- Wikidata identifier:
- Q15123837
- Also known as:
- Paisley Museum and Art Galleries
- Part of:
- OneRen
- Instance of:
- museum; art museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum; Recognised collection
- Accreditation number:
- 476
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q15123837/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds 330 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic jars; coffins (including cartonnage fragments); coins; flints; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); musical instruments; pottery; ‘Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures’; scarabs; shabtis; shabti box; cosmetic palette; stone figures; stone vessels; textiles; toilet articles; tools/weapons; weights. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Amarna (Egypt Exploration Society); Badari (Brunton – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1924-1925); Ballas (Quibell and Petrie, 1895); Beni Hasan (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1902-1904, acquired from the Beni Hasan Excav. Committee in 1951); Fayum (British School of Archaeology in Egypt; donation 1954; no further details in records, but excavator probably Caton-Thompson); Lahun (Petrie); Qasr el-Sagha (Caton-Thompson – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1924-1925); Thebes.
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC