Manchester Museum
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 6 Apr 2014 22:47
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Welcome and a Day of
Learning
 We had a lovely welcome in Manchester
on Friday. Josh and Ben dressed up for
us.
   Bird and Danny gave us their room for our stay. Beds was soon settled and Ben
insisted he had a bed mate to keep him company whilst
we went on our adventures. Bruce stood by and
watched.
 On Saturday Bird, Bear and I had a
couple of hours retail therapy and today we all set off for a museum day. We
began the Manchester Museum.
  A gentle bimble around the dinosaurs.
       A bimble around the Natural History
displays.
  In Ancient Worlds on the first floor
I was wowed by the mummy and coffins of Asru,
presented to the museum in 1825. They were the first Egyptian antiquities to
enter the collection. The style of the coffins’ decoration dates to between
Dynasty 25-26 or 747-525 BC. Asru was a temple chantress at Karnak and she
was buried in Western Thebes. Her mummy had been unwrapped before it arrived at
the museum. Modern examinations have revealed many details about Asru’s health
during her life.
   What is so amazing is the condition of
her feet, the quality of the
cotton covering and the coffin itself.
Incredible.
  This stone
block was originally placed over the doorway in a small chapel that was
built within the earlier temple of Ramesses II, called the Ramesseum. On one
side a deeply carved hieroglyphic inscription contains the cartouche of Ramesses
III below a winged sun disc. A painted scene on the other side shows the sacred
boat of the god Sokar flanked by the goddess Isis to the left and her sister,
the goddess Nephthys, to the right. Dated in Dynasty 20 or 1186-1069 BC. We just
loved the bees.
 The building
itself is quite something.
    Some living
chaps too.
   A great
poster, Grandpa and Josh sporting his new
gappy smile, Bird and Ben.
 A grand old
chap.
   I adored the
crabs on this piece of ancient material. We stopped at the ‘comments’ stand, Josh wrote
“Mummy’s are only found in Egypt” and we hung it on a peg.
 Time to leave through the main foyer.
ALL IN ALL A GREAT
BIMBLE |