After an eight-year international tour the funerary trousseau of Queen Nefertari (1295-1255 BC) returned to the Egyptian Museum in Turin on 9 August.
The exhibits toured the world before returning to Turin
The tour, which started in Leiden in the Netherlands in 2016 then travelled to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and numerous museums in the USA and Canada before making its return to the norther Italian city. Curated by Enrico Ferraris, with the collaboration of Cinzia Soddu, the new exhibition was realized with the support of the Crt foundation.
Over 40 tombs were discovered
Jewellery, amulets, ushabti and footwear: these are some of the exhibits on display, returning to the showcases that were commissioned by Ernesto Schiaparelli, who at the time headed the Egyptian Museum and discovered the tomb of Nefertari in the Valley of the Queens near Luxor in 1904. It was in the winter of 1903 that Schiaparelli and his Egyptian and Italian colleagues concentrated their research for three years on the site, discovering over 40 tombs, but the most sensational discovery was that of Queen Nefertari.
Paintings of Nefertari’s afterlife journey
The wooden model of the tomb, made by Schiaparelli in the early decades of the last century, are also on display. The reproduction offers the opportunity to look in detail at the complex cycle of paintings dedicated to Nefertari's afterlife journey, which served the Getty Conservation Institute as the basis for the restoration of the original paintings in the 1990s.
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