The forgotten scholar : : Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) : at the dawn of Egyptology and Coptic studies / / edited by Karen Ascani, Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi.
Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga’s scientific legacy fell almost...
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Superior document: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 74 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
Volume 74. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs. |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Karen Ascani , Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi
- 1 Georg Koës and Zoëga’s Manuscripts Preserved in The Royal Library in Copenhagen / Ivan Boserup
- 2 Relics of a Friendship. Objects from Georg Zoëga’s Estate in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen / Kristine Bøggild Johannsen
- 3 Georg Zoëga in lettere / Karen Ascani
- 4 Georg Zoëga und Christian Gottlob Heyne / Daniel Graepler
- 5 Zoëga e la filologia / Alessandro Bausi
- 6 Georg Zoëga as Art Critic / Jesper Svenningsen
- 7 An Antiquarian Depicted. The Visual Reception of Georg Zoëga / Anne Haslund Hansen
- 8 Georg Zoëga and Friedrich Münter. The Significance of Their Relationship / Tobias Fischer-Hansen
- 9 Zoëga studente di numismatica. Il soggiorno a Vienna (1782) e i contatti con Joseph Eckhel / Daniela Williams and Bernhard Woytek
- 10 Zoëga, pionnier de la numismatique alexandrine / Laurent Bricault
- 11 On the Origins of an Egyptologist / Thomas Christiansen
- 12 In visita alla ‘Grande Galleria’: l’antico Egitto a Firenze / Maria Cristina Guidotti
- 13 The Egyptian Antiquities in Bologna and Venice at Zoëga’s Time / Daniela Picchi
- 14 Georg Zoëga and the Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: Cataloguing as a Method / Rosanna Pirelli and Stefania Mainieri
- 15 A Concealed Attempt at Deciphering Hieroglyphs / Paul John Frandsen
- 16 “Covered with the Rust of Egyptian Antiquity”: Thomas Ford Hill and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs / Patricia Usick
- 17 De origine et usu obeliscorum: Some Notes on an Eighteenth-century Egyptological Study / Emanuele M. Ciampini
- 18 Gli studi copti fino a Zoëga / Tito Orlandi
- 19 Chénouté et Zoëga : l’auteur majeur de la littérature copte révélé par le savant danois / Anne Boud’hors
- 20 The Catalogus codicum copticorum manu scriptorum qui in Museo Velitris adservantur. Genesis of a masterpiece / Paola Buzi
- 21 Il collezionismo di orientalia nella Roma di Pio vi / Beatrice Palma Venetucci
- 22 Georg Zoëga e gli scavi nel territorio laziale / Beatrice Cacciotti
- 23 Friederike Brun, Elisa von der Recke and Georg Zoëga: Members of the ‘Universitas of Rome’ / Adelheid Müller
- Index.