New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In 1957 the Rev Professor John Bowman purchased several objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York on behalf of the University of Melbourne. These included two objects that were originally obtained through the Egypt Exploration Society: a Ptolemaic stela from Oxyrhynchus (1897) and a wall frieze fragment from Deir el-Bahari (1906).

Objects from Tell Dafana from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia were transferred to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. 

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Hayes, William C. 1959. The scepter of Egypt: a background for the study of the Egyptian antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art II. The Hyksos period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 BC). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

O'Connell, Elisabeth R. 2006. Ostraca from Western Thebes: provenance and history of the collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Columbia University. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 43, 113-137.

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New York
Metropolitian Museum of Art
Ian Potter Museum of Art University of Melbourne