M0012307: Cast of a bronze artificial leg, front and side view

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Roman artificial leg of bronze.

Photograph of a cast of a Roman bronze artificial leg fastened to a wooden core, shown from the front and side. The original leg was excavated from a tomb near Capua and held by the Royal College of Surgeons but destroyed between 1939-1945. This item was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R5298/1936) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

February 1952

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers for the items depicted in the glass plate negative:R5298/1936

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

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