12019-05-01T13:49:53-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332307structured_gallery2019-05-13T18:04:36-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Mrs. Émile Brugsch was married to one of the most active figures in turn of the century Egyptology. She spent time in Egypt with her husband and was part of the scholarly social scene there, appearing in an 1881 travelogue as a party guest on a dahabeah (boat) on the Nile. She reportedly left Brugsch in the late 1890s. They may have repaired their relationship, or Émile Brugsch may have been a crafty salesman, as he wrote to Jane Stanford in 1901 that his wife "does not want to keep on buying, prices have gone up so high, and herself therefore having lost all pleasure." Brugsch sold 273 items from his wife's collection to Jane Lathrop Stanford for the University Museum in 1901. In a 1902 letter to Brugsch, Jane Stanford mentions "the illness" of Mrs. Brugsch and, perhaps knowingly, hopes they will be soon settled together again in their home in Cairo with "the peace of God in their hearts."
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12019-05-13T18:02:10-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Soul House, Fragments2While the rich and powerful were buried in tombs of stone, ancient Egyptians with smaller budgets buried their loved ones underneath a soul house like this one. These models represented shelter and offerings to sustain the deceased. A complete example is shown in a nearby picture. The fragments displayed here represent the deceased individual with a table and bowls of food, alongside cuts of meat. The rough fabric and cursory shaping of the clay highlight the common status of the recipient. This item was destroyed in the earthquake of 1906, but its surviving fragments are whole enough for interpretation. While the craftsman paid little attention to detail, this soul house was sturdy enough to fulfill its purposes: to survive the tests of time and provide continual offerings to the buried in the afterlife.media/filler star.pngplain2019-05-13T18:03:21-07:00Collected by Mrs. Émile Brugsch on unknown date prior to 1901; donated to Stanford ca. 1902 and before 1906 by Jane Lathrop StanfordEmilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
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1media/brugsch.jpg2019-04-16T19:20:47-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Émile Charles Adalbert BrugschEmilia Porubcin44(1842-1930)structured_gallery2019-06-24T07:47:18-07:00
(1842-1930)
The Egyptologist Émile Brugsch served as assistant curator of the Boulaq Museum in Luxor, Egypt, under Gaston Maspero. Brugsch later became Director of the museum, which eventually moved to Cairo to form the core collection of the current Egyptian Museum. Brugsch's older brother, Heinrich Brugsch, was the more prominent Egyptologist. Émile Brugsch had been a saloon keeper in America, among other pursuits; his photographic skill was perhaps more relevant to his new profession in Egypt. He is known for his role as middleman between foreign collectors and Cairo-based dealers and museums with antiquities to sell. It is this role that connects him to Stanford: Émile Brugsch liaised between Jane Stanford and N. D. Kyticas and selected the antiquities included in that sale. Stanford may have met Brugsch through their mutual acquaintance, Chauncey Murch. Brugsch also sold her some of his wife's Egyptian collection. Brugsch was granted the honorific "Bey" by the government of Ottoman Egypt, an association so strong it is treated as part of his name in some of Stanford's records.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12