Notes on the History of the Sale Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The author retraces the history of the Sale Room of the Cairo Museum, from the first sales at the Boulaq Museum to the more organised ones at the Giza Museum, up to the Sale Room of the Cairo Museum, still exhisting at the beginning of the 1970s. This latter date is attested by some pages of the Register of the Sale Room, of which some photographs are preserved in the Archives of the Statale University of Milan. The supervisors of the Sale Room through the years are presented, as well as some case studies, including the gifts of State