Creatures of the Nile

Garstang museum of archaeology

About Creatures of the Nile

Creatures of the Nile was the Garstang Museum’s 2024 exhibition, hosted by their sister museum, the Victoria Gallery and Museum. In 2023, I photographed a number of objects to be used for the exhibition, and in the accompanying online exhibition. Keep scrolling to see more photos, or click the button to read more articles about my work on the project.

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  • A fragment from a ceramic vessel featuring painted baboons, one holding a branch, and a red-painted rim.
  • The close-up of the fly pendant.
  • The photo showing the amulet from a front quarter-profile view, making the face, crown, eye and hands all visible.
  • a wooden figurine of Bes as a front-facing dwarf with a beard.
  • An ancient Egyptian small, tubular pot held by a standing baboon.
  • An ancient Egyptian small, tubular pot held by a seated baboon.
  • The side of an ancient Egyptian small, tubular pot with the goddess Taweret inscribed.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of a recumbant ibex.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of an ichneumon.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of a recumbant hare.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of two ba-birds - human-headed birds - with sundisk headdresses.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of Thoth as a standing man with an ibis head.
  • An ancient Egyptian amulet of Nefertem - a male human god with a headdress of tall feathers atop a lotus flower, standing on a recumbant lion. The amulet is missing the mid section between his stomach and knees.
  • The head from an ancient Egyptian amulet of Nefertem - a male human god with a headdress of tall feathers atop a lotus flower.
  • The bottom of an ancient Egyptian amulet of Nefertem showing his feet standing on a recumbant lion.
  • A standard amulet of Thoth as a human man wearing just a kilt with the head of an ibis and a traditional Egyptian wig. He stands in a striding pose with his hands by his sides.
  • An ancient Egyptian limestone statuette with a human head with a plain, undecorated tube-shaped body made to look like a Canopic jar.
  • An ancient Egyptian limestone statuette with a falcon head with a plain, undecorated tube-shaped body made to look like a Canopic jar.
  • A fragment of a brown ceramic pot showing incised animals.
  • A fragment of a brown ceramic pot showing incised animals.
  • A fragment of green faience decorared with a horse.
  • A rough, ceramic pot of the Egyptian god Bes. His facial features are made from hand-sculpted pieces adhered to the pot.
  • A fragment of a ceramic pot with a painted frog.
  • A fragment of a ceramic pot showing a leaping hyena.
  • The head from a figurine of a man with a baboon at the back of his head.
  • A bronze statuette of a bull with a headdress.
  • A bronze statuette of Bast as a woman with a cat's head. She's holding a sistrum and a scarab beetle.
  • A fragment of limestone with inscribed hieroglyphs, including a bird, water, a mouth and an arm.
  • The head from a figurine of an Egyptian goddess. She has a tall headdress with a sundisk and crescent moon.
  • A fragment of stone with a sketch of an ox painted in red.
  • A fragment of stone with sketches of animals painted in red, including a gazelle and a bird.
  • A triangular fragment of limestone with a swallow hieroglyph carved in raised relief.
  • A square piece of stone with a duck hieroglyph carved in raised relief and traces of red and blue paint in places.
  • A broken rectangle of yellow stone with the top half of a carved falcon. The bird has detail carved into the face and wing.
  • A fragment of a square piece of limestone with a quail chick hieroglyph carved in raised relief. The bird is plain, with no detail, and looks unfinished.
  • A fragment of limestone with part of a bird hieroglyph. There's remnants of blue and red paint.
  • A fragment of red-painted stone with a hieroglyph of an Egyptian vulture carved in raised relief.
  • A fragment of limestone with a carving in raised relief of an akh-bird - a bird with a long, curved bill and crested feathers at the back of its head.
  • A fragment of a limestone statue showing the head of a cobra wearing the red crown of Egypt topped by two tall, plumed feathers.

Artefacts in Focus #3: a wooden statuette of Bes

The necklace is arranged in a spiral. It is mostly small, round carnelian beads with a small fly pendant in the middle, flanked by a few beads of assorted shapes and materials.

Artefacts in focus #2: a string of carnelian beads with a fly pendant

Artefacts in focus #1: an ornate amulet of Thoth

The photo showing the amulet from a front quarter-profile view, making the face, crown, eye and hands all visible.

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