Classes of material

Amulets; basketry; canopic boxes; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant materials; foundation deposits; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; mummies (animal); mummies (human); musical instruments; offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; ‘Ptah-Sokar-Osiris’ figures; relief sculpture; sarcophagi; scarabs / sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; slate palettes; soul houses; stelae (stone); stelae (wood); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wall paintings; wooden figures

Periods represented

Predynastic
Early Dynastic
Old Kingdom
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom
Third Intermediate Period
Late Period
Ptolemaic Period
Roman Period
Coptic
Islamic

Related material

Various casts of sculptures and reliefs
Photographs
100 years of fairly complete correspondence and of distribution lists
Manuscripts on textiles by T. Midgley
Inventory of all textiles found at Karanis in 1924-5 (only other copy in Michigan)

Comments

In addition to the basic Chadwick Museum collection, Bolton Museum holds:

A large portion of the collection of W. H. Lever (on long term loan from the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, where the remainder is displayed)
A small collection formed by Alderman J. R. Ragdale in the early 20th Century and given to the Museum in 1979
300 or more pieces from the Wellcome collection given in 1982, including material from the Hilton Price, MacGregor and Rustafjaell collections
Some 60 per cent of the Egyptian material formerly in the Tamworth Castle Museum, given in 1989 (the remainder having gone to Birmingham), including items from MacGregor
A small number of objects have been purchased from the 1960s onwards