Catalogue de la collection égyptienne du Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Vannes

By (author) Simone Petacchi By (author) Christophe Le Pennec

Book cover: Catalogue de la collection égyptienne du Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Vannes

Extent: 122 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, World Archaeology

Series: Archaeopress Egyptology

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2025)

ISBN: 9781805830566

11.42 x 8.07 inches

Price: $49.00

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This catalogue studies the Egyptian collection at the Musee d’Histoire et d’Archeologie in Vannes, featuring artefacts donated by 19th- and 20th-century explorers. It includes Predynastic flints, funerary objects, jewellery, and more, offering new insights and serving as the first catalogue of Pharaonic artefacts in northwestern France.


This catalogue presents the first comprehensive study of the Egyptian collection at the Musee d’Histoire et d’Archeologie in Vannes, originally assembled by the Societe polymathique du Morbihan, a learned society founded in 1826. The collection, largely made up of donations from famous explorers and scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries, traces the development of one of the first public collections of Egyptian antiquities open to the public. One of the main contributors is the famous explorer Frederic Cailliaud. This catalogue meticulously reconstructs his original lots, as well as artefacts from other donors, revealing their historical significance. Notable items include 46 predynastic flint tools from Fayoum, donated by Walter Seton-Karr, a series of funerary objects such as linen strips used for the embalming of priests of Montu in Thebes, the painted and inscribed lid of a wooden anthropoid coffin of a priest from the Ptolemaic period in Akhmim, faience shabti figures from the Late Period, jewellery, amulets, a fragmentary papyrus in hieratic script, a mummified cat, two Ptolemaic royal coins and 25 Coptic textiles from Antinoe, donated by Emile Guimet. This scholarly work, enriched with detailed descriptions and high-quality images, provides new critical perspectives on these artefacts, many of which have never been published, constituting a valuable resource for Egyptologists, historians and museum curators. It makes a significant contribution to the study of small collections of antiquities in this remote region and is the first catalogue of Pharaonic artefacts from western Brittany.

Preface

Frederic cailliaud, l'explorateur et le collecteur.Ses collections privees et ses donations aux musees et aux societes savantes d'europe - Simone Petacchi

La collection egyptienne de vannes: de la societe polymatique du morbihan au musee d'histoire et d'archeologie - Christophe Le Pennec

L'industrie lithique de l'egypte ancienne : les silex tailles du fayoum - Simone Petacchi

Le mobilier funeraire: les shabtis - Simone Petacchi

Le fragment de papyrus funeraire - Simone Petacchi

Les vases - Simone Petacchi

Les bijoux - Simone Petacchi

Les amulettes - Simone Petacchi

Le cercueil anthropoide ptolemaique, les bandelettes de momie des pretres de montou, et la momie de felin - Simone Petacchi

Les terre cuites ptolemaiques - Simone Petacchi

Les monnaies ptolemaiques - Christophe Le Pennec

Les tissus coptes - Simone Petacchi

La ceramique egyptienne d'epoque medievale - Simone Petacchi

Les objets d'epoque moderne ou de nature incertaine - Simone Petacchi

Bibliographie generale du catalogue

Index

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Préface 

Frédéric cailliaud, l’explorateur et le collecteur.Ses collections privées et ses donations aux musées et aux sociétés savantes d’europe – Simone Petacchi

La collection égyptienne de vannes: de la société polymatique du morbihan au musée d’histoire et d’archéologie – Christophe Le Pennec

L’industrie lithique de l’égypte ancienne : les silex taillés du fayoum – Simone Petacchi

Le mobilier funéraire: les shabtis – Simone Petacchi

Le fragment de papyrus funéraire – Simone Petacchi

Les vases – Simone Petacchi

Les bijoux – Simone Petacchi

Les amulettes – Simone Petacchi

Le cercueil anthropoïde ptolémaïque, les bandelettes de momie des prêtres de montou, et la « momie de felin – Simone Petacchi

Les terre cuites ptolemaïques – Simone Petacchi

Les monnaies ptolemaïques – Christophe Le Pennec 

Les tissus coptes – Simone Petacchi

La céramique égyptienne d’époque médievale – Simone Petacchi

Les objets d’époque moderne ou de nature incertaine – Simone Petacchi

Bibliographie générale du catalogue

Index 

  • By (author) Simone Petacchi
  • By (author) Christophe Le Pennec