The museum at Johns Hopkins was established in 1882 with the intention of using ancient objects in teaching Greece, Rome, and the Near East. In 1884, a collection of Egyptian objects was donated by a local collector, Colonel Mendes Israel Cohen. A large number of objects from the Egypt Exploration Funds excavations from 1905-18 were acquired on behalf of the Museum by James Teackle Dennis, a Baltimore native who volunteered on Naville's Egypt Exploration Fund excavations at Deir el Bahri.
Notes on distribution:
According to the Egypt Exploration Society distribution register the following were allocated to John Hopkins:
Naville 1905-06 sent 1906
Deir el Bahri
Crocodile catching fish XI
Hen hieroglyph
1906-07 sent 1907
Roman mummy
2 fragments of stele
Do. Fine hieroglyphs
2 large graffiti
Fragment of inscription
Fragment of stelae
To show the method of cutting - a fragment of sort wood
1908-1909
El Mahasna (predynastic)
H5G (cat.p.9) stone vase
2 flints
Large vase
Small vase
H40 flint & vase
H16 pottery vase
H13 Do
H20 Do
H25Do
And 2 odd pottery vases
H107
H87
H122(g)
H108(g)
H125(g)
H odd
Abydos
4 alabaster vases
Large carnelian bead VI
Stone vase
Kohl pot with name of Amenhotep on base XVIII
Ovoid glazed inscribed
F75 pottery vase
XFI VI
Large Persian vase
Peet 1912-13
Abydos
2 ibises, egg & pear pot
Burial pot & small accompanying pot (case 19) IV
The Myers collection from Eton College is currently being studied and catalogued both at John Hopkins and the University of Birmingham.
Relevant publications:
Williams, Ellen Reeder. 1984. The archaeological collection of the Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
