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Description: | The museum holds 1,500 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; foundation deposits; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; human remains (mummies); ostraca; papyri; pottery; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
The museum also owns paper squeezes of reliefs in the mortuary chapels of Khaemhat and Paser (Theban Tombs 57 and 106).
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 Amrah (MacIver and Wilkins - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901); Ballas (Quibell and Petrie, 1894-1895); Gurob (Hughes-Hughes and Petrie, 1889-1990); Naqada (Petrie, 1894-1895); Nebesheh (Petrie and Griffith - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Thebes (including Belzoni, 1817).
Object(s) are also known to have come from Sudan. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Moorfield Road
Moorfield Industrial Estate
Yeadon
Leeds,
LS19 7BN | Telephone: | 0113 214 6526 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7213 | Go to resource |
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