A Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 07 September 2010
- 20 July 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780511703430
- 9781108004398
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- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.24kg, 156 Pages
- Subjects:
- Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology, Egyptology, General
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- Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology, Egyptology, General
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Book description
Since the first donations of Egyptian artefacts to the Fitzwilliam Museum, including the sarcophagus lid of Rameses III donated in 1823, its ancient Egyptian holdings have grown steadily. This collection, now one of the most important in Britain, was catalogued for the first time by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857–1934) of the British Museum's department of antiquities. Budge was a leading authority on ancient Egypt and had himself acquired several pieces for the museum in Egypt in 1886–7. The collection as listed in this 1893 publication included 577 objects: sarcophagi, coffins, canopic jars, mummies, scarabs, sculptures, and other decorative objects. Budge provided transcriptions and translations of the hieroglyphs that appear on the objects with his descriptions of each item. Although the collection has been augmented by many further gifts and purchases, Budge's catalogue remains a valuable record of the collection in the late Victorian period.
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