Truro, Museum
Current name(s) of destination(s):
Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum
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The Royal Museum in Cornwall first aquired Egyptian finds in early 1904 after responding to John Garstang's advert in the Times newspaper which offered finds from Beni Hasan. On receipt of these the RCM seems to have sought to build up their Egyptian collection through the Egypt Exploration Fund [with thanks to Bryony Smerdon for the information].
According to the Egypt Exploration Society's distribution lists the following were allocated to Truro Museum:
Petrie, 1903-04 (sent 1904)
Flint weapon
Scarab, broken
Hook, bronze, Roman
2 pieces of combs
Plaster sealing
Weight, bronze
Handle, bronze
Figure of Bes
Beads, green glaze
Palette, slate
Capital
15 lamps
15 figures & heads, terracotta
12 vases
12 vases, Sedment, 18th Dynasty
Grenfell, 1903-04 (sent 1904)
Reed pens, Roman
Leather tassel
3 draughtsmen
3 pieces of ivory carving
7 dice
2 combs, wood
Bead, glass
7 hairpins
Peg, wood
Comb, bone
An email from Margaret Morgan, Documentation Officer in 2012 confirmed that:
"The Royal Institution of Cornwall (the governing body of the Royal Cornwall Museum) received 93 objects from the Egypt Exploration Society, all in 1904. They have the accession number 1904.29.1- 81.There were 93 objects in all: 56 from Ihnasya, 23 from Oxyrhynchus, 13 from Sidment, and one unprovenanced."
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