| Description |
1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour) |
| Contents |
Introduction: a modest little museum / Alice Stevenson and Debbie Challis -- Violette Lafleur: bombs, boxes and one brave lady / Helen Pike -- The earliest evidence for people in Egypt: the first tools / Norah Moloney -- Out of this world: prehistoric space beads / Alice Stevenson -- Abu Bagousheh: Father of Pots / Alice Stevenson -- Lost and found: the rediscovery of the Tarkhan dress / Janet Johnstone -- The lost lions of Koptos / Alice Stevenson -- King Catfish and his mud seals / Pia Edqvist -- Pulling early kingship together / Richard Bussmann -- A face in the crowd: chance encounters with Egyptian sculpture / Alice Stevenson -- Best foot forward: items of ancient Egyptian dress / Tracey Golding -- Pyramids in the Petrie / Alice Stevenson -- An offending member / Debbie Challis and Alice Stevenson -- Wandering wombs and wicked water: the 'gynaecological' papyrus / Carole Reeves -- Ali Suefi of Lahun and the gold cylinder / Stephen Quirke -- Seth: seductions and stelae / John J. Johnston -- Termites and tapioca: the survival of Amarna's colours / Lucia Gahlin -- The sacred geometry of music and harmony / Sherif Abouelhadid -- Reconnecting across the centuries: fragments from Abydos / Alice Stevenson -- 'While skulls bobbed around on the waves ... ': retrieving Horwedja's shabtis / Campbell Price -- Revealing animals: discoveries inside funerary bundles / Lidija McKnight -- Miw: the Langton Cat Collection / Debbie Challis -- Myth and science: ancient glass collections / Daniela Rosenow -- 'She smites the legions of men': a Greek goddess in Egypt / Edmund Connolly -- Journeys to the Afterlife / Alice Stevenson -- Living images: funerary portraits from Roman times / Jan Picton -- 'Tis the Season: annual exhibitions in archaeology / Amara Thornton -- The archaeology of race: Petrie's Memphis heads / Debbie Challis -- Hakubutsukan: Egypt between East Asia and England / Alice Stevenson -- From China to Sudan / Debbie Challis -- The ancient Kushite city of Meroe / Kandaoe Chimblri -- He Tells Tales of Meroe / Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi -- 'Camel, O camel, come and fetch and carry': on two camels / Jennifer Cromwell -- Composed of air and light: a rare survival from medieval Egypt / Carolyn Perry -- 'To my wife, on whose toil most of my work has depended': women on excavation / Alice Stevenson -- 'The largest and the only fully dated collection': Xia Nai and Egyptian beads / Alice Stevenson. |
| Note |
This book is published under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology -- Archaeological collections.
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. (OCoLC)fst00779224
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Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
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Archaeology -- Private collections.
(OCoLC)fst01351719
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Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
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| Added Author |
Stevenson, Alice, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Petrie Museum of Egyptian archaeology. London : UCL Press, ©2015 1910634042 (OCoLC)914166057 |
| ISBN |
9781910634042 (electronic bk.) |
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1910634042 (electronic bk.) |
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