Ptolemaic Egypt
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of objects from Ptolemaic Egypt, which date from 332 to 30 BC. The collection includes stone sculptures, bronze figurines, shabtis, amulets, scarabs, beads, pottery lamps, ceramics, gold foil, earrings and copper pendants. There are also mummified remains. Among these there is a significant painted wooden coffin and wrapped mummy of a woman, complete with cartonnage mask, body, leg and foot covers, a bead net and a winged scarab necklace. There are a number of mummified human heads, hands and feet, and mummified animals and a brush used in the mummification process. The Sandison Collection includes at least one dismembered human mummy, and numerous mummified human and animal remains and linen wrappings. Other funerary materials include a cartonnage mummy mask, cases for mummified birds, a limestone Canopic jar, and linen, leather and palm-fibre sandals. The collection also notably encompasses two plaster casts of trilingual inscriptions in Greek, hieroglyphs and demotic from Rosetta and Tanis. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC. After his death in 323 BC, Egypt was seized by Alexander’s Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter, who founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.
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