M0006276: Eygptian surgical papyrus, from Breasted: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus (1930)

Date:: 09 May 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/52/57

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        M0006276: Eygptian surgical papyrus, from Breasted: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus (1930)WT/D/1/20/1/52/57

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M0006276: Eygptian surgical papyrus, from Breasted: <i>The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus</i> (1930). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Eygptian Medicine: Papyrus

Description

Reproduction of a section of papyrus containing an Ancient Egyptian surgical treatise. The reproduction is from Breasted, James Henry: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus : published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. Related images: M0009019, M0013435, M0013486

Publication/Creation

09 May 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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