期刊名称：British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)
印刷版ISSN：2049-5021
电子版ISSN：2049-5021
出版年度：2014
卷号：21
页码：1-30
出版社：The British Museum
摘要：The origin of the collection of Late Antique and early Christian antiquities from Egypt in the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin, dates to the time of Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929). In 1900 he acquired a large number of textiles from Carl Reinhardt (1856–1903), German consul in Cairo, to coincide with the opening of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin in 1904. In the same year he commissioned the well-known art historian Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941), professor in Graz and later in Vienna, to search for artefacts from Egypt and other regions of the Mediterranean appropriate for display in the new building. In the years 1900 and 1901 Strzygowski brought together more than 1400 objects from Egypt among which were many masterpieces that established the foundation of the Egyptian collection of the former 'Abteilung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen,' which is now the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. 1 In the years between the opening of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum and the fascist takeover in 1933, the collection grew by about 150 objects, from architectural and funeral sculpture to small objects of daily use, which Carl Schmidt (1868–1938) offered to the museum. Several gifts, mostly textiles, came from various collectors and included individual acquisitions of outstanding pieces. Without exception all these objects were purchased on the antiquities market from various dealers all over Egypt.
