- Wikidata identifier:
- Q198287
- Part of:
- Colchester + Ipswich Museums
- Instance of:
- castle; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 677
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q198287/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Iron Age and Roman Collection
Subjects
Archaeology
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds over 190 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffin; flints; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); pottery; shabtis; stone figure; stone vessels; textile; tools/weapons. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator and year of excavation given where possible): Cairo; Eastern desert (Seton-Karr, 1897-1899); Fayum; Gebelein; Tura; Thebes.
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeology; Egyptology
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC