Egyptian Museum (Milan)
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The Museo Egizio ({{IPA|it|muˈzɛːo eˈdʒittsjo}}) or Egyptian Museum is a museum sited in the Sforza Castle of Milan, Italy. The Castle is one of the most famous monuments in Milan and is home to several museums including the Egyptian Section of the Milan Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Ancient Art, the Pinacoteca and the Museum of Musical Instruments.
Exhibitions
The museum, situated in the underground level of the ducal courtyard, is divided into seven different sections:
- Ancient Egyptian writing
- Pharaohs
- Deities and cults
- Everyday ancient Egyptian life
- Funerary cult
- Excavations conducted by Achille Vogliano
- Mummies, sarcophagi and funerary masks
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
File:1901 - Milano - Museo egizio - Libro dei morti (età tolemaica) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg|Fragments of the Book of the Dead preserved in the museum.
File:Castello museo egizio milano.jpg|One of the mummies in the museum.
File:2017 - Milano - Museo egizio - Stele funeraria (sec VII-IV a.C.) - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg|Funerary stele (7th-9th century BC).
File:1815 - Milano - Museo egizio - Mummia di epoca grecoromana, daTebe - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 14-Feb-2008.jpg|Mummy of Greek-Roman era, from Thebes.
File:Museo egisio milano 01.jpg|Amenemhat III (1842–1794 BC).
File:Mummia di Ibis - epoca gerco romana - provenienza sconosciuta - Museo Egizio di Milano.JPG|Ibis mummy, Greek-Roman era.
See also
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
- {{Commons category-inline|Egyptian Museum (Milan)}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal|first=Silvio|last=Curto|year=1999|title=I Musei Egizi "minori" in Italia|trans-title=The "lesser" Egyptian Museums in Italy|language= it|journal=Aegyptus: Rivista italiana di egittologia e di papirologia|pages=33–37|volume=79}}
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Category:Egyptological collections in Italy