Museo Egizio
Museo Egizio di Torino | |
Former name | Regio Museo di Antichità ed Egizio |
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Established | 1824 |
Location | Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 Turin, Italy |
Coordinates | 45°04′05″N 7°41′02″E / 45.068°N 7.684°E |
Type | Egyptian museum |
Collections | Egyptian art and artifacts |
Visitors | 853,320 (2019) |
Founder | Charles Felix of Sardinia |
Director | Christian Greco |
Website | www |
The Museo Egizio (Italian pronunciation:
History
The first object having an association with Egypt to arrive in Turin was the
In 1824, King
In 1833, the collection of Piedmontese Giuseppe Sossio (over 1,200 pieces) was added to the Egyptian Museum. The collection was complemented and completed by the finds of Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, during his excavation campaigns between 1900 and 1920, which further filled out the collection. Its last major acquisition was the small temple of Ellesiya, which the Egyptian government presented to Italy for her assistance during the Nubian monument salvage campaign in the 1960s.
Through all these years, the Egyptian collection has always been in Turin, in the building designed for the purpose of housing it, in Via Accademia delle Scienze 6. Only during the
On April 1, 2015, a new layout of the museum was opened.
The new logo, the coordinated image and the exhibition system have been designed by the studio Migliore+Servetto Architects, whose founders, Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto, are creative advisor for the museum.
Collection
There are more than 37,000 items in the museum, covering a period from the Paleolithic to the Coptic era. The most important are:
- the 'Assemblea dei Re' (Kings Assembly), a term originally indicating a collection of statues representing all the kings of the New Kingdom
- the Temple of Ellesyia, donated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
- sarcophagi, mummies and Books of the Deadoriginally belonging to the "Drovetti collection"
- a painted fabric from Gebelein dated at about 3500 BC, discovered in 1930 by Giulio Farina
- an ostracon of Prince Sethherkhepshef
- funerary paraphernalia from the Tomba di Ignoti (Tomb of Unknown) from the Old Kingdom
- the tomb of Kha and Merit (TT8), found intact by Schiaparelli in 1906 and transferred as a whole to the museum
- the Bembine Tablet
- the 'Tomba dipinta' (Painted Tomb) usually closed to the public
- the papyrus collection room, originally collected by Drovetti and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics
- the Turin King List (or Turin Royal Canon)
- the Turin Papyrus Map
- the Turin Erotic Papyrus
- the Judicial Papyrus of Turin
The Egyptian Museum owns three different versions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, including the most ancient copy known. An integral illustrated version and the personal copy of the architect Kha, found by Schiaparelli in 1906, are normally shown to the public.
Gallery
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Sarcophagus of Ibi
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Statue of Seti II
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Statue of Sekhmet
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Statue of Ptah
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Sphinx of the Nineteenth Dynasty
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A section of text from Kha's Book of the Dead papyrus
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Statuette of Kha
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Merit's cosmetic box and contents from TT8
See also
- List of museums of Egyptian antiquities
- Egyptian Museum
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Egyptian Museum (Milan)
- List of Jesuit sites
- List of largest art museums
Notes
- ^ "Turin Egyptian Museum Private Tour for Kids and Families with Hotel Pick-Up | Italy Activities". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
- ^ "The Egyptian Museum of Turin". Italian Tourism Official Website. 2015-03-23. Archived from the original on 2014-06-28. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
- ^ "MUSEI, TOP 30: COLOSSEO, UFFIZI E POMPEI SUPERSTAR NEL 2019 Franceschini: autonomia funziona, andiamo avanti su percorso innovazione". www.beniculturali.it (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ Dulu Jones, "Spectacular Turin: The reopening of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities", Minerva, 17 (May/June 2006), pp. 10f.
- ^ Jones, "Spectacular Turin", p. 10.
Works
- Wolfgang Kosack: Schenute von Atripe De judicio finale. Papyruskodex 63000.IV im Museo Egizio di Torino. Einleitung, Textbearbeitung und Übersetzung herausgegeben von Wolfgang Kosack. Berlin 2013, Verlag Brunner Christoph, ISBN 978-3-9524018-5-9
- Wolfgang Kosack: Basilios "De archangelo Michael": sahidice Pseudo - Euhodios "De resurrectione": sahidice Pseudo - Euhodios "De dormitione Mariae virginis": sahidice & bohairice : < Papyruskodex Turin, Mus. Egizio Cat. 63000 XI. > nebst Varianten und Fragmente. In Parallelzeilen ediert, kommentiert und übersetzt von Wolfgang Kosack. Verlag Christoph Brunner, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-906206-02-8.