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Description: | The museum holds approximately 1,387 ancient Egyptian objects which are spread across 23 collections within the museum.
Classes of objects represented in the Ancient Egyptian, Sudanese and Near Eastern Collection include: amulets; basketry; canopic jars; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; glass vessels; food/plant material; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments; offering tables; papyrus; pottery; inorganic material; relief sculpture; scarabs; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons.
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): Abu Ghurab; Abydos (including Garstang); Alexandria; Amarna (including Peet et al. - Egypt Exploration Society, 1921-1922; Frankfort and Pendlebury - Egypt Exploration Society, 1928-1929); Beni Hasan; Cairo; Fayum; Hierakonpolis; Memphis; Naqada; Saqqarah; Thebes (Luxor; Karnak).
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Sudan (with the name of the excavator and years of excavation): Jebel Moya (Wellcome, 1910-1914).
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in the Near East (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and years of excavation given): Tell Fara (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927-1930).
The collection also holds over 30 casts of sculpture and reliefs (including a 6 x 4 m cast of the Dendera Zodiac ceiling), as well as replica tools, modern models of an ancient Egyptian chariot and boats, and two dioramas (one of the Nile Basin system of irrigation and the other of an Alexandrian chemical workshop of about 1st century AD). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Egyptian history Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7942 4447 | Telephone: | 020 7942 4000 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7007 | Go to resource |
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