Professional Documents
Culture Documents
There are various publications in Portuguese (pdf articles) available online. Search words for non-Portuguese:
Collection coleo/coleco
Museum museu
Egyptian egpcia (f)/egpcio (m)
Porto
Lisboa
Archaeology arqueologia
Pharmacy farmcia
Gulbenkian
University universidade
Faculty faculdade
Street rua
Avenue avenida
Exhibition exposio
Archive - arquivo
Usually museums facilitate photos of items when requested, for academic purposes, requests to museums - I have included the existing contacts online.
1993 catalogue cover, now sold out; new catalogue being prepared (for years)
Director Antnio Carvalho
Contacts: Praa do Imprio, 1400-206 Lisboa
Phone: +351 213 620 000
Fax: +351 213 620 016
antoniocarvalho@mnarqueologia.dgpc.pt
Main page: http://www.museuarqueologia.pt/?a=0&x=2
Egyptian Antiquities: http://www.museuarqueologia.pt//?a=2&x=2&i=32
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Egyptian Collections available in Portugal updated July 23rd, 2017
Porto Faculty of Sciences Museum 103 items (Berlin list accompanying objects donated to Portugal in 1926: 134), currently closed to public view, many items on storage for
years
Geographical Society of Lisbon, no catalogue of the Egyptian pieces (lot of antiquities presented to Portugal in 1893 by the Egyptian authorities. This lot consisted of 188
ushebtis, one outer anthropoid coffin, four inner anthropoid coffins, and three mummy-covers)
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Egyptian Collections available in Portugal updated July 23rd, 2017
Museu da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
Rua Portas de Santo Anto 100, 1150 Lisboa
Phone: +351 213 425 401
Curator Manuela Cantinho
E-mail: mcantinhop@hotmail.com
http://www.socgeografialisboa.pt/en/museu-objecto/sarcofago-antropomorfico one sarcophagus (brief description)
Caramulo Museum 8 items (no catalogue), almost no information about the pieces (some pics), but includes mentions to other collections (why?)
Rua Jean Lurat 42, 3475-031 Caramulo
Phone: +351 232 861 270
http://www.museu-caramulo.net/pt/content/2-coleces/15-arte-antiga/34-egiptologia-e-arqueologia
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Egyptian Collections available in Portugal updated July 23rd, 2017
Condes Castro Guimares Museum 6 items (no catalogue)
Av. Rei Humberto II de Itlia, Parque Marechal Carmona, 2750 Cascais
Phone: +351 214 815 304
Main page: http://www.cm-cascais.pt/mccg/home.html
Carmo Archaeological Museum 2 items (1 mummy and sarcophagus not studied or catalogued yet)
Museu Arqueolgico do Carmo, 1200-092 Lisboa
Phone: +351 213 478 629
Main page: http://www.museuarqueologicodocarmo.pt/p_museu.html
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Egyptian Collections available in Portugal updated July 23rd, 2017
Phone: +351 21 272 4981
Fax: +351 21 272 4989
e-Mail: div.museuspatrimnio@cma.m-almada.pt
Collections main page: http://www.m-almada.pt/portal/page/portal/MUSEUS/ARQ_HIST/?mus=1&actualmenu=4197711&mus_nuc_arq_hist=7115639&cboui=7115639
S Nogueira collection
2 Items
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Egyptian Collections available in Portugal updated July 23rd, 2017
More recent discoveries:
Scarab found in Palhais, Beja, Iron Age, probably from the New Kingdom, published in A NECRPOLE DA I IDADE DO FERRO DE PALHAIS
(BERINGEL, BEJA). RESULTADOS PRELIMINARES DE UMA INTERVENO DE EMERGNCIA NO BAIXOALENTEJO, IV Encuentro de Arqueologa del Suroeste Peninsular,
Huelva, (2009), pp. 746804.
Other scarabs were found also in Iron Age inhumations in the areas of Ourique and Odemira (Alentejo, south of Portugal), but we know not of their present accountability, they
are published by Prof. Ingrid Gamer-Wallert, 1978 in gyptische und gyptisierende Funde von der Iberischen Halbinsel, Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Beihefte, Reihe B,
21, Reichert.