Monbijou Palace, the department was headed by the Trieste merchant GiuseppePassalacqua (1797–1865), whose extensive collections formed the basis. A Prussian
early 1820s during excavations of the Deir el-Bahari causeway by GiuseppePassalacqua [fr]. He was shipped to Europe and sold several times before being
and 1825 near Thebes at Dra' Abu el-Naga' by the Italian excavator GiuseppePassalacqua. Around 1832 John Gardner Wilkinson copied inscriptions of a coffin