Egypt
- Museums: Interview With The Petrie's Stephen Quirk
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) Dr Stephen Quirke is a lecturer of Egyptology at University College London, and curator of the Petrie Museum, named after the famous archaeologist William Flinders Petrie. Dr Quirke has written several books on Ancient Egypt;...
- Daily Photo - Hawara Mummy Portraits (petrie Museum)
The mummy portraits are lovely. It is almost impossible not to fall for them when you are face to face with the real thing, even if the Graeco-Roman period isn't really your field. Unlike the Pharaonic mummy masks these really make you feel that you...
- Daily Photo - Basketry At The Petrie Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the most fascinating museums in London (and one which seems to be very little known even amongst real Egyptology enthusiasts) has an online database of its complete collection. Here are some examples of...
- Living Images Book Launch - Comment On Phrenology
Otralala The authors of “Living images – Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum” each spoke, giving context to the writing of the book and to the portraits themselves. The portraits were discovered while Flinders Petrie was looking for...
- Illahun, Kahun And Gurob
Illahun, Kahun and Gurob http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DT73.I3P5_cop2 This 1889-90 archaeological report by W. M. Flinders Petrie along with the 1890 report Kahun, Gurob and Hawara document a very important season in the...
Egypt
New Book: Living Images (Hawara portraits)
A new book has been announced, which will be officially launched on Friday 26th October 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London (U.K.): Living Images - Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke and Paul C. Roberts.
The book is deidcated to the memory of Barbara Adams, and presents the corpus of Roman period paintings discovered by Petrie in his excavtions at Hawara.
The book is deidcated to the memory of Barbara Adams, and presents the corpus of Roman period paintings discovered by Petrie in his excavtions at Hawara.
The paintings were discovered by Petrie at Hawara, at the entrance to the Faiyum Depression to the south west of Cairo, and have been cared for by UCL for over 100 years. Articles describe the process of finding the mummies, discuss the place of funerary assemblages in the context of Egyptian burial customs, offer an introduction ot Egyptian potrait painting and explain some of the conservation issues. Contributors include Paul Roberts, Stephen Quirke, Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Lin Spaabaeck and Richard and Helena Jaeschke. Original contributions are also included from Petrie and the late Barbara Adams.
You can order the book from the Petrie Museum, Oxbow Books, Amazon, and other book retailers.
To see some of the Hawara portraits online, see the Hawara Portrait page on the Petrie Museum website. Click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized image.
- Museums: Interview With The Petrie's Stephen Quirk
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) Dr Stephen Quirke is a lecturer of Egyptology at University College London, and curator of the Petrie Museum, named after the famous archaeologist William Flinders Petrie. Dr Quirke has written several books on Ancient Egypt;...
- Daily Photo - Hawara Mummy Portraits (petrie Museum)
The mummy portraits are lovely. It is almost impossible not to fall for them when you are face to face with the real thing, even if the Graeco-Roman period isn't really your field. Unlike the Pharaonic mummy masks these really make you feel that you...
- Daily Photo - Basketry At The Petrie Museum
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, one of the most fascinating museums in London (and one which seems to be very little known even amongst real Egyptology enthusiasts) has an online database of its complete collection. Here are some examples of...
- Living Images Book Launch - Comment On Phrenology
Otralala The authors of “Living images – Egyptian funerary portraits in the Petrie Museum” each spoke, giving context to the writing of the book and to the portraits themselves. The portraits were discovered while Flinders Petrie was looking for...
- Illahun, Kahun And Gurob
Illahun, Kahun and Gurob http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DT73.I3P5_cop2 This 1889-90 archaeological report by W. M. Flinders Petrie along with the 1890 report Kahun, Gurob and Hawara document a very important season in the...