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Description: | -The Museum was founded on the collection of Egyptian antiquities formed by the 4th Duke of Northumberland in the mid 19th century and acquiried by the University in 1950. Mainly small objects of high quality including statuary, stone vessels and amulets and jewellery in faience, glass and metal and a comprehensive range of funerary stelai, enlarged by addition of items from the Wellcome Foundation and recent excavations at Saqqara, Qasr Ibrim and Buhen.The ancient Near East is represented by excavated material from Jerusalem, Jericho, Lachish, Ur and Nimrud and two reliefs, probably from Ninevah and a large collection of seals.
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