Elba Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941) is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist in the ceramics of Ancient Egypt.

Life

She graduated in 1967 in history from the

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and obtained her PhD in 1978 under the supervision of Argentinian egyptologist Abraham Rosenvasser. She was professor in the University of Buenos Aires, director of the Institute of Oriental Ancient History (IHAO-UBA), director of the Program of Studies in Egyptology (PREDE-CONICET), head of the department of Egyptology (IMHICIHU-CONICET, today Unit of Investigations on the Ancient Near East) and honorary researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata. She was director of the Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental (RIHAO, Journal of the Institute of Ancient East History ) and the monograph series ''Annexes to the Magazine of Studies in Egiptology'' (Revista de Estudios de Egiptología – REE). She is honorary researcher at the Centre of Studies History of the Ancient Orient( Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina). She was director of the Argentinian Archaeologic Mission in Tell the-Ghaba,

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, on the

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. She participated in the Austrian archaeological mission in Tell the-Dab'to, ancient

Avaris Avaris (; Egyptian: ḥw.t wꜥr.t, sometimes ''hut-waret''; grc, Αὔαρις, Auaris; el, Άβαρις, Ávaris; ar, حوّارة, Hawwara) was the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern r ...

, the capital of the

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period, under the supervision of Manfred Bietak.

Publications

* ''Tell el-Dab`to X: The Palace District of Avaris.'' ''The Pottery of the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (Areas H/III and H/SAW). Part I:'' ''Locus 66.'' (Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie. Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo Give österreichischen archäologischen Institutes, herausgegeben in Verbindung mit der ägyptischen Kommission von Manfred Bietak, Band XVI). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2000. *''Tell el-Ghaba, A Saite Settlement in North Sinai, Egypt (Argentine Archaeological Mission, 1995-2004)''.(PDF). Consejo Nacional Investigaciones Científicas Técnicas – CONICET – Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas – IMHICIHU.

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978-950-692-096-8. Buenos Aires, DEGIP, 2006. Fuscaldo, Perla, ed. *''Tell el-Dab`to X: The Palace District of Avaris. The Pottery of the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (Areas H/III and H/VI). Part II: Two Execration Pits and a Foundation Deposit'', Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2010.

References

External links

Official page of P. Fuscaldo, CEHAO

"Preparing a unique Egyptian exhibition", La Nation 2009
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