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Description: | The museum holds over 80,000 ancient Egyptian and Sudanese objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic boxes; canopic jars; cartonnage ceramic figures; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant material; foundation deposits; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; inorganic material; jewellery; lamps; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); mummy labels; musical instruments; offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; cosmetic palettes; sandals; shell; soul houses; spindle whorls; stelae (stone); stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; terracottas; textiles/leather; tiles; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; toys/games; wall paintings; weights; wooden figures.
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): Abadiyeh (Petrie with the EEF, 1898-1899); Abu Roash; Abu Sir, Ahramat; Abusir el-Meleq; Abydos (Mace with the EEF, 1899-1901; Peet and Naville with the EEF, 1909-1910; Frankfort with the EEF, 1925-1926; Garstang with Liverpool University, 1906 -Ex Wellcome; Caton-Thompson, 1926; Petrie with the BSAE 1921-1922; Petrie with the EEF, 1899-1903; Abydos Ayrton, Currelly and Weigall with the EEF, 1904); Akhmim; Alexandria; Amarna (Frankfort and Pendlebury with the EES, 1926-1936; Peet, Woolley and Guy with the EES, 1921-1922; Petrie, 1891-1892); Armant (Frankfort and Green for the EES, 1928-1932; Myers and others with the EES, 1934-1936); Aswan (Petrie, 1887); Asyut; Atfih (Mackay and Petrie with the BSAE, 1911-1912); Athribis (Petrie with the BSAE, 1907); Badari (Brunton with the BSAE, 1922-1925); Ballas (Quibell and Petrie,1894-1895); Balyzeh (Rhoades, Mackay, Gregg and Petrie with the BSAE, 1906-1907); Beit Khallaf (Garstang with the ERA, 1900-1902); Beni Hasan (Garstang, 1902-1904); Bernasht (Petrie, Wainwright and Mackay with the BSAE, 1910-1911); Biahmu (Petrie, 1888-1889); Birket Habu; Birket Qarun; Bubastis (Naville, Quibell and Goddard with the EEF, 1887-1889); Burru el Yussef / Shaghanbeh (Duncan and Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Cairo; Dahshur (Petrie 1887); Defennah (Petrie and Griffith with the EEF, 1886); Deir el Bahri (Naville, Clarke, Hall and Currelly with the EEF, 1893-1907); Deir el-Bersheh (Newberry and Griffith); Deir el-Medina; Denderah (Petrie and Mace with the EEF, 1897-1898); Deshasheh (Petrie and Griffith with the EEF, 1896-1897); Dimeh (Caton-Thompson and Gardner with the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1925-1926); Dimeh; Dra Abu'l Naga; Edfu; Ehnasya (Petrie with the EEF, 1904); El Amrah (MacIver and Wilkins with the EEF, 1900-1901); El Arabeh (Garstang with the ERA, 1900); El Kab (Quibell with the ERA, 1896-1897); Elephantine Island; Esna (Garstang and Jones with the University of Liverpool, 1905-1906); Esna (?Sayce and Garstang, 1904-1905); Fayum; Fustat; Gebelein; Gemayemi (Griffith and Petrie with the EEF, 1886); Gerzeh (Petrie, Mackay and Wainwright with the BSAE, 1910-1911); Gheyta (Duncan and Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Gizeh (Petrie with the BSAE, 1906-1907; Petrie, 1880-3); Gurob (Brunton and Engelbach with the BSAE, 1920-1921; Currelly and Petrie with the EEF, 1904; Hughes-Hughes and Petrie, 1888-1890; Loat with the ERA, 1903-1904); Harageh (Engelbach with the BSAE, 1913-1914); Harit (Grenfell, Hunt and Hogarth with the EEF, 1898-1899); Hawara (Petrie, 1888-1889; Petrie, Mackay and Wainwright with the BSAE, 1910-1911); Heliopolis (Petrie with the BSAE, 1911-1912); Helwan (Caton-Thompson 1920's); Hemamieh (Caton-Thompson with the BSAE, 1924); Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones 1905-1906; Quibell, Green and Clarke with the ERA, 1897-1900); Hu (Petrie and Mace with the EEF, 1898-1899); Kafr Ammar (Mackay and Petrie with the BSAE, 1911-1912); Karanis; Karnak; Kom Afrin; Kom Amar (Mackay and Petrie with the BSAE, 1911); Kom Ombo; Koptos (Petrie, 1893-1894); Lahun (Petrie, 1889-1890; Petrie, Brunton and Campion with the BSAE, 1913-1914; Petrie, Brunton and West with the BSAE, 1920-1921); Lake Manzaleh; Luxor (Petrie 1895-1896; Petrie with the BSAE, 1908-1909); Mahasna (Ayrton and Loat with the EEF, 1908-1909); Mahasna (Garstang with the ERA, 1900-1901); Matmar (Brunton with the British Museum, 1929-1931); Mazghuneh (Petrie, Mackay and Wainwright with the BSAE, 1910-1911); Medinet Al-Faiyum (?Caton-Thompson and Gardner); Medinet Al-Faiyum /Arsinoe (Petrie 1888); Meir; Memphis (Petrie 1887; Petrie and Mackay with the BSAE, 1908-1913); Merimde (Junker 1928-1939); Meydum (Petrie, 1890-1891; Petrie, Mackay and Wainwright with the BSAE, 1909-1910); Mostagedda (Brunton, Myers and Bach with the British Museum, 1928-1929); Naqada (Petrie, 1894-1895); Naukratis (Petrie and Griffith with the EEF, 1884-1886); Nebesheh (Petrie and Griffith with the EEF, 1886); Oxyrhynchus (Petrie with the BSAE, 1922; Petrie with the EEF, 1896); Qanadla (Mackay, Gregg and Petrie with the BSAE, 1906-1907); Qasr el-Banat (Euhemeria) (?Grenfell, Hunt and Hogarth with the EEF, 1898-1899); Qasr Ibrim (?Mills, 1982; Emery with the EES, 1961-1962; Plumley 1962-1976); Qau (Brunton and Petrie with the BSAE, 1922-1925; Petrie, Wheeler, Greenlees and Yeivin with the BSAE, 1923-1924); Qena; Ramesseum (Quibell. Petrie); Reqaqnah (Garstang, ERA, 1901-1902); Rifeh (Petrie and Mackay with the BSAE, 1906-1907); Riqqeh (Engelbach, Thompson and Petrie with the BSAE, 1912-1913); Rushaida; Saft el Henna (Duncan, Gilbart-Smith and Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Saft el Henna (Naville with the EEF, 1885); Sais; Saqqarah (Emery with the EES, 1953-1956; Emery with the EES, 1964-1971; Smith and Martin with the EES, 1971-1974); Sedment (Currelly and Petrie with the EEF, 1903-1904; Petrie and Brunton with the BSAE, 1920-1921); Semaineh (Petrie 1898-1899); Serabit el Khadim (Petrie, 1904-1905); Shibin (Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Shurafa (Engelbach and Petrie with the BSAE, 1911-1912); Sinai (Petrie with the EEF, 1904-1905); Suwa (Duncan and Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Tanis (Petrie and Griffith with the EEF, 1886; Petrie with the EEF, 1883-1884); Tarkhan (Petrie, Campion and North with the BSAE, 1911-1913); Tehneh (Fraser); Tell El Barud; Tell el Maskhuta (Naville with the EEF, 1883); Tell el Retaba (Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Tell el-Yahudiyeh (Naville and Griffith with the EEF, 1887-1888); Tell el-Yahudiyeh (Petrie, Duncan and Gilbart-Smith with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Tell Sadun / Belbys (Duncan and Petrie with the BSAE, 1905-1906); Thebes (Petrie with the BSAE, 1908-1909); Thebes (Petrie, 1887, 1896); Tukh el-Qaramus (Naville and Griffith with the EEF, 1887-1888); Tuneh el-Gebel; Umm el-Atl (Hogarth and Grenfell - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1895-1896); Umm el-Ga'ab (Naville with the EEF, 1909-1910); Wadi el-Sheikh (Seton-Karr, 1895-1896); Wadi Hawar; Wadi Maghara (Petrie with the EEF, 1904-1905); Wanyanga (Arkell); Zaraby (Mackay and Petrie with the BSAE, 1906-1907); Zawyet el-Aryan; Zumma (Arkell); Zuweleyn (Petrie with the EEF, 1883-1884).
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Sudan (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Buhen (Emery, EES), Meroe, Sanam (Griffith, University of Oxford); Jebel Moya (Arkell); Sesebi and others.
Particular strengths are the Predynastic collections, daily life objects from Kahun, papyri, pottery, early garments and excavated material from Amarna and wax encaustic mummy portraits. | Subjects: | 000 BC) Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC) Antiquity Islamic Period (640 AD - present) Early Dynastic Period (3000-2686 BC) Archaeological sites 000-7 Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) Egyptology Archaeological objects Second Intermediate Period (1650-1550 BC) New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) Old Kingdom (2686-2125 BC) Predynastic Period (5300-3000 BC) First Intermediate Period (2160-2055 BC) Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC) Ancient civilizations Coptic or Byzantine Period (395-640 AD) Roman Period (30 BC - 395 AD) Palaeolithic Period (700 Late Period (664-332 BC) Predynastic Period (5300-3000BC) Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | University College London
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