St. Louis Art Museum: Ancient Egypt

 The final visit at the St. Louis Art Museum was to an oddly placed Gallery. it was accessed from the elevator foyer on the second floor.  You have to cross an open corridor with a balcony view of the Central Hall of the original building.  On the other side you arrive at a dimly lit ante-room with text describing the museum's Egyptian collection.  Then you go through a doorway that reveals a narrow and long Gallery in which you can see artifacts from their Egyptian collection.

There are plenty of statuary, two sarcophagi with mummies, pottery and bowls, and some bas-relief sculptures.  The whole experience is dark (the Galleries are painted a deep midnight/navy blue) and just such an odd one off.  I'm not a great devotee of Egyptian antiquity, and so I have to also say it was just the right size to sate my curiosity!

"Hippopotamus," 1783 - 1640 BCE

Egyptian - Middle Kingdom - Dynasty 13

"Mummy and Coffin of Henut-wejebu," 1390 - 1352 BCE

Egyptian - Thebes, New Kingdom - Dynasty 18

"Mummy and Coffin of Henut-wejebu," DETAIL

"Jar," 3500 - 2890 BCE

Gerzean (Naqada II) - Early Dynasty Period - Dynasty 1

"Fragment with Head of a Nubian Prisoner," 1550 - 1295 BCE

Egyptian - New Kingdom - Dynasty 18

"Butchery Scenes," 680 - 650 BCE

Egyptian - from the Tomb of Mentuemhat, Thebes - late Dynasty 25 -early Dynasty 26

"Butchery Scenes," DETAIL

central image: "Portrait of a Woman," 2nd century

Egyptian - Roman Period

"Mummy and Cartonnage of Amen-nestrany-nakht," 945 - 715 BCE

Egyptian - Third intermediate Period - Dynasty 22

"Funerary Stele of Thutmose," 1323 - 1295 BCE

Egyptian - New Kingdom - Dynasty 18

Three "Shabti," 664 - 332 BCE

Egyptian - late period Dynasty 26