The original Inventory List of the Queen Ahhotep ‘Treasure’ from Mariette’s Papers (BIF Paris, Fonds Maspero, Ms. 4052) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/mks.htm |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177772 |
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