How to Search the The Global Egyptian Museum

The search facility of the Global Egyptian Museum is extensive.  You can choose a broad search or a narrow one.  This page will show you how to use most of the search functions.  If you have more questions, once you are using the site, there is a contact email for specific help.  I emailed for help and got a prompt and helpful reply.

When you login to the site, you will see this page.  It is the general Objects search page.  You must indicate how you wish to narrow your search on this page and then click on Search.

 

Narrow your search by category:  There are menu choices under each picture.  You narrow the search by the progressive choice of menu items in each category: Museum, Objects, Material, Period and Site.   If you do not choose to narrow the search, and click on Search, you will see the first page of all 6000 items currently in the database.   I have given the menu items available for the first two categories under the illustration below. The Database is growing and more museums will be added.  There are currently three on the menu without items which are in progress of being added. Below, I have illustrated a search with only one category chosen ( Museum | Amsterdam).  You can see the depth of information that is available on any one object.   There is also an illustration of the type of interface that you get if you choose Objects | Advanced from the Objects menu. I have shown what would result if I narrowed a search by Museum and Objects. The database provides all the details any Egyptologist would want and certainly enough for any armchair archaeologist.   Museums (number of items):  Amsterdam (100) Brussels (1500) Dublin (1500) Florence (100) Lille (100) Lisbon (100) Liverpool (1500) Madrid (100) Vienna (1500) Leiden (0) Leipzig (0) St Petersburg (0) Objects All objects Architecture Clothing Furniture Implements/Utensils Jewelry Models Organic Remains Receptacle/Vessel Religious/Cult Objects Scarabs Sculpture Tomb Equipment Written Documents Advanced

Search by keyword: Just type in your keyword and click on Search.  I did one on Hatshepsut.  A number of items appeared and each had the same detail and depth available as shown below in the sample search of the Amsterdam Museum.

 

Sample Search: Narrow by  One Category	All Items in One Museum :  Amsterdam
This illustrates the simplest search...  Choosing just one museum, all objects, in all categories. Use the menu to choose Amsterdam which has 100 items. Click on Search. You will see the following screen.
Here are the first 18 objects of the 100 objects in the database from the Amsterdam Museum. Click on an object.  I chose the statue. The following information about that statue was brought up.
Each item is shown in a number of aspects (1|2|3)  and has several types of information. This is Aspect 1 (frontal view) and a general Description of the Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Statue. The symbols in the bottom left corner let you move around in the search selection.
Aspect 2 of the object is a rear view.  I have chosen that aspect when I chose the Information menu item.
The Hieroglyphs menu item shows any inscriptions on the object.  You can choose a Transliteration, a Translation or the Names included in the inscription from the menu at the top of the page. Also note that you can enlarge the hieroglyphs using the Zoom facility at the top.
The Bibliography lists any published comment on the item.  I chose Aspect 3 for display on this page.
The Advanced menu item is a presentation of all the information in the database.  This is available in several views.  The view shown is the Basic Info.   Dating, Textual Data, Actors and Reference information are available from the menu at the top. This Advanced option is different from the Search Objects menu choice "Advanced".  The result of using Objects | Advanced as a choice to narrow the search is shown below.

Narrowing your search with two categories Museums | Amsterdam and Objects | Advanced When you are narrowing your search, you can choose "Advanced" from the Objects menu.  You will immediately be given a hierarchy list. You click on the + to get each item to expand to show more refined choices.  I clicked on Architecture and then Architectural Element  and got the next screen.
On this screen you can see all the types of architectural elements.  Some sub-categories have further sub-categories (see the +'s). I clicked on Stela so that I could see all the Stela in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.  I was then returned to the Objects | Search screen.
This is what I saw.   It shows my choice of the Amsterdam Museum with an Advanced specification for Objects (stela) and All Materials, All Periods and All Sites.  I then clicked on Search, and the following collection of objects was shown.
Here are all the Egyptian Stela in the Amsterdam  Museum. Each object has the same depth of information as shown above in the search for all items in the Amsterdam Museum.

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