Sahure: Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh
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From June 24 to November 28, 2010 the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present the exhibition “Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh.”
Ruling Egypt from about 2428 to 2416 BC, Sahure was a both politically and culturally outstanding king of the Fifth Dynasty and thus a prominent representative of the Old Kingdom, the “Age of the Pyramids”.
With high-caliber originals – reliefs, architectural elements, sculptures, vases, and valuable papyruses – from international museums such as the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the show gives evidence of the worship this great Egyptian pharaoh enjoyed. A special chapter of the exhibition will be dedicated to the scientist and explorer Ludwig Borchardt, who discovered Sahure’s pyramid complex in the early twentieth century and from whose excavations important reliefs from Sahure’s temple complex came into the possession of the Liebieghaus in the course of the finds’ distribution. Historical documents, diaries, and drawings convey a comprehensive picture of the fascinating excavation history of Sahure’s pyramid temple which began more than one hundred years ago and still continues today.
The only known and well preserved statue of Pharaoh Sahure from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York will provide a further highlight of the show.
The exhibition also presents both valuable and enlightening papyruses from the area of the pyramid ensemble of Abusir. These rich literary treasures of Ancient Egypt constitute the most important official texts of the Old Kingdom and provide a first insight into the instruments and materials used for the ceremonies and rites conducted on the pyramid burial site.
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