- Wikidata identifier:
- Q113369734
- Also known as:
- Bournemouth Natural Science Society & Museum
- Instance of:
- membership organization; voluntary association; educational organization
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2326
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q113369734/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The society’s museum holds approximately 370 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; faience figures; flints; funerary cones; glass vessels; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); ostraca; papyri; pottery; ‘Ptah-Sokar-Osiris’ figures; relief sculpture; scarabs; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textile/leather; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures. The collection also includes a cast of the Rosetta Stone, a set of original Belzoni prints, glass half-plate negatives of Egyptian monuments from c. 1900, and a cast of a relief of Thutmose III. Objects are known to have come from the following location in Egypt: Aswan.
Subjects
Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC); Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Roman Period (30 BC); Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC); Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Late Period (664-332 BC); New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC); Predynastic Period (5300-3000 BC)
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC