This week’s digitised glass plate negative photo shows the Roman Fortress near Kostamneh and was taken in 1906.
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#glassplatenegative #photo #romanfortress #museum
#ThrowbackThursday to 2015 when our curator Dr Gina Criscenzo-Laycock installed this ancient Egyptian stela (from the Garstang Museum’s collection) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their temporary exhibition ‘Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom’.
Our #objectoftheday is this ancient Egyptian set of colourful amethyst scarabs. Stringing them together was something done post excavation.
E.1200
#ancientegypt #amethyst #scarabs #museum
For #InternationalWomensDay we’re highlighting Tjawtayudenit, a songstress of Amun-Re from the Third Intermediate Period. This vignette comes from Tjawtayudenit's copy of the Book of the Dead. Here she is making an offering to the falcon-headed god Re-Horakhty.
E.507.1
This digitised photo negative from Garstang’s 1910 excavations of Meroë, shows a basalt statue. The statue was found in the Lion Temple and it depicts a ‘Royal Figure’.
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#photonegative #ancientsudan #meroë #excavations #statue #royal #lion #temple #museum
Our #Objectoftheday is this small circular oil #lamp, with pinched handle, deep bowl and small rounded spout. It has ribbed design on sides. The top depicts a #Centaur (a creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body of a horse), while the base has a wheel decoration.
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#open #visit #universityofliverpool #campuslife #Liverpool #museum
This digitised #photo was originally taken in 1910 during Garstang’s #excavations at the ancient Sudanese settlement of #Meroë. The image shows a decorated #column discovered at site 266 (#Temple of Amun). It is part of Garstang’s glass plate negatives, now housed at the museum.
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#ObjectoftheDay is this ivory and slate bracelet. Discovered at the ancient site of Naqada in what is often referred to as the ‘Royal Tomb’ the burial place of Neith-hotep. She was an ancient Egyptian queen, who lived around 5000 years ago, at the very beginnings of written history. E.5199
#TransformationTuesday we are sharing this ancient Greek kylix (a popular kind of drinking cup), which has been reconstructed from 57 sherdsl! This example can be dated to the mid-6th century BCE, but vessels of this kind are common all throughout ancient Greek history. C.656
#OnThisDay in 4 C.E. Gaius Caesar, the eldest grandson of Rome’s first emperor Augustus, died in Anatolia aged 23. His death put into motion the eventual succession of Tiberius in 14 C.E. This silver denarius from our collection, shows the two brothers Gaius and Lucius on its reverse.
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This digitised glass plate negative from the ancient Egyptian site of Beni Hasat shows Middle Kingdom wooden models. This includes boats (with rowers), a bakery and a brewery, as well as offering bearers on top of a broken box coffin. JG/B/479
#Objectoftheday is this #Archaic #Greek #kylix with black-figure #centaur decoration and painted eyes, dated to the mid-6th century BCE. ‘Eye-cups’ such as this would act as a practical joke – when the cup was lifted to the mouth, the eyes would give the drinker a funny face . C.650
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It’s #caturday! So we are sharing this tiny ancient Egyptian stone cat amulet!
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#ancientegypt #amulet #amulet #museum
#Objectoftheday is this #ancientEgyptian bird-headed cosmetic palette. Dated to the Naqada II period & made from slate, it was likely used to grind pigments particularly for cosmetic use. This object it is currently on display & we're open every Wednesday Thursday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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This glass plate negative photo was taken in 1907 by Garstang during his survey of Anatolia. The image shows the remains of a postern near Boghaz Keui, (Boğazkale, Turkey).
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#glassplatenegative #archive #photo #survey #Anatolia #Turkey #museum
Our #ObjectoftheDay is this reconstructed #ancientGreek white #ground lekythos, a pottery type commonly used for the storage of oil. It is of the black figure type and shows the winged #goddess #Nike, the goddess of #victory. It can be dated to the late 6th or early 5th century BC.
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It’s #FashionFriday! And we think that this brightly coloured ancient Egyptian necklace made of glass and glaze beads would be the perfect accessory to any outfit!
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#ancientegypt #necklace #glass #beads #accessory #outfit #museum
This digitised glass plate negative shows a broken votive tablet depicting the god Horus on a crocodile flanked a lion and a gazelle. The photograph was taken during the 1910 Garstang excavations of the ancient Sudanese site of Meroë. JG\M\D\14
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Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian eye inlay. This is part of a set that were found during the Mond-Emery excavations in Thebes in 1924. The inlay in made of stone, while its companion piece is made of wood.
E.670a
#ancientegypt #eye #excavations #Thebes #Thursday #stone #museum
#OnThisDay in 58 BC, the future first empress of Rome, Livia Drusilla, was born. In 38 BC, she married the future emperor Augustus. To know about Livia's depictions on coins (including this one from our collection) check our latest blog: https://orlo.uk/01bvu
This digitised glass plate #negative is from the 1906 Garstang #excavations at Kubban. The photo shows the Kubban #fort from a distance, the River #Nile and the #Temple of Dakka can be seen in the background.
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For #SundayRead we are sharing an image of this hieratic funerary papyrus from Thebes. It belonged to the songstress of Amun-Re Tja-ty and can be dated to Dynasty 21.
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#ancientegypt #hieratic #funerarypapyrus #Thebes #songstress #museum
Today’s #ObjectoftheDay is this fragment of an #ancientGreek #lekythos (a tall vessel primarily used for the storage of oil) which shows a #Maenad, a female follower of #Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and ritual ecstasy. Likely dated to the late 6th or early 5th century BCE.
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This glass plate #negative shows a wooden #canopic #chest discovered during Garstang’s #excavations at the #ancientEgyptian site of Beni Hasan. It is painted with striped edges and a line of #hieroglyphic #text runs around the centre of the sides.
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#museum #visit #Liverpool
Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian copper alloy statuette of the god Osiris. He was the god of fertility as well as the embodiment of the dead and the resurrected king.
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#ancientegypt #bronze #statuette #God #osiris #museum
This image shows the exterior of a descent into #tomb K2 (tomb of Hen-nekht) and an adorable looking #donkey at the #ancientEgyptian site of Beit Khallaf. The #photo was originally taken by Garstang in 1900-1901 during his #excavations at the site.
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