ref.: "Varia from Turin" by Federico Rocchi, August 20, 2000
A provisional map: Ground Floor 1) Main entrance 2) Ticket room 3) Bathrooms 4) Bookshop 5) Central courtyard 6) Egyptological library (at upper floor are the offices of Sovrintendenza) 7) Office of ACME 8) New Room: an introduction to ancient Egypt and objects from predynastic and early dynastic periods; objects from OK; objects in this room where previously located in upper floor, room 19 and corridor 20 9) New Room: objects from the OK, mainly false doors; objects in this room where previously located in upper floor, room 19; notably the new rendering of the facade of the mastaba of Iteti, created by the assembling of original and non-original pieces (I hope to provide soon a photo of this assembly); stairs to lower floor 10) New Room: two small rooms, only one now occupied with the copies of Rosetta (previously in room 12) and Palermo stones and the new framing of the Royal Canon (previously in upper floor, room 22) which has been mounted in larger space with a mirror behind so that both recto and verso are almost visible (transliteration and translations are given) 11) Stairs from the lower floor; Ellesiya temple 12) Statue Room 1 13) Statue Room 2 14) Stairs to upper floor Lower floor; "Schiaparelli Rooms": topographical section 15) Objects from FIP and MK from Schiaparelli's excavations, arranged topographically; the very famous relief of Hathor's temple foundation from Gebelein (see BBS about Smsw-Hr) which was on upper floor, room 19, is now placed here under, very regrettably, very poor conditions of light which prevent everyone from seeing its details 16) Stairs to ground floor, leading to the Ellesiya temple room Upper floor 17) Main entrance 18) Room with coffins and funerary objects and papyri 19) Stelae, small statues etc. Now closed for refurbishment 20) Corridor, first half almost empty, objects moved in ground floor new rooms; second half with various objects and side chambers (Kha's tomb, Tomb of unknowns, Maya's chapel etc.) 21) Daily life rooms, now partially closed 22) Papyri room (historical ones), now partially closed