Luxor-Museum
The Luxor Museum (Arabic متحف الأقصر ) is a museum of ancient Egyptian art in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. It is located on the Corniche el-Nil, the waterfront of the city along the Nile, about midway between the temples of Karnak and Luxor Temple, the main sights of the city on the eastern side of the Nile. The two-story museum building by architect Mahmoud el- Hakim in 1975 handed over his destiny. Since March 2004 he has a cultivation over a larger exhibition space.
Exhibits of the collection
In the museum are artifacts of ancient Egyptian art from the royal city of Thebes and the surrounding area of Luxor (Thebes - West ). Among these grave goods are out of the rock grave of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings ( KV62 ), various statues from the time of the New Kingdom and the reconstruction of a wall portion of the Aton Temple of Karnak, the Gem -pa - Aten, built in the 14th century v. AD by Akhenaten. The Aten temple was destroyed by the followers of Akhenaten, and was used for other buildings the building material.
The out of 283 painted sandstone blocks, talatat called reconstructed wall of the Gem -pa - Aten in the floor of the museum is 18 meters long. They found the remains of walls exhibited during restoration work in the filling of the ninth pylon of the temple of Amun -Re in the temple complex of Karnak. Shown are Akhenaten and Nefertiti under the god Aten depicted as a sun disc with fan- propagating beams, surrounded by working in magazines and victims spaces temple servants and craftsmen and field workers.
The basement houses the statue of the museum's collection, including 26 statues that were found in 1989 in a pit under the floor of the " sun farm " of the Temple of Luxor. Among them are the seated statues of the goddesses Hathor and Junit from the royal period Amenhotep III. (14th century BC), the father of Akhenaten, and the 2.5 -meter-high statue of Amenhotep III. of reddish quartzite. The Pharaoh is shown on a slide, a means of transport for heavy objects. Also from this period dates the sculpture of the seated scribe and architect Amenhotep, son of Hapu. Of later date is the statue group of the kneeling king Horemheb before the enthroned god Atum. Horemheb is considered as the restorer of the old order in the post- Amarna period of Akhenaten.
Other interesting exhibits are made of rose granite head of Senwosret III. from the 12th Dynasty ( 19th century BC), which was found in the foundation before the fourth pylon of the Karnak temple, the statue of Tuthmosis III. from the 18th Dynasty ( 15th century BC), found in the soil of the court before the seventh pylon of the Karnak temple, and which also came from Karnak 1.11 meter top of a red granite statue of his son and successor, Amenhotep II, found in 1951 north of the chapel of Osiris Heqa - djed. In the garden in front of the museum there is another image of this king, shown here as an archer. Even a bust of Akhenaten, a Osirispfeiler of Senwosret I. and images Amenhotep III. as a single head and together in a group statue with the god Sobek are part of the collection.
Main exhibit of the Luxor museum from the grave of Tutankhamun is a " sacred cow ", a carved from a block of wood head of a cow, the manifestation of the goddess Hathor. The head was covered with plaster and partially gilded. The horns are also made of wood, covered with painted metal, in a border inlaid glass eyes are made of limestone and obsidian crystal. In addition, other small parts are issued from the interior of the royal tomb, like two shabtis, painted small statues as a materialization of the deceased pharaoh.
In the extension of the Luxor Museum since 2004, the mummies of kings Ahmose I ( 16th century BC ) and Ramses I (13th century BC) to see. There are the two first publicly flaunted in Luxor royal mummies, the identity of the mummy of Ramses I is not yet clear beyond doubt. Both mummies are from the Deir el -Bahri in Thebes -West, a depot for umgebettete pharaohs mummies. While there was the mummy of Ahmose I to return to Luxor in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Ramses I. came ascribed mummy end of the 19th century in the United States of America. There, she was a long time in the Niagara Falls Museum until it was returned after its closure and takeover by the Michael C. Carlos Museum near Atlanta from there in 2003 to Egypt. The handover of the two royal mummies at the opening of the museum cultivation on 9 March 2004 was solemnized in Luxor.
- Selection of exhibits
Head of King Amenhotep III.
Statue of King Thutmose III.
God Sobek with Amenhotep III.