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Description: | The museum holds 4,000 ancient Egyptian and Sudanese objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant material; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
Pieces of special interest include the statue of the scribe Rahotep, the shabti box of Montu, a commemorative scarab of Amenhotep III; four Graeco-Roman period human mummies; the collection of pre-dynastic materials; scarabs and items from the el-Kharga Oasis.
The museum possesses casts, squeezes, old photographs and manuscripts of Egyptological interest but they have not yet been fully catalogued.
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 - Egypt Exploration Fund, donated 1902-1904); el-Amrah (Mace and MacIver - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899-1901); Badari (Brunton - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1920-1924); Oxyrhynchus (Egypt Exploration Fund, c. 1902-1904, probably Grenfell and Hunt); Gerzeh (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-11); Gizeh (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, c. 1909-1911); Harageh (Engelbach - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912-1914); Hawara (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909-1911); El Hibeh (Grenfell and Hunt, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-1904); Kharga Oasis; Meydum (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909-1911); Gurob (Brunton and Engelbach - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1920-1921); Memphis (Petrie and Mackay - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909-1911); Shurafa (Engelbach and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911-1912); Antaeopolis (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1922-1924); Riqqeh (Engelbach et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912-1914); Saqqarah (Emery - Egypt Exploration Society, 1969); Sedment (Petrie and Brunton - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1920-1921); Tarkhan (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912-1914); Thebes, including Qurna (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909-1911); Deir el-Bahari (Naville - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-1904).
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): Napata in museum records, but given the years and excavator probably Faras (Griffith - Oxford University, 1912-1913); Sanam (Griffith - Oxford University, 1912-1913). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01224 274 302 | Telephone: | 01224 274 301 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6925 | Go to resource |
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