Giovanni Anastasi (merchant)

Giovanni Anastasi (1780–1860) was born to Armenian family in Damascus. Around year 1797 he moved with his father to Alexandria, where Anastasi (adopted name) established himself as wealthy merchant and antiquarian. Anastasi served as Swedish-Norwegian Consul-General from 1828 until his death. He sold large collections of antiques to Dutch government in 1828, to British Museum in 1839 and to the French in 1857.[1][2] In 1839, the British Museum acquired from Anastasi's collection ostracon of Sinuhe.[3]

See also

Ipuwer Papyrus is housed in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden after being purchased from Giovanni Anastasi in 1828. [4]

References

  1. ^ 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 9783110018851. http://books.google.com/books?id=GaQFsslw6vIC&pg=PA3401. Retrieved 4 February 2011. 
  2. ^ Garth Fowden (1993). The Egyptian Hermes: a historical approach to the late pagan mind. Princeton University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780691024981. http://books.google.com/books?id=5-JKsMTEUaQC&pg=PA168. Retrieved 4 February 2011. 
  3. ^ R. B. Parkinson (6 February 2009). Reading ancient egyptian poetry: among other histories. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 226. ISBN 9781405125475. http://books.google.com/books?id=v0tgsihijEYC&pg=PA226. Retrieved 4 February 2011. 
  4. ^ Egypt Exploration Society (1 January 2004). Egyptian archaeology: bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society. The Society. p. 34. http://books.google.com/books?id=gyEuAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 27 April 2011.