Lecture by Rogério Sousa on the new book “NYMPHAEA: A Visual Survey On Ancient E…

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Lecture by Rogério Sousa on the new book “NYMPHAEA: A Visual Survey On Ancient Egyptian Yellow Coffins”

📍 Museo Egizio, Torino
📅 January 9, 2026
⏰ 6 PM (CET)

On Friday, January 9 at 6 PM, in the Conference Room of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Rogério Sousa will present the book “NYMPHAEA: A Visual Survey On Ancient Egyptian Yellow Coffins”.

This comprehensive monograph is the culmination of a project launched in 2009, aiming at inventorying the visual resources used in the yellow corpus. This book proposes an innovative approach for the examination of the visual culture displayed in these objects with a view not only to carry out an ‘iconographic mapping’ of the repertoire used in the several components of the yellow coffins but also to understand how and why they evolved along the 21st Dynasty. Ultimately this examination helps us to unravel the several layers of meaning displayed in these objects and to foresee the sociopolitical role they played in the Theban society of the 21st Dynasty.

To attend the lecture online please register and follow this link
https://museoegizio.it/en/explore/appointments/nymphaea-a-visual-survey-on-yellow-coffins-rogerio-sousa/.

The volume published by the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon is freely available in open access at http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/101584

The event will also be available via streaming on the Museo Egizio’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.