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Description: | The museum holds 200 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; faience figures; flints; funerary cone; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
The museum also possesses four casts of reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, given by S.W. Palmer in 1913.
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, including 1907); Akhmim; Defenneh (Petrie and Griffith - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Dendereh (Petrie and Mace - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897-1898); Esna (Garstang and Jones - Liverpool University, 1906); Gurob; Hu (Petrie and Mace - Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898-1899); Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones, 1906); Karanis; Memphis (Petrie and Mackay - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910); Meydum (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910); Naucratis; Thebes including Deir el-Bahari (1909 or earlier); Qurna (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Department of Classics
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading Berkshire,
RG6 6AA | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6965 | Go to resource |
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