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Description: | The museum holds 464 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection.
Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); papyri; pottery; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stelae (stone); stone figures; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures.
Several of the items in the collection were reset as modern jewellery in the early 20th century. The collection also includes two volumes of photographs of Egyptian antiquities and sites, taken in Egypt in 1896-1897.
Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator and year of excavation given where possible): Amarna (Petrie, 1891-1892); Meir; Naqada (Petrie, 1894-1895); Salamieh; Thebes; Deir el-Bahari.
objects connected with the afterlife, faience beads. | Format: | 470 artefacts and objects | Subjects: | Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC) Antiquity Jewellery Early Dynastic Period (3000-2686 BC) Archaeological sites Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) Egyptology Death rites Souvenirs Archaeological objects Second Intermediate Period (1650-1550 BC) New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) Old Kingdom (2686-2125 BC) Predynastic Period (5300-3000 BC) First Intermediate Period (2160-2055 BC) Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC) Ancient civilizations Coptic or Byzantine Period (395-640 AD) Roman Period (30 BC - 395 AD) Late Period (664-332 BC) Archaeological excavations | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7091 | Format: | 470 artefacts and objects | Go to resource |
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