Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin
Collection:
Monumental objects 2007
The museum also posses monumental objects typical for Egypt. The temple gate of Kalabsha, the columned hall of Sahure, the colossal statue of Tutankhamun and the huge ram statue of king Amenophis III represent the monumentality of Egypt in the museum.
These particularly impressive object are today only in part exhibited and will only be reunited and exhibited in Berlin after ca. 10 years when the reconstruction of the Museum Island is completed and monumental Egypt will find its legitimate place next to the Ishatar Gate and the Pergamon Altar.
These particularly impressive object are today only in part exhibited and will only be reunited and exhibited in Berlin after ca. 10 years when the reconstruction of the Museum Island is completed and monumental Egypt will find its legitimate place next to the Ishatar Gate and the Pergamon Altar.
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Gate of the temple of Kalabsha
Roman Period, ca. 20 A.D.
Nubian sandstone
Height 6,90 m
Kalabsha
Present of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the German government
Many temples were saved in 1963 from the floods of the Aswan Dam through an action initiated by the UNESCO.
In some cases temple were disassembled block by block, and reassembled in a higher location. During this salvage work German engineers and archaeologist discovered ca. 100 decorated blocks in the foundation of the Kalabsha temple. These proved to be part of a monumental gateway to the temple which had been removed for unknown reasons only a few years after its erection and the blocks reused in the forecourt of the temple. The blocks decorated in relief show the emperor Augustus ( who also build the rest of the temple) in Pharaonic garb in front of Egyptian gods.
Ten years after their discovery the Egyptian government gave the blocks to Germany where they were assembled and exhibited in the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg. The gate remains in Charlottenburg even after the closure of the Museum and its move to the Old Museum. It will be able to be seen from the middle of 2008 when the house in Charlottenburg reopens as the new Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum.
The final move of the Kalabsha gate to the Museum island will have to wait until the completion of the reconstruction works in ca. 0 years. -
Capital of the Funerary Temple of Sahurê
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty ca. 2450 B.C.
Pink granite
Height ca. 130 cm
Abusir
Inv.-No. 31605
Part of the pyramid enclosures of the Old Kingdom were always buildings in which the rites for the dead Pharaoh were performed. In 1907-08 Ludwig Borchardt excavated and brought to Berlin many columns and relieves from the funerary temple of the king Sahure in Abusir. Since there was not enough space to exhibit the columns in the new Museum at that time these were stored in a Charlottenburg depot where they were much damaged during the 2nd world war. At the end of the 1980 with the support of the society for the promotion of the Egyptian Museum (Vereins zur Förderung des Ägyptischen Museums e.V. ) restored and re-erected in an extension to the then existing Egyptian museum in Charlottenburg.
the columns will also remain in Charlottenburg and will be visible after the opening of the new Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum in 2008.
The final move of the columns to the Museum island will have to wait until the completion of the reconstruction works in ca. 10 years. -
Colossal Bust of Tutankhamun
New Kingdom,18th Dynasty, ca.1335 B.C.
Limestone
Height 200 cm
Memphis
Inv.-No. 1479
Richard Lepsius brought this bust to Berlin from his Egypt and the Sudan expedition in 1842-45. It was restored reconstructed and exhibited in the (then) Neue Museum.
Due to the reconstruction the figure was at first interpreted to represent the king Haremhab or Eje. However after the 2nd Wold War the reconstruction of plaster were removed and then it was realized that the statue represent king Tutankhamun the child king who took the throne after the death of king Akhenaton. The characteristic physiognomy with the strong cheekbones full lips and chin follow the style of the Amarna period which can be found very often in the art of Tutankhamun
At present the statue is exhibited in the entrance hallway of the KPMG at the corner of Hofjägerallee and von-der-Heydt-Straße, Berlin. -
Statue of a Ram Representing the God Amun
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1360 B.C.
Pink granite
Height 168 cm, length 207 cm
Soleb, Temple of King Amenophis III.
Inv.-No. 7262
the ram is a manifestation of the main god Amun with his major temple in Karnak. Amenophis II the father of Akhenaton erected on the anniversary of his 30 year reign a temple in Soleb in the southern province of Nubia. The temple was flanked at the entrance by an alley of rams with statues of mummiform statues of the king between the vorlegs. 600 years later these statues were transported much further south to the Jebel Barkal from where Lepsius found them during his Egypt and Sudan expedition (1842-55) and transported one back to Berlin. At the moment she is exhibited in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim.
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