Amulet consisting of a pair of goat horns, painted red and white, and a horseshoe, also painted red and white, with a strip of red cloth tied on. [El.B 03/11/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet consisting of a pair of goat horns, painted red and white, and a horseshoe, also painted red and white, with a strip of red cloth tied on. [El.B 03/11/2008]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Naples
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 Textile, Material Goat Horn Animal, Material Iron Metal, Material Pigment, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 302 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1968.13.392
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.
Associated publications: Illustrated in colour on page 19 of 'Made for Trade' by Julia Nicholson and Faye Belsey, the booklet produced to accompany the temporary exhibition with the same title 'Made for Trade' held at the Pitt Rivers Museum from the 18th July 2011 to 27 January 2013. Illustrated with the caption "shop amulet, Naples, Italy, 1902." Illustrated with a Japanese lucky cat from a private collection. [FB 16/01/2013]

Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Animalia, Animal Gear, Trade, Amulet, Animal Part, Horse Accessory