M0011141: Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.

Sketch of the impression on a cylinder seal showing Adad, god of rain and stormflood who causes colds and rheums, c.1800 B.C. The cylinder was purchased at auction in 1933 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R486/1937). This sketch accompanied the cylinder as part of a display of Assyrian and Babylonian cylinders in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0011142, M0011143, M0011144, M0011148

November 1949

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R486/1937 image 236)

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 2021.

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