Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC. Building Construction 2000-1001 BCE
Metal memento mori finger ring, set with a large square transparent stone which contains a skull on a hair background with a red and gold border, engraved inscription inside band, 1709 Memento mori finger ring, with a stone containing a skull on a hair background Wellcome (general) 1709
1709-1772, active 1734-72, mathematical, philosophical & optical instrument maker, lecturer, English Adams, George 1709 - 1772
1709/10-1783, Pinchbeck the younger, clock-maker; watchmaker, British Pinchbeck, Christopher 1709 - 1783
Silver medal dated 1709, German script, presumably for the purpose of emphasising the brevity of life and showing a winged angel digging a man's grave, sickbed scene on obverse, German, 1709 Silver medal dated 1709 Wellcome Medals 1709
Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis, XVI 11th Dynasty, 2000-1500 BC. Mounted together on a plaster base. Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis Agricultural Engineering 2000-1500 BCE
Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife Classical & Medieval Medicine 4000-1000 BCE
Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC Alabaster bottle Classical & Medieval Medicine 2000-1350 BCE
Perforated silver medal commemorating money raised to help needy in time of famine in Bologna, Italian Perforated silver medal commemorating money raised to help needy in time of famine in Bologna Wellcome Medals 1709
White metal medal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the University of Leipzig, by C. Wermuth, 1709 White metal medal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the University of Leipzig Wellcome Medals 1709
Excavated middle bronze age, mandible showing ground teeth and periostitis, Welsh, 1750-1251BC Human Jaw Bone Ethnography and Folk Medicine 1750-1250 BCE
Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars, probably neolithic with photograph of similar, French, 2000BC(?)-1000BC(?) Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars Ethnography and Folk Medicine 2000-1000 BCE
Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note). Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian Classical & Medieval Medicine 3000-1000 BCE