Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne

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Inner courtyard of the Vieille Charité

The Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne ( German : "Museum for Mediterranean Archeology") is an archaeological museum in the French city of Marseille and was opened in 1995. It is located on the first floor of the Vieille Charité building and houses collections from all Mediterranean cultural epochs of antiquity .

Collections

Egyptian collection

The Egyptian collection mainly includes small works of art such as amulets, jewelry and bronzes and is considered the most important Egyptian collection in France after the Louvre . The rooms in which the collection is housed are modeled on Egyptian temples. You can see mummified crocodiles and a 5.64 meter long papyrus with an oracle for the dead from the 26th dynasty . The collection goes back to the doctor Antoine Barthélémy Clot (1793–1868), who worked in Egypt for a while during the restoration .

Classical antiquity

In the area of classical antiquity , exhibits from the Middle East , Etruria and Cyprus are presented. The 185-piece collection from Cyprus presents two thousand years of history of the Mediterranean island. The Ancient Greece is Attic and Corinthian represented ceramics. Architectural fragments, coins and portraits from Roman times can be seen, especially found objects from Marseille itself.

Local prehistoric history

Celto-Ligurian pillars with skull hollows from Roquepertuse

Most of the Celto-Ligurian pieces come from the Oppidum Roquepertuse and are shown in a separate room. Pillars with oval niches arranged one above the other for the attachment of heads were intended for the Celtic skull cult.

literature

  • Thorsten Droste: Provence: ancient arenas, Romanesque cloisters, cities with history - a journey through France's sunny province. 7th edition. Reiseverlag Dumont, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-3927-9 , p. 264.
  • Ines Mache, Stefan Brandenburg: Provence. 7th revised and completely updated edition. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-2022-4 , p. 413.
  • Cony Ziegler: Provence with Camargue. Travel book publisher Iwanowski. 2nd updated edition. Dormagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-933041-54-8 , pp. 468-469.

Web links

Commons : Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Cony Ziegler: Provence with Camargue. 2009, pp. 468-469
  2. ↑ a b Thorsten Droste: Provence. 2011, p. 264.


Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′ 1 "  N , 5 ° 22 ′ 4"  E