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Description: | The museum holds 329 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars (lid); coffins (fragments; also cartonnage); flints; jewellery; metal figure; metal vessel; human remains (mummies); papyrus; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figure; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; toilet articles; 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): El Arabeh (Garstang - Egyptian Research Account, 1900); Alexandria; Oxyrhynchus (Egypt Exploration Fund?); Esna (Garstang and Jones - Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Hawara (Petrie, 1888); Heliopolis; Qasr Ibrim (Emery - Egypt Exploration Society, 1961).
Objects are known to have come from the following location in Sudan (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given): Sesebi (Blackman - Egypt Exploration Society, 1936-1937). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01254 695 370 | Telephone: | 01254 667 130 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7178 | Go to resource |
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