M0011159: Relief in the tomb of Mereruka, Sakkara (Saqqara): feeding of poultry / M0011160: Relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakarra (Saqqara): hunting scene and boat building: right side

Date:: November 1949

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/99/13

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0011145-M0011254WT/D/1/20/1/99
        M0011159: Relief in the tomb of Mereruka, Sakkara (Saqqara): feeding of poultry / M0011160: Relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakarra (Saqqara): hunting scene and boat building: right sideWT/D/1/20/1/99/13

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M0011159: Relief in the tomb of Mereruka, Sakkara (Saqqara): feeding of poultry / M0011160: Relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakarra (Saqqara): hunting scene and boat building: right side. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2021: Egypt, Feeding Poultry, showing birds etc from the tomb of Meretuka, Sakkara

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is a photograph of a relief in the tomb of Meretuka, Sakkara (Saqqara), Egypt showing the feeding of poultry. The second is a photograph of a section of a relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakkara (Saqqara), Egypt showing a hunting scene and boat building. The photographs were taken by Lehnert and Landrock, Cairo, to whom the copyright belongs. The photographs were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession numbers PHO 2822 and PHO 2810). Related images: M0011161, M0011162.

Publication/Creation

November 1949

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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