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Description: | The castle holds approximately 500 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; coins; concubine figures; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; foundation deposits; furniture (fragments only); glass vessels; relief sculpture; jewellery; metal figures; musical instruments (clappers); papyri; pottery; scarabs; shabtis; stone figures; stelae (fragment); stone vessels; tiles (fragments only); toilet articles; tools and weapons (archery equipment).
The collection also includes excavation and other photographs and manuscript material relating to Carnarvon-Carter seasons.
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): Saqqarah; Tell el-Balamun (Carnarvon and Carter, 1913); Thebes (Carnarvon and Carter, 1907-1920) including Deir el-Bahari; Dra AbuÃ'l-Naga; Valley of the Kings, tomb of Amenhotep III (WV 22) (Carnarvon-Carter, 1915). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1635 255315 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1635 253204 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7347 | Go to resource |
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