VOLUME 3 - National Museum of Ireland

1500 objects with detailed information and many full color images.

This CD-ROM offers an Egyptian collection for the greater part previously unpublished and unknown even within Egyptology. The collection covers the material culture of every age from Hierakonpolis, Abydos and Tarkhan in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Period (5000-3000 BC) to the Roman Period cities of Oxyrhynchus and the Faiyum. Among other things, it includes art historical highlights such as the Hawwara portrait still in its mummy wrappings, a unique range of fine Coptic textiles, many eye-catching utensils and magnificent tomb equipment.

Featuring:

1500 objects

2207 pictures

30 min. spoken commentary per language

7 languages

63 hieroglyphic inscriptions

9 panoramas

3 rotating objects

408 glossary items

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The National Museum of Ireland was founded in 1885. The foundation collections were drawn from the Royal Dublin Society and the Royal Irish Academy, both of which contained artefacts from Egypt. From its inception the Museum continued to collect material to build up its foreign collections through purchase and donations. One of its earliest Directors, Dr. Valentine Ball, travelled to Egypt in 1892 to collect objects for the Museum. Other Irish travellers such as Lady Harriet Kavanagh, who toured the Nile sites in the mid 1840s, returned with collections of antiquities some of which now form part of the Egyptian collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Lady Harriet Kavanaghs collection was given on loan to the National Museum of Ireland by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1920.

The collection comprises about three thousand objects, the majority acquired from excavations carried out in Egypt between the 1890s and the 1920s and ranging in date from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. During this period the National Museum received a share in several major divisions of finds from the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society), London, and the greater part of the collection derives from these relatively well-documented sources. Finds from sites such as Hieraconpolis, Deir el-Bahri, Ehnasya, Oxyrhynchus, Tarkhan and Riqqa, amongst others, were received.

For many years the Egyptian collection was exhibited along with material from the Greek and Roman collections. However, in 1996, a new exhibition Ancient Egypt, in which the finest and most important parts of the collection are displayed, was opened. While the National Museum of Ireland is no longer involved in collecting antiquities from Egypt, it continues to care for and facilitate access to the collections to both visitors and researchers.

EURO 25,-
ISBN 9039321280
Description CD-ROM
Edited by
Dirk van der Plas