An Egyptomania House Tour

John and Colleen Darnell take you on a tour of their Greek revival home, highlighting nineteenth century Egyptian revival objects as well as a discussion of medieval Arabic attempts to translate hieroglyphs and a rare example of European medieval Egyptomania.
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Logo: Santiago (@Elektrodeco)
Music: Phonograph DJ Mac, "The Vamp - Fox Trot," Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra (1919)


The museum catalog we reference is Colleen Manassa, ed., Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (New Haven, 2013)
For Medieval Arab-Islamic Egyptomania see Okasha El-Daly, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium (London, 2005)


You can see the online Echoes of Egypt exhibit at https://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/

Image Credits

Detail from the Stela of Saiah, ca. 825-712 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art 22.3.31, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...)

Frontispiece of the Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee (1564) (Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...)

The Mensa Isiaca (Bembine Tablet), Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo... original in Museo Egizio N. Inv. C 7155

Obelisk commissioned by the Emperor Hadrian on behalf of Antinous, ca. 130 CE (Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)

Exodus Chapel at Al-Bagawat in Kharga Oasis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/isawnyu..., cc-by-2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)

Page from Ibn Wahshiyya (ca. 860-935 CE), Book of the Long-desired Fulfilled Knowledge of Occult Alphabets (Bibliotheque Nationale de France MS Arabe 6805)

Detail of vulture hieroglyph from the tomb of Nefertari (Metropolitan Museum of Art 30.4.145, Public Domain, 30.4.145)

Paschalis Romanus, Sphinx, 1286 CE (Museo Civico di Viterbo, photography by Alberto Urcia)

For the 3D scanning of the sphinx, see Alberto Urcia, Simone Zambruno, Antonio Vazzana, Michael Anderson, and Colleen Darnell, “Prototyping an Egyptian revival. Laser scanning, 3D prints and sculpture to support he Echoes of Egypt exhibition,” https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...