M0017012: Trephined skull in four places showing different stages of healing, excavated at Jericho in 1958 [Tomb 88]

Date:
August 1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/153/9
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Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Trephined skull in four places showing different stages of healing, excavated at Jericho in 1958 [Tomb 88]

Description

Two images on one negative: two views of a Bronze Age human skull excavated from Tomb 88 at Jericho in 1958 as part of the archaeological excavations directed by Kathleen Kenyon. The skull has four trephination holes, three of which show different stages of healing. Related images: L0004561

Publication/Creation

August 1958

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 2022.

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