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Description: | The museum holds 500 ancient Egyptian and Sudanese objects which are part of the Economic Botany collection. This is a very representative collection of plants used in ancient Egypt, mostly well identified and provenanced.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: food/plant material; textiles; wooden items.
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): Amarna (including Petrie, 1891-1892); Hawara (Petrie); Lahun (Petrie); Saqqarah (Smith and Martin - Egypt Exploration Society, 1971-1974); Thebes (Maspero); Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutankhamun (Carter and Carnarvon, 1922).
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): Faras (Griffith - Oxford University, 1910-1912). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Richmond Surrey United Kingdom,
TW9 3AB | FAX: | +44 (0)20 8332 5197 | Telephone: | +44 (0)20 8332 5655 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7019 | Go to resource |
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