M0010366: Wall painting from Tomb of Nakht: women playing a double flute, harp and mandola

Date:
08 December 1947
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/91/52
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Credit

M0010366: Wall painting from Tomb of Nakht: women playing a double flute, harp and mandola. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Egyptian girls playing a double flute, harp and mandola

Description

Painting from the Tomb of Nakht (Theban Tomb TT52) of three women playing a double flute, harp and mandola below vases of ointments for skin and paints. The photograph was acquired by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee who travelled extensively in Europe, the Middle East and India purchasing items for the museum. It was accessioned in 935 (accession number PHO 2360)

Publication/Creation

08 December 1947

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession record listing the item in the glass plate negative: accession number PHO 2360.

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.

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