Egypt
- Exhibition: Dawn Of Egyptian Art
Examiner.com (Sofia Ambrosia) With photos. Atlanta arts and antiquities lovers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art debuts its impressive new exhibitions entitled, The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening up the extensive collection to the press for a preview on...
- Penn Museum Collections Now Online
Penn Museum The diverse, internationally acclaimed Collection hails from six continents and spans the millennia, shedding light on the vast scope of human activity and achievement. The permanent building to house the field notes and artifacts came more...
- Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database
Penn Museum (Gabrielle Niu) Just this week, the Penn Museum launched its Online Collections Database. This brand new resource currently encompasses over 314,000 object records and is illustrated with 46,000 images, stats that are expected to increase...
- Richard Hodges Named Director Of University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Richard Hodges has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hodges will join Penn Oct. 1 from his position as director of the Institute of World Archaeology at...
- The Penn's Baby Boy Mummy
The fine people "In the Artifact Lab" at the Penn Museum have presented here a beautiful mummy of a boy and the studies which have taken place by them and earlier researchers. The unwrapped mummy was probably less than 2 years old when he died and likely...
Egypt
Exchange of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum of Art
Penn Museum (Pam Kosty)
When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator made one special request—for a temporary “exchange of prisoners.”
Metropolitan Museum’s curator of the exhibition and University of Pennsylvania alumna Diana Craig Patch requested 10 objects from the Penn Museum, one of which is a spectacular stone door socket carved in the form of a captive, regularly on view in the Penn Museum’s Upper Egyptian Gallery. With his body flattened to the ground and his hands bound behind, the figure on the door socket bears the unhappy likeness of a prisoner of Egypt under Pharaoh’s domination. Once, part of a temple at the ancient cult site of Hierakonpolis, a heavy wooden door turned on a pivot that would have fit into the depression on the captive’s back. The artifact dates to the first or second Egyptian dynasties—between 3000 and 2675 BCE.
- Exhibition: Dawn Of Egyptian Art
Examiner.com (Sofia Ambrosia) With photos. Atlanta arts and antiquities lovers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art debuts its impressive new exhibitions entitled, The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening up the extensive collection to the press for a preview on...
- Penn Museum Collections Now Online
Penn Museum The diverse, internationally acclaimed Collection hails from six continents and spans the millennia, shedding light on the vast scope of human activity and achievement. The permanent building to house the field notes and artifacts came more...
- Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database
Penn Museum (Gabrielle Niu) Just this week, the Penn Museum launched its Online Collections Database. This brand new resource currently encompasses over 314,000 object records and is illustrated with 46,000 images, stats that are expected to increase...
- Richard Hodges Named Director Of University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Richard Hodges has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hodges will join Penn Oct. 1 from his position as director of the Institute of World Archaeology at...
- The Penn's Baby Boy Mummy
The fine people "In the Artifact Lab" at the Penn Museum have presented here a beautiful mummy of a boy and the studies which have taken place by them and earlier researchers. The unwrapped mummy was probably less than 2 years old when he died and likely...