Comments for Egypt at the Manchester Museum http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com Everything Egyptian at the Manchester Museum Fri, 17 May 2013 10:58:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Egyptian ‘Fake or Find?’ workshop, Friday 7th June 2013 by Chris Simons (@ChrisSimons4) http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/egyptian-fake-or-find-workshop-friday-7th-june-2013/#comment-2790 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:58:18 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2173#comment-2790 So wish I couod be at this as I have been stung with fakes when I could afford to buy artifacts Birmingham is a bit to far unfortunately Chris

]]> Comment on Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc. no. 13906) by Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc. no. 13906) | Deerbrook Editions http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/object-biography-12-a-wooden-shabti-of-king-seti-i-acc-no-13906/#comment-2781 Wed, 15 May 2013 13:43:06 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2112#comment-2781 […] Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc. no. 13906). […]

]]> Comment on Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc. no. 13906) by deerbrookeditions http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/object-biography-12-a-wooden-shabti-of-king-seti-i-acc-no-13906/#comment-2780 Wed, 15 May 2013 12:48:43 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2112#comment-2780 Reblogged this on Deerbrook Editions and commented:
In mulling over a recent post, going back into WordPress there are my followed blogs, I noticed the word Shabtis. This word struck me since Djelloul Marbrook leads off his book “Brushstrokes and glances” with a poem of that name.

]]> Comment on Object biography #4: The Riqqeh Pectoral (Acc. no 5966) by Richard Geary http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/object-biography-4-the-riqqeh-pectoral-acc-no-5966/#comment-2765 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:37:04 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=1364#comment-2765 Hi Campbell,

I have noticed that on the pectoral of Queen Mereret from the Dahshur treasure, from around the same time (Amenemhat III), these falcon / crows appear, once again standing by the hieroglyph for gold. Is this any help?

Rich

]]> Comment on Why do museums collect… shabtis? by Anat http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/why-do-museums-collect-shabtis/#comment-2752 Fri, 03 May 2013 16:03:45 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=1487#comment-2752 So they can one day put the employees out of work!

]]> Comment on Tulips in Sudan: Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush by dianabuja http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/tulips-in-sudan-kerma-and-the-kingdom-of-kush/#comment-2747 Thu, 02 May 2013 10:52:23 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2157#comment-2747 The article by Macklin et al, which is the basis of the Arch. News piece, I just 10 min. ago sent to a colleague on Linked-in! So, it’s making its rounds. The article is excellent, and while not OA, I managed to find and download. Recommend it highly. The link to the journal is given on Arch. News.

]]> Comment on Ancient Egypt & Nature’s Library: What is an ‘onomasticon’? by dianabuja http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/ancient-egypt-natures-library-what-is-an-onomasticon/#comment-2741 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:58:01 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2148#comment-2741 Looking forward to the ‘ancient worlds’ displays of onomastica!!

]]> Comment on Curator’s Diary 19/04/13: Fragments of a Shattered Image by Campbell@Manchester http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/curators-diary-190413-fragments-of-a-shattered-image/#comment-2729 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:41:30 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2141#comment-2729 Indeed, Diana – this certainly took us by surprise!

]]> Comment on Curator’s Diary 19/04/13: Fragments of a Shattered Image by dianabuja http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/curators-diary-190413-fragments-of-a-shattered-image/#comment-2728 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:33:32 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2141#comment-2728 Left a reply but it seems to have breen ‘eaten’… Just to say, how rewarding, ‘digs’ in museum stores!

]]> Comment on Curator’s Diary 19/04/13: Fragments of a Shattered Image by Unearthed: 19th April 2013 « The Archaeology of Tomb Raider http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/curators-diary-190413-fragments-of-a-shattered-image/#comment-2727 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:11:31 +0000 http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/?p=2141#comment-2727 [...] Curator’s Diary 19/04/13: Fragments of a Shattered Image (Egypt at the Manchester Museum) [...]

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