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Description: | The museum holds approximately 16,000 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic boxes; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant materials; foundation deposits; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; mummies (animal); mummies (human); musical instruments; offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; slate palettes; soul houses; stelae (stone); stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wall paintings; 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 (ERA and Brunton); Abydos (EEF, 1888-9, 1897-1904, 1909-13; EES, 1925-6; ERA, 1900, 1902, 1904; BSAE, 1921-2); Alexandria; el-Amarna (EEF 1888-9, EES, 1921-5, 1928-9, 1930-6, 1963, 1983-4); Armant (EEF, 1888-9; EEF, 1929-31, 1939; EES, 1940); el-Badari (BSAE, 1923-6; EEF, 1924-5); el-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) (BSAE; EEF, 1903-5); Ballas (ERA, 1895); Beit Khallaf (ERA, 1901, 1908; EEF, 1888-9, 1899-1904, 1909); Beni Hasan (Garstang); Biahmu; Cairo; Dendera (EEF, 1897-8); Edfu; Esna (LU [Garstang], 1905-6); Fayum (BSAE, 1923-6; Umm es-Sawan Ã- Royal Anthropological Society, 1928); Gerza (BSAE, 1910-11, 1913-14); Ghita (BSAE, 1905-6); Giza (inc. BSAE, 1907); Hammamiya (BSAE, 1923-26); Harageh (BSAE, 1913-4); Hawara (Petrie, 1888-9; BSAE [Petrie], 1910-11); Hu (Diospolis Parva) (EEF, 1897-9); Ihnasya el-Medina (Herakleopolis Magna) (EEF, 1899-1901, 1903-4, 1909-10); el-Kab (ERA, 1897-9); Kom el-Ahmar (Hierakonpolis) (ERA, 1898); Kom Medinet Ghurab (Gurob) (Petrie, 1888; ERA, 1903-4; BSAE, 1920-1); el-Lahun (inc. ÃKahunÃ') (Petrie, 1888-90; BSAE, 1913-14); el-Mahasna (EEF, 1909); Mallawi (Robinow collection, 1895-6); el-Matmar (Brunton, 1930-1); Mazguna (BSAE, 1910-1); Memphis (Mit Rahina) (BSAE); Meydum; el-Mustagidda (Brunton, 1927-9); Naqada; Naukratis; Nazlet el-Shurafa (BSAE, 1911-2); Qarara (EEF, 1902-3); Qasr Ibrim (EES); Qaw el-Kebir (Antaeopolis) (BSAE, 1923-4); Qift (Koptos) (Petrie, 1893-4); el-Rataba (BSAE, 1906); Rifa (BSAE, 1906-7); el-Riqqa (BSAE, 1912-4); Sa el-Hagar (Sais) (Robinow collection, 1895-6); Saft el-Henna (Goshen); Saft el-Khammar (BSAE, 1922); San el-Hagar (Tanis); Saqqara (EEF, 1888-9; EES, 1956, 1968-72); Serabit el-Khadim (EEF, 1905); el-Sheikh Ibada (Antinoë) (EEF 1888-9, 1912-4); Sidmant (EEF, 1909-10; BSAE, 1920-1); Tarkhan (BSAE, 1911-3); Tell Atrib (Athribis); Tell Basta (Bubastis) (EEF, 1887-9); Tell Hisn (Heliopolis) (BSAE, 1911-2); Tell el-Yahudiya (BSAE, 1906); Thebes (inc. Deir el-Bahari [EEF, 1894-1910]; Qurna [BSAE]; Ramesseum); Tuna el-Gebel; Zaraby; Zowyeh.
Sudan: Buhen (EES); Faras (Oxford Excav. in Nubia, 1911-3); Kerma; Kostamneh (Garstang); el-Kurru; Sanam (Oxford Excav. in Nubia, 1912-3); Sesebi (EEF, 1888-9; EES, 1936). Palestine: Tell el-Fara (Beth Pelet) (BSAE 1927-30); Tell el-Ajjul (Gaza) (BSAE [Petrie], 1930-2); Tell Jemma (BSAE 1926-7). | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester,
M13 9PL | FAX: | 0161 275 2676 | Telephone: | 0161 275 2634 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7358 | Go to resource |
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