Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is part of University College London. It is about 80 000 objects to one of the largest collections of ancient Egyptian finds outside Egypt.

History

The basis of the collection comes from Amelia Edwards, who presented her collection in 1892 at the University College with the establishment of a Chair of Egyptology. Another part of the museum is the private collection of Flinders Petrie, who sold a large part of the finds his excavations at various museums around the Welte, but also kept some of the findings for teaching purposes. Since 1913, the collection is accessible to the public.

Exhibits

The collection contains numerous finds from Petrie's excavations (eg Amarna, Sedment, Koptos, Lahun ), the focus of the museum not represent the ancient Egyptian art, but objects of daily life. These range from prehistoric to modern times. Another focus of the collection are finds from the Egyptian history. Since 2002, we find the whole collection online.

The museum houses one of the largest collections of mummy portraits around the world. Two of the oldest garments of Egypt, the oldest Egyptian iron objects ( beads Gerzeh, about 3300 BC), architectural fragments from Koptos and a majority of the papyri from Lahun, including the oldest gynecological and the oldest and only veterinary papyrus (medical papyri from Lahun ).

In this museum includes a fragment of the stone annals of the 5th dynasty, probably once in the sun temple of King Niuserre ( 5th dynasty ) is was established in Abusir. This technique, known as P1 in the art section may as well as the Cairo Stone (Cairo fragment No.1) with the Cairo fragments No.2- 5 and the Palermostein (P ) belongs to the same major Annals stone, the names of the kings ( Pharaohs ) from prädynastischer time to the 5th Dynasty ( 2504-2347 BC) contained.

Veterinary Medical Papyrus Kahun ( Lahun ) LV. 2

P1 fragment of the annals of the 5th Dynasty stone