M0009076: Sakkara, Illustration of music and dance, Cairo Museum

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Sakkara, Illustration of music and dance, Cairo Museum

Reproduction of two photographs, the first is of a wall painting depicting people playing instruments and dancing and the second is of a carving depicting people dancing found in a tomb near Sakkara. The photographs are reproduced in Shafer, Heinrich and Andrae, Walter: Die Kunst des alten Orients, Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1925. Related images: M0006210, M0006211, M0006211EB, M0006212, M0009077

October 1944

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.