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 an expert on
faience and funerary painting in particular.
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 Master's 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 (
fr).[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]
^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.
ISBN977-305-327-X.
OCLC53257302.{{
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