Ancient Egypt at the Manchester Museum
Saturday, January 15, 2022, at noon (eastern US time)
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Gold cloisonné pectoral, c. 1800 BCE, from Riqqa
The topic
Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, has one of the UK’s largest Egyptology collections. With more than 4.5 million specimens, it is Britain’s largest university museum collection. The museum was founded in its current form in the 1890s and includes both natural history and human cultures.
Holding some 18,000 objects from Egypt and Sudan, it offers a particularly popular focus on pharaonic Egypt. The collection has an international reputation and has been the basis of research that has frequently made global headlines. Unlike many other museums with Egyptology holdings, it presents significant insights into life, death, and monumentality in pharaonic times that have been gained from excavated contexts: domestic material from the towns of Kahun, Gurob, and Amarna.
Dr. Campbell Price has curated the collection for the past decade. In this lecture he will review some of Manchester’s highlights, including cloisonné gold jewelry, a series of important "magical" objects from the Middle Kingdom, little-known New Kingdom stelae, and one of the most significant holdings of Graeco-Roman funerary material outside of Egypt.
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The speaker
Dr. Campbell Price took his BA, MA, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow. After undertaking fieldwork at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, Saqqara, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, he became Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum in 2011. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Egypt Exploration Society, the foremost UK charity supporting Egypt’s cultural heritage.
Dr. Price has published widely on ancient Egyptian material culture and maintains special research interests in sculpture and the construction of “Ancient Egypt” in museums. He is the co-editor of Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt (Manchester University Press, 2016) and author of Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt (Thames and Hudson, 2018). His most recent book, Golden Mummies of Egypt. Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period (Manchester Museum/Nomad Exhibitions, 2020), is out now and accompanies a major international touring exhibition. He has lectured extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Dr. Price also regularly comments and advises on Egyptological themes for TV and radio.
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