M0013026: A human skull from Tell el Duweir

Date:
July 1953
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/116/46
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M0013026: A human skull from Tell el Duweir. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Skulls from Tel el Duweir

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a human skull trepanned in the right parietal, taken during the Wellcome-Marston archaeological research expedition at Tell el Duweir between 1936 and 1937. This skull was one of a group of 500 in a late 8th Century deposit of human remains which filled the 18th dynasty chamber, referred to as Tomb 120 in expedition reports. Related images: M0013027, M0013028, M0013029, M0013030, M0013031, M0013032, M0013033, M0013034

Publication/Creation

July 1953

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the associated report including photographs: WT/A/2/3/2

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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 2022.

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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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