M0018878EA: Roman terracota lamp, 1st century A.D.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Roman terracota lamp.

Photograph of a Roman terracota lamp with figures in relief showing a seated man pointing to a skeleton. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R7414/1936). Related images: M0018878EB

November 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R7414/1936

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.