Egypt
- 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 –...
- 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...
- 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...
- Egyptian Archaeology 39
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 39 EA 39 (Autumn 2011) was published in early November 2011. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’, ‘Bookshelf’ and items of EES news, the issue includes the second in the series...
- Manchester Museum Curator’s Diary, 7th January 2009
Egypt at the Manchester Museum Just before Christmas we installed a small display of amulets on the Afterlife gallery - the djed-pillar amulet on the right is one of the amulets on display. Work continues at the Museum on the new Manchester Gallery, due...
Egypt
Why do museums collect… shabtis?
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
One of the most popular and ubiquitous items of ancient Egyptian funerary equipment is the small servant figurine – or shabti. Most museums with an Egyptian collection, however small, include at least one or two of these figurines. At the Manchester Museum, we have over 1000 complete and fragmentary examples. These are currently being studied by shabti expert Glenn Janes in preparation for a book in his series cataloguing the shabti collections of museums in the North West of England. So, why are shabtis so popular and why have so many of them ended up in museum collections?
A major reason is simply because so many shabtis were produced.
- 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 –...
- 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...
- 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...
- Egyptian Archaeology 39
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 39 EA 39 (Autumn 2011) was published in early November 2011. In addition to regular features such as ‘Digging Diary’, ‘Bookshelf’ and items of EES news, the issue includes the second in the series...
- Manchester Museum Curator’s Diary, 7th January 2009
Egypt at the Manchester Museum Just before Christmas we installed a small display of amulets on the Afterlife gallery - the djed-pillar amulet on the right is one of the amulets on display. Work continues at the Museum on the new Manchester Gallery, due...