M0005431: Carvings in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos

Date:
March 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/44/56
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Egypt, Figure of the mummy of Seti I at Abydos.

Description

Two images on one negative. One is a photograph of a carving of Seti I being mummified. The other is a photograph of a wall carving depicting various scenes and hieroglyphs. The photographs were 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

2 photographs on 1 plate 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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