Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum
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Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum
Clarendon Press, 1993
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Description
The collection of objects from predynastic Egypt (c 5500-3000 BC) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is widely regarded as the most representative of its kind anywhere in the world. It is particularly distinguished by the large amount of material from controlled excavations directed by Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) and his associates. It was from the evidence provided by these objects that Petrie was able to begin tracing the evolution of Egyptian society, and the conclusions have stood the test of time. This collection remains central to any study of Egyptian society in the prehistoric period, which has again become an area of research after many years of relative neglect. The entire collection of over 2000 items has been catalogued in this volume by Joan Crawfoot Payne, who has worked on the project for over 30 years. She has provided basic documentation and illustration with a commentary and up-to-date review of the chronological and cultural importance of these objects.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Statues, statuettes and models. Part 2 Vessels: clay vessels - Nile-mud wares polished red and black, Nile-mud wares polished red, Nile-mud wares polished black or brown, chaff-tempered Nile-mud wares not coated or polished, chaff-tempered Nile-mud wares polished red and black, chaff-tempered Nile-mud wares polished red, hard pink wares not coated or polished, hard pink wares polished red, hard pink wares polished black, perhaps imported from Nubia, imported from Palestine
- stone vessels
- vessels of ivory and horn. Part 3 Tools and weapons: tools and weapons of metal - mace heads
- tools and weapons of flint - cores, blades, flakes, ground axe-head, planes/adzes, flaked axe/adze-heads, knives, arrowheads, sickle blades, scrapers, borers
- tools and weapons of obsidian
- grinders and hammerstones
- tools and weapons of bone. Part 4 Objects of personal decoration and daily use: seals
- beads and pendants
- forehead pendants
- bracelets and finger-rings
- palettes
- hairpins
- combs
- spoons
- games
- tusks, tags and cones
- textiles
- spindle whorls
- basketry. Appendices: results of X-ray flourescence analysis of Egyptian gold and silver, B.H. Gale and Z.A. Stos-Gale
- results of X-ray flourescence analysis of predynastic Egyptian copper, H. McKerrell
- associated flint knives of type 5a
- flint knives of type 5a with handles of carved ivory or gold
- petrographic analysis of two Canaanite jars from Naqada, Naomi Porat
- comments on the identification of animals, Sebastian Payne
- notes on textiles, E.G. Crowfoot
- neutron activation analysis of pottery.
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