Asyut - Museum

Asyut has an interesting little Museum containing the collection of antiquities assembled between 1910 and 1914 by a wealthy Asyut citizen, Sayyid Pasha Khashaba, from excavations in the ancient necropolises of Asyut and Meir. The collection includes wooden sarcophagi, including some with fine colored door ornaments and a mummiform sarcophagus of granite; large quantities of grave goods, in particular domestic and agricultural equipment; a limestone group depicting a princely couple (from Meir; sixth Dynasty); fine reliefs from a 19th Dynasty tomb (the dead man at table, the dead man and his relatives in the presence of the gods of the dead); and a famous over-life-size statue of an official named luni holding a chapel with the image of Osiris.