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The Petrie Museum's Collection of Funerary Wooden Models: Investigating Chronology and Provenances

Eschenbrenner-Diemer, G; (2018) The Petrie Museum's Collection of Funerary Wooden Models: Investigating Chronology and Provenances. Archaeology International , 21 pp. 101-108. 10.5334/ai-378. Green open access

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Abstract

The Petrie Museum houses an interesting collection of funerary wooden models. These objects, deposited in the tombs of the Egyptian elites between the end of the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom to guarantee the deceased a wholesome rebirth, come from excavations carried out or purchased by W. F. Petrie in Egypt. Complete or fragmentary, with an often unclear archaeological context, these objects constitute a particularly interesting source of knowledge of wood craftsmanship. The technical and stylistic study of this material will shed new light on this form of artisanal production by specifying its chronology and origins, but also on the archaeological works and the acquisitions of Petrie in Egypt from the end of 19th century.

Type: Article
Title: The Petrie Museum's Collection of Funerary Wooden Models: Investigating Chronology and Provenances
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.5334/ai-378
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.5334/ai-378
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords: funerary wooden models, woodcraft, Middle Kingdom, Egypt, Petrie Museum collection
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10076861
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