- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet in the shape of a hand with forefinger and little finger stretched out, made of pearly-white shell. [El.B 29/10/2008]
- Long description
- The hand is set in a socket of silver and bound with a silver ring with a blue bead. [El.B 29/10/2008]
- 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 1903
- Date collected
- 1903
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 07/1968
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Silver Metal, Material Bead, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 43 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1968.13.365
- 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.
1968.13.365
Amulet in the shape of a hand with forefinger and little finger stretched out, made of pearly-white shell. [El.B 29/10/2008]
1968.13.365
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