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Description: | The museum holds 2,000 ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs; cosmetic palettes; shabtis; stelae; textiles; toilet articles; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
The collection includes three fingers from one of the Colossi of Memnon (Amenhotep III), Western Thebes. The museum is also said to have pottery and a coffin from excavations at Beni Hasan, acquired c.1900 but these cannot now be found in the collection, apart from one unprovenanced upper part of a coffin, which may be from this group.
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Abydos (Petrie or Mace - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900; Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1922); Badari (Brunton - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1922-1925); Fayum (Caton-Thompson - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1925-1926; Seton-Karr); Harageh (Engelbach - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1913-1914BSAE); Qasr el-Sagha (Caton-Thompson - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1924-1925); Antaeopolis (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1923-1924); Deir el-Bahari (Naville et al. - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1893-1907).
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in the Near East (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Wadi Ghazzeh (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt); Tell el-'Ajjul (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1930's); Tell Fara (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927-1930). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Botanic Gardens
Belfast,
BT9 5AB | FAX: | 01232 383 003 | Telephone: | 01232 383 000 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6948 | Go to resource |
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