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Description: | The museum holds 8,000-10,000 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic boxes; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; foundation deposits; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs; cosmetic palettes; shabtis; shabti boxes; soul house; stelae; stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures; other.
The collection also includes squeezes, casts (mainly British Museum); Belzoni water colours, tomb of Sety I; notebook of Sarah Belzoni; W. M. F. Petrie lantern slides; aerial photographs (RAF).
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): Abadiyeh (Petrie - EEF, 1899); Abydos (EEF, 1900-1903; Peet and Naville - EEF, 1909-1910; Frankfort - EEF, 1926); Amarna (Newton and Griffith - EES, 1923-1925; Frankfort and Pendlebury - EES, 1926-1929); El Amrah (MacIver and Wilkins - EEF, 1901); Oxyrhynchus (Grenfell and Hunt - EEF, 1903-1906); Deir el-Bahari (Naville et al. - EEF, 1903-1911); Dendereh (Petrie and Mace - EEF, 1898); Gemayemi (Griffith and Petrie - EEF, 1886-1887); Gerzeh (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1910-1911); Gizeh (Petrie - BSAE, 1906-1907); Harageh (Engelbach - BSAE, 1913-1914); Hawara (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1910-1911); Ehnasya (Petrie - EEF, 1904); Kafr Ammar (Petrie - BSAE, 1912-1913); Hu (Petrie and Mace - EEF, 1898-1899); Lahun (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1913-1914); Mahasna (Ayrton and Loat - EEF, 1908-1909); Mazghuneh (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1910-1911); Memphis (Petrie and Mackay - BSAE, 1908-1910); Meydum (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1909-1910); Naucratis (Petrie and Griffith - EEF, 1884-1886); Shurafa (Engelbach and Petrie - BSAE, 1911-1912); Antaeopolis (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1923-1924); Rifeh (Petrie and Mackay - BSAE, 1906-1907); Riqqeh (Engelbach et al. - BSAE, 1912-1913); Saft el-Henna (Duncan et al. - BSAE, 1905-1906); Saqqareh (Smith and Martin - EES, 1971, 1984); Tanis (Petrie - EEF, 1884-1885); Serabit el Khadim (Petrie - BSAE, 1905-1906; EEF/ERA, 1905-1906); el-Sheikh Ibada (Johnson - EEF, 1913-1914); Sedment (EEF, 1910; Petrie and Brunton -BSAE 1920-1921); Tarkhan (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1912-1913); Tarraneh (Griffith - EEF, 1887-1888); Athribis (Petrie - BSAE, 1907); Bubastis (Naville et al. - EEF, 1887-1889); Defenna (Petrie and Griffith - EEF, 1886-7); Heliopolis (Petrie - BSAE, 1911-1912); Nebesheh (Petrie and Griffith - EEF, 1886-1887); Tell el-Yahudiya (Petrie et al. - BSAE, 1906; EEF, 1884; Naville and Griffith- EEF, 1887-1888). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Queen's Road
Bristol,
BS8 1RL | FAX: | 0117 922 2047 | Telephone: | 0117 922 3571 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7159 | Go to resource |
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