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Museo Egizio

The Museo Egizio (Italian pronunciation: [muˈzɛːo eˈdʒittsjo]) or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in Turin, Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, with more than 30,000 artifacts, and is considered the second most important Egyptological collection in the world, after the Egyptian Museum of Cairo.[1][2] In 2019, it received 853,320 visitors, making it one of the most visited museums in Italy.[3]

This article is about the museum in Turin. For the museum in Milan, see Egyptian Museum (Milan).

Former name

Regio Museo di Antichità ed Egizio

1824

Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 Turin, Italy

Egyptian art and artifacts

853,320 (2019)

Christian Greco

Multaka network[edit]

In 2029, the museum joined six similar museums in Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece and Switzerland, creating the international Multaka network. This intercultural museum project organizes guided tours for refugees and migrants designed and offered for free by specially trained Arabic-speaking Multaka guides. The visitor-centered discussions with migrants in their language are focused on the historical origin and history of acquisition of cultural objects, including the visitors' own understanding of their country's cultural heritage.[6]

the 'Assemblea dei Re' (Kings Assembly), a term originally indicating a collection of statues representing all the kings of the New Kingdom

the , donated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia

Temple of Ellesyia

sarcophagi, mummies and originally belonging to the "Drovetti collection"

Books of the Dead

a painted fabric from dated at about 3500 BC, discovered in 1930 by Giulio Farina

Gebelein

an

ostracon of Prince Sethherkhepshef

funerary paraphernalia from the Tomba di Ignoti (Tomb of Unknown) from the Old Kingdom

the (TT8), found intact by Schiaparelli in 1906 and transferred as a whole to the museum

tomb of Kha and Merit

the

Bembine Tablet

the 'Tomba dipinta' (Painted Tomb) usually closed to the public

the papyrus collection room, originally collected by and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics

Drovetti

the (or Turin Royal Canon)

Turin King List

the

Turin Papyrus Map

the

Turin Erotic Papyrus

the

Judicial Papyrus of Turin

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 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.

Sarcophagus of Ibi

Sarcophagus of Ibi

Statue of Ramesses II with Amun and Hathor

Statue of Ramesses II with Amun and Hathor

Statue of Seti II

Statue of Seti II

Statue of Sekhmet

Statue of Sekhmet

Statue of Ptah

Statue of Ptah

Statue of Horemheb with Amun

Statue of Horemheb with Amun

Sphinx of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Sphinx of the Nineteenth Dynasty

A section of text from Kha's Book of the Dead papyrus

A section of text from Kha's Book of the Dead papyrus

Statuette of Kha

Statuette of Kha

Merit's cosmetic box and contents from TT8

Merit's cosmetic box and contents from TT8

List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

Egyptian Museum

Grand Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum (Milan)

List of Jesuit sites

List of largest art museums

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,  978-3-9524018-5-9

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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.  978-3-906206-02-8.

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