Mervat Seif el-Din, Arabic: ميرفت سيف الدين (born 1954) is a classical archaeologist from Egypt, who was Director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria from 2004 to 2010. A specialist in the archaeology of Alexandria, el-Din is an expert on faience and funerary painting in particular.
Mervat Seif el-Din | |
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ميرفت سيف الدين | |
Born | 1954 Alexandria |
Citizenship | Egypt |
Occupation(s) | Classical archaeologist; museum director |
Academic background | |
Education | Alexandria University |
Alma mater | University of Trier |
Thesis | (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Günter Grimm |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Classical archaeology |
Institutions | Graeco-Roman Museum |
El-Din was born in Alexandria in 1954.[1][2] She studied at the University of Alexandria from 1970 to 1974 in the Department of Archaeology for her undergraduate and Master's degrees.[3] In 1976 she became assistant curator at the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, where she worked until she emigrated to Germany to undertake postgraduate research.[4] Between 1979 and 1985 she completed her doctorate at the University of Trier.[1] She was supervised by the archaeologist Günter Grimm (de).[4] In 1999 she served as the Secretary General of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria.[5] She taught at Ain Shams University and at Helwan University in Egypt before returning to the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria as Chief Curator, which she then headed from 2004 to 2010.[3][1] Since 2010, she has been responsible for the publication of recent excavations in the Bubasteion of Alexandria (fr).[1] A specialist in Greco-Roman Egypt, she carried out studies covering both large sculpture and funerary painting, as well as moulded relief ceramics, earthenware, crockery and metal figurines.[4] In 2014 a festschrift was published in honour of her 60th birthday, which examined the archaeology of Alexandria through different material cultures.[6][2]
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