User talk:Captmondo/Archives/2012/March

Re: Egyptian pictures
Thank you very much for the offer. I'm always looking for good illustrations for articles. I appreciate any photographs of Egyptian deities you can take, and I think that Ramesses III's sarcophagus lid (seen here, although it looks like you won't have any trouble finding it) would be a good image for the Ancient Egypt project, in general, to have.

My other specific request is this statue of Isis nursing Horus. Wikimedia Commons has several images of the same subject, but in those pictures either the quality of the image or the artwork isn't as good as I would like. You might be able to do better, depending on the circumstances. (The British Museum once foiled my photographic efforts using nothing but a dastardly shelf, so I'll understand if you can't.) A. Parrot (talk) 19:32, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Keith, Thanks for the offer too, I haven't edited much on wikipedia recently and am much less active since I now have full accreditation in my field of work. I don't know what images that Commons needs in the museum you mentioned. All I can say is to be on the lookout for any high quality pictures of statues or any Egyptian artifacts. You never know what Commons may not have have. I got two images uploaded here and here of rare statues and stelas belonging to 2 Egyptian kings from a Greek and Portugese museum by cooperative flickr account owners. So nothing obvious springs to my mind. But if you see anything of high quality at this museum, take a photo. After all, you never know what might be important. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 06:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I hate to say it, but I have discovered this morning that the Fitzwilliam Museum has a strict no photography policy (http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/documents/PolicyonPhotographyinthegalleries.pdf) so I was premature in asking for requests. My apologies to you both.

All going well, I will be back in the UK for much of the month of May and am hoping to see some of the other Egyptological collections while in the country. Will keep you both advised as to what I am able to photograph.

Am hoping however to add to my Egyptological library while here, so all is not lost. Given that the Fitzwilliam has photos of their collection online, I wonder whether it might be possible to request that I be allowed to take pictures of a specific piece when I am here next. Will ask.

Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 08:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)