Jean-Jacques Castex (born in Toulouse on 9 April 1731, died in Paris in 1822) was a French sculptor.

He participated in the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt. In January 1799, he accompanied the geographer Bertre in his travel to Fayoum.^[1] He was part of the committee led by Pierre Girard which left Cairo on 19 March 1799 to go to the Upper Egypt.^[2] He made a wax model, reduced to one third, of the Dendera zodiac.^[3] He created, after the drawings he had brought back from Egypt, a Zodiaque, which was exhibited at the 1819 Salon.^[4] He remains famous for having carved an instription on the stone of the great temple of Philae.^[5] Despite his talent, he died in poverty at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.^[6]

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