Find something on display: Ancient Egypt

Green glazed amulet with three row pearl border. Card for Egyptian IV states “Amulet in fused green enamel”.

Small ornament in red stone/sun disc amulet of carnelian.

Faience amulet of a pregnant woman / taweret. Hole for cord, broken at bottom.

Green amulet in the shape of an eye.

Glazed amulet in the shape of a collar or Bes.

Bes, grotesque amulet figure for suspension with blue glaze

Faience amulet, possible obscene. Hole for cord has broken off the back.

Large amulet in the shape of the cat goddess.

Small bird amulet.

Cat amulet.

Faience amulet in the shape of a djed pillar; the Egyptian symbol of stability. Hole for cord.

A green faience amulet depicting a Ram, an animal significant to more than one deity in Ancient Egypt. It possibly represents either Amun-Re, king of the Gods, or Khnum the potter.

Faience amulet in the shape of a lion. Hole for cord should be on the back but has been broken off.

Faience amulet in the shape of a ram-headed sphinx. Hole for cord above back.

Faience amulet in the shape of a standing goddess. Hole for cord above head.

Faience glazed bead in the shape of an eye.

Egyptian Sacred eye/Wadjet eye amulet.

Wedjat eye amulet.

Green bead in the shape of a dog-headed ape/standing baboon.

Faience green bead. Rabbit/hare.

Faience bead in the shape of Bes.

Anubis amulet made of stone. First two fingers from mummy’s stone placed on left side of pelvis inside the body to ward off evil.

Orange stone bead with six indentations.

Faience bead.

Faience bead with a hole for cord.

Semi-precious stone bead with a hole for cord.

Glass bead.

A blue glazed bead.

A blue glass bead.

A green glazed bead.

A green glazed bead.

A blue faience bead.

An inscribed cylindrical green bead with a hole for cord.

White scarab bead.

Pink stone bead. Scarab.

A blue bead in the shape of a bull.

Green bead in the form of a cat.

Amulet. Bast green bead in the form of cat goddess.

Blue Egyptian beads strung on a modern string and clasp with a Roman lock.

Beads on modern string.

Bronze Sekhet.

Marble canopic jar; human headed ape, wolf, owl.
During mummification, a dead person’s organs were embalmed separately from the body, and from about 2,000 BC were stored in stone or pottery containers called canopic jars. The organs in the jars were guarded by four gods known as the Sons of Horus who appear on the lids.

Portion of coarse cloth/mummy cloth.

Alabaster Kohl Jar, stone vessel.

Faience cowroid. Hole for cord (second from the left) and a selection of blue and green glazed beads.

A coptic cross.

Emblem of stability (connected with Osiris) with green glaze/faience.

Earlier than 3,000 BC.

Bronze Egyptian figure of Buto, the nurse of Horus.

Small faience Egyptian deity amulet perforated for suspension.

Bronze Egyptian figure of Isis or Hathor bearing a disc or moon on her head.

A necklace of small faience beads in blue and white with modern stringing.

Small green glazed scarab with seal/faience scarab, possibly fake.

Shabti worker figurine. Bluish colour Shabtin figure/ faience worker Shabti.

Bronze figurine of Osiris.

Bronze Egyptian Amun-re statuette with hook for suspension.

Stone statuette, possibly depicting Nilus.

Harpocrates (The child Horus); bronze Egyptian figure, minus legs.

Buckle of tin girdle hook/wooden tyet (the buckle of Isis) emblem furniture fitting.

Emblem of stability. Assonan/Djed emblem wooden furniture.

Small stone jar.

Egyptian cosmetic container in stone, maybe a kohl pot (front row 3rd from left).

Small stone jar for eye paint.

Small stone jar for eye paint.

Circular red stone bead.

Alabaster kohl jar (middle row 1st on left).

Alabaster Kohl Jar (back row 1st on left).

Alabaster kohl jar with lid/stone cosmetic container or Kohl pot.

Alabaster kohl jar card, stone jar containing piece of cloth.

Alabaster kohl jar with lid (back row last on right).

Specimen of linen cloth with wide purple border with pattern/Coptic textile.

Short length of linen cloth with edge of fringe/ mummy cloth.

Fragment of torn linen cloth with decanter shaped pattern, Coptic textile.

Bronze round mirror from Thebes.

Small libation altar.
It shows two libation vessels pouring an offering to the gods over two seeds which are beginning to bloom.

A bone pin.

A bronze plaque possibly depicting the goddess Hathor.

A blue cartouche bearing the name ‘Amenhotep’ set in a modern ring.

A blue faience ring in the shape of the Wadjet Eye.

An un-inscribed faience scarab with a hole for cord.

A steatite stone scarab.
The scarab beetle was often carved on top of stamp seals. The underside could include names, titles, or other important information that the owner could stamp on clay or papyrus.

A faience scarab with a hole for cord.

A faience scarab with a hole for cord.

Scarab.

Scarab.

Faience scarab in the shape of Amun Re Cartouche.

Stone scarab in the shape of a jackal base. Hole for cord.

Stone with some turquoise patches scarab in the shape of a jackal base. Hole for cord.

Soapstone scarab with two cobras on cartouche. Hole for cord.

Faience scarab. Hole for cord.

Soapstone scarab with cartouche of god and goddess. Hole for cord.

Soapstone scarab - possibly fake. Hole for cord.

Faience scarab. Hole for cord.

Blue scarab bead.

Green glazed scarab bead.

Blue scarab bead.

Two scarab beads in the shape of Tutmosis III and Dyn. Stone and bone.

Green scarab bead.

Green double scarab bead.

Blue scarab bead.

Faience scarab with missing wings; would have been sewn on mummy netting.

Dark green scarab bead.

Flat blue faience scarab and wings and string of plain green beads.

Semi precious stone: amethyst - either a fake or middle intermediate period. Hole for cord.

Faience scaraboid with a hole for cord.

A soapstone scaraboid in the shape of ankh car.

Bone scaraboid with a hole for cord.

Faience scaraboid with inscription ‘the good god Tutmosis’ on base. Hole for cord.

Stone scaraboid with a hawk and cobra cartouche. Hole for cord.

Stone scaraboid in the shape of fish with Amun Re on base. Hole for cord.

Bronze ring with cartouche bearing a hieroglyphic inscription.

Blue faience Shabti.

Blue faience Shabti.

Shabti.

Blue faience uShabti.

Dark green glazed Shabtin figure/faience worker Shabti.

Faience Shabti.

Dark green faience Shabti

Shabtis were included in Egyptian burials to work for the tomb owner in the afterlife. They were believed by the Ancient Egyptians to spring to life and do all the hard work for the dead in their heaven, the Kingdom of Osiris. This particular Shabti has been finished with green faience.

This head of a military standard was found during digging of docks for Nelson’s fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Standards identified particular branches of the Egyptian army and were readily visible to help rally troops.

Statuette head, depicting Osiris.
A small painted bronze head of Osiris wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt. This conical shaped headpiece was worn as early as 3000BC. The White Crown may actually have been green because it is believed to be have been made from reeds.

Bronze cobra’s head statuette, Uraeus Cobra.

Small object in red stone/fruit amulet in carnelian or haematite.

Hundreds of metres of linen were used to wrap a mummy. It didn’t just come in bandage-like strips, but shrouds, large sheets that covered the body like a cape. Bandages were wrapped very tight to maintain the mummies distinctive shape, and brushed with a sticky resin to stick them together.

Stone lidded pots for storing kohl or galena eye-paint. Several found in an early New Kingdom shaft tomb of about 1550–1450 BC (Y66) near Abydos by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942).

Glass vessel.