Artefacts of Excavation

According to the distribution lists held in the Egypt Exploration Society, Detroit Museum of Art was allocated the following:

Petrie (R.T.I)            1899-1900        sent 1900

Abydos

2 strings beads, carnelian & green glaze X84. prehist:

2 strings beads carnelian              XII

String beads blue, & mirror

29 ushabtis

(A.I)         1901-02              sent 1902

3 pots                                  prehist:

7 small pots                         0-I

Selection of flints                0-II

Fragment of slate palette     1st

Spindle whorl   LII

Coin-grinder

3 pots                                     XI

4 dishes

Granite fragment, cartouche of Usertsen II,  XII dyn

Cup                XIX

Limestone weight?

Fragment of alabaster weight?

Copper work                      XXVI

Ushabtis, Zedher & Peduasar      XXX

Pair of feathers

Vase                                           Ptolemaic

Grenfell            1901-02            sent 1902

The Fayum

Mummy woman, crocodile

Ivory & other beads

Pottery

Bronze bangles

​An email enquiry in 2012 to the museum confirmed there were at least 388 records associated with the Egypt Exploration Fund. The gifts  were accessioned in batches in 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, and 1991, with 10 not yet accessioned. An additional gift of five items came  via Mrs. William S. Conant, daughter of the "Honorary Secretary for Virginia" of the EEF, and were accessioned in 1921. Of these at least 145 were pottery vessels received in 1900.