Hartwig Altenmüller Hamburg University biography (in German) (born 1938, in Saulgau,

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) is a German Egyptologist. He became professor at the Archaeological Institute of the

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in 1971. He worked as an archaeologist in

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from 1969 to 1982, and then the Valley of the Kings (where he worked on

KV13 Tomb KV13, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Chancellor Bay, Bay of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, Nineteenth Dynasty. An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO i ...

, KV14 and KV47) from 1984 to 1998, retiring in 2003.

Publications

* ''Zwei Annalenfragmente aus dem frühen Mittleren Reich'', Hamburg 2015, * "Lederbänder und Lederanhänger von der Mumie des Chonsu-maacheru" and "Die Mumienbinden des Chonsu-maacheru " in Alt-Ägypten 30 (2000), pp. 73–76, 88–89, 102–114

* "Zwei Ostraka und ein Baubefund: Zum Tod des Schatzkanzlers Bay im 3 Regierungsjahr des Siptah." ''Göttinger Miszellen: Beiträge zur Ägyptologische Diskussion'' 171: 13–18 (1999). * "Dritter Vorbericht uber die Arbeiten des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Hamburg am Grab des Bay (KV 13) im Tal der Könige von Theben." ''Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur'' 21: 1–18 (1994). * "Bemerkungen zu den Königsgräbern des Neuen Reiches." ''Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur'' 10: 25–61 (1983).

References

German Egyptologists Living people 1938 births German male non-fiction writers Archaeologists from Baden-Württemberg Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale German expatriates in Egypt {{Germany-archaeologist-stub