Dorothea Arnold

Dorothea Arnold (née Schadewaldt ; * 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German Egyptologist .

Dorothea Arnold, daughter of the classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewaldt , studied in Munich and Tübingen . In 1963 she received her doctorate in classical archeology in Tübingen . Then she took part in excavations by the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo . Since 1985 she worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . From 1991 to June 30, 2012 she was Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge and head of the museum's Egyptian department.

Arnold's specialty is primarily Egyptian ceramics , which for a long time had received little attention in German Egyptology. She organized numerous special exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum.

Arnold is married to the Egyptologist Dieter Arnold . Their son Felix Arnold is also an Egyptologist.

Publications (selection)

• The Polyklet successor. Investigations into the art of Argos and Sikyon between Polyklet and Lysipp. (= Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute. Supplement 25). de Gruyter, Berlin 1969 (= dissertation).
• as editor: Studies on ancient Egyptian ceramics. von Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0415-3 .
• with Janine Bourriau: An introduction to ancient Egyptian pottery. Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-0623-7 .
• The Royal Women of Amarna. Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. Abrams, New York NY 1996, ISBN 0-87099-816-1 .
• The Egyptian art (= Beck'sche series 2550. CH Beck knowledge ). CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63213-6 .

Web links

• Dorothea Arnold, Head of Met's Egyptian Department, Retires After 27 Years; with picture
• Literature by and about Dorothea Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library