M0004778: Plaque showing cupping vessels, forceps and shears

Previous title, replaced Oct 2021: Cast of instruments: weavers implements.

Plaque showing cupping vessels, forceps and shears. From the block of stone, which forms the entrance to a tomb in Catacomb no.3, in the St Paul district, Rabat, Malta. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

September 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession record listing the item in the glass plate negative: accession number R7453/1936

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.