Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin VIII

(Stone carving piece of False door stela)

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Today we continue to see the artifacts and history of the Old Kingdom period. Today I want to share with you a very beautiful exquisite works of stone carving.

Stone Carving

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This is most beautiful stone carving I saw when I visited the Old Kingdom exhibition room, I think it is also the only one stone carving depicts the animals in this exhibition room. If you cannot see clearly in the photo, the below photo shows the colourful picture draw by S.Cannor in 1986.

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It also shows that the whole original monuments was separated in the past, then the pieces are collected in different places, such as Copenhagen , Berlin and Turin. This is an unfortunate thing, taking part of Egyptian monuments and dispersing their pieces was a common thing in the past, fueled by the strong demand of Egyptian antiquities from many collections around the world. An important subfield in modern Egyptological research is indeed excavation of the historical documents and museum storerooms to try to put dismembered monuments back together again and determine where they originally stand. [//]:# (!steemitworldmap 45.0684296 lat 7.6843041 long ME8 d3scr)

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The Sarcophagus of Duaenre (2543 - 2435 BC)

The below photo shows one massive stone sarcophagus which was found in 1903 by the Egyptian workmen in the mastaba tomb of Dauenre, near the pyramid of Cheops in Giza. The reliefs gracing the remains of the funerary chapel of the tomb and a block that was removed from it, presently in Boston, inform us that Duaenre was a prince, the son of king Chefren and queen Meresankh, and that he had held the offices of visir and scribe of the sacred books. The oblique cut at the base of one of the short sides of the sarcophagus was possible meant to make it easier to drag, the inner cavity being rather small, the deceased must have been laid in it on his side in a half-contracted position.

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In the next post, we will continue to see the valuable works of art in Old Kingdom period. I am not the researcher of history or archaeology. Just want to share with you some beautiful antiquities. If I made some critical errors in my post, please feel free to help me correct them, thank you very much.

The Predynastic Period

Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin I
Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin II
Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin III
Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin IV
Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin V

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The Old Kingdom Period

Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin VI
Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin VII

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