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Description: | The strength of the whole collection lies in the Egyptian material and this originates predominantly from excavations conducted in the early 20th century by Prof. John Garstang and Sir Robert Mond on behalf of the former Institute of Archaeology at Liverpool University. The collections from Egyptian sites include a large group of material from Abydos (1906-09) and Subsidiary excavation material from Barabit (1908), antiquities from Beni Hasan (1902-04), Hierakonpolis town and fort (1905), Esna (1906), a large collection of antiquities from Meroe (1909-14) excavated with Walter S. George & Phythian-Adams, objects from Neqada - Royal Tomb (1905) and various sites in the Sudan excavated by Garstang. The Egyptian collections contain mainly ceramics, stone, faience containers and other small objects excavated from domestic or burial sites and dating from the late Predynastic to Graeco-Roman period.
The extensive collections held by the Department of Archaeology are formed around a core of Eastern Mediterranean material acquired during excavations in 1904-1914 by the former Liverpool Institute of Archaeology (which became part of the University in 1948). The main archaeology collection includes c.22,000 items of the third to first millennium BC from Egypt and the Sudan, c.7,000 items from western Asia, c.1000 Greek/Roman items, mainly from the Classical world, together with a smaller amount of prehistoric material from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age.
Material from Near Eastern sites includes antiquities derived in Jericho from Garstang' s excavations (1930-1936) and those from Jericho and Jerusalem excavated in the late 1950s/early 1960s by Miss Kathleen Kenyon on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
The Classical collections originate from a wide range of sites including:
Alexandria, Cyprus, Arcadia Tripolis, near Arezzo (Tuscany, Italy), Asia Minor, Athens, Bengazi (Lybia), Crete, Cyprus, Estruscan, Macedonia, Mycenae, Rome, Thebes (Egypt), Tripolis Arcdia, Troy and Vasiliki.
British material originates from several sites in Chester, Barclodiad y Gawres, Birkenhead Priory, Birkenhead Park, Brough, Caerleon, Heronbridge, Little Chart, Melandra Castle, Mellor Moor, Ribchester, Richborough, Storrs Moss and West Derby plus Colchester, Cirencester Crosby, Dorking, Folkestone, Ramsgate, Leicester and the City of London.
Key collections of both the Classical and prehistoric collections are those of Professor Bosanquet, Professor.Droop, and Mr. R. W. Hutchinson. There are also various coins in the Barnard and Chevasse collections. | Subjects: | Archaeology Ancient Egypt | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 14 Abercromby Square
Liverpool,
L69 7WZ | FAX: | 0151 794 2226 | Telephone: | 0151 794 2467 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2358 | Go to resource |
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