M0006211: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC

Date:: 21 April 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/51/93

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0006102-M0006217WT/D/1/20/1/51
        M0006211: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BCWT/D/1/20/1/51/93

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M0006211: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, c. 2000 BC. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed, circa 2000BC.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a carving depicting the Egyptain Princess Kaiwit having her hair dressed with a cup bearer standing before her. Thebes, XII Dynasty. The original carving is held by the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt. It is reproduced in Shafer, Heinrich and Andrae, Walter: Die Kunst des alten Orients, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1925. Related images: M0006210, M0006211EB, M0006212, M0009076, M0009077

Publication/Creation

21 April 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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