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Description: | The museum holds 800 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; faience vessels; foundation deposits; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; pottery; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; stelae (stone); stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; tomb models; wooden figures.
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator and year of excavation given where possible): Abydos?; Deir el-Bahari (Brugsch, 1881; Grebaut and Daressy, 1891). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Edenbridge,
TN8 7AD | Telephone: | 01892 870347 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6930 | Go to resource |
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