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THE exhibition of archaeological finds during the past season, now open at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London, covers the work of the expeditions of the Egypt Exploration Society at Abydos, Amarna, and Armant. At Abydos, the Society, working in co-operation with the Oriental Institute of Chicago, is engaged in copying the frescoes of the temple of Seti. The work is in the hands of Miss A. M. Calverley and Miss M. F. Broome, who contribute a magnificent series of paintings as the result of their activities during the past winter. The exhibits from Amarna include a number of photographs, some taken from the air; frescoes which have been restored skilfully; statuary of the age of Akhen-aton, mostly broken by his successors, and profiles engraved on limestone, which are thought to be sculptors trial pieces. Among the other miscellaneous objects included from this site are glass, pottery, and ostraka of the Roman period. At Armant the most remarkable finds were the predynastic plaster flags already familiar from the published description by Mr. O. H. Myers, director of the excavation. Slate palettes, black-topped ware in remarkably good preservation, other pottery, and flints are of a more familiar character than painted skulls and two hippopotami in pink limestone which accompanied them.
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Egypt Exploration Societys Exhibition. Nature 130, 55 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130055c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130055c0