Seeds from grave - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26699 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Image | Plant Name | 8.01 NYMPHAEACEAE Nelumbium nucifera | Entry Book Number | 19.1978.24 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds from grave | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Egypt | TDWG Region | Egypt | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds from grave | Geography Description | Egypt, Hawara | ||
| Uses | Seeds from graveUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Flinders Petrie W | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1888 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Seeds in a box from a grave in the cemetery at Hawara. c. AD 320. Found in wood box together with a coin of the age of Constantine (BC 340). Seeds with coats removed are the result of an attempted germination, Dec 1925. Seeds quite brown, inside but structure of radicle and plumule was preserved. AW Exell. | ||||