M0016845: Scheyerer cross (double cross) / M0016846: Zachariah's cross / M0016847: St. Sebastian's Arrow

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Scheyrer cross, a double cross with lettering.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Zachariah's cross.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: St. Sebastian's Arrow with the letters IHS.

Photograph of items from the Hildburgh Collection of Austrian and Bavarian Amulets acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (Hildburgh Collection no. 3860, 3861 and 3862). A Scheyerer cross, a Zachariah's cross featuring Zacharias and his blessing on one side and St. Benedict and the lettering of the cross of St. Benedict on the other, and St Sebastian's arrow with the letters IHS. Related images: M0016836-M0016864

1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds an archive file concerning the collection: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.4/1

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.

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