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Description: | The museum holds 700 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins (also cartonnage masks and mummy boards); flints; funerary cones; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); papyrus; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figure; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; tools/weapons; wooden figures; other.
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 (Garstang); Amarna (Petrie, 1891-1892); Oxyrhynchus (Petrie); Esna (Garstang and Jones - Liverpool University, 1905-1906). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Crown Place
Harrogate,
HG1 2RY | FAX: | 01423 556130 | Telephone: | 01423 556188 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6914 | Go to resource |
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