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GALTON - Galton Papers
2 - Scientific Papers
9 - Fingerprints and Personal Identification
6 - Fingerprints
11 - Sets of Fingerprints
6 - Fingerprints on Objects
StorageSite
UCL Special Collections
Level
Item
Reference Number
GALTON/2/9/6/11/6/2
Title
Fingerprints in Egyptian Clay
Date
1400 BC
Date2
1894
Description
Ancient Egyptian clay mould, marked with the print of a palm of a small hand. A label by Galton states that the mould dates from around 1400 BC at Tell el Amarna and was given to him by the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie in 1894.
Extent
1 object in a box
AccessStatus
Open
AccessConditions
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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