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LL/36763
Unidentified photographer
1958 (later)
Trephined skull excavated at Jericho in 1958 [Tomb 88] by Dr. Kathleen Kenyon, C.B.E., Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.

Gelatin silver print
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0004561, Library reference no.: Museum No. 277/1959)
 
It has been trephined in four places, these show different stages of healing and one of them is almost completely healed.
 
Circa 2200 B.C.
 
LL/36763


 

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