M0015414: Child birth scene, fragment of marble Greco-Roman bas relief, 1st-4th century A.D.

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Child birth scene, Greco-Roman, 1stC-4thC

Photograph of a fragment of marble bas relief showing Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth, holding a torch alongside a mother on a couch and a child being held by another woman. The relief was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4516/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

October 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R4516/1936

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.