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Description: | The museum holds 200 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection. The Egyptian artefacts were purchased by Richard Cuming in the 1830's. Many of these objects are on display in the museum's permanent gallery. The Egyptian collection is interesting partly because of where and when Richard Cuming bought the material. He purchased a lot of his Egyptian material from auctions in the 1830's. Much of the contents of these auctions were collections amassed by the British Consul Henry Salt (1780-1827), his collector Belzoni and the explorer James Burton. The material Cuming purchased was some of the very first to come onto the open market.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; coins; flints; furniture; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); offering tables; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stela (stone); stone figures; textiles; toilet articles; wooden figures.
Objects are known to have come from the following location in Egypt (with the name of the excavator and year of excavation given): Thebes (Belzoni, 1817). This is from Belzoni's clearance of the tomb of Sethos I. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Egyptology Archaeological objects | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7525 2345 | Telephone: | 020 7525 2332 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6745 | Go to resource |
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