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ce sont 18 les qualités d’un bon catalogue. On ne peut que
féliciter et remercier les éditeurs et leurs collaborateurs. Bon
nombre de ces objets alimenteront encore longtemps les
réflexions et les recherches
Juillet 2004 Claude Vandersleyen
LACOVARA, Peter, and Betsy TEASLY TROPE (Eds.) —
‘The Realm of Osiris. Mummies, Coffins, and Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum,
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta,
2001. (27 em, XI, 73). ISBN 1-928917-04-6.
Until recently, Egyptologists mainly knew the Michael C.
Carlos Museum in Atlanta from three exhibition catalogues:
Beyond the Pyramids, Reflections of Women in the New King-
dom and The Collector's Eye.') Since these publications pre-
sent Egyptian material from other collections, the rich Egypt-
ian holdings of the museum itself remained relatively
unknown, Besides a general article on the archaeological col-
lections,?) the only publications were a study of a Ptolemaic
Book of the Dead fragment’) and a museum handbook with
a brief contribution on the Egyptian section.) In 1999, how-
ever, the situation changed completely as a result of the
acquisition of the Egyptian collection from the Niagara Falls
‘Museum. The purchase by the Michael C. Carlos Museum of
‘an almost forgotten but important collection from a small,
private museum in Canada and especially the intriguing pos-
sibility that one of the mummies in the collection might be
that of King Ramesses T have generated worldwide media
coverage.*) The catalogue under review, published on the