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Description: | The society's museum holds approximately 370 ancient Egyptian objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; flints; funerary cones; glass vessels; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textile/leather; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
The collection also includes a cast of the Rosetta Stone, a set of original Belzoni prints, glass half-plate negatives of Egyptian monuments from c. 1900, and a cast of a relief of Thutmose III.
Objects are known to have come from the following location in Egypt: Aswan | Subjects: | Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC) Ancient civilizations Antiquity Roman Period (30 BC - 395 AD) Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) Archaeological objects Egyptology Late Period (664-332 BC) New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) Predynastic Period (5300-3000 BC) | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Telephone: | 01202 553525 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7837 | Go to resource |
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