M0009068: Jaw from a body found in a Giza pyramid

Date:
21 September 1944
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/79/62
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M0009068: Jaw from a body found in a Giza pyramid. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Jaw from Gizeh Pyramid.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of the mandible of an Ancient Egyptian from a Giza pyramid. B.C.). The crown of the first molar is completely destroyed by caries leaving two carious stumps. Reproduced in Ruffer, Marc Armand: Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, [1921]. Related images: M0009067, M0009069, M0009070

Publication/Creation

21 September 1944

Physical description

1 photograph 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 2020.

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