M0019162: Impressions from two cylinder seals

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

Impressions from two cylinder seals. The one on the left was Sumerian and made of diorite incised with a lion fighting a bull and a repeated image of the sun god. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1938 (R2387/1938). The one on the right was made of black stone and carved with a conventional design. It was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2379/1938).

September 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: R2387/1938 and R2379/1938

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.