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Description: | The museum holds 53 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jar (lid only); faience vessel; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figure; pottery; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; stone figures.
The collection includes relief fragments which, by their style and preservation (with much colour still left), probably derive from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahari.
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): Dahshur; Thebes, including Deir el-Bahari (probably Naville - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1893-1907). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Victoria Avenue Southend-on-Sea Essex United Kingdom,
SS2 6EW | FAX: | 01702 215631 | Telephone: | 01702 215130 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6881 | Go to resource |
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