Artefacts of Excavation

A list of objects from Warrington Museum is provided below. According to the Egypt Exploration Society's distribution lists the following were allocated to "Warrington Municipal Museum":

 

 

Selection of pottery, prehistoric

Slate palettes

Mirrorm 12th Dynasty

Scarabs D 29 b

2 glazed scarabs

Stone scarab

Bronze razor

Bronze kohl stick

Female figure, limestone

Glazed beads D.16

2 ushabtis D.48

Serpentine kohl pot, 12th Dynasty

Alabaster kohl pot, marble lid

Piece of porphyry bowl, prehistoric

3 masks & 2 hands from wooden coffin

3 feathers of wood

24 ushabtis

 

 

Mummy case, 20-21st Dynasty

Glazes

2 globular blue beads

4 fragments blue glaze

2 scarabs

1 eye scarab

2 oboids?

Small green glaze Hathor head

Rosettes

Bronze plaque with cow in relief

Plaque, Thutmoses III

2 blue glaze plaques

Straw beads

 

Coloured relief from Mentuhetep  temple

Deir el Bahari, 11th Dynast

Ptolemaic or Roman pottery

Naupratis or Daphnae

 

2 combs

Lamp

Sandal

Slipper 

Rags

Glass frogs

Baluster

Die

Decorated bone

Kohl stick

Fragment of bone bracelet

Copper ring

Wooden cover

Blue woollen sock for child

Reed pen

Copper implement

Cut leather shoe ornament

Pierced wood ornament

Beads

Copper bracelet

Spindle whorl 

Abydos

Ibis

 

According to the documentation access officer, Craig Sherwood, in 2012, the museum has "in the region of 203 objects or groups of objects from the EEF during that time. This breaks down into 6 separate deposits:

- In 1887 a group of 38 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us on the 12th December via EES founder Miss Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards. They came from various sites/excavations including Nebesha, San-el-Hagar, Tell el-Maskhuta and the temple at Tell Karmus,

- In 1888 a group of 17 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 17th May. They came from various sites/excavations including Tell el Yahudiyeh, Tell Dafana and Naukratis.

- In 1900 the largest group of 107 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3rd October. These came from excavations at Abydos between 1899 and 1900.

- In 1905 a group of 15 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 8th August. These came from excavations at the Temple of Montuhotep, Deir-el-Bahari.

- In 1911 a group of 2 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 7th June. These came from excavations at Naukratis, Tell Dafana and the Temple of Montuhotep at Deir-el-Bahari.

- In 1914 the final deposit of 24 objects (or groups of objects) were deposited with us by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 7th August. These came from excavations at Abydos and Antinoe.

As far as I know we have received no deposits from the British School of Archaeology in Egypt - all the above deposits are attributed to the EEF.

.... I have to note, with regret, that I see from my records that some of the objects listed have not been located in any recent audits. Presumably some have been discarded through deteriorating condition or have been misidentified or simply lost."