M0019218EB: Recipe an ointment for the removal of wrinkles: hieroglyphic transliteration

Transliteration of the hieroglyphics found on a section of papyrus giving a recipe for an ointment for the removal of wrinkles and thus transforming an old man into a youth. Published in Breasted, James Henry: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus : published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration, Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, 1930. Related images: M0019218EA

October 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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