L'archivio di Raffaele Garrucci (1812-1885)

The aim of this note is to provide a short overview about the Hebrew materials contained in the private archive of the Neapolitan Jesuit Raffaele Garrucci (1812-1885). The archive is unknown to the majority of the scholars because of its inaccessibility until now. Garrucci was an epigraphist, archaeologist, numismatist, collector and he was also "the founder of the Hebrew epigraphic studies in Italy". The archive contains a great variety of materials: manuscripts, handwritten notes, drawings, photos, paper and gypsum casts, archaeological finds.