Egyptian Museum (Milan)

Egyptian Museum of Milan

Museo Egizio di Milano
Location	Piazza Castello 3, 20121, Milan, Italy
Website	web.archive.org/web/20120626175202/http://www.milanocastello.it:80/ing/home.html

The Museo Egizio (Italian pronunciation:

A mummy dating from the Greco-Roman period, from Thebes, and ancient Egyptian sarcophagi are exposed in the "mummies, sarcophagi and funerary mask" section, while some papyri of the Book of the Dead are exposed in the Funerary Cult section.

Gallery

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  Fragments of the Book of the Dead preserved in the museum.
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  One of the

  mummies

  in the museum.
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  Funerary stele (7th-9th century BC).
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  Mummy of Greek-Roman era, from Thebes.
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  Amenemhat III (1842–1794 BC).
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  Ibis mummy, Greek-Roman era.

See also

• List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120702005129/http://www.milanocastello.it/ing/visitaSotterraneoEgizia.html
• Le città d'arte:Milano, Guide brevi Skira, ed.2008, eutori vari
• Milano e provincia, Touring Club Italiano ed.2003, autori vari
• Media related to Egyptian Museum (Milan) at Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• Curto, Silvio (1999). "I Musei Egizi "minori" in Italia" [The "lesser" Egyptian Museums in Italy]. Aegyptus: Rivista italiana di egittologia e di papirologia (in Italian). 79: 33–37.

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