Museu do Cairo: Mais Duas peças Identificadas

Nossas suspeitas se confirmaram. As duas peças que suspeitávamos que tivessem sido danificadas [conforme escrevemos nos posts anteriores] foram mesmo destruídas. Agora existe a confirmação de mais duas peças. O famoso exército de Meseti, 11° dinastia [a peça parece pouco danificada] e o barco de madeira encontrado na mesma tumba [que infelizmente não teve tanta sorte].

Devastating footage from Al Jazeera posted on Twitter and Flickr now shows significant damage and destruction in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Some of these images can be found at these sites. The footage appears to show wooden statues from the tomb of Tutankhamun with the gilded figure of the king ripped from the smashed bases. Images below show the statues in their original state, and their current condition:

Soldiers of Meseti, Asyut, 11th dynasty

Middle Kingdom models of daily life and their have been smashed. The damage on the famous army of Mehseti doesn’t seem to be too severe thankfully, but other beautiful models are broken and strewn on the floor.

It is an incredibly sad state of affairs as we await news of the full extent of this destruction of history.

UPDATE: I’ve now identified the smashed wooden boat as also belonging to the tomb of Meseti at Asyut (Cairo 4918). It’s one of the largest model boats in existence and it dates to approximately 2000BC, so over it’s 4000 years old. Very sad.

Here’s a photo of it from it’s original publication back in 1913, but you can also follow this link to see a photo of it as it looked in the museum.

Fonte: http://www.eloquentpeasant.com