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Object photograph·fol. 56r

Fragment with incised signs

Long, narrow, pitted fragment with rows of incised marks, mounted on an album page
Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 56r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

A photograph mounted on a cream album page with a dark border. It shows a long, narrow, uneven fragment with a rough, pitted surface and many thin incised marks scattered in rows across it. Dark shadows and pale patches fill the surface, and the broken edges are irregular against a plain dark background.

English

Fragment with incised signs: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 56r.