Object photograph·fol. 35r

Small round objects in eight wooden trays

Eight wooden trays in two rows, each holding rows of small round objects in circular recesses
Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 35r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Eight shallow wooden trays are arranged in two rows of four on a dark ground. Each tray has rows of round recesses, and each recess holds a small, flat, pale disc with a worn surface. Small white tags sit beneath many of the discs. The photograph is mounted on a cream album page with a decorative border at the left edge.

English

Small round objects in eight wooden trays: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 35r.