Gianluca Miniaci
Gianluca Miniaci is an Italian Egyptologist. He studied Egyptology at the University of Pisa and is Deputy-director of the University of Pisa excavation at Thebes, at the cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga.
He studied from 1999 to 2004 Classical Archaeology and wrote his dissertation on the "The royal necropolis of the 17th dynasty at Dra Abu el-Naga (Thebes west)". This work received an honor. In 2008 he finished his PhD in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pisa, titled "The funerary culture at the end of the Second Intermediate Period: the emergence of the rishi coffin style". Miniaci is the author of several books and articles, among them: Rishi Coffins and the funerary culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt, Seven Seasons at Dra Abu el-Naga. The tomb of Huy (TT 14): preliminary results and Talking along the Nile. Ippolito Rosellini, travellers and scholars of the 19th century in Egypt. Proceedings of the International Conference held on the occasion of the presentation of Progetto Rosellini. Pisa, June 14-16, 2012, with Marilina Betrò. Miniaci's PhD was published and is a study of the Egyptian Rishi coffins of the Second Intermediate Period.[1]
He is currently in charge for the organisation of the International Conference in Egyptology titled "Company of images: modelling the ancient Egyptian imaginary world of the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BC)", Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, 18-20 September 2014. Conference details at the following company of Images UCL.
Works
- Lettere ai morti nell'Egitto antico e altre storie di fantasmi, Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2014, ISBN 978-8839408600
- (with Marilina Betrò), Talking along the Nile. Ippolito Rosellini, travellers and scholars of the 19th century in Egypt. Proceedings of the International Conference held on the occasion of the presentation of Progetto Rosellini. Pisa, June 14-16, 2012, Pisa University Press, 2013, ISBN 886-74-1128-4
- Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (GHP Egyptology 17), London, 2011, ISBN 978-1906137243
- (with Paolo Del Vesco, Marilina Betrò), Seven Seasons at Dra Abu El-Naga. The tomb of Huy (tt14): preliminary results, Pisa 2009, ISBN 978-8884926036
- La guerra e i suoi riflessi nelle società antiche. Atti del convegno del dottorato di orientalistica università di Pisa 26-27 giugno 2007, ETS, Pisa 2009, ISBN 978-8846720337
References
- ↑ Gianluca Miniaci page, UCL Institute of Archaeology.