Collections
The Classical Collection
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The Classical collection contains material from ancient Greece and Italy, and other parts of the Mediterranean influenced by those cultures. The display begins with artefacts from pre-Mycenaean Greece and travels through to Roman Imperial times. The collection contains some stunning Greek and Italian pottery, Roman sculpture, artefacts from Pompeii, household artefacts,bronze and terracotta statuettes and figurines, and a fine display of early Greek and Roman glass and lots more.
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The Near Eastern Collection
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The Near Eastern collection contains material from ancient Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. Objects from the University's own excavations at Pella, Wadi Hammeh and Teleilat Ghassul in Jordan form a significant part of the holdings.Spanning the Natufian (c. 11000 BC) to Roman eras, the Museum has rich holdings of stone tools, pottery and metal artefacts.
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The Egyptian Collection
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The Egyptian holdings embrace material spanning all periods of Egyptian history, from the prehistoric (ca 5000-3100 BC) to Roman times (30 BC-395 AD). Of particular importance is the fine collection of New Kingdom sculpture, featuring the monumental head of Rameses II and a diorite upper torso of Horemheb, who was Tutankhamun's regent and general. Objects also on display include mummies, pottery, shabtis and many small objects of daily life from sites such as Abydos, Diospolis Parva, el-Mahasna, el-Amrah and Qasr Ibrim.
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The Cypriot Collection
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The Museum's Cypriot collection is one of the most important outside Cyprus. A significant part of the material has come from excavations carried out in the 1950s by Professor J.R.B. Stewart, and later by Professor J.B. Hennessy, both of the University of Sydney. A wide range of pottery forms is on display, covering the periods from prehistory to the Hellenistic age.
Map of Cyprus (PDF)
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The European Collection
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This collection begins with examples of some of the earliest human tools and concludes with Anglo-Saxon jewellery, glass and pottery of the 6th and 7th centuries AD. Of special interest is a handaxe from the excavations which established a more accurate understanding of the extended age of the human race. The handaxe, which is some 250,000 years old, comes from the Somme Valley in France. Webpage coming soon |
