M0015346: Three Egyptian flint knives, finely worked

Date:
October 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/137/11
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M0015346: Three Egyptian flint knives, finely worked. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2021: Egyptian flint knives, finely worked.

Description

Photograph of three Egyptian flint knives. The one on the left is from a tomb at Gebelein (Al Gharirah) and was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R2327/1937). The others were also previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. None are held by Wellcome Collection.

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October 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R2327/1937

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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