M0019170: Impressions from two cylinder seals

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

Impressions from two cylinder seals. On the left is a black stone seal incised with a conventional design. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1938 (R2379/1938). The other seal is Assyrian and is made of soapstone and incised with crudely cut images of seated a figure and an animal. It was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1931 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R2380/1938)

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: R2379/1938 and R2380/1938

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.