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Description: | The museum holds 420 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; coins; flints; foundation deposits; jewellery; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); pottery; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stelae (stone); stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tools/weapons.
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 (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-3); El Amrah (MacIver with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901); Oxyrhynchus (Petrie, 1896); Denderah (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897-8); Hawara (Petrie, 1888-9); El Hibeh (Grenfell and Hunt with the Egypt Exploration Fund, in records as 1904-6, but may be accession years as excavations from 1902-1903); Hu (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899); Ehnasya (Naville with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1891); Naucratis (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1884-5, Gardner and Griffith with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885-6); Qarara (Grenfell and Hunt with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903); Tanis (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1883-6); El Sheikh Ibada (Johnson with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1914); Sedmant (Currelly and Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904); Bubastis (Naville and Quibell with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1887-9); Defenneh (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Nebesheh (Petrie with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Zuweleyn (Naville, 1887); Tell el-Yahudiya (Naville and Griffith with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1887); Deir el-Bahari (Naville with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1896, 1904-1906); Thebes. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 15 Kelly Street
Greenock,
PA16 8JX | FAX: | 01475 715626 | Telephone: | 01475 715624 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6717 | Go to resource |
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