- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7900347
- Part of:
- University of Reading
- Instance of:
- university museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2015
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7900347/
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; funerary cone; jewellery; metal figures; animal remains (mummies); pottery; ‘Ptah-Sokar-Osiris’ figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures. The museum also possesses four casts of reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, given by S.W. Palmer in 1913. 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, including 1907); Akhmim; Defenneh (Petrie and Griffith – Egypt Exploration Fund, 1886); Dendereh (Petrie and Mace – Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897-1898); Esna (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1906); Gurob; Hu (Petrie and Mace – Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898-1899); Hierakonpolis (Garstang and Jones, 1906); Karanis; Memphis (Petrie and Mackay – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910); Meydum (Petrie et al. – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910); Naucratis; Thebes including Deir el-Bahari (1909 or earlier); Qurna (Petrie – British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909).
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC