- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet: plant specimen in tin case. [El.B 30/10/2008]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Frederick Thomas Elworthy
- PRM source Somerset Archaeological Society
- PRM source Somerset County Museum, Taunton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1901
- Date collected
- 1901
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 07/1968
- Dimensions
- Height: max 91 mm, Diameter: max 60 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1968.13.323
- Research and responses
Relevant publications: The Evil Eye, an Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, London. John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1895. Horns of Honour and Other Studies in the By-ways of Archaeology, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1900.
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