page_title: Museum of Grenoble
section_title: Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman
hierarchical_section_title: Museum of Grenoble / Collections / Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Sarcophages en salle d'Egyptologie, Musée de Grenoble
context_page_description: The Museum of Grenoble is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France.
  Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art. Thanks to the action of one of its curators of the interwar period, it is considered the very first museum of modern art in France.
  Its temporary rooms allow it to organize two exhibitions each year.
context_section_description: Two rooms are located off the lobby, the level-1 is devoted to antiquities from ancient Egypt, with particularly beautiful sarcophagi. One room is devoted to Roman antiquities, and another room to Greek antiquities. The city of Grenoble is linked to the story of Champollion and that of Egyptology.
  From the 18th century, there are ancient Egyptian pieces from excavations run by the antiques office of the municipal library of Grenoble, of which Jean-François Champollion was the assistant librarian. It is natural that the collection found in the museum has not ceased to be enriched by many gifts in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  Most important discoveries have been made by the French Society during archaeological excavations conducted in 1907 and 1913, following the excavation of Antinoöpolis, of Touna-el-Gebel, and of Kom el Ahmar, and later by the family of Count Saint-Ferriol in 1916. In April 2010, the "prophétesse d'Antinoé", a 6th-century mummy discovered in 1907 in a Coptic necropolis at Antinoöpolis in Middle Egypt, was returned to the Museum of Grenoble, after more than fifty years of absence.
  The collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities is regarded as the fifth largest in France, after that of the Louvre, the Museum of Archeology Mediterranean in Marseille,  Lyon, and Dijon. It includes furniture and funerary objects of everyday life.
  The entire tomb is impressive, especially the fragmentary tomb of Amenhotep son of Hapu, vizier of Amenhotep III.
  A third room of antiquities contains an interesting collection of Greek and Etruscan ceramic statues.
caption: Room 59. Sarcophagi Egyptology section
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