Bernardino Michele Maria Drovetti (January 7, 1776 – March 5, 1852) was an Italian antiquities looter, diplomat, and politician. He is best remembered...
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reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and...
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when one of their funerary stele was purchased by the antiquarian Bernardino Drovetti. Scenes from the chapel were first copied in the 19th century by...
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of Edmé-Antoine Durand, Henry Salt and the second collection of Bernardino Drovetti (the first one having been purchased by Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia...
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General Bernardino Drovetti for advice on how to secure permission from the Egyptian Khedive and Ottoman Viceroy Muhammad Ali of Egypt. Drovetti had initiated...
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Papyrus Taurinensis, is a fragment of an Aramaic papyrus found by Bernardino Drovetti in 1823–24. It is known as CIS II 144 and TAD A5.3. Although it contains...
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Günter Dreyer (German, 1943-2019) Étienne Drioton (French, 1889–1961) Bernardino Drovetti (Italian, 1776–1852) Johannes Dümichen (German, 1833–1894) Bendix...
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three collections, formed by Edmé-Antoine Durand, Henry Salt and Bernardino Drovetti; these additions added 7,000 works. Growth continued via acquisitions...
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nothing of note remained to be found. Working at the same time was Bernardino Drovetti, the French Consul-General and a great rival of Belzoni and Salt...
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removal. The local Caimakan, under advice from Belzoni's French rival Bernardino Drovetti, denies Belzoni's permit and initially refuses to supply labour until...
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19th or 20th Dynasty. The papyrus was found by the Italian traveler Bernardino Drovetti in 1820 in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt and was acquired in 1824 by the...
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The first known such papyri were bought by Giovanni Belzoni and Bernardino Drovetti; a number of Aramaic letters and a demotic letter were presented...
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January 3 – Thomas Morris, American politician (d. 1844) January 4 Bernardino Drovetti, Italian diplomat (d. 1852) Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, French...
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Drovetti collection (5,268 pieces, including 100 statues, 170 papyri, stelae, mummies, and other items), that the French General Consul, Bernardino Drovetti...
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Sakhet among his Rosetta Stone discovery. Shortly after, he commands Bernardino Drovetti to deliver the Sakhet in France. In Mission 5, he sends a secret...
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constitutes the Museo Egizio in Turin. The pieces were acquired from Bernardino Drovetti, a native of Barbania, who was then the French consul in Egypt. The...
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2000 - January 2001, lists a copy of a first edition presented to Bernardino Drovetti, the French consul general in Egypt from 1802 to 1814 and 1821–1826...
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of antiquities, although he was hindered in every possible way by Bernardino Drovetti, who, having been dismissed from his official post, now had the time...
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order to escape the problems of Europe. He had a prominent friend, Bernardino Drovetti, who was also in Egypt for the same reason that gave him a job as...
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covered an area of at least 2.5 by 1.5 kilometres (1.55 mi × 0.93 mi). Bernardino Drovetti described the site in 1821. John Gardner Wilkinson, who saw it in...
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Hallerstein, German Greek archaeologist (d. 1817) 1776 January 4 - Bernardino Drovetti, Italian antiquarian and Egyptologist (d. 1852) March 12 - Lady Hester...
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garrison consisted of Albanian troops, with the French Consul-General, Bernardino Drovetti, attempting to force them to repel the British landing west of the...
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forever. Djehuty was not a fictional person. In the winter of 1824, Bernardino Drovetti found his completely undisturbed tomb at Saqqara. In these early...
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Djedptahiufankh - Djehuti - Djer - Djet - Djoser - Pyramid of Djoser - Bernardino Drovetti - Duat - Dudimose Earl of Carnarvon - Early Dynastic Period of Egypt...
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after the Restauration he fled to Egypt where he became an agent of Bernardino Drovetti, who was the French Consul-General of Egypt as well as an ardent...
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Working at the same time (and a great rival of Belzoni and Salt) was Bernardino Drovetti, the French Consul-General. In 1827, John Gardiner Wilkinson was...
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painter of the Baroque period Bernardino Drovetti (1776–1852), Italian diplomat, lawyer, explorer, and antiquarian Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (1912–2000)...
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joined the expedition of the French consul general and explorer Bernardino Drovetti to the oasis of Siwa in the Libyan Desert, where the oracle of Ammon...
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Joseph Agoub (1795-1832), Edme-François Jomard - 1823 Lettres de Bernardino Drovetti, consul de France à Alexandrie edited by Sylvie Guichard - 2003 Page...
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January 3 – Thomas Morris, American politician (d. 1844) January 4 Bernardino Drovetti, Italian diplomat (d. 1852) Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, French...
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