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State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, Germany

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State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, Germany. This museum's collections include objects from all Egyptian periods from the prehistoric up to the Coptic Christian culture as well as archaeological finds from Nubia, Assyria and Babylon. Gold jewelry from the pyramid of Queen Amanishakheto as well as tomb models, Fayum mummy portraits, funerary masks, papyri, pottery, reliefs, sarcophagi and statuary, one of the most famous bei ng an Egyptianized statue of Antinous-Osiris, companion to the Roman emperor Hadrian, can be found in items displayed. Image: Antinous-Osiris, an Egyptianized portrait sculpture of the Roman emperor Hadrian's companion produced for the Villa Hadriana in 135 CE. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Rufus46.