Egypt
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
So good to see Campbell Price making real use of this blog.
- Making Ancient Egyptian Faience
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. Yesterday, I joined a team from the Caer Alyn Archaeological Heritage Project (CAAHP) as they attempted to recreate the ancient Egyptian art of faience production. Faience is a glazed non-clay...
- Object Biography #3: A Female Figurine From The ‘magician’s Tomb’
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. An extraordinary object. This wooden figurine (20.2 cm high) is among Manchester Museum’s most discussed Egyptian objects. It represents a naked female, with the face of a lion and...
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) On Saturday, I met up with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC) to do a spot of hieroglyph translation. For the session, I chose this short text on an object currently displayed in the Museum’s Discovery...
- Texts In Translation #1: The Heart Scarab Of Na-her-hu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Campbell Price continues to do an excellent job of making Egyptian objects more accessible to the general public on the Manchester Museum blog. With a photograph of the inscription on the scarab. Visitors...
- Manchester Museum And Its Relationship With Local People
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Campbell Price is the the new Curator of Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, taking over from Karen Exell, who has taken up a teaching post with UCL in Qatar. (to read more about him see his introductory...
Egypt
Object Biography #1: A vessel naming Nesi-khonsu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
So good to see Campbell Price making real use of this blog.
Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds galleries. Many of the objects in the collection have incredible stories behind them but, due to an inevitable lack of space, these cannot be included fully in gallery labels or text panels. We aim to tell some of these stories – or “object biographies” – in digital content to accompany the new displays.
This small cup is only 6.75 cms in height but is made of eye-catching bright blue faience, or glazed composition ceramic. The hieroglyphs name Nesi-khonsu, wife of the Twenty-first Dynasty ruler Pinedjem II. She is given the title “first in charge of the musical troupe of Amun” (tA wrt-xnrt tp n imn) – a group of female musicians who entertained the deity in his temple at Karnak.
- Making Ancient Egyptian Faience
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. Yesterday, I joined a team from the Caer Alyn Archaeological Heritage Project (CAAHP) as they attempted to recreate the ancient Egyptian art of faience production. Faience is a glazed non-clay...
- Object Biography #3: A Female Figurine From The ‘magician’s Tomb’
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. An extraordinary object. This wooden figurine (20.2 cm high) is among Manchester Museum’s most discussed Egyptian objects. It represents a naked female, with the face of a lion and...
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) On Saturday, I met up with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC) to do a spot of hieroglyph translation. For the session, I chose this short text on an object currently displayed in the Museum’s Discovery...
- Texts In Translation #1: The Heart Scarab Of Na-her-hu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Campbell Price continues to do an excellent job of making Egyptian objects more accessible to the general public on the Manchester Museum blog. With a photograph of the inscription on the scarab. Visitors...
- Manchester Museum And Its Relationship With Local People
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) Campbell Price is the the new Curator of Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, taking over from Karen Exell, who has taken up a teaching post with UCL in Qatar. (to read more about him see his introductory...