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Description: | The Fitzwilliam Museum holds one of the leading British collections of artifacts from Ancient Egypt, containing more than 16,000 items. Largely acquired in the first half of the 20th Century, especially through two large bequests of material from the well-known Egyptologists Greg and Gayer-Anderson, the collection covers an extensive range of materials relating to everyday life, religion, death and burial - including the mummified body of a young man.
Highlights of the collection include the massive granite sarcophagus lid of Ramses III, the nested and highly-decorated cartonnage coffins of Nespawershefyt, a Theban official, and the recently-conserved Papyrus of Ramose which contains an illustrated Book of the Dead. The museum also owns hundreds of smaller items such as scarabs, ostracons, amulets, beads, textiles, faience and pottery, kohl palettes and jars, shabtis, stele, weights, statues and the accoutrements of death such as offering tables, canopic jars and funerary masks.
The Egyptian collections are displayed over three galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum and include a timeline of Ancient Egypt as well as objects related to Egyptian contact with Christian, Islamic, Nubian, Roman and Greek societies. | Format: | physical | Subjects: | Ceramics Coffins Egyptian history Writing Textiles Religion Statues Everyday life Tombs Egyptology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8344 | Format: | physical | Go to resource |
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