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Description: | The museum holds 250 ancient Egyptian/Sudanese objects which are part of the Archaeology collection.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; faience figures; flints; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; musical instruments; offering tables; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; 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): Alexandria; Oxyrhynchus (Grenfell and Hunt with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903); Beni Hasan (Garstang with Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Ehnasya (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904); Gurob (Currelly and Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904); Saqqarah (Petrie, year(s) unknown); Sedment (Currelly and Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904); Tarkhan (Petrie with the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911-1913); Thebes; Sudan.
Objects from Alexandria and an unknown location called Ibrahimich appear to have been previously owned by L.H. Rickards in 1905.
The museum has two plaster casts of Egyptian wall reliefs: one of the head and shoulders of ÃCleopatraÃ', and one representing a pharaoh. | Subjects: | Ancient civilizations Antiquities Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough Cleveland United Kingdom,
TS5 6LA | FAX: | 01642 358100 | Telephone: | 01642 813 781 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6754 | Go to resource |
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