Halle, Private collection Kurth

Name:	Halle, Private collection Kurth
Location:	Halle
Country:	Germany
Address:	Private collection J. Kurth Universität Halle Philologisches Seminar I Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 6 06108 Halle Deutschland
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Contact:	Marius Gerhardt (Papyrusprojekt Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
E-mail:	marius.gerhardt@web.de
Numbering:	[22.11.06] - no records; none
Conservation:	See now : http://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/papyri_start.xml?XSL.Style=de&lang=de
Inventarisation:	Project started under supervision of Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (Ägyptologisches Institut, Universität Leipzig). Students of Egyptology prepare a catalogue of the collection which will be presented in late spring 2008 due to the Lange Nacht der Museen in Halle
Publications:	handwritten catalogue by H.-J. Thissen
Work:	M. Gerhardt, AfP 57 (2011), p. 221-227
Highlights:
History:	Julius Kurth (1870-1949) student of Adolf Erman in Berlin and profound conoisseur of Near Eastern and Japanese artifacts, collected many objects from Egypt and elsewhere. He also traded "read" objects with other scientists such as a certain Suckow from Berlin. After his death, the collection was handed over to to Halle (1950) and it was not before 1972 this transaction became juristically acknowledged. Many objects were lost and exist in Kurth's handwritten catalogue only by way of aquarell paintings such as parts of tomb ensembles from the 21st dynasty and mummy masks. Other objects in the collection contain amulets, servant figures, pottery, shabties, stele and an onomasticon - the earliest example of a lexicon in its specific structure. [Franziska Naether]