M0001943EA: Reproduction of a photograph of a standing statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a deity of medicine" / M0001943EB: Reproduction of a photograph of the side-view of a seated statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a demigod"

Date:: June 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/18/25

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001912-M0002212WT/D/1/20/1/18
        M0001943EA: Reproduction of a photograph of a standing statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a deity of medicine" / M0001943EB: Reproduction of a photograph of the side-view of a seated statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a demigod"WT/D/1/20/1/18/25

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M0001943EA: Reproduction of a photograph of a standing statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a deity of medicine" / M0001943EB: Reproduction of a photograph of the side-view of a seated statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a demigod". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Statuette of I-M-Hotep, Egyptian Deity

Description

Two images on one negative: halftone reproductions of a photograph of a standing statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a deity of medicine" and of the side-view of a seated statuette or figurine of Imhotep (active 2667 B.C.-2648 B.C.) captioned "Imhotep as a demigod". They are reproduced from Haggard, Howard W.: Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine-man to doctor New York : Blue Ribbon Books, [1929].

Publication/Creation

June 1931

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an edition of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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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