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Drawings of teraphim (idol) figures of the goddess Astarte placed in Palestinian sites to ensure fertility and health. The reproductions are from an unknown German publication.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0008371-M0008471

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0008371: Bullet extractors, 16th and 18th century

M0008372: Group of surgical instruments, 17th, 18th and 19th century

M0008373: Surgical instruments, 15th, 16th and 18th century

M0008374: Five specula, 14th 15th and 16th century

M0008375: Various types of speculum, 17th and 18th century

M0008376: Amputation saws, 16th, 17th and 18th century

M0008377: Four amputation saws, 17th century

M0008378: Four amputation saws, 17th century

M0008379: Trephines and specula, 5th to 18th century

M0008380: Case of surgical instruments

M0008381: Ophthalmic instruments

M0008382: Dental forceps and forceps, 16th century

M0008383: Case of lithotomy instruments

M0008384: Case of lithotomy instruments

M0008385: Six lancets and scarificator and case

M0008386: Lancets and cases, 18th century

M0008387: Pocket lancets and cases, 18th and 19th century

M0008388: Pocket cases of surgical instruments, 17th and 18th century

M0008389: Dental instruments, circumcision knife and lancet, 18th century

M0008390: Two cases of surgical instruments, one ophthalmic

M0008391: Bistouries and surgical instruments

M0008392: Two cases of dental instruments, 16th and 17th century

M0008393: Two cases of surgical instruments, 16th and 18th century.

M0008394: Surgical instruments, 18th and 19th century

M0008395: Lancets, 18th and 19th century

M0008396: Case of lithotomy instruments, 19th century

M0008397: Case of surgical instruments, 18th century

M0008398: Vaginal speculum, 16th century

M0008399: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008400: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008401: Set of trepanning instruments

M0008402: Case of trepanning instruments, 18th century

M0008403: Case of trepanning instruments, 17th-18th century.

M0008404: Case of trepanning instruments, 16th-17th century.

M0008405: Case of surgical instruments, mid 18th century

M0008406: Case of surgical instruments, 18th century

M0008407: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008408: Set of trepanning instruments

M0008409: Set of trepanning instruments, late 18th century

M0008410: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008411: Set of trepanning instruments, 18th century

M0008412: Set of trepanning instruments, 17th-18th century.

M0008413: Set of trepanning instruments, 18th century

M0008414: Set of trepanning instruments

M0008415: Model of a surgical elevator

M0008416: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008417: Case of surgical instruments, 17th-18th century

M0008418: Amputation and trepanning instruments, early 17th century

M0008419: Military surgeon's trepanning instruments, early 18th century

M0008420: Military surgeon's trepanning instruments, early 17th century

M0008421: Case of trepanning instruments

M0008422: Case of trepanning instruments, 18th century

M0008423: Case of lithotomy instruments, 18th century

M0008424: 20 brass bleeding cups

M0008425: Specula and surgical instruments, 17th century

M0008426: Surgical instruments, 15th-17th century.

M0008427: Pocket containers and surgical instruments, 18th century

M0008428: Scarificators of various types

M0008429: Medicine chest and bottles

M0008430: Knives and Arab cupping vessels

M0008431: Group photograph taken at a British Medical Association meeting, Carlisle, 1896

M0008432: Fragments of stone carving

M0008433: Relief showing the Syro-Palestinian 'Mother Goddess'.

M0008434: Two reliefs showing fertility goddess Kadest

M0008435: Relief showing Marduk riding upon his sacred animal

M0008436: Hittite and Egyptian types of Astarte plaques

M0008437: Statuette and relief of the Syro-Palestinian plague god Resp

M0008438EA: Relief of the Syro-Palestinian plague-god Resp / M0008438EB: Statuette of the Syro-Palestinian plague-god Resp

M0008439: Ancient Canaanite teraphim: figurines of fertility goddess

M0008441: Statue of Nabu and drawing of Adad

M0008442: Babylonian prototype of the goddess Astarte holding a baby

M0008443: The Merneptah stele, including inscription

M0008445: A dolmen outside Gezer

M0008445: Plaques of the Sumerian grain goddess Ninsaba, c.2000 B.C.

M0008446: Physical anthropology of Semitic peoples

M0008447: Mesha Stele

M0008448: Physical anthropology of Sumerians

M0008449: Dolmen in Palestine

M0008450: Sumerian seal showing votaries approaching the moon god, Sin, c.2400 B.C.

M0008451: Sumerian seal of Ad-da showing sunrise, c.2500 B.C.

M0008452: Portrait of James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

M0008453: Portrait of Laurent Cerise (1807-1869)

M0008454: The London Medical Papyrus

M0008455: A page from the Ebers Papyrus, written c.1500 B.C.

M0008456: The Berlin Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus), 18th Dynasty

M0008457: Portrait of John Chambers (1470-1549)

M0008458: An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyt

M0008459: A man attended by a surgeon

M0008460: Tobias curing the blindness of Tobit

M0008461: Court of the Myrtles and the Harem, The Alhambra, Granada

M0008462: Crochets used during the embalming process / M0008463: Knives and hooks used in the embalming process

M0008464: Dies, punches and measures: apparatus used to make tabloids

M0008465: Brockendon seal and impression

M0008466: Portrait of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

M0008467: Portrait of Silas Mainville Burroughs (1846-1895)

M0008468: Portrait of Robert Clay Sudlow (1845-1914)

M0008469: Sir Henry Wellcome with staff of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum

M0008470: Burroughs Wellcome & Co stand at the British Medical Association Exhibition, 1895

M0008471: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

M0008440: Teraphim figures of Astarte from Palestine

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M0008440: Teraphim figures of Astarte from Palestine

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