An exhibition in Conegliano on rituals and beliefs in Ancient Egypt related to death

by Redazione , published on 07/06/2024
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
From Oct. 23, 2024, to April 6, 2025, Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano is hosting an exhibition on the beliefs and rituals that accompanied death in the Egypt of the Pharaohs. More than 100 artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum in Florence tell the story of the soul's journey to immortality.

From October 23, 2024 to April 6, 2025, Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano will host the exhibition EGYPT. Journey to Immortality, which will take the public into the world of the pharaohs and gods of Ancient Egypt to discover the beliefs and rituals that accompanied death in the Egypt of the Pharaohs. The exhibition is curated by Maria Cristina Guidotti and conceived by Contemporanea Progetti; it is organized by ARTIKA and Contemporanea Progetti, in collaboration with the City of Conegliano.

The works on display, more than 100 artifacts, come from the Egyptian Museum in Florence (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze), exclusively in Conegliano after the international stop in Denmark. Also on display are some artifacts discovered during the expedition led by Egyptologists Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini. The exhibition investigates the beginning of the journey to immortality, embalming practices, and the function of the grave goods that accompanied the deceased to the Fields of Iaru, later known as the Elysian Fields and Paradise. The journey of body and soul to eternity will be told in five stages.

Indeed, the ancient Egyptians believed that life after death continued in another form. The soul of the deceased had to have the possibility of being reincarnated in its own body: derived from this belief was the need to make the body itself nonperishable and thus the search for ever safer and improved methods of embalming, which was practiced by the Egyptians from the earliest dynasties of their millennial history.All funeral rituals, even the most macabre, were not aimed solely at preserving the body of the deceased, but rather at ensuring the continuation of life in the afterlife. Indeed, the Conegliano exhibition takes its cue from this.

Image: Stuccoed and painted wooden Padimut sarcophagus (Third Intermediate Period, 1070 - 656 B.C.)
Padimut sarcophagus in stuccoed and painted wood (Third Intermediate Period, 1070 - 656 B.C.)

An exhibition in Conegliano on rituals and beliefs in Ancient Egypt related to death
An exhibition in Conegliano on rituals and beliefs in Ancient Egypt related to death


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