M0000071: Statues of Aesculapius and Telesphore, Musee Lavigerie, Carthage

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Musii Lavigerie, Aesculapius and Telesphore, Carthage

Photograph of two sculptures of the Ancient Greek Gods Aesculapius and Telesphorus at the Musee Lavigerie, now the Carthage National Museum, Tunisia. The photograph was received by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum from Captain Johnston-Saint on 25 June 1929. Captain Johnston-Saint was a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee who travelled extensively in Europe, the Middle East and India purchasing items for the museum.

25 June 1929

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

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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