Dall'archeologia agli archivi: tombe tebane a Milano

Thousands of documents related to the Theban tombs, listed at the end of this contribution, are kept in the Archives of the Università degli Studi di Milano. Photographs, drawings, watercolors, facsimiles of texts, notes etc. come from the collections of V. Loret and A. Varille, and were made in Egypt between 1881 and 1951. Other documents, covering the years 1950-1990, are part of the collection of B. V. Bothmer, acquired by the University in 2008. This material is related to tombs both well known, and unpublished or nearly unknown ones. There are some remarkable cases, as the almost complete photographic mapping of TT 57, of Khaemhet, or the numerous photos of TT 192, of Kharuef. A parallel search in other Egyptological collections and archives has been carried out for some tombs, to discover the presence of fragments or other materials related to them. The aim is to integrate the texts or the decoration using the archival documents.