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Description: | The museum holds approximately 5,600 ancient Egyptian, Sudanese and Near Eastern objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic boxes; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant material; foundation deposits; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments (including sistra); offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; cosmetic 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): Abydos [Petrie (EEF), 1901-3; Naville & Peet (EEF), 1908-13; Petrie (BSAE), 1921-2]; Amarna [Petrie (private), 1891-2; Peet (EES), 1921-2; Pendlebury (EES), 1933]; Armant [Myers (private), 1936-38]; Atfih [Johnson (EEF), 1911]; Badari [Petrie (BSAE), 1923-4]
Beni Hasan [Garstang (private), 1902-4]; Deir el-Ballas [Petrie (private), 1895];Dendereh [Petrie (EEF), 1897-8]; el-Fayum [Hogarth (EEF), 1895-6; Grenfell & Hunt (EEF), 1897-1907; Petrie (BSAE) 1926]; Gizeh [Dixon (private), 1872; plus unprovenanced, acq. 1941]; Gurob [Petrie (BSAE), 1919-21]; Harageh [Petrie (BSAE), c. 1912-4]; Hawara [Petrie (private), 1888-9; Petrie (BSAE) 1910-11]; Hemamieh [Petrie (BSAE), 1924]; El-Hibeh [Grenfell & Hunt (EEF), 1902-3]; Kafr Ammar (Tarkhan) Petrie (BSAE), 1911-12]; Kom el-Ahmar (Hieraconpolis) [Quibell (ERA), 1898]; Hu (Diospolis Parva) [Petrie (EEF), 1898-9]; Ehnasya [Peet (EEF), 1909-10]; Lahun [Petrie (BSAE), 1921]; Mahasneh [Garstang (EEF), 1903; Ayrton & Loat (EEF), 1908-9]; Memphis [Petrie (BSAE), 1908];Meydum [Petrie (BSAE), 1909-10]; Naqada [Petrie (private), 1895]; Naucratis [Petrie (EEF), 1885]; Oxyrhynchus [Grenfell & Hunt (EEF), 1898-1907]; Qarareh [Grenfell & Hunt (EEF), 1902-3]; Qasr Ibrim [Emery (UNESCO), 1961]; Qau (Antaeopolis) [Petrie (BSAE), 1923-4]; Rifeh [Petrie (BSAE), 1906-7]; Riqqeh [Petrie (BSAE), 1912-3]; Rubayat [Petrie (EEF), 1889-90]; Saqqara [Emery (EES), 1969]; Serabit el-Khadim [Petrie (EEF), 1904-5]; el-Sheikh Abada (Antinoë) [Johnson (EEF), 1913-1914]; Shurafa [Petrie (BSAE), 1911]; Sedment [Petrie (EEF), 1903-1904; Peet (EEF), 1909-10; Petrie (BSAE), 1920-21]; Tanis [Petrie (EEF), 1884-6; Montet (Mission Francaise), 1929-40]; Tell Atrib (Athribis) [Petrie (BSAE), 1907]; Tell Basta (Bubastis) [Naville (EEF), 1886)]; Tell Defeneh (Daphnae) [Petrie (EEF), 1886]; Tell el-Farain (Buto) [Seton-Williams (EES), 1964-9]; Tell Nebesheh [Petrie (EEF), 1886]; Tell el-Retabeh [Petrie (BSAE), 1906]; Tell Sheilim [Petrie (EEF), 1886]; Tell el-Suelin [Petrie (EEF), 1883]; Tell el-Yahudiyeh [Naville & Griffith (EEF), 1887]; Thebes [Rhind (private), 1857; Petrie (private), 1895-6; Grenfell (private), 1919-20]; inc. Deir el-Bahri [Naville (EEF),1903-7], Qurneh [Petrie (BSAE), 1908-9], Valley of the Kings [Carter (private)]; Tukh el-Qaramus [Naville & Griffith (EEF), 1887]; Wadi el-Sheikh [Seton-Karr, 1895-6].
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): Amareh West [Fairman (EES), 1938-9]; Faras [Griffith (Uni. Oxford), 1910-12]; Meroë [Garstang (Uni. Liverpool), 1909-14]
Objects are known to have come from the following location in the Near East (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given): Tell el-Ajjul [Petrie (BSAE), 1937]. | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Chambers Street
Edinburgh,
EH1 1JF | FAX: | 0131 220 4819 | Telephone: | 0131 225 7534 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7362 | Go to resource |
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