M0005792: Adapa, Sumerian deity / M0005793: English king worshipping at the Shrine of Saint Edmund

Date:: 11 October 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/48/5

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005789-M0005896WT/D/1/20/1/48
        M0005792: Adapa, Sumerian deity / M0005793: English king worshipping at the Shrine of Saint EdmundWT/D/1/20/1/48/5

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M0005792: Adapa, Sumerian deity / M0005793: English king worshipping at the Shrine of Saint Edmund. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Adapa Sumerian deity of healing, painting of a relief

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is a photograph of a painting of an original relief depicting the Sumerian deity Adapa. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 3868). The second is a reproduction of a painting depicting an English king worshipping at the Shrine of Saint Edmund (Edmund the Martyr), published in Saint Edmund King and Martyr. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 5035).

Publication/Creation

11 October 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: accession number PHO 3868 (image 192) and accession

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 2020.

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