M0011905: Photograph of a carved wooden kohl (ancient eye cosmetic) container from the temple of Hatshepsut (1507-1478 BC), Deir el-Bahari, Egypt

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Kohl container in carved wood.

Photograph of a carved wooden kohl (ancient eye cosmetic) from the temple of Hatshepsut (1507-1478 BC), Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. The photograph of the container is included in the publication Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrating The History of Pharmacy, an exhibition held at the Wellcome Research Institution, London, 4 May - 28 September 1951. It was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is no longer held by Wellcome Collection.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R252/1939
The photograph is listed as figure 1 in the exhibition catalogue. A digitised version is available online

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.