page_title: Calvet Museum
section_title: Egyptian archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Calvet Museum / Collections / Egyptian archaeology
context_page_description: The Calvet Museum is the main museum in Avignon. Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République. It is one of the museums run by the Fondation Calvet.
  Its collections also include goldwork, faience, porcelain, tapestries, ironwork and other examples of the decorative arts, along with archaeology and Asian, Oceanic and African ethnography.
context_section_description: The Egyptian section consists of Esprit Calvet's collection along with that of Marius Clément from Marseille and other purchases, including:
  sycamore anthropoid sarcophagus of Ânkh-pa-in-di-is (honourable mistress of the house), with paint and plaster, probably from Thebes, 23rd Dynasty. Its interior shows the goddess Nut as a Libyan-featured woman in profile in a long flowing tunic and a wig;
  alabaster canopic jar in the form of a head of Amset, with the name of Iahmès, 26th Dynasty;
  a family ex-voto of Yaï (director of the shipyards), carved with images of the dead man and members of his family such as his wife (singer to the god Sobek), 13th Dynasty;
  limestone offering table of Harsiési and Pa-di-Mout, probably from Abydos, 26th Dynasty, Sait period;
  ochre stone hemispherical medallion of the head of Ammon with hair bound by a band and decorated all over with flowers or vines, 1st century CE, Gallo-Roman, discovered at Caderousse and offered to Calvet by the Christian Doctrine Fathers (he was their doctor until the congregation was dispersed) ;
  stela raised by Setaou, viceroy of Nubia, Ramses II, with a funerary cult scene at the top with Osiris and his sisters Isis and Nephtys.
caption: Sarcophagus of Ânk-pa-in-di-is (23rd Dynasty).
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