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Amarna Artifacts in the ROM’s Ancient Egypt Collection
By Laura Ranieri If you go up to the Museum’s third floor and make your way into the Ancient Egypt displays, you will quickly find yourself amid an impressive collection of objects dating from the Old Kingdom through to Ptolemaic times. This is just a representative sampling of the more than 30,0
Collection Care for Hellenistic Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt
iny and very fragile bits of unfired clay. They preserve a delicate impression of a carved sealstone like that from a signet ring. Scenes from Graeco-Egyptian mythology, as well as individual female and male portraits, and group portraits, are popular subjects. On average, each sealing is about 2
Weapon Wednesday: a Romano-Egyptian sword hilt
ome. It is the cast bronze hilt of a sword. It depicts a bird's head, which is actually the Horus falcon, as it has the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt on its head. Such influences from Ancient Egypt were common in Ptolomaic and Roman Egypt. The best known parallel we have to this sword grip
The Children's Miracle Network at The ROM!
n that you witness children jumping out of their seats to dance, learning about DNA, examining dinosaur fossils, and exploring the secrets of Ancient Egypt all in one day. On Monday, October 7, the Royal Ontario Museum was pleased to host the Children’s Miracle Network Program, welcoming 12
My Favourite Object: A "Tell Minis" Style Lustre-Ware Bowl
first thing you notice about this bowl is its decoration. It looks lile a sphinx, a mythical beast more popularly associated with the sphinx at Giza, Egypt. It was permitted to depict mythical beasts in Islamic law, whereas depictions of humans or animals were considered close to idolatry. Objects
Go with the Flow: Technology & Early Glass
as a flux makes a glass of lower softening temperature and high density. Possibly the oldest fragment of glass in the ROM (photographed in the Egypt gallery), other fragments *may* be older, but this is from the reliably-dated occupation of Tell al-Amarna in Egypt, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty
Erasing Mankind’s Heritage: the Monuments of Palmyra and their Devastation
Toronto and Associate Curator for the Ancient Near East at the ROM. He has excavated and surveyed extensively on sites in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Between 2004-10 he has co-directed excavations at Hamoukar, a large Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age site in northeastern Syria, excavate
Weapon Wednesday: Preparing for ROM Revealed
the Curatorial Centre is where I work, with collections from the three Curatorial sections dealing with Western Asia & the Islamic World, Ancient Egypt & Nubia, and East & South Asia. While the ROM focussed on expanding the galleries, at times what was originally temporary storage
Nail Art: Then and Now
Women have grown, groomed and decorated their fingernails for over 5000 years – From the women of Ancient Egypt to the nail salon industry that flourished during the 80s and 90s, nail trends have had authority over beauty regimes across regions and eras. By the late 20th century manicured fingern
Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend IV of IV: The Tunic
eaves one adult tunic and this has a garment-length of 92.0 cm. The ROM has 246 tunics or tunic fragments of the Late Roman to Byzantine periods from Egypt, of which 27 are sufficiently complete to be reconstructed (I would like to thank the ROM's Anu Liivandi for this information). A number