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Description: | The museum holds 150 ancient Egyptian objects as part of its Archaeology collection. A major source of Egyptian objects was James Pringle Riach, who in 1833 donated material to the Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society (a predecessor body of Perth Museum).
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; flints; funerary cones; jewellery; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments; papyri; pottery; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stone figures; stone vessels; tomb models; 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): Beni Hasan (Garstang with Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Ehnasya (Naville with the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1891); Thebes, including Asasif. | Subjects: | Ancient civilizations Antiquities Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | George Street
Perth,
PH1 5LB | FAX: | 01738 443505 | Telephone: | 01738 632488 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6724 | Go to resource |
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