Giovanni Anastasi (merchant)
Appearance
Giovanni Anastasi (1780–1860) was born into an Armenian family from Damascus.[1] He established himself as a wealthy merchant and antiquarian. Anastasi served as a Swedish-Norwegian Consul General from 1828 until his death. He sold large collections of antiquities—to the Dutch government in 1828, now in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, including the Ipuwer Papyrus;[2] another collection—to the British Museum in 1839, and another to the French in 1857.[3][4] In 1839, the British Museum acquired from Anastasi's collection ostracon of Sinuhe.[5]
See also
- Giovanni di Niccolò Pappaffy, his nephew, Greek Ottoman merchant in British Malta
References
- ^ Dawson, Warren R., Anastasi, Sallier and Harris and their Papyri, in: JEA 35, pp. 158-162.
- ^ Egypt Exploration Society (1 January 2004). Egyptian archaeology: bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society. The Society. p. 34. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Hildegard Temporini; Wolfgang Haase (1972). Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Von den Anfängen Roms bis zum Ausgang der Republik. Joseph Vogt zu seinem 75. Geburtstag. Walter de Gruyter. p. 3401. ISBN 978-3-11-001885-1. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ Garth Fowden (1993). The Egyptian Hermes. A historical approach to the late pagan mind. Princeton University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-691-02498-1. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ R. B. Parkinson (6 February 2009). Reading ancient egyptian poetry: among other histories. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-4051-2547-5. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
Bibliography
- Bierbrier, Morris L. (2019). "ANASTASI, Giovanni (1700-1860)". Who was who in Egyptology (5 ed.). Londen: Egypt Exploration Society. p. 16. ISBN 978-0856982484.
- Chrysikopoulos, Vasileios I. (2015). "À l'aube de l'égyptologie hellénique et de la constitution des collections égyptiennes: des nouvelles découvertes sur Giovanni d'Anastasi et Tassos Neroutsos". In Kousoulis, P.; Lazaridis, N. (eds.). Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (in French). Vol. 241. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 2147–2162.
- Dawson, W.R. (1949). "Anastasi, Sallier and Harris and their Papyri". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 35: 158–166. doi:10.2307/3855225.
- Lenormant, François (1857). Catalogue d'une collection d'antiquités égyptiennes. Cette collection, rassemblée par M. d'Anastasi consul général de Suede à Alexandrie sera vendue aux enchères publiques rue de Clichy № 76, les mardi 23, mercredi 24, jeudi 25, vendredi 26 & samedi 27 juin 1857, à une heure (in French). Paris: Maulde & Renou.
- Raven, Maarten J. (2018). "Hoe beslissend een aankoop kan zijn. Mysterieuze verzamelaar Giovanni d'Anastasi bezorgde Leiden wereldfaam met zijn Egyptische collectie". In Ter Keurs, Pieter; Wirtz, Willem (eds.). Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden. Een geschiedenis van 200 jaar (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. pp. 72–78. ISBN 978-9462621756.
- Verschoor, Vincent (2018). "Het eigenbelang van een gedreven kosmopoliet. Koopman, diplomaat en oudhedenverzamelaar Giovanni d'Anastasi was invloedrijk in en buiten Europa". In Ter Keurs, Pieter; Wirtz, Willem (eds.). Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden. Een geschiedenis van 200 jaar (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. pp. 79–85. ISBN 978-9462621756.