The Dal Pozzo Copies of the Palestrina Mosaic

Helen Whitehouse, Faculty of Oriental Studies
Publications
Books
The Dal Pozzo Copies of the Palestrina Mosaic (BAR International ser. 12, Oxford, 1976)
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, A.I: Ancient Mosaics and Wallpaintings
(London/Turnhout 2001)
Ancient Egypt and Nubia in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 2008)
Articles
In praedis Juliae Felicis: the provenance of some fragments of wall-painting in the Museo
Nazionale, Naples, Papers of the British School at Rome 45 (1977), 52-68
Shipwreck on the Nile: a Greek novel on a ‘lost’ Roman mosaic?, American Journal of
Archaeology 89, 1985, 129-34
A forgery exposed, Discussions in Egyptology 9 (1987), 63-8
King Den in Oxford, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 6 (1987), 257-67
Egyptology and forgery in the seventeenth century: The case of the Bodleian shabti,
Journal of the History of Collections 1 (1989), 187-95
The elephant and its keepers, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 85 (1991), 277-8
The Hierakonpolis ivories in Oxford. A progress report, in R. Friedman and B. Adams
(eds), The Followers of Horus. Studies Dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman 1944-1990
(Oxford, 1992), 77-82
Towards a kind of Egyptology: The graphic documentation of Ancient Egypt, 1587-1666,
in E. Cropper et al. (eds), Documentary Culture, Florence and Rome, from Grand-Duke
Ferdinand I to Pope Alexander VII (Bologna, 1992), 63-79
Creation, fall and redemption: an unusual Coptic textile in Oxford, in C. Eyre et al. (eds),
The Unbroken Reed: Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honour of
A.F. Shore (London, 1994), 379-90
Copies of Roman paintings and mosaics in the Paper Museum. Their value as
archaeological evidence, Quaderni Puteani 2 (1992), pp. 105-21.
The rebirth of Adonis, Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995), 215-43
Egypt in European Thought, in J.M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
(New York, 1995), I, 15-31
L’Égypte sous la neige, in J.-M. Humbert (ed.), L’Égyptomanie à la preuve de
l’archéologie (Brussels/Paris, 1996), 163-86
A remarkable gem in Paris, in E. Goring et al. (eds), Chief of Seers. Egyptian Studies in
Memory of Cyril Aldred (London, 1997), 303-13
Cast of the Rosetta Stone, in K. Eustace et al., Canova Ideal Heads (exhib. cat.,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1997), 107-10
Roman in life, Egyptian in death: The tomb of Petosiris in the Dakhleh Oasis, in O. Kaper
(ed.), Life on the Fringe. Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts during the Roman and
Early-Byzantine Periods (Leiden, 1998), 253-70
A painted panel of Isis (with a note by Colin Hope), in C.A. Hope and A.J. Mills (eds.)
Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary Reports on the 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 Field
Seasons (Oxford, 1999), 95-100
An Early Dynastic dish from Thomas Shaw's travels, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 88
(2002), 237-42
A decorated knife handle from the ‘Main Deposit’ at Hierakonpolis, Mitteilungen des
Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abt. Kairo 58 (2002), 425-46
Putting the question to Seth, Lord of the Oasis, The Ashmolean 43 (2002), 2-5
Wall paintings in Shrine IV of the Temple of Tutu, in C.A. Hope and G.E. Bowen (eds),
Dakhleh Oasis Project: Preliminary Reports on the 1994-1995 and 1998-1999 Field
Seasons (Oxford, 2002), 311-21
Archaeology wedded to art: Egyptian architecture in 19th century painting, in J.-M.
Humbert and C. Price (eds), Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture (Institute of
Archaeology, University College London, 2003), 41-55
Egypt in the snow, ibid., 57-73 [translation, with additional illustrations, of 'L’Égypte
sous la neige', 1996]
The study of the classical painted plaster, in C.A. Hope et al., Excavations at Mut elKharab and Ismant el-Kharab in 2001-2, Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology
13 (2002), 85-107 at 104-6, pl.18
Further excavation amongst the Hierakonpolis ivories, in S. Hendrickx et al. (eds), Egypt
at its Origins. Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams (OLA 138; Leuven, 2004), 1115-28
Appendix 1: A Note on the Wall Paintings from B/3/1 at Ismant el-Kharab, in C. Hope et
al., Report on the Excavations at Ismant el-Kharab and Mut el-Kharab in 2005, Bulletin of
the Australian Centre for Egyptology 16 (2005), 35-83 at 47-9, 56-7, fig. 8, pls 1-3
Marked men: ivory figures and the paintings from Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, in E.-V.
Engel, V. Muller & J. Kahl (eds), Zeichen aus dem Sand. Streiflichter aus Ägyptens
Geschichte zu Ehren von Günter Dreyer ( Wiesbaden, 2008), 681-9
The Nile flows underground to Cyprus: the painted water-cistern at Salamis reconsidered,
in D. Michaelides, V. Kassianidou & R.S. Merrillees (eds), Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity.
Proceedings of the International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity, Nicosia 2003
(Oxford, 2009), 252-60
Sacred bovids: an unusual terracotta statuette from Roman Egypt, in D. Magee, J.
Bourriau & S. Quirke (eds), Sitting Beside Lepsius. Studies in Honour of Jaromir Malek at
the Griffith Institute (OLA 185; Leuven, 2009), 589-98
Mosaics and painting in Graeco-Roman Egypt, in A. Lloyd (ed.), A Companion to Ancient
Egypt (Chichester, 2010),1008-31, pls 27-32
The wall paintings, in C.A. Hope et al., Report on the 2010 Season of Excavations at
Ismant el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis, Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 21
(2010), 21-54, at 38-42, 45-6, pls 4, 7, 11-13
Egyptian blue and white: a ceramic enigma of the early 19th century, in D. Aston et al.
(eds), Under the Potter's Tree. Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on
the Occasion of her 70th Birthday (Leuven, 2011), 1001-13
Vine and acanthus: decorative themes in the wall-paintings of Kellis, in R.S. Bagnall, P.
Davoli and C.A. Hope (eds), The Oasis Papers 6. Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP Monograph 15; Oxbow, Oxford 2012),
381-390
The fish-offerer in Florence, in E. Frood and A. McDonald (eds), Decorum and
Experience. Essays in Ancient Culture for John Baines (Griffith Institute, Oxford 2013),
180-184
In press:
Pietro Santi Bartoli's 'pitture antiche miniate': drawings of Roman paintings and mosaics in
Paris, London, and Windsor, Papers of the British School at Rome 82 (2014)
A house but not exactly a home? The painted residence at Kellis revisited, in Housing and
Habitat in the Mediterranean World (Conference organised by the Centre for Archaeology
and Ancient History, Monash University, Prato 2011)
Co-authored articles:
- with J.R. Baines, Ägyptische Hieroglyphen in der Kaiserstadt Rom, in Ägypten
Griechenland Rom. Abwehr und Berührung (exhibition catalogue, Städelsches Kunstinstitut
und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt a.M., 2005), 405-15 with catalogue entries pp. 718-20
nos 333-4, pp.728-30 no.343
-with J.R. Baines, Ancient Egypt, in P.Taylor (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the
Garden (2nd, rev. edn, Oxford, 2006), 144-7
- with J.J. Coulton, Drawing a fine line in Oxyrhynchus, in A.K. Bowman et al. (eds),
Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts (EES Graeco-Roman Memoir 93; London, 2007), 296306, pls xxvi-xxx
- with C.A. Hope, The Gladiator Jug from Ismant el-Kharab, in G.E. Bowen and C.A.
Hope (eds) The Oasis Papers III, Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the
Dakhleh Oasis Project (Oxford, 2004), pp. 291-310
- with C.A. Hope, A painted residence at Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis, Journal of Roman
Archaeology 19 (2006), 313-28
- with B. Gehad, M. Wuttmann†, M. Foad, S. Marchand, Wall-paintings in a Roman
House at ancient Kysis, Kharga Oasis, Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'archéologie
orientale 113 (2013), 157–80
Review articles
Egyptomanias, American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997), 158-61
June 2014

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