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Description: | The museum holds 2,300 ancient Egyptian, Sudanese and Near Eastern objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; coffins; coins; faience figures; flints; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments; offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; relief sculpture; sarcophagi (fragments); scarabs; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; 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): Abusir; Abydos (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1921-1922); Amarna (Peet and Woolley - Egypt Exploration Society, 1921-1922; Frankfort and Pendlebury - Egypt Exploration Society, 1926-1936); Beni Hasan (Garstang - Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Deir Mawas area in Middle Egypt; Cairo; Dahshur; Esna; Fayum (Caton-Thompson and Gardner - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1924-1926; possibly also Caton-Thompson and Gardner - Royal Anthropological Institute, 1928); Gerzeh (Petrie, et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-1911); Hawara (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-1911; Helwan; Gurob (Brunton and Engelbach - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1920-1921); Mazghunah (Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-1911); Meydum (possibly Petrie et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909-1910 based on accession date of 1912); Naucratis; Saft el-Henna (Duncan et al. - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1905-1906); Sheikh el-Tainai(?); Sedment (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1920-1921); Thebes; Luxor.
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Sudan (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Amara West (probably Fairman - Egypt Exploration Society, 1938-1939 and/or Shinnie - Egypt Exploration Society, 1947-1950); Meroe (possibly Garstang - Liverpool University, 1910-1912); Sesebi (Blackman - Egypt Exploration Society, 1936-1937); Wadi Halfa.
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in the Near East (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Tell Fara (Petrie - British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927-1930).
The collection also includes documentation of a visit to Egypt by Captain Dawson, 1920Ã's; cast of a relief from Kom Ombo; early 19th century cast of the Rosetta Stone; painted copies of wall-paintings in the tombs of Menna and Djeserkareseneb (Qurna), Amonherkhopshef and Khaemwaset (Valley of the Queens), and Sennedjem and Pashedu (Deir el-Medina). | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0141 330 3617 | Telephone: | 0141 339 8855 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7090 | Go to resource |
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