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Description: | The college holds 71 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; faience figures; jewellery; musical instrument; papyri; pottery; scarabs/sealings; stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; toilet articles; tools/weapons; wooden figures (fragment only).
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): Amarna (Frankfort and Pendlebury - Egypt Exploration Society, 1926-1936); Oxyrhynchus; Memphis (possibly Petrie and Mackay - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1908-1913); Thebes. | Subjects: | Ancient civilizations Antiquities Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1962 621 106 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1962 621 100 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7099 | Go to resource |
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