Perla Fuscaldo

Elba Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941) is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist in the ceramics of Ancient Egypt.

Life

She graduated in 1967 in history from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained her PhD in 1978 under the supervision of Argentinian egyptologist Abraham Rosenvasser.

She was professor in the University of Buenos Aires, director of the Institute of Oriental Ancient History (IHAO-UBA), director of the Program of Studies in Egyptology (PREDE-CONICET), head of the department of Egyptology (IMHICIHU-CONICET, today Unit of Investigations on the Ancient Near East) and honorary researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata.

Publications Tell el-Dab`to X: The Palace District of Avaris. The Pottery of the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (Areas H/III and H/SAW). Part I: Locus 66. (Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie. Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo Give österreichischen archäologischen Institutes, herausgegeben in Verbindung mit der ägyptischen Kommission von Manfred Bietak, Band XVI). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2000.

Tell el-Dab`to X: The Palace District of Avaris. The Pottery of the Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (Areas H/III and H/VI). Part II: Two Execration Pits and a Foundation Deposit, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2010.