Egypt
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- Reader In The Sands Of Time
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- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
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Egypt
The Petrie Museum: Pre-historic Egyptian pot from 3400 BC found in Cornish garage
A couple in Cornwall contacted the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology regarding a broken pot in their garage, after seeing a television documentary.
Watching The Man Who Discovered Egypt, about pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, they were reminded of a small black-topped vessel, around 15cm high and complete with a yellowing label, which had been forgotten about for years.
Curator Alice Stevenson was then able to match the number 1754, visible on the base of the pot and the label, to grave records from Petrie’s excavations in Naqada during the 1890s, now held in the museum’s archives.
The pot had previously belonged to the finder’s grandfather, a taxi driver in the High Wickham area in the 1950s, and is believed to have been offered as payment by a mystery passenger, in place of the standard fare.
Petrie Curator Alice Stevenson said:
“We don’t know what the pot was originally used for but it may have had a different function in daily life, such as holding a liquid like beer, before being re-used as a tomb offering.
“Petrie’s discoveries were widely distributed to museums across Europe and the US but some items found their way into private hands. The fact that effort was put into printing and designing a label suggests that this was not a one off, so it’s possible that many other artefacts from prehistoric Egypt might be unknowingly concealed in garages, cupboards and attics.
“The pot is particularly significant as it marks the discovery of a new era in Egyptology – not really known about at the time of excavation. The unusual nature of such pots such as this one, led Petrie to be the first to define the Predynastic Egyptian era, the period before the pharaohs.”
The pot is now being conserved by the museum and will go on display with other objects from the same grave as part of the Festival of Pots, an exhibition and public events programme celebrating the 25 years of the Friends of the Petrie Museum, 20 May-14 June.
Photo: The Petrie Museum
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Photo: The Petrie Museum
Press Release
- Lowe Art Museum Shows "excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries" From The Petrie Museum
Art Knowledge News Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,University College, London, is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from June 28th through November 2nd, 2008. The major traveling exhibition...
- Publication Appeal: Unseen Images
Friends of the Petrie Museum I am very attached to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (London, U.K.), so here's a ruthless appeal on the behalf of their forthcoming publication, which looks like an excellent enterprise. An appeal for the publication...
- Exhibition: Petrie In The Us
http://tinyurl.com/ndsoo (Rocky Mountain News) An article about the Excavating Egypt exhibition based on the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, and the items from his collection currently touring the US: "The 27-year-old British archaeologist was...
- Reader In The Sands Of Time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html "He liked to work in his underpants and ate only from tins, but Flinders Petrie changed the face of archaeology". Joyce Tyldesley writing about Sir William Flinders Petrie, who transformed archaeological...
- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
The British Museum is creating an online catalogue of Sir Flinders Petrie's finds from the ancient Egyptian Greek trading post of Naukratis. Petrie excavated the city in the mid 1880's and collected more than ten thousand artifacts from the smashed...