Item Petrie MSS 5.7.31b [lower left] - [27] Camels passing below my tomb.

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Petrie MSS 5.7.31b [lower left]

Title

[27] Camels passing below my tomb.

Date(s)

  • 1881-1882 (Creation)

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1 photograph

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Scope and content

  • Life on excavation: view of the Nile Valley during the flood with a caravan of camels (taken from Petrie's tomb at Giza).
    -Caption reads:
    'Camels passing below my tomb.
    Taken with sliding shutter in the diaphragm,
    but aperture is not enough for this rapidity.
    High Nile.'.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

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Petrie reference number

27