M0009035: Seneb, a dwarf with his family: painted sculpture from his tomb

Previous title, replaced October 2020: The dwarf sener, group found in the necropolis at Gizeh.

Photograph of a sculpture of Seneb, a high-ranking Egyptian court official c.2520 B.C. with his wife and children. The sculpture was found with his tomb at the Giza necropolis in 1926. The sculpture is now held by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The photograph is part of a cutting from Aesculape vol.9, 1934, p.225. Related images: V0007440.

June 1944

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 2949i

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.