M0001982: Reproduction of an original bronze statue, on a black base with lettering, of Imhotep in situ at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Plaster figure of I-M-Hotep, Egyptian God of Physicians

Reproduction of an original bronze statue of Imhotep, Egyptian god of medicine and healing, on a black base with lettering "I-EM-HETEP also called Imhotep "he who cometh in peace", in situ at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

17 June 1931

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome holds an accession register which possibly provides an entry for the item

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.