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Flinders Petrie states that only one or two percent of the mummies he excavated were embellished with portraits. [28] The rates for mummy portraits do not survive, but it can be assumed that the material caused higher costs than the labour, since in antiquity, painters were appreciated as craftsmen rather than as artists. [28]
Penn Museum, formally known as The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [ 1 ]
British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4] Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts [5] Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England: About 80,000 artifacts [6]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
Sara Yorke Stevenson (February 19, 1847 – November 14, 1921) was an American archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, one of the founders of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist and women's rights activist, and a columnist for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW) is an interdisciplinary program for research and teaching of archaeology, particularly archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean (Greece and Rome), Egypt, Anatolia, and the Near East, based in the Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
The mummy and coffin of Ankh-hap are housed in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, on permanent loan from the Texas A&M University. His body is much fragmented and has been reinforced with wooden sticks. [1] Antjau 664-660 BC 26th: Male Unknown Displayed in the Royal Ontario Museum. [2] Asru Temple singer 700 BC 25th: Female 1825 —
Flinders Petrie by Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1934 (detail) The distinctive black-topped Egyptian pottery of the Predynastic period associated with Flinders Petrie's Sequence dating system, Petrie Museum. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (() 3 June 1853 – () 28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British ...