- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7653706
- Also known as:
- Amgueddfa Abertawe
- Instance of:
- museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 283
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7653706/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds 200 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins; faience figures; flints; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); ostraca; pottery; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stone figures; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wall paintings; 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): Akhmim; Aswan; Asyut; Beni Hasan (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Esna (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Fustat; Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Saqqarah; Bubastis; Thebes; Valley of the Kings (KV 55, Davies and Ayrton, 1907). The collection includes drawings by Henry Wallis of the tomb of Sarenput at Aswan and a facsimile of wall-paintings from a tomb (three panels from 1880’s); also casts and old photographs taken in the Valley of the Kings, c. 1900(?), stamped ‘H. Burton Florence’.
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC