Bowl
Coppa
Rome, Italy
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
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Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”
Second Dynasty; purchased in 1904
inv. 74528
Breccia
Height 3.4 cm; diameter 7.5 cm
Egypt
Probably used to keep cosmetics, the artwork is part of the purchases bought by Roberto Paribeni (later Soprintendente alle antichità di Roma e Lazio, 1928–1933) in 1904 from Ghirghis, the antiquities dealer in Quena, on behalf of "Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico" in Rome. In 1878 Luigi Pigorini, director of the "Museo Preistorico Etnografico e Kircheriano", decided to expand the museum’s Egyptian archaeological collection. The main body of the collection was donated by David Randall-MacIver in 1901, after the excavations he carried out on the behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund in the town of el-Amrah, Upper Egypt. Another major purchase — from the Italian Archaeological Mission in Egypt (excavations of Hammamiye) led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin — followed in 1905. The last main acquisition took place in 1913 when the Egyptian objects from the Enrico Hillyer Giglioli’s collection entered the museum collection.
Marina Minozzi "Bowl" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;185;en
Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell
MWNF Working Number: IT2 043
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