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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; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); ostraca; pottery; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stone figures; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wall paintings; wooden figures.
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): Akhmim; Aswan; Asyut; Beni Hasan (Garstang - Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Esna (Garstang and Jones - Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Fustat; Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones - Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Saqqarah; Bubastis; Thebes; Valley of the Kings (KV 55, Davies and Ayrton, 1907).
The collection includes drawings by Henry Wallis of the tomb of Sarenput at Aswan and a facsimile of wall-paintings from a tomb (three panels from 1880Ã's); also casts and old photographs taken in the Valley of the Kings, c. 1900(?), stamped ÃH. Burton FlorenceÃ'. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Museum Square
Victoria Road
Maritime Quarter
Swansea,
SA1 1SN | FAX: | 01792 652 585 | Telephone: | 01792 653 763 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7100 | Go to resource |
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