The two statues of Ra Nefer in his official and unofficial form in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir

egypt Tue, Dec. 20, 2022
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, one of the largest international museums, displays a large number of artifacts that exceed 50,000 pieces, in front of visitors. Among the unique pieces in the museum is a statue of Ra Nefer in his official and unofficial form, made of colored limestone, 178 cm high.

Naqfar, the high priest of Ptah and Soker, was venerated in Memphis, and he also held the position of chief artist and craftsman in the Fifth Age - the Old Kingdom, and he was found in his tomb in Saqqara.
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, it is located in the heart of Cairo, and it includes the largest collection of antiquities of ancient Egypt, as it contains more than 136,000 Pharaonic antiquities, in addition to hundreds of thousands of antiquities in its stores.

As for its holdings, the Egyptian Museum consists of two floors, the ground floor of which is devoted to heavy antiquities such as stone coffins, statues, paintings and wall inscriptions, while the upper one is devoted to light antiquities such as manuscripts, statues of gods, royal mummies, antiquities of daily life, pictures of mummies, unfinished sculptures, statues and utensils of the Greco-Roman era, and antiquities. especially the beliefs of the other life”, as well as complete collections such as the “Tutankhamun Collection”, and the museum also includes a huge number of Egyptian antiquities from prehistoric times until the end of the Pharaonic era in addition to some Greek and Roman antiquities, including a “collection of pottery (from ages Prehistory), Narmer's Salat (the era of monotheism), the statue of Khasekhem (2nd dynasty), the statue of Djoser (3rd dynasty), the statues of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure (4th dynasty), the statue of Ka'bar and the servant statues (5th dynasty), and the dwarf statue Seneb (family 5). 6), the statue of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre (11th family), the statues of Amenemhat the First, the Second and the Third (12th family), the Elka statue of King Hor (13th family), the statues of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III (18th family), and the Tutankhamun group (18th family), and k group Noz Tanis, and a large group of mummies from different eras.


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