A CASE OF MODERN-DAY BURIAL IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGI
For over a century and a half, two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi can be found in Slovenia. About 1845 these sarcophagi were sent to Vipava by Anton Lavrin, Austrian general consul in Alexandria, who was engaged in collecting Egyptian antiquities, a common habit among European diplomats in Egypt at that time. Vipava was Lavrin's hometown and he brought the sarcophagi there to be set up in his family burial vault. The sarcophagi were discovered at the foot of the Chephren pyramid in Giza, in the tombs of courtiers from the end of the 4th (2575-2465 BC) and the beginning of the 5th (24652323 BC) Dynasty. They pertain to the class of granite sarcophagi and bear stylised representations of
For over a century and a half, two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi can be found in Slovenia. About 1845 these sarcophagi were sent to Vipava by Anton Lavrin, Austrian general consul in Alexandria, who was engaged in collecting Egyptian antiquities, a common habit among European diplomats in Egypt at that time. Vipava was Lavrin's hometown and he brought the sarcophagi there to be set up in his family burial vault. The sarcophagi were discovered at the foot of the Chephren pyramid in Giza, in the tombs of courtiers from the end of the 4th (2575-2465 BC) and the beginning of the 5th (24652323 BC) Dynasty. They pertain to the class of granite sarcophagi and bear stylised representations of