Egypt Centre, Swansea
Museum of Egyptian antiquities http://www.egypt.swan.ac.uk/
Monday, 30 March 2015
Easter, Onions and Sham el-Nessim
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So Easter is coming up and the Egypt Centre is preparing. The festival of Easter originally derives from earlier pagan festivals associated...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
An unusual souvenir?
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Is this a rare souvenir? Or is it an attempt to deliberately deceive? This artefact is made from pottery and shows the prenomen of R...
Monday, 23 March 2015
Shsh....secrets (Harpocrates and initiation rituals!)
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The figure to the right has his finger to his mouth. This is Horus the Child, or in Greek, Harpocrates (from the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered l...
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Friday, 20 March 2015
Sekhmet and the Theosophical Society
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This object has intrigued me for years. It's not so much what it is in Egyptological terms but its 'museological value', its p...
Friday, 13 March 2015
What have museums ever done for us?
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Went to the Welsh Museums Federation meeting yesterday at the Cardiff Story . The conference was all about resilience in these difficult...
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Stereotypes of women in ancient Egypt. Gentle Bastet or aggressive Sekhmet?
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This is a small amulet about 3.5cm high. It is made of faience and was loaned to us by Woking College. It shows a feline goddess holdi...
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Friday, 20 February 2015
Year of the sheep/goat/ram
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On a coffin in the Egypt Centre (W1982) we have a really great scene of the seperation of heaven and earth, with Geb and his consort Nut ...
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