Maarten J. Raven

Maarten J. Raven

Maarten Jan Raven (* 1953 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch Egyptologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Utrecht, Raven studied Egyptology and art history at Leiden University . In 1984 he received his doctorate with the thesis "Symbols of resurrection: three studies in ancient Egyptian iconography".

Raven has been head of the Egypt department at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (German: Reichsmuseum der Antiquities) in Leiden since 1978 . In addition to his work in the museum, he has been active at the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara since 1975 . There he works (head of excavation since 1999) in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the Egypt Exploration Society (1975–1998) and the University of Leiden (1999). In September 2012 he was appointed professor 'Museology of Ancient Egypt' at the University of Leiden.

Raven published a lot about the museum collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and about his field work in Saqqara.

Works (selection)

German

• Life and death in ancient Egypt: masterpieces from the Reich Museum for Antiquities in Leiden, with S. Peschel and H. Schneider, Hamm 1999, ISBN 3-9805069-9-1

Other languages

• Papyrus: van bies tot boekrol; met een bloemlezing uit de Leidse papyrusverzameling, Zutphen 1982,
• The tomb of Iurudef, a Memphite official in the reign of Ramesses II (57th Excavation Memoir, Leiden / London, 1991)
• The tomb of Maya and Meryt, II: objects and skeletal remains (65th Excavation Memoir, Leiden / London 2001)
• JH Insinger (introduced and annotated by MJ Raven), "In het land der Nijlcataracten" (1883), (MVEOL 34, Leuven / Leiden 2004)
• Egyptian mummies, radiological atlas of the collections in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden (PALMA Egyptology 1, Turnhout, 2005)
• The tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara (74th Excavation Memoir, Leiden / London, 2005)
• Egyptian Magic, het toverboek van Thot (Walburg Pers, Leiden, 2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about Maarten J. Raven in the catalog of the German National Library
• University of Leiden: Prof. dr. MJ (Maarten) Raven . Retrieved October 6, 2012