M0019165: Impressions from two cylinder seals

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Impression from cylinder seal.

Impressions from two cylinder seals. On the left is a stone seal incised with a man standing before the Sumerian god Shamash and an attendant leading a man before the god Astarte. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1924 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2374/1938). The other seal is incised with impressions of gems. It was purchased at auction by the Musuem in 1919 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2376/1938)

September 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R2374/1938 and R2376/1938

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

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