Catalogue de la collection égyptienne du Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Vannes
By (author) Simone Petacchi By (author) Christophe Le Pennec
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(June 2025)
ISBN: 9781805830566
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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
Simone Petacchi (PhD) est actuellement collaborateur scientifique du Musee Stibbert (Florence) et du Musee d’Archeologie Mediterraneenne (Marseille). Il a etudie l’histoire ancienne et l’egyptologie a Pise, Liverpool et Lille. Membre de l’expedition archeologique de Nuri (Soudan), il collabore avec des musees et des institutions a travers l’Europe et l’Afrique. Il a publie de nombreux articles dans des revues a comite de lecture et co-ecrit des volumes sur des collections pharaoniques inedites. Il est egalement consultant editorial pour Bloomsbury Publications et journaliste independant pour Ancient Egypt Magazine. Christophe Le Pennec est le responsable scientifique des collections archeologiques, historiques et des sciences naturelles au Musee d’Histoire et d’Archeologie de Vannes, ainsi que le conservateur des archives de la Societe polymathique du Morbihan, une institution savante. Depuis 1994, il travaille pour la Ville de Vannes ou il assure la gestion des collections d’histoire et d’archeologie, soutient la recherche et participe a la valorisation aupres des publics, une grande partie des objets provenant de la Societe polymathique du Morbihan
- By (author) Simone Petacchi
- By (author) Christophe Le Pennec
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