Giovanni Anastasi (merchant)

Giovanni Anastasi (1765–1860) was born to 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]

References

1. Dawson, Warren R., Anastasi, Sallier and Harris and their Papyri, in: JEA 35, pp. 158-162.
2. Egypt Exploration Society (1 January 2004). Egyptian archaeology: bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society. The Society. p. 34. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

See also

• Giovanni di Niccolò Pappaffy, his nephew, Greek Ottoman merchant in British Malta

Bibliography

• Vassilis I. Chrysikopoulos: A l’aube de l’égyptologie hellénique et de la constitution des collections égyptiennes: Des nouvelles découvertes sur Giovanni d’Anastasi et Tassos Neroutsos. In: P. Kousoulis, N. Lazaridis (eds.): "Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists". Peeters, Leuven 2013 [In press]. digital text (with full career).