Research by world leading egyptologist, Dr Tasha Dobbin-Bennett, has revealed a 3000 year old amulet in Raglan Museum. The amulet was found in the desert sand in Egypt during World War One by Raglanite the late Frank Gibbison.
Dr Dobbin-Bennett, a New Zealander who is Assistant Professor of Art History at Oxford College of Emory, Georgia, USA, noticed the amulet on the Raglan Museum’s website. The item was described on the website as “Small turquoise figure with headdress. Fragile and held together with wire.” It was donated to the museum by Coralie Ormiston (nee Gibbison) in 1968, shortly after the Museum Society was established. It is now on display in the Raglan Museum’s WW1 exhibition.
Dr Dobbin-Bennett identified the small amulet as a representation of the Egyptian God Bes. Using a series of photos of objects representing Bes over thousands of years she was able to date the object as being 3000 years old. In other research she placed production of the amulet to the area around modern day Cairo. Dorothy Baucke, a descendent of Frank Gibbison, along with her family and Museum members were at the Museum on Monday 4th February at a Raglan Museum Society meeting in the Museum office to hear a presentation by Dr Dobbin-Bennett on her research and findings.
3000 year OLD please. A 3000 year amulet? what does that mean? it commemorates something being around for 3000 years? is so what was that event. Just saying.
Picky … picky!!
As ‘old’ is used elsewhere in the article it is obviously an inadvertent typo.
If this small error offends you so much, perhaps you should volunteer your proof-reading skills.
Thanks Ann. This is just Rodger doing his best. I’ve added the ‘old’ to cheer Ed up.
Very exciting as this is my mother in the photo who is the daughter of Frank, as is Coralie. The picture however is not of Frank he is seated in the photo just out of shot.
Thanks Russell. I have changed the photo to one that should be of Frank. Please confirm it is correct now.