M0005661: The fountain of life

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Painting (Coptic School): Eastern Holy Wells. Panacea for all ills Byzantine Plaque.

Oil painting on wood. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in Athens in 1930 and accessioned in 1931 (accession number CC 5289). Related images: V0017487

September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 44939i

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.