Mervat Seif el-Din

Mervat Seif el-Din, Arabic: ميرفت سيف الدين (born 1954) is a classical archaeologist from Egypt, who was Director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria from 2004 to 2010. A specialist in the archaeology of Alexandria, el-Din is recognised as an authority on faience and funerary painting in particular.

Mervat Seif el-Din
ميرفت سيف الدين
Born1954
Alexandria
CitizenshipEgypt
OccupationClassical archaeologist; museum director
Academic background
EducationAlexandria University
Alma materUniversity of Trier
Thesis (1985)
Doctoral advisorGünter Grimm
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplineClassical archaeology
InstitutionsGraeco-Roman Museum

Biography

El-Din was born in Alexandria in 1954.[1][2] She studied at the University of Alexandria from 1970 to 1974 in the Department of Archaeology for her undergraduate and Masters degrees.[3] In 1976 she became assistant curator at the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, where she worked until she emigrated to Germany to undertake postgraduate research.[4] Between 1979 and 1985 she completed her doctorate at the University of Trier.[1] She was supervised by the archaeologist Günter Grimm (de).[4] In 1999 she served as the Secretary General of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria.[5] She taught at Ain Shams University and at Helwan University in Egypt before returning to the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria as Chief Curator, which she then headed from 2004 to 2010.[3][1] Since 2010, she has been responsible for the publication of recent excavations in the Bubasteion of Alexandria.[1] A specialist in Greco-Roman Egypt, she carried out studies covering both large sculpture and funerary painting, as well as moulded relief ceramics, earthenware, crockery and metal figurines.[4] In 2014 a festschrift was published in honour of her 60th birthday, which examined the archaeology of Alexandria through different material cultures.[6][2]

Selected publications
  • Die reliefierten hellinistisch-römischen Pilgerflaschen, French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo (IFAO), 2006.[7]
  • With Marie-Dominique Nenna, "The small earthenware plastic of the Greco-Roman museum of Alexandria" in Bulletin de correspondence hellénique , vol. 118, p.  291-320.[8]
  • With Marie-Dominique Nenna, Earthenware tableware from the Greco-Roman period , French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo (IFAO), 2000.[9]
  • With Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Mostafa El-Abbadi, Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum: A Thematic Guide, American University in Cairo.[10]
  • With Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Mostafa El-Abbadi, al-Iskandarīyah: al-Matʹḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī , Cairo, 2003.[11]
  • Graeco-Roman Museum
  • Sophilos Mosaic
  • Osiris-Antinous in marble 2nd century CE
  • Figurines
  • Cleopatra

References
  1. "Mervat Seif el Din". Hellenistic Alexandria. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  2. Veymiers, Richard (2017). "Review of Alexandrina 4. En l'honneur de Mervat Seif el-Din (Études Alexandrines, 32)". Revue Archéologique (1): 192–194. ISSN 0035-0737.
  3. "Alexandrian Art in Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period". www.arce-nc.org. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  4. "The Boubasteion and the first Greek immigrants to Alexandria".
  5. "The Archaeological Society of Alexandria - Secretaries General". asalex.org. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  6. Livre : En l'honneur de Mervat Seif el-Din, Alexandrina. Volume 4, - Centre d'études alexandrines (in French).
  7. Seif El-Din, Merwatte. (2006). Die reliefierten hellenistisch-römischen Pilgerflaschen : Untersuchungen zur Zweckbestimmung und Formgeschichte der ägyptischen Pilger- und Feldflaschen während des Hellenismus und der Kaiserzeit. Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale. ISBN 978-2-7247-0413-6. OCLC 71254460.
  8. YouScribe. "La petite plastique en faïence du musée gréco-romain d'Alexandrie - article ; n°2 ; vol.118, pg 291-320". www.youscribe.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  9. Nenna, Marie-Dominique. (2000). La vaisselle en faïence d'époque gréco-romaine : catalogue du Musée gréco-romain d'Alexandrie. Seif El-Din, Merwatte., Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt). Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale. ISBN 2-7247-0278-6. OCLC 46970031.
  10. Alexandria Graeco-Roman Museum : a thematic guide. Hassan, Fekri A., El-Abbadi, Mostafa., Abdel-Fattah, Ahmed., Seif El-Din, Merwatte., Matḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī (Alexandria, Egypt). Egypt: National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage and the Supreme Council of Antiquities. 2002. ISBN 977-305-327-X. OCLC 53257302.CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. al-Iskandarīyah : al-Matʹḥaf al-Yūnānī al-Rūmānī. Hassan, Fekri A., El-Abbadi, Mostafa., Abdel-Fattah, Ahmed., Seif el-Din, Merwatte., ‏حسن، فكري., ‏عبّادي، مصطفى. [Cairo]: Markaz Tawthīq al-Turāth al-Ḥaḍārī wa-al-Ṭabīʻī bi-al-Ishtirāk maʻa al-Majlis al-Aʻlá lil-Āthār. 2003. ISBN 977-305-595-7. OCLC 70052138.CS1 maint: others (link)
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