- NEWB4/26
- Unidad documental compuesta
- c.1937 Approximate date based on bibliographic references
Parte dePercy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Mandrake (Scorpion King)' containing a handbound notebook titled 'Mandrake' in which where are notes on a hieroglyphic sign in the shape of a rosette which precedes the royal name on the Scorpion King's Macehead (Ashmolean Museum, AN1896-1908.E3632) and which Newberry identifies as the mandrake.
Includes:
-Notes on occurences of the hieroglyphic sign
-Tracings of occurences of the hieroglyphic sign including handle of a flint knife (Cairo Museum, CG 14265), an ivory spoon and an Astrabad vessel
-Small and large photograph of a mandrake plant
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 1'.