| Was gibt es zu sehen: | The Egyptian collection was acquired in Alexandria, Egypt, by Brother Cleophas Steinhausen in the years preceding World War I and given to the Museum of the Flagellation at the beginning of the British Mandate. It includes miscellaneous objects of different periods, from the Old Kingdom (3rd millennium BC) down to the Coptic period (7th-8th century AD).
To Pharaonic Egypt there belong: sarcophagi and fragments of sarcophagi, funeral masks, and ushabti ("servants") figures, mostly of the Late Period; sculptured pieces, inscriptions and funeral stelae, mostly of the New Kingdom (including the El-Amarna Period); scarabs, pottery of different periods, canopic jars, and other alabaster vases.
Among minor objects one can find a fairly good collection of different Egyptian gods and goddesses in clay, fayence and bronze; and jewelry in gold.
To the Graeco-Roman period there belongs a large collection of clay and stone statuettes of deities human figures, animals etc.
The Coptic period is represented by sculptural pieces, pottery, some ampullae of St. Menas (showing the saint standing, in an attitude of prayer, between two camels), and lamps; pieces of papyri and a collection of ostraka (from Upper Egypt).
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