M0015412: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Large foot of porphyry, from the Hope collection.

Photograph of a large sculpted foot, likely to be a votive offering or the foot from a very large Roman statue. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1925 and accessioned in 1926 (accession number R27169) and again in 1936 (accession number R578/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0015411, M0015413

October 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R27169 and acc. number R578/1936

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 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.