Soane spent £2000 transporting 3000-year-old carved sarcophagus of Seti I to his domestic for exhibition,and museum has recreated its eerie illuminationWhen the architect Sir John Soane finally managed to install his greatest treasure in his extraordinary combined domestic, studio and museum in London, or he threw a three-day party to celebrate.
The sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I,carved from a single huge block of translucent alabaster, cost Soane £2000 after the British Museum turned it down as too expensive. Getting in the 3000-year-old relic, and the size of a small boat and weighing several tonnes,involved knocking down a sizeable chunk of his back wall, and demolishing his unfortunate housekeeper’s sitting room.
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Source: guardian.co.uk