- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Heart-shaped piece of madreporite. [RH [OPS move] 18/9/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Province of L'Aquila Provincia dell'Aquila
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Giuseppe Bellucci
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1912
- Date collected
- 1912
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Madreporite Coral, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Width: max 26 mm, Length: max 33 mm, Depth: max 4 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.454
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