9. Lambert (1997): 13.
10. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 19.
11. Lambert (1997): 13.
12. Reid (2002): 99.
13. Moser (2015): 250.
14. Reid (2002): 99.
15. Tyldesley (2005): 122.
16. The duke had been inspired by the work of Thomas ‘Mummy’ Pettigrew (see chapter 3).
17. Kluckert (2006): 245.
18. Lehner and Hawass (2017): 99.
19. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 33.
20. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 33.
21. Reid (2002): 100.
22. Mariette (1857): dedication.
23. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 154.
24. Quoted in Reeves (2000): 49.
25. Quoted in Reid (2002): 100.
26. Piacentini (2009): 429.
27. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 158.
28. The first entry in the museum’s Journal d’Entrée dates to June 1858, the very month of Mariette’s appointment.
29. The story of the Queen of Punt illustrates the sensitive diplomacy required of Mariette’s role. Shortly after the discovery of the relief by his workmen, he learned that labourers working for an amateur collector, Lord Dufferin, had hacked out the relief and were planning to take it back to Britain. Rather than creating a public scandal, Mariette met quietly with Birch (then British vice-consul) at Shepheard’s Hotel to agree a diplomatic solution: Dufferin would keep a small part of his ‘finds’ but the majority of objects, including the scene of the Queen of Punt, would be restored to Mariette for the Egyptian Museum. Honour was served and, most importantly, the incident was kept from the ears of the viceroy.
30. Reid (2002): 100.
31. Piacentini (2009): 425.
32. Mariette to Heinrich Brugsch, 10 April 1859, quoted in Piacentini (2009): 426.
33. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 193.
34. Mariette (1868): 10.
35. Colla (2007): 133.
36. Quoted in Reid (2002): 109.
37. Mariette (1868): 8.
38. Mariette (1868): 8.
39. Mariette (1868): 8.
40. Reid (2002): 135.
41. Quoted in Maspero (1904): cxxxvii.
42. Reid (2002): 105.
43. A. E. M. Ashley, Life and Correspondence of Palmerston (London, 1879), 338, quoted in Mansfield (1971): 4.
44. Wilkinson to Thomas Pettigrew, Beirut, 18 May 1844, quoted in Thompson (1992): 195.
45. Quoted in Mansfield (1971): 4.
46. Mansfield (1971): 5.
47. Quoted in Sattin (1988): 62.
48. British trade accounted for two-thirds of the tonnage through the Suez Canal the year after it opened, rising to 79 per cent within a decade; see Wilson (1964): 48.
