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This room was created in 1940 to the design of Alexander
Sivkov, the chief architect of the State Hermitage, to replace the
rooms that formed the main Winter Palace canteen. The display is devoted
to the culture and art of Ancient Egypt and spans a period from the
4th millennium B.C. to the beginning of the Christian Era. It includes
monumental sculpture and small-scale plastic art, reliefs, sarcophagi,
articles of daily use and craft items. Among the museum's masterpieces
are the statue of Amenemhat III (19th century B.C.), a wooden
statue of a priest (late 15th - early 14th centuries B.C.), a bronze
statuette of an Ethiopian king (8th century B.C.) and the stele of
Ipi (first half of the 14th century B.C.) |
