Egypt
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.
- Egypt At The Manchester Museum
Egypt at the Manchester Museum There have been a number of updates by Campbell Price in the last couple of weeks. Have a look at the above page to find out more about the following topics: Curator’s Diary 10/7/12: Pagans, Christians and Muslims –...
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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...
- Video: Scarabs In Ancient Egypt
Egypt at the Manchester Museum blog (Campbell Price) In preparation for the opening of our Ancient World Galleries, I spoke to our entomologist Dr. Dmitri Luganov about the habits of the scarab beetle and its significance in Ancient Egypt. Just over...
- Object Biography From Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum Blog (Campbell Price) 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...
- 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...
Egypt
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 sometimes comment that they would like to have access to translations of the hieroglyphic texts that appear on some of our Egyptian and Sudanese objects. We aim to provide these as a digital resource to complement the new Ancient Worlds galleries, and I will post them here as time – and work – allows. On a recent visit to the Museum, a group called Forever Young expressed a particular liking for this text, so it seemed a good place to start.
This spell is of a type usually carved on the underside of amulets known as Heart Scarabs. This example dates to the later New Kingdom (c. 1320-1069 BC), and belonged to a scribe named Na-her-hu. This is a shortened version of Spell (or ‘Chapter’) 30B of the Book of the Dead: slightly different versions are sometimes included in papyrus copies of the Book.
- Egypt At The Manchester Museum
Egypt at the Manchester Museum There have been a number of updates by Campbell Price in the last couple of weeks. Have a look at the above page to find out more about the following topics: Curator’s Diary 10/7/12: Pagans, Christians and Muslims –...
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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...
- Video: Scarabs In Ancient Egypt
Egypt at the Manchester Museum blog (Campbell Price) In preparation for the opening of our Ancient World Galleries, I spoke to our entomologist Dr. Dmitri Luganov about the habits of the scarab beetle and its significance in Ancient Egypt. Just over...
- Object Biography From Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum Blog (Campbell Price) 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...
- 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...