Stephen Quirke- Petrie Museum Introduction

Stephen Quirke is Curator of the Petrie Museum, London.

I was fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of meeting Stephen this year. He was in my home town talking about the Petrie Museum Collection and its wonderful founder Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie.

The wonderful lecture has fuelled my own interests in the museum and its founder.


Stephen I would describe as softly spoken, passionate, extremely well informed and truly an inspiring lecturer. From the start i found every sentence littered with factual information which i just had to record, for future viewing. I actually found that i wrote very little. Not due to anything other than the fact i didn't want to look away from Stephen's presentation (complete with a gremlin-filled laptop, which tried and failed to throw Stephen from his trail) in case i missed something.

The video is a very short introduction to Stephen Quirke, The Petrie Museum and the duties of a Curator.

Regards,
Stuart

Hatshepsut Project Museum Database - Example

The Petrie Museum example is now completed. So far 70 items have been listed. As the database will not be visible publicly for a while, i wish to share a single entry (below) which will be the format of all items listed on the database:

Museum: Petrie Museum, London, England

Item/ Acquisition Number: UC14351

Object: Statuette (Djehuty)

Type: Seated

Material: Limestone

Link to Hatshepsut: Djehuty, Cartouches of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III

Origination:

Findspot: Deir el Bahri

Discovery Details:

Acquisition Details: “Acquired by Flinders Petrie”

Acquisition Date: 1887

Photograph:  Permissions not yet obtained

The finished database will have hyperlinks on the following fields:

• Museum
• Item/Acquisition Number
• Photograph

Any gaps which appear, as with in the above example- where we have "origination"  left blank will be down to me having no knowledge on this information. ALL gaps will be filled in should that information become available to me through my own research or by leads and information provided by those who can help (the database will be made publicly available as read only and obviously will be free of charge to use as a research tool and information gathering excercise available to EVERYONE). I will be the only person who will have the "EDIT" option, unless i obtain help (which is highly likely if Wikipedia is to be the platform).

Please add any comments you wish to share with me. The previous comment by Tim was very useful and gave me the motivation to redesign and complete the above template and to complete (for now) the data entry involved in the Petrie Museum section of the database. I will now add the above template to the next few museums and see how it looks.

Regards,
Stuart

Hatshepsut - Hierakonpolis

The Petrie Museum houses many small finds (from Hatshepsut) such as scarabs, foundation deposits, tools, vessel fragments.

Searching through their collection this evening i came across a foundation plaque (UC8532) which was found in excavations by Petrie at Hierakonpolis, Egypt. This is the first mention of this site i have been able to locate through my own research, so further details will follow once they become available to me.

Tomorrow i attend a day school about Petrie (good timing!). I may be able to find out about excavations by Petrie in this area. Certainly i will ask the right questions which will at least point me in the right direction.

To find out about modern excavations at Hierakonpolis, see Hierakonpolis Online and follow the links.

Regards,
Stuart

Hatshepsut - The Petrie Museum

Sir William Flinders Petrie - does he really need an introduction? Well, i think so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie

His museum, in London is one of the places we are able to view artifacts from the reign of Hatshepsut. I feel an expensive day trip to London heading my way...

Petrie Museum Online

A interesting assortment of items, mostly fragments. I am sure these will prove useful.

Regards,
Stuart