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Description: | The museum holds approximately 900-1000 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry; canopic jars (lids only); coffins; faience figures; flints; food/plant material; funerary cones; furniture (headrests); glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; mummy label; musical instruments; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures (one); relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti jars; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
The Gallery also owns three plaster casts of reliefs, an album with photographs of the collection at Bootle Museum in 1912 (poor condition) and the original 1908 index cards with sketches of objects (Prof. Newberry and Meta Williams).
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; Akhmim; Alexandria(?); Amarna; El Amrah (MacIver and Wilkins - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1901); Beit Kallaf(?); Fayum; Gizeh; Hawara; Hu (Petrie and Mace - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898-1899); el-Kab; Kom Ombo; Mahasna(?); ÃMasheyehÃ' (near Girga); Memphis; Naqada; Naucratis; Philae; Sais; Athribis; Tell Basta (Bubastis); Nebesheh (possibly Petrie and Griffith - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Tell el-Yahudiya; Thebes, including Deir el-Bahari; Deir el-Medina(?); Karnak, Luxor and Qurna.
Objects are known to have come from the following location in Sudan: Meroe. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Lord Street
Southport Merseyside United Kingdom,
PR8 1DH | FAX: | 0151 934 2109 | Telephone: | 0151 934 2110 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7350 | Go to resource |
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