M0019058: Terracotta votive offerings representing the uterus, Roman

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Votive terracotta offerings (6) representing the uterus. Roman.

Photograph of six Roman votive offerings in the form of a uterus. Top row, left to right: the first two are wrinkled to represent the uterus after delivery. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R2480/1936 and R2479/1936). The third was purchased by the Museum in Rome in c.1924 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R3387/1936). Bottom row, left to right: the first was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1946 (accession number R368/1946). The middle one is wrinkled to represent the uterus after delivery. It was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R2472/1936). The last one was purchased by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Museum employee, in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5256/1936).

May 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R2479/1936 and R2480/1936, R3387/1936, R368/1946, R2472/1936 and R5256/1936

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.