M0006302: Terracotta head of the demon, Huwawa, circa 2000BC

Date:
May 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/52/83
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M0006302: Terracotta head of the demon, Huwawa, circa 2000BC. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Terracotta head of the demon, Huwawa, circa 2000BC

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a terracotta head of the Huwawa (Humbaba), whose face was inspired by the convolutions of the intestines. Reproduced in Contenau, Georges: La médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie, Paris: Librairie Maloine, 1938, figure 51A. Related images: M0006298, M0006299, M0006300, M0006301

Publication/Creation

May 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2020.

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