Identity area
Reference code
NEWB4/26
Title
The mandrake
Date(s)
- c.1937 Approximate date based on bibliographic references (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)
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Scope and content
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'.
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Former reference code
PEN/G.XIII/F.H