- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5043222
- Also known as:
- Bishop's Palace, Abergwili, Carmarthenshire County Museum↵(formerly Bishop's Palace), Abergwili manor of Bishop of St Davids, Amgueddfa Sir Gaerfyrddin, Carmarthenshire County Museum
- Part of:
- Carmarthenshire County Council
- Instance of:
- regional museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1325
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5043222/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Portraits Collections
The collection includes oil portraits of: Carmarthenshire heroes: Generals Picton and Nott (in the Crown Court, Carmarthen. Portraits of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove (1640 – 1730. Portrait of the educational reformer, Bridget (Madam) Bevan and her niece Elizabeth Eleanor Lloyd, Lady Stepney by John Lewis. 1744. Portraits by significant Welsh artists including Hugh Hughes, Evan Walters, Edward Morland Lewis and Sir Kyffin Williams. The photographic collection includes a large number of portraits by John Francis Lloyd, Carmarthen 1900 – 1910.
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds 100-150 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; jewellery; pottery; ‘Ptah-Sokar-Osiris’ figures; relief sculpture (?); shabtis; toilet articles; weapons; wooden figures. 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): Abydos (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1906-1909); Esna (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones – 1905-1906). Also in the collection are photographs and original drawings by Jones.
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Egyptian history; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC