Maize cob - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26839 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Maize cob | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Egypt | TDWG Region | Egypt | ||
| Parts Held | Maize cob | Geography Description | Egypt, Saqqara | ||
| Uses | Maize cobUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | University College London | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Martin GT | Collector No | 143B | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Memo to Dr Cutler & Richard Moore from Nigel Hepper. Date: 30.1.78. No. 143B The enclosed plant was included with the Ancient Egyptian material from Saqqara sent in by Dr Martin. Although it looks like a Zingiber ? inflorescence you will no, te that the head detaches from the stalk. I enclose a head of maize picked up from the ground by the students plots and think it looks similar in which case it cannot (or should not) be pre-Columbus. Could you please check this and comment on the identity, of the stalk?x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ABroken cob sampled (2 florets) for radiocarbon dating for Carl Johanessen 16/02/02 Mark Nesbitt. Result: post - 1945 | ||||