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Description: | International interest
The museum holds approximately 500 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; scarabs; cosmetic palettes; shabtis; shabti boxes; stelae; stone vessels; textiles; toilet articles; tomb models; 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): Abydos (Peet and Naville - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909-10, 1913-14); Atfih (Mackay and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912); Gheyta (Duncan and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906); Harageh (Engelbach - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1914); Hawara (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911); Kafr Ammar (Mackay and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912); Mahasna (Ayrton and Loat - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909); Mazguneh (Petrie et al - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1911); Memphis (Petrie and Mackay - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1908-9); Meydum (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-11); Tell el-Ratabeh (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906); Rifeh (Petrie and Mackay - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907); Riqqeh (Engelbach et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1913); Saft el-Henna (Duncan and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906); El-Sheikh Ibada (probably Johnson - Egypt Exploration Society, 1914); Sedment (Egypt Exploration Fund, 1910); Tarkhan (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912); Tell el-Yahudiya (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1906); Thebes (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909); Zaraby(?) (Mackay and Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907)
The collection also includes a small number of objects from excavations of sites in southern Levant: Tell el-Ajjul (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907); Wadi Ghazzeh (in records as Egypt Exploration Society, 1929 but probably British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1929).
The collection is very popular with the public and in particular with school groups who use it for Active Learning sessions, directly related to the National Curriculum. | Subjects: | Egyptian history Archaeology Egyptology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0116 247 3005 | Telephone: | 0116 225 4900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5145 | Go to resource |
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