{"id":224,"date":"2013-02-07T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birminghamegyptology.co.uk\/?p=224"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:28:22","slug":"the-vicissitudes-of-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/2013\/02\/07\/the-vicissitudes-of-george\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vicissitudes of George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/02\/george2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226 alignleft\" alt=\"George\" src=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/02\/george2-113x300.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/02\/george2-113x300.jpg 113w, https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/02\/george2.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>For some years students in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham have been watched over by George. George, an anthropomorphic coffin lid, stands in a glass case in the Institute\u2019s museum \u2013 a space also used for seminars and small group teaching \u2013 and has long been an object of curiosity. In a recent article published in\u00a0<i>Current Archaeology<\/i>\u00a0Emily Millward, currently studying for her PhD in Egyptology and working as an assistant in the Research and Cultural Collections department at the University, reveals a little of George\u2019s somewhat eventful history &#8230;&#8230;<i><a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.co.uk\/articles\/news\/meet-george-the-curious-history-of-an-egyptian-coffin-lid.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Archaeology<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Image: Coffin Lid of Ahmose, the University of Birmingham Research and Cultural Collections, BIRRC-X2000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years students in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham have been watched over by George. George, an anthropomorphic coffin lid, stands in a glass case in the Institute\u2019s museum \u2013 a space also used for seminars and small group teaching \u2013 and has long been an object of &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Vicissitudes of George\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/2013\/02\/07\/the-vicissitudes-of-george\/#more-224\" aria-label=\"More on The Vicissitudes of George\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-object-biography","no-featured-image-padding"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","post-thumbnail":"","chaplin_preview_image_low_resolution":"","chaplin_preview_image_high_resolution":"","chaplin_fullscreen":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>For some years students in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham have been watched over by George. George, an anthropomorphic coffin lid, stands in a glass case in the Institute\u2019s museum \u2013 a space also used for seminars and small group teaching \u2013 and has long been an object of curiosity. In a recent article published in\u00a0Current Archaeology\u00a0Emily Millward, currently studying for her PhD in Egyptology and working as an assistant in the Research and Cultural Collections department at the University, reveals a little of George\u2019s somewhat eventful history &#8230;&#8230;Current Archaeology Image: Coffin Lid of&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/category\/object-biography\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Object Biography<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Edward Mushett Cole","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Mushett Cole","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}