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Description: | The museum holds approximately 4,000 ancient Egyptian, Sudanese and Near Eastern objects.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant material; foundation depositis; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments; offering tables; ostraca; paintings; papyri; pottery; ÃPtah-Sokar-OsirisÃ' figures; relief sculpture; sarcophagi (stone); 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; 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): Abu Roash; Abydos; Alexandria; Aswan; Oxyrhynchus; Beni Hasan; Denderah; Dimai (Soknopaiou Nesos, in Fayum); Esna; Fustat; Harageh; Hawara; Helwan; Hu (Diospolis Parva); Ehnasya; Kafr Ammar; Gurob; Kamoula (near Thebes); Korosko; Lahun (Kahun); Mahasna; Memphis; Naqada; Naucratis; Shurafa; Raqaqnah; Rifeh; Riqqah; Tanis; Saqqara; Seila; el-Sheikh Ibada (Antinoë); Sinai (Wadi Maghara; Serabit el-Khadim); Tarkhan; Tarraneh (Terenuthis); Tell Basta (Bubastis); Defenneh; Tell Hisn (Heliopolis); Nebesheh; Tell el-Suelin; Tell el-Yahudiya; Thebes (inc. Asasif; Deir-el-Bahari; Deir el-Medina; Karnak; Luxor; Qurna; Ramesseum; Valley of the Kings, tomb of Seti I); Tuna el-Gebel; Wadi Sojur; unknown.
Palestina Tell el-Ajjul (Gaza) (BSAE [Petrie]).
Sudan inc. Kostamneh | Subjects: | Antiquities Ancient civilizations Antiquity Archaeological sites Archaeological objects Egyptology Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Art Gallery & Museum
Kelvingrove
Glasgow,
G3 8AG | FAX: | 0141 287 2690 | Telephone: | 0141 287 2600 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7363 | Go to resource |
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