Chair belonging to Princess Satamun
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Chair belonging to Princess Satamun
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Gallery number: 40 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty – Reign of Amenhotep III (1387-1350 BC)
Size: Height: 40 cm
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Wood lined with stucco, gold leaf, plant fibers
Princess Satamun was the daughter of Amenhotep III and the grand-daughter of Yuya and Tuya, and she placed this chair in the tomb of her grandparents. The back is decorated with two mirror images representing a young girl who hands a large necklace to a seated woman whom the hieroglyphic inscription identifies as «the daughter of the king, the great, his beloved Satamun».
Funerary Mask of Tuya
Funerary Mask of Tuya
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 45 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty – Reign of Amenhotep III (1387-1350 BC)
Size: Height: 77 cm
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Cartonnage: Linen and stucco, gold leaf, glass paste, alabaster.
This magnificent funerary mask, made of stucco with golden leaf, belong to Tuya, the wife of Yuya, mother of the Queen Tiy, and great grand-mother of Tutankhamun, and has been found in the intact tomb KV 46 in the Valley of the Kings by the Egyptian Antiquities and Theodore Davis in 1905 with a very rich funerary equipment.
Portrait of a woman
Portrait of a woman
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 14 – Upper Floor
Period: Roman Period
Size: Height: 38 cm, Width: 21 cm
Place of discovery: Hawara – Fayum
Material: Cedar wood with encaustic painting
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In 1888 the British archeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie discovered in the site of Hawara, where king Amenemhat III (12th Dynasty) built his pyramid, a series of beautiful and vivid paintings on wooden boards, known as «Fayum portraits», attached to upper-class mummies and made during the Roman period. The portraits covered the faces of mummies and at present-day about 900 portraits have been discovered. This young woman wearing two strings of emeralds and a pair of gold earrings was called Demos and died at the age of 24 during the reign of the emperor Domitian (51-96 AD). The Fayum portraits usually have inscriptions with the name and the profession of the deceased.
Pyramidion of the pyramid of Amenemhat III
Pyramidion of the pyramid of Amenemhat III
Artefact Details
Gallery number: Central Hall – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 12th Dynasty – (1842-1794 BC)
Size: Height: 140 cm, Max Width: 185 cm
Place of discovery: Dahshur
Material: Basalt
King Amenemhat III built his pyramid at Hawara in Fayum but also a cenotaph in Dahshur where his predecessor Amenemhat II had been buried. The pyramidion was at the top of this structure and is decorated on the east side with a winged sun disk flanked by two uraeus cobras and two eyes over the hieroglyphic text that celebrates the sun god Ra.
Ceremonial Throne of Tutankhamun
Ceremonial Throne of Tutankhamun
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 10 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Tutankhamun (1327-1318 BC)
Size: Height: 102 cm, Length: 54 cm, Width: 60 cm
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Wood, gold leaf, silver, semi-precious stones, glass paste
This ceremonial throne was the most beautiful object among all those found in the Antechamber of the tomb, entirely overlaid with an embossed gold sheet 3 mm thick and inlaid with vitreous paste and semi-precious stones. The back of this masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art depicts, in pure Amarna style, Queen Ankhsenamun, royal wife of Tutankhamun, under a kiosk rubbing an ointment on King Tutankhamun’s shoulder while the sun god spreads his rays on the couple. Howard Carter stated that this was “the most beautiful thing found to date in Egypt.”
Guardian Statue of Tutankhamun
Guardian Statue of Tutankhamun
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 10 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Tutankhamun (1327-1318 BC)
Size: Height: 192 cm, Length: 98 cm, Width: 53.3 cm
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Wood painted with black resin and gilded, bronze
This is one of the two life-size guardian statues placed on either side of the door that gave access to the burial chamber. Originally the statues were wrapped in sheets of linen. This statue wears a wig called khat, has a gilded bronze cobra uraeus on the forehead, and clasp a stick in its left hand and a mace in the right hand. The black color assimilates the king to the god Osiris whose face often is black.
Shrine for canopic vases
Shrine for canopic vases
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 9 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Tutankhamun (1327-1318 BC)
Size: Height: 198 cm, Lenght: 153 cm, Width: 122 cm
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Wood lined with stucco and gilded, glass paste
This shrine was found in the so-called Treasure Room, with an alabaster container inside within which there were four canopic vases with four miniature sarcophagi for the internal organs of the king.
The shrine, placed on a sled, is surrounded by two friezes of cobras with the solar disk. On every side of the shrine, there is a goddess with open arms to protect the canonic vases: Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Selket
Funerary mask of King Psusennes I
Funerary mask of King Psusennes I
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 2 – Upper Floor
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: 21th Dynasty, Reign of Psusennes I (1047-996 BC)
Size: Height: 48 cm, Width: 38 cm
Place of discovery: Tanis – Nile Delta
Material: Gold, lapis lazuli, glass paste
This gold funerary mask, found by the French archeologist Pierre Montet in 1940, is one of the masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum and the most beautiful artefacts coming from the excavations at Tanis (now Tell San el-Hagar). The king is portrayed with the nemes-headdress with a uraeus (the holy cobra protector of royalty) and idealized features and usekh necklace.
Funerary golden mask of King Tutankhamun
Funerary golden mask of King Tutankhamun
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 3 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Tutankhamun (1327-1318 BC)
Size: Height: 54 cm, Width: 39.3 cm, Weight: 11kg
Place of discovery: Valley of the Kings – Thebes
Material: Gold, lapis lazuli, glass paste, obsidian, turquoise
This golden mask is the most famous of all the artefacts of ancient Egypt, a true icon of the pharaonic civilization. It will be the last artefact to be transported to the new museum.
The king is portrayed with the nemes, white and blue stripped line headdress: a uraeus (holy cobra) and a vulture adorn his forehead and a false beard made from gold and glass paste. The king’s eyes are reproduced with quartz and obsidian. On his back, magical inscriptions are engraved taken from Chapter 151b of the Book of the Dead.