Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities


Book Description

This is a comprehensive catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities. It provides a detailed listing of the items in the collection, along with photographs and descriptions of each piece. The collection includes a wide range of artefacts, such as statues, jewellery, pottery, and papyri. This book is an essential resource for researchers and enthusiasts interested in the art and culture of Ancient Egypt. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.










Studies in Egyptian Antiquities


Book Description

A collection of 15 wide-ranging papers on Egyptology brought together in honour of Harry James' 75 birthday (now retired Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities). Contents: Badari Grave Group 569 (Reneé Friedman); Observations on some Egyptian sarcophagi in the British Museum (A J Spencer); Both mummies as Bakshish (Joyce M Filer); Djehutyhotep's Colossus inscription (W V Davies); Painted relief from El-Bersheh (Andrew Middleton); Three Stelophorous statuettes (Hassan Selim); Two or three literary artefacts (R B Parkinson); Burial assemblage of Henutmehyt (John H Taylor); New light on Egyptian prosthetic medicine (Nicholas Reeves); The boar, the ram-headed crocodile and the lunar fly (Carol Andrews); The last books of the dead? (Stephen Quirke); Oceanus in porphyry (Donald M Bailey); Saqadi (Derek Welsby); The Acquisition by the British Museum of antiquitites discovered during the French invasion of Egypt (M L Bierbrier); Not the travel journal of Alessandro Ricci (Patrick Usick).