M0005427: Statue of Babylonian God of Healing, circa 5000 B.C. / M0005427EB: Photograph of the entrance of an unidentified European church, possibly Spanish

Date:
March 1938
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WT/D/1/20/1/44/52
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M0005427: Statue of Babylonian God of Healing, circa 5000 B.C. / M0005427EB: Photograph of the entrance of an unidentified European church, possibly Spanish. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Statue of Babylonian God of Healing, circa 5000B.C.

Description

Two images on one negative: one is a photograph of a statue of a Babylonian God that was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The other is a photograph, c.1930s, of the entrance to a church. The photographs were compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicine lecture in 1938.

Publication/Creation

March 1938

Physical description

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

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

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

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