Dos falsificaciones ramésidas y una propuesta de clasificación tipológica de las piezas dudosas

The purpose of this paper is to publish the research carried out on two pieces housed in public collections in Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid and Museo Cerralbo respectively. The two objects came to Spain in the second half of the 19th century through private collectors. One of them carries a cartouche of the pharaoh Ramesses I, while the other displays a form of the praenomen of king Sethi I. We think that neither of them was created in ancient Egypt, but the skilled artists who made them were inspired by ancient prototypes and ultimately contributed to the diffusion of a late form of Egyptomania reserved for a small circle of 19th century high society of Madrid. At the beginning, we will try to establish a basic typological distinction of the Egyptian materials that arrive at any museum (discarding those that proceed directly from an excavation), classifying them into ten groups mainly according to their greater or lesser degree of authenticity