ANTINOUS AND THE STARS: FRENCH EGYPTOLOGIST ALBERT GAYET IS A SAINT OF ANTINOUS

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• ALBERT GAYET, THE ARCHEOLOGIST OF ANTINOPOLIS (ANTINOE), THE POMPEI OF EGYPT, AND DISCOVERER OF THE COPTIC TREASURE OF MUMMIES, PORTRAITS, SHROUDS AND FABRICS
• ALBERT GAYET
• BOOKS BY ALBERT GAYET
• ALBERT GAYET ARCHAEOLOGIL DIG ANTOPOLIS EGYPT (JAN 1904)
• LA RéVéLATN D'ANTOé PAR ALBERT GAYET
• CATEGORY:ALBERT GAYET
• THE EXVATNS OF ANTOPOLIS, EGYPT, BY ALBERT GAYET, 1904.
• LA REVELATN D 'ANTOE PAR ALBERT GAYET: HISTOIRE, ARCHEOLOGIE, MEOGRAPHIE.
• ALBERT GAYET, JR
• ALBERT GAYET

ALBERT GAYET, THE ARCHEOLOGIST OF ANTINOPOLIS (ANTINOE), THE POMPEI OF EGYPT, AND DISCOVERER OF THE COPTIC TREASURE OF MUMMIES, PORTRAITS, SHROUDS AND FABRICS

Figure 1: Albert Gayet durg his work at the Coptic necropolis Antopolis. ALBERT GAYET, THE FRENCH ARCHEOLOGIST OF ANTINOPOLIS CAUSED COPTOMANIA IN EUROPE AND AMERICA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2oth CENTURY WHEN HE EXIBITED HIS TREASURE OF COPTIC FINDINGS AT ANTINOPOLIS (ANTINOE), THE DESIGNATED POMEI OF EGYPT.

I have tried to fd tailed bgraphy of the French archeologist, Albert Gayet, who disvered the fascatg Coptic mummi and their attachments at the Coptic necropolis Antoplis (Antoe/Coptic Ensena/ Sheikh ‘Ibada village now), which he started exvatg sce 1896. [1] Albert Gayet is simply a very important figure the study of Coptic culture and nnot be ignored – and his disveri, which have not been studied properly, yet, are sential tool redisverg the brilliant Coptic civilisatn. Thanks to the Louvre, Albert Gayet’s Coptic treasure, which ed Wtern Coptomania (Coptomanie) when was exhibed at the begng of the 20th century, is beg rtudied g the most advanced rearch.

[2] At the end, I reproduce a paragraph om the Wikipedia’s article on Antopolis, [3] which there is some tail about Albert Gayet. Albert Gayet (born Dijon[4] on September 17, 1856 and died Paris on May 9, 1916) was a French Egyptologist and director of exvatns at Antoe om 1895 to 1911. His full name was Jean Philippe Marie Albert Gayet, son of Antoe Gayet, sks merchant, and Clde Emélie Flsière.

ALBERT GAYET

He accepted, however, sendg Albert Gayet, who was then a young stunt and rearcher wh Gaston Maspero at the School of Advanced Studi, 300 south of Cairo to Antoe, a cy Middle Egypt found by the Roman Emperor Hadrian 130AD. For fifteen years Albert Gayet searched the area, clearg the temple of Rams II 1896 and unverg the Coptic necropolis, while Jean Clédat, another stunt of Maspero, disvered the monasteri of Sat John at Saqqara and Baw Middle Egypt.

BOOKS BY ALBERT GAYET

In 1902, Albert Gayet wrote the first book ever wrten on Coptic art. Albert Gayet died at his home Paris 1916 and bequeathed his llectns to his sister Mary. On the ath of Miss Gayet 1924, the llectns were donated to the cy of Dijon, and so the Mée s Bex-Arts[5] Dijon me to posss llectns of Coptic textil (450 piec), agments of clothg and woven and rated len.

ALBERT GAYET ARCHAEOLOGIL DIG ANTOPOLIS EGYPT (JAN 1904)

Albert Gayet.

Albert Gayet was known as the “archaeologist of Antopolis” and whout his extensive rearch and documentatn of the se, very ltle would be known about this Gre-Roman cy. Though there is much data of Antopolis rerd om the Napoleon Commissn, Albert Gayet’s report sheds a greater light on the ancient cy. Albert Gayet’s fdgs nfirm the wispread of Christiany.

Gayet’s exvatns have revealed mummi, grave goods, and thoands of fabrics at the se of Antopolis and he unvered a large cemetery, the burial place of numero Coptic Christians. Gayet’s fdgs give rearchers a better unrstandg of early Christian burial practic and his prervatn of artistic textil found at the se show off the Coptic style that was evolvg. The fdgs of Albert Gayet have provid rearchers wh great evince of change throughout Antopolis the ancient world.

LA RéVéLATN D'ANTOé PAR ALBERT GAYET

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THE EXVATNS OF ANTOPOLIS, EGYPT, BY ALBERT GAYET, 1904.

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Category:Albert Gayet. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialAlbert Gayet Archaeologil Dig Antopolis Egypt (Jan 1904)Albert Gayet - the Archareologist of Antoplis - Archaeologil Dig or Exvatns at Antopolis Upper Egypt (Jan 1904) (Photo by Chris Hellier/Corbis via Getty Imag)Albert Gayet - the Archareologist of Antoplis - Archaeologil Dig or Exvatns at Antopolis Upper Egypt (Jan 1904) (Photo by Chris Hellier/Corbis via Getty Imag)Standard edorial rightsCtom rightsHow n I e this image? Albert Gayet (1856–1916), a French archaeologist who exvated at Antoë, exhibed textil Paris.

In 1901, Gayet disvered near Antoë two fully clothed mummi, whom he intified g burial scriptns as Thaïs and Sérapn. Gayet's mummi were displayed together wh other grave goods a summer blockbter at the Mée Guimet Paris. Both Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Augte Rod (1840–1917) saw Gayet's exhibn Paris and began their own llectns of Late Antique textil, as did a number of their ntemporari.

LA REVELATN D 'ANTOE PAR ALBERT GAYET: HISTOIRE, ARCHEOLOGIE, MEOGRAPHIE.

La révélatn d'Antoé par Albert Gayet.

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ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialThe exvatns of Antopolis, Egypt, by Albert Gayet, 1904. (Photo by Art Media/Prt Collector/Getty Imag)The exvatns of Antopolis, Egypt, by Albert Gayet, 1904.

ALBERT GAYET, JR

WE are proud to nsecrate French archaeologist Albert Gayet as a Msenger Sat of Anto for his pneerg efforts to reclaim the cy of Antoopolis om the sands of cy that Hadrian built and dited to his lover Anto flourished for hundreds of years before beg looted and plunred and lost to the sert sands of Egypt.

Antoopolis beme renowned around the world 1895 when Gayet began explorg the vast necropolis burial grounds south of Antoopolis. Between 1895 and 1911, Gayet worked tirelsly at Antoé, the French name for the cy which beme synonymo wh his own name. Gayet died Paris at age 60, impoverished and embtered after havg spent 20 years of his life tryg to raise funds for further exploratn of Antoopolis.

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La revelatn d 'Antoe par Albert Gayet: Histoire, archeologie, meographie.

It als wh the exvatns rried out by Albert Gayet at Antoe Middle Gayet (1856-1916) was a stunt of Gaston Maspero who began workg Egypt as a part of the French archaeologil missn 1885. It is a methodil and pastakg examatn of the exvatns of Gayet the ntext of the history of Antnoopolis, the velopment of Egyptology at the end of the neteenth century, and the state of mm practic at the troductn seeks briefly to place Antnoopolis history. The associatn between Albert Gayet and Ee Guimet (and the Mee Guimet Paris) is troduced, and the extensive archiv and mm rerds nsulted by the thor are listed.