The so-called “Goldmine Papyrus” with a map of the Wadi Hammamat on the recto and several texts (letters, administrative, and literary) on the verso
Museo Egizio
Turin · Founded 1824
The largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside Cairo, including an entire rock-cut temple moved here stone by stone. More than 40,000 objects, second only to Cairo, in a museum Turin has had since 1824.
- 40,000+
- Works in the Museo Egizio collection
- 1M
- Visitors a year
- 1824
- Founded
- Open daily
- Daily opening hours
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The so-called “Turin King List”, with a list of kings written on the verso and an administrative text on the recto
The so-called “Goldmine Papyrus” with a map of the Wadi Hammamat on the recto and several texts (letters, administrative, and literary) on the verso
The so-called “Turin Satirical-Erotic Papyrus”
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut temple originally located near the site of Qasr Ibrim and today on display at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. It was built during the 18th Dynasty by the Pharaoh Thutmosis III.
Judicial Papyrus of Turin
The Judicial Papyrus of Turin (also Turin legal papyrus) is a 12th-century BCE ancient Egyptian record of the trials held against conspirators plotting to assassinate Ramesses III in what is referred to as the "Harem conspiracy". The papyrus contains mostly summaries of the accusations, convictions and punishments meted out.
Bembine Tablet
The Bembine Tablet, the Bembine Table of Isis or the Mensa Isiaca (Isiac Tablet) is an elaborate tablet of bronze with enamel and silver inlay, most probably of Roman origin but imitating the ancient Egyptian style. It was named in the Renaissance after Cardinal Bembo, a celebrated antiquarian who acquired it after the 1527 sack of Rome.
The collections
There are more than 37,000 items in the museum, covering a period from the Paleolithic to the Coptic era. The most important are: Assemblea dei Re (Kings Assembly), a term originally indicating a collection of statues representing all the kings of the New Kingdom Temple of Ellesyia, donated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia Tomb of Kha and Merit (TT8), found intact by Schiaparelli in 1906 and transferred as a whole to the museum
Artworks
High relief of Isis with bovine crown and Termuthis, both depicted as snakes
Lamp
Lamp with palmette handle, graced with a Gorgon's face
Lamp with theatre scene
Lamp in the shape of the Egyptian god Thoth as a baboon with the moon disk on his head
Two-spouted lamp with palmette handle
Lamp with palmette handle, shaped as a female head
Lamp in the shape of the grotesque face of a Silenus
Lamp shaped as a satyr mask
Plan your visit
Hours
Monday 9.00 to 14.00. Tuesday to Friday and Sunday, 9.00 to 18.30. Saturday 9.00 to 20.00. Confirm on www.museoegizio.it before you travel.
Getting there
Via Accademia delle Scienze 6.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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