If I had thought about it, it wouldn't have surprised me as the professor in my art history class when I went to college was a Japanese man who had toured the private Vatican collections a few times - he was fond of saying that the Vatican had the largest collection of pornography anywhere, out of public view. He must have said that 5 times during the semester.
Fragment of a tomb found along the Nile River.
"False Door" funerary stele, 7000 BC.
Coffin of Amenhotep.
Egyptian mummy. I have the same problem with this display that I had at the British Museum. Both the Vatican and the British Museum think it is okay to put on public display dead Egyptians. That would be okay, I would think, if they displayed British and Catholic corpses also, but they don't.
Shabti: small statues designed to substitue for the deceased in afterlife agricultural labor.
Sandals, footwear, and grains of cereal from 150-1070 BC.
Hapy, god of the flood of the Nile. 1st century AD.
Statue of the Nile, probably from Rome.
Statue of a baboon, sacred animal to god Thot. From Karnak, 1300-1250 BC.
Torso of Pharoah Nektanebo I, from Nepi, North Lazio. Donated to Pope Gregorious XVI in 1838. Probably from Lower Egypt, 380-362 BC.
Statue of Queen Arsinoes II, wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus. 285-246 BC. It was taken to Rome by the Emporer Caligula (37-41 AD) to decorate an Egyptian-style pavilion in the Sallustian Gardens (Villa Verospi), where it was found in the 18th century.
Funerary portraits.
Female clay statuette, 5600 BC.
Corpses floating on a river, 648-631 BC.
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Hi thank you for sharing . I was wondering if you had any information on the artifact in the first picture. It's the Egyptian rectangle shape piece .
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