M0019339: Anterior aspect of a mummified priest, from Ruffer: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt (1921)

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Anterior aspect of the mummy of a priest.

Reproduction of an artistic depiction of a mummified priest of the 21st dynasty showing a large huge abscess into which pus from a tubercular lesion had drained. The image is published in Ruffer, Sir Marc Armand: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1921. Related images: M0006275, M0009046, M0009048, M0009049, M0009050, M0009051, M0017177, M0017178, M0017179, M0019338, M0019340

February 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2022.

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