M0018875: Replica of a Roman vaginal speculum

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Vaginal speculum. Facsimile of the original found at Pompeii and now in the Naples Museum

Photograph of a replica vaginal speculum found at Pompeii and now in the Naples Museum. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1939 (accessioned number R441/1939)

November 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R441/1939

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.