M0007477: Plaster cast statue of Adapa

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sumerian deity of Healing, Adapa, plaster cast.

Photograph of a plaster cast statue depicting Adapa, an Apkallu figure of the mesopotamian gods, on a plinth with metal caption as displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The statue was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 31st December 1935 (R194/1935) but is not held by Wellcome Collection. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 27th November 1936 (PHO 9014).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 9014. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.