M0015215: Stone carving of a warrior with spear and shield, reverse side of a stone carving of the head of Silenus

Date:
September 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/135/92
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M0015215: Stone carving of a warrior with spear and shield, reverse side of a stone carving of the head of Silenus. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2021: Head of Silenus, on the back is warrior with spear and shield, reverse showing warrior.

Description

Photograph of a stone carving of the head of Silenus. On the back is carved a warrior with a spear and shield. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R14430/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0015214, M0015216

Publication/Creation

September 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R14430/1936

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

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

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