"After nearly three decades of conservation and intensive study and planning by engineers and conservators, the Penn Museum has reassembled the five-ton false door from the Tomb Chapel of Kaipure and installed it its new Egyptian gallery on the main floor. Almost 100 limestone blocks forming the rest of the chapel will join the false door to reconstruct the entire tomb chapel over the next few weeks."
"The limestone offering chamber dates to around 2350 B.C., the late 5th or early 6th Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom. It was one of two chambers in the above-ground portion of the tomb of Kaipure, a treasury official, documented at the Old Kingdom cemetery at Saqqara in the 19th century. The tomb was dismantled and transported to the United States for Egypt's pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, aka the World's Fair of Meet me in St. Louis fame, in 1904."
The five-ton false door from the Tomb Chapel of Kaipure has been reassembled and installed on the Penn Museum's main floor Egyptian gallery. Nearly 100 additional limestone blocks will be rejoined to reconstruct the full chapel within weeks. The offering chamber dates to around 2350 B.C., late 5th or early 6th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, and belonged to Kaipure, a treasury official from Saqqara. The chapel was dismantled for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and purchased by the Penn Museum for $10,000. Conservation began in 1996 to restore carved hieroglyphs and vivid painting; the fully restored chapel will become the centerpiece of new Egypt galleries.
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