M0005429: Statue of Imhotep, Egyptian demi-God, circa 2900 B.C.

Date:
March 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/44/54
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M0005429: Statue of Imhotep, Egyptian demi-God, circa 2900 B.C. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Statue of I.M. Hotep, Egyptian demi-God, circa 2900 B.C.

Description

Photograph of a statue held by the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, of Imhotep, Egyptian chancellor and high priest who was later deified. The photograph was compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938

Publication/Creation

March 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2021.

Terms of use

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

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