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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) [2] on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. [3] Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.
He is additionally Curator of the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. [5] In 2022, he retired from full-time academia, and made an emeritus professor . [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
The Shrine of Taharqa in the Ashmolean museum viewed from the south east corner. The Shrine of Taharqa is an Egyptian shrine commissioned by the pharaoh Taharqa in the early part of the 7th century BC. It was located in Kawa, which falls within the borders of present day Sudan, but since 1936 has been kept in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford ...
It is part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom. [ 1 ] The Palette was discovered by British archeologists James Quibell and Frederick W. Green , in what they called the Main Deposit in the Temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis , during the dig season of 1897–1898.
Peter Moorey's time in Cyprus (with its fine archaeological heritage) probably reinforced a childhood interest in ancient history and may well have prompted his interest in the post of Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum which became available at the time of his graduation in 1961. He was eventually appointed as Keeper of ...
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology.. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.
The Weld-Blundell Prism ("WB", dated 1800 BCE) is a clay, cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. [2] The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell. [3]
J. Paul Getty Museum Augsburg Cabinet: 3-D model online interactive with high-resolution photography, description of subjects depicted, and mapping of exotic materials. Ashmolean Museum: Powhatan's Mantle, pictures, full descriptions and history. The Augsburg Art Cabinet, about the Uppsala art cabinet.