David Perry | Staff
Posted on 07/03/2009 5:23:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A gold gilded (is that a redundancy?) mummy mask, 40-60AD, from the Roman period of Egyptian history, was being installed as part of the upcomng Excavating Egypt exhibit on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The exhibit runs from March 22 to June 14. It is being touted, from the brochure, as "Great discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London." The exhibit highlights the story of pioneer archaeologist Sir William Petrie and his exploration of ancient Egypt between the 1880s and 1920s. More than 200 of his most significant finds are included in the exhibit... which ran March 22 to June 14...
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
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Sorry I had to miss this. I thought there was an FR topic about this in a more timely manner, but didn't find it. |
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Nice article promoting an exhibit that closed three weeks before.
I thought the photo was pretty.
That it is. Nice blending of Hellenistic/Roman and Egyptian artistic styles.
William? Is this the same person as Flinders Petrie?
In 1998, the Splendors of Ancient Egypt exhibit was making the rounds, and the very last exhibit was of a wooden coffin from the Greek period with a mummy inside. I think it was included because they felt they had to have a mummy, even though the rest of the collection was extraordinary.
Well, there was something strange about that exhibit, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. The wooden coffin had been painted with thick horizontal red and white stripes on the sides, and the inside of the lid, over the mummy’s head, was painted to look like the night sky.
That is, a dark blue field with a bunch of stars. The lid was propped open, so visitors could see the mummy, and then the light dawned.
With its lid open, the coffin looked like the American flag!
As I told my friends at the time, “I guess we know that the time machine works. At least halfway.”
:’)
yup, William Matthew Flinders Petrie. Went by Flinders, probably was on the lam from the law. ;’)
Plus, it looks *nothing* like Helen Thomas, so there’s a break right there.
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