M0011145: Cylinder seal showing suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health / M0011146: Cylinder seal showing animals in combat and sacred symbols

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Ivory seal with incising to give required impression.

Two images on one negative: the first is of a cylinder seal made of ivory. It was purchased at auction in 1930 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2373/1938). It was exhibited in the Museum as part of a display of Assyrian and Babylonian cylinders. Related images: M0011143. The second is of a cylinder seal made of haematite. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R523/1937). Neither item is held by Wellcome Collection.

November 1949

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

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R2363/1938 and acc. number R523/1937

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 2021.

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