The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections 

format: 255x192mm

Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-910634-04-2

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, the Museum holds more than 80,000 objects and is one of the largest and finest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, the book moves back and forth between recent history and the ancient past, between objects and people. Experts discuss the discovery, history and care of key objects in the collections such as the Koptos lions and Roman era panel portraits. The rich and varied history of the Petrie Museum is revealed by the secrets that sit on its shelves. 

About the author

Alice Stevenson is the Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL. She was previously Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Her academic specialisation is Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian archaeology, but she has a broad range of interests including the history of archaeology, anthropology and museums. She has written and co-edited many works.

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Egypt, Cairo, Egyptian Museum, an ostracon showing a goddess holding a sun disk with a child inside.

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Drawing of a Ramesside King and Two Standing Figures
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Davis excavations, before 1913
Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914 (14.6.191)

TT181, the tomb of Nebamon and Ipuky

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The women, in a state close to hysteria, give the impression of extreme sadness, and the artist worked so well this fairly new theme in Egyptian craftsmanship that it is possible to think of the...m being agitated in all senses and that their howling can be heard (as still heard at the time of the funerals in Arabic countries nowadays). This taste for over-emphasis and complication can still be found during the Ramesside period. The men, who are seated with their arms wrapped around their knees, seem to be a thousand miles from all this agitation, almost indifferent. According to Sweeney, it refers to a social convention: the men don't have to show their tribulation in public. All of this activity takes place on the roof of the cabin, possibly made necessary by the lack of space. This lack is because a crew is represented, with rowers, a helmsman, a man of prow announcing the direction to take according to the sandbars, and a man at the stern, standing in a very decorative structure

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TT181, the tomb of Nebamon and Ipuky

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Merefnebef

La scène de chasse aux oiseaux prend place dans un cadre de 1,48m de large et 1,18m de haut. Elle est remarquable de par la préservation miraculeuse de sa polychromie, qui donne une idée de la chatoyance que devait avoir toute la pièce à l'origine.
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On peut subdiviser la scène en trois : au centre, Merefnebef sur son bateau ; devant lui, le marais ; derrière lui, des porteurs d'offrandes.

 La tombe de Merefnebef a été découverte en 1997 sur le site de Saqqara par une équipe du Centre d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l'université de Varsovie, dirigée par le Pr Karol Myśliwiec. La découverte succédait à deux années de travail de repérage sur le terrain, notamment géophysique, suivi de sondages.

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