E.P. Jacobini was an Italian-American Egyptologist known for being the fourteenth scholar to discover the tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh.
History[]
He was the fourteenth person to discover the lost tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh in Egypt. He was captured by Kih-Oskh Brotherhood, a criminal organization that used the tomb as a secret base for trading opium. His body was then mummified alongside with other Egyptologists P. Schwarz, M. Trentin, Sandys, M. Dupont, Sauerkraut and Sandys and displayed in a large room in the underground sanctuary. Much later, the reporter Tintin stumbled upon his body while rediscovering the pharaoh's tomb.
Trivia[]
- E.P. Jacobini, who appears in Cigars of the Pharaoh, is Hergé's reference to his friend and collaborator Edgar P. Jacobs. The character resembles him physically and has a very similar name.
- Hergé makes another reference to his friend in The Calculus Affair without actually specifying that it is the same character as before. However, both characters (the one in Cigars of the Pharaoh and the one in The Calculus Affair) have the same last name. His initials are therefore unknown. However, he is referred to as E.P. Jacobini both in the magazine version and the animation version.
- Hergé seemed to have "italified" his friend's last name, but letter J doesn't exist in Italian. It is likely that E. P. Jacobini was an Italian-American based on his last name.