Antiquities Exhibits

Gilded cartonnage of a Romano-Egyptian woman and man, possibly from Hawara, Egypt, 1st century CE on display at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. This gilded mummy mask of a woman, thought to be from Hawara, Egypt, and a man were created in the 1st century CE during Egypt's Roman period. It is created of linen, gilded gesso, glass, and faience. Hawara is an archaeological south of the site of Crocodilopolis, its Gree k name, or Arsinoe, its Ptolemaic Period name, at the entrance to the depression of the Fayum oasis. The first excavations at the site were made by Karl Lepsius, in 1843. William Flinders Petrie excavated at Hawara, beginning in 1888, finding papyri of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, and, north of the pyramid, a vast necropolis where, in 1911, he found 146 portraits on coffins dating to the Roman period now known as Fayum portraits. Some of the mummies discovered in Hawara, though, were covered with a cartonnage mask rather than a painted portrait. Carton...

Archaeological collections from Egypt and Sudan - Ongoing at The Petrie Museum in London, United Kingdom. The Petrie Museum houses one of the largest archaeological collections in the world, some 80,000 objects, for Egypt and Sudan. It is named after William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), appointed in 1892 as first University College London Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology. Over three-quarters of the material comes from excavations directed or funded by Petrie, or from purchases he made for university teaching. Here you can see the Tarkhan Dress, the world's oldest surviving woven garmet, a v-neck linen shirt  radiocarbon dated to the late fourth-millennium BC. Gilded cartonnage mummy mask from the Roman Period. 5th Dynasty bead-net dress Roman period mummy portrait from the Fayum region