M0019057: Terracotta votive offerings representing the uterus, Roman

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Votive terracotta offerings representing the uterus. Roman.

Photograph of three Roman votive offerings in the form of a uterus. One is wrinkled to represent the uterus after delivery. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R2479/1936). The middle item was purchased by the Museum in Rome in c.1924 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R3387/1936). There are no particulars about the third item.

May 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for two of the items: R2479/1936 and R3387/1936

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.