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Description: | The museum holds 150 ancient Egyptian objects, excluding flints. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: jewellery (beads); metal figures (bronzes); pottery; coffins (fragments); faience vessels (fragment); flints; glass vessel; relief sculpture (inscribed); shabtis; stela.
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): Beni Hasan (Garstang with Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Fayum (Seton-Karr); Gizeh; Qantarah; Thebes.
The collection also includes 'pieces of granite from Cleopatra's Needle, Thames Embankment'. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Tullie House
Castle Street
Carlisle,
CA3 8TP | FAX: | 01228 810249 | Telephone: | 01228 534781 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6746 | Go to resource |
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