3-056-193 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Antiquities discovered by Mr. Flinders Petrie, 1888. 'Exhibition at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The centre subject is a group of coffins, mummies, Canopic jars, &c., from the cemetery discovered by Mr. Petrie while excavating in Fayoum. 1 and 11. Portraits in wax medium, from mummy cases. 2. Glass lens. 3. Mummy label, Greek inscription. 4. Flesh-hook and leaden ladle. 5. Women's spindle. 6. Bundle of leather-worker's needles, tied as found. 7. Flint knife, from temple area, Arsinoë, age of the Ramesides. 8. Incense-burner. 9. Terra-cotta toy sedan chair, lady removable. 10. Fragment of Labyrinth cartouche of Amenemhat III. 12. Papyrus charm and small image. 13. Terra-cotta doll, broken. 14. Toy crocodile. 15. Toy bedstead. 16. Boys' tops. 17. Toy bird, with wheels. 18. Rag doll. 19. Toy mirror of metal in wooden case. 20. Fragment of embroidery'. Illustrations of antiquities removed from their original sites by British archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie, in his excavations during the late 1800s. The artefacts were on display at the Egyptian Hall in London.