M0019866: Cast of a statue of a man suffering from Pott's disease, Old Kingdom, Egypt

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Egypt, Man suffering from Pott's disease.

Four photographs showing different views of a cast of a statue, the original of which is held by the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, showing an Ancient Egyptian man with Pott's disease. Old Kingdom, Saqqara. It was purchased in Egypt by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1933 and accessioned in 1935 (accession number R81/1935).

June 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R81/1935

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.