Dieter Arnold

Dieter Arnold (* 1936 in Heidelberg ) is a German Egyptologist .

He received his doctorate on January 31, 1961 at the University of Munich with the thesis "Wall relief and spatial function in Egyptian temples of the New Kingdom ". Arnold worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo on excavations in Dahschur , Deir el-Bahari and at-Tarif . From 1979 to 1984 he was a professor at the University of Vienna and then curator of the Egyptian department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , whose director was his wife Dorothea Arnold . Their son Felix Arnold is also an Egyptologist.

Arnold's specialty is the architecture of ancient Egypt . As an employee of the Metropolitan Museum, he leads the museum's annual expeditions to El Lisht and Dahshur.

Publications (selection)

• The pyramid district of King Amenemhet III. in Dahshur. Volume 1: The Pyramid (= Archaeological Publications. Vol. 53). von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-8053-0608-3 .
• The Pyramid of Senwosret I (= Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Volume 22). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1988, ISBN 0-87099-506-5 ( online ).
• Building in Egypt. Pharaonic Stone Masonry. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1991, ISBN 978-0195113747 .
• The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I (= Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Volume 25). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1992, ISBN 0-87099-612-6 ( online ).
• The temples of Egypt. Apartments for gods, places of worship, architectural monuments. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1073-X .
• Lexicon of Egyptian architecture. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7608-1099-3 .
• Temples of the Last Pharaoh. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-512633-5 .
• The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur. Architectural Studies (= Publications of the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition. Volume 26). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2002, ISBN 0-87099-956-7 (online) .
• Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht (= Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Volume 28). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-58839-194-0 ( online ).
• The Pyramid Complex of Amenemhat I at Lisht. The Architecture (= Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Volume 29). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-58839-604-4 .

literature

• Peter Jánosi (Ed.): Structure and Significance. Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture ( Austrian Academy of Sciences. Memoranda of the Gesamtakademie 33. Investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 25). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3552-1 (Festschrift for Dieter Arnold).

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library