- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Votive offering. Amulet, ex voto of sheet metal, depicting a woman praying. There is a single perforation through the head of the figure. [CW [OPS move] 15/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1914
- Date collected
- 1914
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Dimensions
- Height: max 85 mm, Width: max 49 mm, Depth: max 1 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.134
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Writing, Religious Offering, Inscription
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