Femur bone from a prehistoric cemetery

Made:
before 1 BCE

Right femur (part), human, possibly with periosteal sarcoma, from prehistoric cemetery, Jebel Moya, Sudan, excavated c. 1935

Shaft of a right femur, possibly with periosteal sarcoma. Excavated from a prehistoric cemetery in Jebel Moya, Sudan in c. 1935

Shaft of a right femur

before 1 BCE
Distal section of a right femur, possibly with periosteal sarcoma. Excavated from a prehistoric cemetery in Jebel Moya, Sudan in c. 1935

Distal section of a right femur

before 1 BCE
Fragments of a right femur, possibly with periosteal sarcoma. Excavated from a prehistoric cemetery in Jebel Moya, Sudan in c. 1935

Fragments of a right femur

before 1 BCE

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A263780
Materials:
bone
Measurements:
length 275 mm
type:
human remains and bone
credit:
Wellcome Trust

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